Listen to this when
In the Air Tonight
waiting for that drum break like 🥁
Who it's for
Phil Collins wrote this during the pain of his divorce, and it carries a dark, simmering bitterness.
Brooding and bitter→Released
Feelings it meets
What it is
"In the Air Tonight" is the lead single from Phil Collins's debut solo album Face Value, released in January 1981. Collins wrote it in 1980 amid grief over his divorce from his first wife, Andrea Bertorelli, improvising the lyrics in the studio over a set of chords. He has said he is not fully sure what the song means, but describes its emotional core as anger, despair and frustration.
Where to find it
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Before you start
Age: All ages
Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busybody, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial.Marcus Aurelius, The Thoughts of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Book 2 (tr. George Long)
