Take Me Home

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Take Me Home
  UK 19th 07/27/1985 (9 weeks)
  US 7th 05/10/1986 (16 weeks)

Take Me Home is a song by Phil Collins from the year 1985 , which was written by him and produced by Hugh Padgham. It's also a soundtrack for the Miami Vice series .

history

Take Me Home was released worldwide on July 25, 1985, from then on it gained success in some countries. Just like Don't Lose My Number , Collins couldn't catch up with a number-one success in the United States like One More Night , Sussudio and Separate Lives with this song .

The hit is 5:51 minutes long, appeared on the album No Jacket Required and on the B-side is the composed piece We Said Hello Goodbye , which can also be found on the B-side of Don't Lose My Number .

The piece is one of the more popular for many of his fans and is therefore played in almost every concert by Phil Collins. Misunderstandably, rumors circulated that the song was about a man going home or the psychological manipulation in George Orwell 's 1984 . But in an interview, Collins stated that the hit was about a patient in an asylum and the backing vocals were by both Peter Gabriel and Helen Terry. Collins originally asked Sting while recording the track Long Long Way to Go if he would like to do the backing vocals for the song.

Music video

The music video was directed by Jim Yukich, who also directed the videos for songs like Sussudio and Don't Lose My Number . In the act, Collins sings this song in different places around the world including London, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, St. Louis, Memphis, Bremen, Sydney, Moscow and Tokyo. At the end of the video, Collins arrives in front of his house, greets his wife in the house and she calls out to him where he has been for so long. he replies with "I've been in Tokyo, Sydney, New York, London", to which the woman replies "You were in the pub, weren't you?" Phil Collins looks smugly into the camera and then goes into the house.

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Phil Collins singles


Singles

In the Air Tonight (1981) • I Missed Again (1981) • If Leaving Me Is Easy (1981) • Thru These Walls (1982) • You Can't Hurry Love (1982) • I Know There's Something Going On (feat. Frida ) (1982) • Why Can't It Wait 'Til Morning (1983) • I Don't Care Anymore (1983) • Don't Let Him Steal Your Heart Away (1983) • Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now) (1984) • Easy Lover (feat. Philip Bailey ) (1984) • Sussudio (1985) • One More Night (1985) • Don't Lose My Number (1985) • Take Me Home (1985) • Separate Lives (feat. Marilyn Martin) (1985) • In the Air Tonight ('88 Remix) (1988) • A Groovy Kind of Love (1988) • Two Hearts (1988) • Another Day in Paradise (1989) • I Wish It Would Rain Down (1990) • Do You Remember? (1990) • Something Happened on the Way to Heaven (1990) • That's Just the Way It Is (1990) • Hang In Long Enough (1990) • Do You Remember? (Live) (1990) • Who Said I Would (Live) (1991) • Both Sides of the Story (1993) • Hero (feat. David Crosby ) (1994) • Everyday (1994) • We Wait and We Wonder (1994 ) • Somewhere (1996) • Dance into the Light (1996) • It's in Your Eyes (1997) • No Matter Who (1997) • Wear My Hat (1997) • The Same Moon (1997) • True Colors (1998) • You'll Be in My Heart (1999) • Strangers Like Me (1999) • Son of Man (2000) • Two Worlds (2000) • In the Air Tonite (feat. Lil 'Kim ) (2001) • Can't Stop Loving You (2002) • Come With Me (2003) • The Least You Can Do / Wake Up Call (2003) • Look Through My Eyes (2003) • Home (feat. Bone Thugs-N-Harmony ) (2003) • No Way Out (2004) • You Touch My Heart (2005) • (Love Is Like A) Heatwave (2010)