Peter Gabriel’s time with Genesis in the ’70s – not to mention his early-’80s musings as a solo artist – had granted him a reputation as a musical maverick who merged modern prog with all sorts of weird sounds, leading to such cult favorites as Biko and Shock the Monkey.
The latter of those songs, which dropped in 1982, was the closest Gabriel had come to large-scale chart success as a solo artist. But that was about to change with 1986’s So, the record that gave us decade-defining hits in Sledgehammer, In Your Eyes and Big Time.
