Animal Magic

Album: Peter Gabriel (second, scratch) (1978)
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Songfacts®:

  • A track from Peter Gabriel's second solo album, "Animal Magic" finds him joining the professionals and becoming a man. What's it all mean? Gabriel has said the lyric is about virility and the politics of the battlefield and bedroom.
  • The primary instrument on this track is a piano played by Todd Cochran, who goes by the name Bayete. The rest of the personnel is:

    Electric Guitar – Sidney McGinnis
    Bass – Tony Levin
    Drums – Jerry Marotta
    Synthesizer – Peter Gabriel
    Synthesizer, Effects – Larry Fast
    Backing Vocals – Peter Gabriel, Sidney McGinnis, Tony Levin

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