It might well be just four seconds long, but the fill in Phil Collins' In the Air Tonight is, quite simply, the most recognisable piece of drumming ever committed to tape.
Its fame might well have been helped along by a certain gorilla reenactment, and by a thousand guests at a wedding near you hitting those air drums like their lives depend on it, but, whatever, it's a masterpiece of recording. And like that's not enough, it helped give rise to the gated drum sound that defined '80s music production.
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