By chance, could you please use a song about perseverance and overcoming adversity? Do you have a little bit of encouragement or reassurance? Next we have “Don’t Give Up,” featuring isolated vocals from Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush.
When he released this song on his 1986 album Sosaid Gabriel. NME: “Catalyst of”don’t give upIt was a photograph of Dorothea Lange that I saw…it showed the conditions of the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression in America. Without a climate of self-respect, it is impossible to work. ” Elsewhere, his WebsiteGabriel explained that the song was also “influenced by the high unemployment rate during Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government in the 1980s.” No matter what challenges they face, listeners have turned to this song for solace for the past 38 years. I have no doubt that it will help some people over the coming weeks and months.
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