Editing In The Air Tonight

[[File:Philcollinsandtheroots.jpg|thumb|309x309px|Phil Collins performing with The Roots (band) on ''The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon ''on October 25th, 2016.]]
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;">"</span>'''In the Air Tonight'''<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;">" is a song written in 1979 and recorded in 1980 by </span>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England English]<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;"> singer and musician, </span>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Collins Phil Collins]<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;">. It first appeared on Collins' 1981 solo album entitled </span>''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_Value_(album) Face Value]''<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;">. Released as a single in the </span>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom United Kingdom]<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;"> in January 1981, the song was an instant hit quickly climbing to #2 on the </span>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_Singles_chart UK Singles chart]<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;">. It was also an international hit peaking at #19 on the </span>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Hot_100 US''Billboard'' Hot 100]<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;"> in the summer of 1981. The track remains one of Collins' best-known hits. The song's 1981 </span>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_video music video]<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;"> directed by Stuart Orme received heavy play on </span>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV MTV]<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;"> when the new cable music video channel launched in August 1981.</span>


==Recording<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;">[[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=In_the_Air_Tonight&action=edit&section=1 edit]]</span>==
<p style="line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">The recording is notable for its atmospheric production and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macabre macabre] theme. Collins wrote the song about the anger he felt after divorcing his first wife, Andrea, in 1979. In a 1997 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Radio_2 BBC Radio 2] documentary, the singer revealed that the divorce contributed to his 1979 hiatus from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesis_(band) Genesis] until the band regrouped in October of that year to record the album ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_(album) Duke].''</p>

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">"In the Air Tonight" remains a popular selection on many [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_rock classic rock] radio stations. It is the song most often associated with Collins's solo career, and he has performed versions of it at many events, most notably at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_Aid Live Aid], where he played the song on a piano on the same calendar day in both [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia Philadelphia] and London. He also performed the song at ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Policeman%27s_Balls#Distinctive_elements_of_the_first_four_shows_.281976.E2.80.931981.29 The Secret Policeman's Ball]'', which was his first live performance as a solo artist.</p>

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">The lyrics of the song take the form of a dark monologue directed towards an unnamed person:</p>

:I was there and I saw what you did
:Saw it with my own two eyes
:So you can wipe off that grin
:I know where you've been
:It's all been a pack of lies
<p style="line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">Musically the song consists of a series of ominous chords played by a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequential_Circuits_Prophet-5 Sequential Circuits Prophet-5] over a simple [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drum_machine drum machine] pattern (the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_CR-78 Roland CR-78] Disco-2 pattern, plus some programming); processed [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_guitar electric guitar] sounds and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocoder vocoded] vocals, an effect which is increased on key words to add additional atmosphere. The mood is one of restrained anger until the final chorus when an explosive burst of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drum_kit drums] releases the musical tension, and the instrumentation builds to a thundering final chorus.</p>

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">Collins wrote the song in the wake of a failing relationship with his wife. Collins has described obtaining the drum machine specifically to deal with these personal issues through songwriting, telling ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mix_(magazine) Mix]'' magazine: "I had to start writing some of this music that was inside me." He improvised the lyrics during a songwriting session in the studio: “I was just fooling around. I got these chords that I liked, so I turned the mic on and started singing. The lyrics you hear are what I wrote spontaneously. That frightens me a bit, but I'm quite proud of the fact that I sang 99.9 percent of those lyrics spontaneously."</p>

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">The song's popularity in the 1980s increased after a nearly complete recording of it was featured in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot_episode pilot episode] of the American television show ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_Vice Miami Vice]'' (“[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brother%27s_Keeper_(Miami_Vice) Brother's Keeper]"), one of the first pop/rock songs to be featured as part of a TV program in this manner. Its use in that scene was "a moment that first signaled to audiences and critics that ''Miami Vice'' had something to offer that few other TV programs on the air in 1984 could match", ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_A.V._Club The A.V. Club]'' wrote in 2012. It subsequently grew popular again, "bubbling under" the Billboard Hot 100 at #102 in late 1984. On the heels of this successful merging of media, Collins became associated with the show; other Collins tracks including "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_Me_Home_(Phil_Collins_song) Take Me Home]" were later featured, and Collins himself also acted in an episode, "Phil the Shill". In 2013 the song served as the dramatic backdrop for a dialogue-free scene in the pilot of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Americans_(2013_TV_series) The Americans].</p>
===Drum sound<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;">[[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=In_the_Air_Tonight&action=edit&section=2 edit]]</span>===
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| style="border:none;padding:4px10px;" valign="top"|''Musically, it's an extraordinarily striking record, because almost nothing happens in it ... It's the drum sound in particular that's amazing. You don't hear it at all for the first two minutes of the song ... then there's that great doo-dom doo-dom doo-dom comes in, and the drums come in half way through the song, setting the template for all the Eighties drum songs after that''. - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Maconie Stuart Maconie]
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<p style="line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">The means by which Collins attained the drum sound on this recording was long a source of mystery. The exact process was a result of serendipity: an unintended use of studio technology giving unexpectedly useful results.</p>

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">In this case, the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_State_Logic Solid State Logic] 4000 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixing_board mixing board] had a "reverse talk-back" circuit (labeled on the board as “Listen Mic"). Normal “talkback" is a button that the mixing engineer has to press in order to talk to the recording musicians (the recording and the mixing parts of a studio are, otherwise, completely sonically isolated). Reverse talkback is a circuit (also button-activated) for the engineer to listen to musicians in the studio. In order to compensate for sound level differences — people can be close to the reverse talkback microphone or far off — this circuit has a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_level_compression compressor] on it, which minimizes the differences between loud and soft sounds. While recording “Intruder" for his ex-bandmate [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Gabriel Peter Gabriel]'s [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Gabriel_(III) solo album], at some point Collins started playing the drums while the reverse talkback was activated. Engineer [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Padgham Hugh Padgham] and his friend Jeffrey were amazed at the sound achieved. Overnight, they rewired the board so that the reverse talkback could be recorded in a more formal manner. Later models of the SSL 4000 allowed the listen mic to be recorded with the touch of a button.</p>

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">When recording engineer Padgham was brought in to help develop Collins' demos that would become ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_Value_(album) Face Value]'' they recreated the “Intruder" sound using the reverse talkback microphone as well as heavily compressed and gated ambient mics. Padgham continued working with Genesis for ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abacab Abacab]'' later in 1981 and the same technique (generally referred to as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gated_reverb gated reverb]) was used, and the powerful drum sound has become synonymous with later Genesis projects and Collins' solo career ever since.</p>

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">The original single version of "In the Air Tonight" features extra drums that play underneath the song until the signature drum crash (referred to by fans as the "magic break") appears. These were added at the suggestion of Atlantic Records head [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmet_Ertegun Ahmet Ertegun]. In 2007, Collins wrote:</p>
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| style="border:none;padding:4px10px;" valign="top"|''Ahmet came down to the final mix in the cutting room in New York (. . .) The drums don't come in until the end but Ahmet didn't know that at this point, because on the demo the drums hadn't come in at all; it was only drum machine all the way. And he was saying, 'Where's the down beat, where's the backbeat?' I said, 'The drums come in in a minute.' 'Yeah, you know that and I know that, but the kids don't know that; you've got to put the drums on earlier.' So we added some drums to the mix and put it out as a single''.
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<p style="line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">In an interview with the magazine ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SFX_(magazine) SFX]'', ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_on_Mars_(TV_series) Life on Mars]'' and ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashes_to_Ashes_(TV_series) Ashes to Ashes]'' creator [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Graham Matthew Graham] highlighted the significance of the drum sound when he discussed the use of the song in the ''Ashes to Ashes'' series finale: he originally intended to have the whole track play over a climactic scene on a farm where [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Drake Alex Drake] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keeley_Hawes Keeley Hawes]) discovers the body of fellow protagonist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Hunt Gene Hunt] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillip_Glenister Phillip Glenister]), but he chose to fade the song out before that, after he realised that the audience would be “desperately waiting for the 'duh-dum-duh-dum-duh-dum'" and wouldn't “care about Alex or Gene or a scarecrow or anything else".</p>
==Urban legend<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;">[[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=In_the_Air_Tonight&action=edit&section=3 edit]]</span>==
<p style="line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">An [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_legend urban legend] has arisen around "In the Air Tonight" according to which the lyrics are based on a drowning incident in which someone who was close enough to save the victim did not help them, while Collins, who was too far away to help, looked on. Various, increasingly embroidered variations on the legend emerged over time, with the stories often culminating in Collins singling out the guilty party while singing the song at a concert. Collins has denied all such stories; he commented on the legends about the song in a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_World_Service BBC World Service] interview:</p>
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| style="border:none;padding:4px10px;" valign="top"|''I don't know what this song is about. When I was writing this I was going through a divorce. And the only thing I can say about it is that it's obviously in anger. It's the angry side, or the bitter side of a separation. So what makes it even more comical is when I hear these stories which started many years ago, particularly in America, of someone come up to me and say, 'Did you really see someone drowning?' I said, 'No, wrong'. And then every time I go back to America the story gets [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_whispers Chinese whispers], it gets more and more elaborate. It's so frustrating, 'cause this is one song out of all the songs probably that I've ever written that I really don't know what it's about, you know?''
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<p style="line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">The urban legend is referenced in the song "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_(song) Stan]" by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eminem Eminem]. The reference is contained in the following lyrics:</p>

:''You know the song by Phil Collins, "In the Air of the Night"'' ''[''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sic sic]'']''
:''About that guy who coulda saved that other guy from drownin'''
:''But didn't, then Phil saw it all, then at a show he found him?''
==Use in literature<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;">[[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=In_the_Air_Tonight&action=edit&section=4 edit]]</span>==
<p style="line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">U.S. author [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohja_Kahf Mohja Kahf] obtained permission to cite two lines from the song in her novel, The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf (Perseus Books, 2006). When the novel's protagonist, a young Syrian American woman named Khadra who is coming of age during the 1970s and 1980s in America, performs the Muslim ritual pilgrimage ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hajj hajj]) to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecca Mecca] and views the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ka%27ba Ka'ba] for the first time, the author writes that: "Khadra tried to keep the joyous talbiya [ritual chant] in her mind and on her tongue: Here I am, O my Lord, Here I am! Labbaik, allahumma, labbaik! But she kept getting it crossed with Phil Collins in her head crooning, 'I can feel it coming in the air tonight, Oh Lo-ord . . . I've been waiting for this moment for all my life, oh Lo-ord . . .'" (The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf, p. 162).</p>
==Use in advertising<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;">[[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=In_the_Air_Tonight&action=edit&section=5 edit]]</span>==
<p style="line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">The song has been licensed repeatedly for use in television [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advertisement advertisements] for various products; in several cases these uses led to a measurable resurgence in popularity for the song.</p>

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">The song gained additional life in the mid-to-late 1980s when the brewer [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anheuser-Busch Anheuser-Busch] adopted it for an ad campaign promoting ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelob Michelob]'' beer, along with night-related songs by Collins' peers [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Winwood Steve Winwood] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Clapton Eric Clapton].</p>

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1995, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC NBC] used it to promote the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBA_on_NBC NBA on NBC] with the return of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Jordan Michael Jordan] to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Bulls Chicago Bulls], shown in a slow-motion breakaway slam dunk in the ad.</p>

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">In 2006, it was used by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Dew Mountain Dew] in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_commercial television commercials] for its [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Dew_MDX MDX] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_drink energy drink].</p>

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadbury_plc Cadbury] used the song in their 2007 ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorilla_(advertisement) Gorilla]'' advertising campaign for its [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dairy_Milk Dairy Milk] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocolate chocolate] bar. The commercial features a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorilla gorilla] playing the piece's famous drum sequence. After its premier week in September, the song reached #14 on the UK singles chart and #9 on the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_Download_Chart UK Download Chart]. The advertisement also helped the song re-enter the New Zealand [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIANZ RIANZ] Singles Chart at #3 in July 2008 and went to #1 the following week staying there for two weeks, beating its original 1981 #6 peak. The single was also certified Platinum with sales of over 15,000 copies. This advert was so popular, it won the awards for the Best Ad of the Year, at New Zealands Fair-Go Ad Awards. It was also subsequently parodied in a spoof ad by Wonderbra.</p>

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">In 2013, a cover version of the song was used in the launch trailer of the video game ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Space_3 Dead Space 3]'', but its production information hasn't yet been revealed.</p>
==Sampling of the song<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;">[[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=In_the_Air_Tonight&action=edit&section=6 edit]]</span>==
<p style="line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">The song has been [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling_(music) sampled] by many artists, including [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaquille_O%27Neal Shaquille O'Neal] in his song "Edge Of Night", [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nas Nas] in his song "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Mic One Mic]", and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupac_Shakur Tupac Shakur] on his tracks "Starin' Through My Rearview" and "Letter to the President". Other tracks which include samples of "In the Air Tonight" include [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMX_(rapper) DMX]'s "I Can Feel It", [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krayzie_Bone Krayzie Bone]'s "Silent Warrior", [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Budden Joe Budden]'s "Rest in Peace (In the Air)", [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Kingston Sean Kingston]'s "Can You Feel It", [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Buck Young Buck]'s "New York City", [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Audio_Dynamite Big Audio Dynamite]'s "Innocent Child" and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lil%27_Kim Lil' Kim]'s "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Air_Tonite In the Air Tonite]", Ke$ha's "Love Into the Light", Av LMKR's "In The Air".</p>

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">The song is referenced in the lyrics to the single "Greatest Rapper Ever" by the rapper [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Brown_(rapper) Danny Brown].</p>

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">The trademark drum roll was reused, but not directly sampled, in the song "Nicotine and Gravy" by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beck Beck].</p>
==Single and credits<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;">[[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=In_the_Air_Tonight&action=edit&section=7 edit]]</span>==
===UK and US single<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;">[[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=In_the_Air_Tonight&action=edit&section=8 edit]]</span>===
#"In the Air Tonight" – 4:57
#*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Collins Phil Collins]: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_CR-78 Roland CR-78], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singing vocals], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drum_kit drums], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequential_Circuits_Prophet-5 Prophet], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodes_piano Rhodes], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocoder vocoder]
#*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Giblin John Giblin]: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bass_guitar Bass]
#*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daryl_Stuermer Daryl Stuermer]: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar Guitar]
#*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Shankar L. Shankar]: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violin Violins]
#"The Roof Is Leaking" – 3:36
#*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Collins Phil Collins]: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano Piano], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singing vocal]
#*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daryl_Stuermer Daryl Stuermer]: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banjo Banjo]
#*Joe Partridge: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slide_guitar Slide guitar] aka [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Clapton Eric Clapton] credited as Eric
*A demo track for "In the Air Tonight" also appeared on the "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_Leaving_Me_Is_Easy If Leaving Me Is Easy]" single.
===Japan CD single (1988)<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;">[[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=In_the_Air_Tonight&action=edit&section=9 edit]]</span>===
#"In the Air Tonight" (extended)
#"In the Air Tonight" ('88 remix)
#"I Missed Again" (Album Version)
===Germany CD single (1990)<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;">[[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=In_the_Air_Tonight&action=edit&section=10 edit]]</span>===
#"In the Air Tonight" (extended version) – 7:33 (Additional production by Ben Liebrand)
#"In the Air Tonight" ('88 remix) – 5:07 (Remixed by Phil Collins and Hugh Padgham)
#"I Missed Again" – 3:42
[[Category:1981 singles]]
[[Category:Phil Collins songs]]
[[Category:British soft rock songs]]
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−	[[File:Philcollinsandtheroots.jpg\|thumb\|309x309px\|Phil Collins performing ~~"In The Air Tonight"~~ with The Roots (band) on ''The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon ''on October 25th, 2016.]]	+	[[File:Philcollinsandtheroots.jpg\|thumb\|309x309px\|Phil Collins performing with The Roots (band) on ''The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon ''on October 25th, 2016.]]
−	<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;">"</span>'''In ~~The~~ Air Tonight'''<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;">" is a song written in 1979 and recorded in 1980 by </span>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England English]<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;"> singer and musician, </span>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Collins Phil Collins]<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;">. It first appeared on Collins' 1981 solo album entitled </span>''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_Value_(album) Face Value]''<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;">. Released as a single in the </span>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom United Kingdom]<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;"> in January 1981, the song was an instant hit quickly climbing to #2 on the </span>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_Singles_chart UK Singles chart]<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;">. It was also an international hit peaking at #19 on the </span>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Hot_100 US''Billboard'' Hot 100]<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;"> in the summer of 1981. The track remains one of Collins' best-known hits. The song's 1981 </span>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_video music video]<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;"> directed by Stuart Orme received heavy play on </span>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV MTV]<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;"> when the new cable music video channel launched in August 1981.</span>	+	<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;">"</span>'''In the Air Tonight'''<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;">" is a song written in 1979 and recorded in 1980 by </span>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England English]<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;"> singer and musician, </span>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Collins Phil Collins]<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;">. It first appeared on Collins' 1981 solo album entitled </span>''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_Value_(album) Face Value]''<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;">. Released as a single in the </span>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom United Kingdom]<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;"> in January 1981, the song was an instant hit quickly climbing to #2 on the </span>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_Singles_chart UK Singles chart]<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;">. It was also an international hit peaking at #19 on the </span>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Hot_100 US''Billboard'' Hot 100]<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;"> in the summer of 1981. The track remains one of Collins' best-known hits. The song's 1981 </span>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_video music video]<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;"> directed by Stuart Orme received heavy play on </span>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV MTV]<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;"> when the new cable music video channel launched in August 1981.</span>