Red Rain (song)

"Red Rain"
Single by Peter Gabriel
from the album So
Released29 June 1987[1]
Recorded1985
GenreRock[2]
Length
  • 5:39 (album version)
  • 4:02 (US promo edit)
LabelGeffen
Songwriter(s)Peter Gabriel
Producer(s)
  • Peter Gabriel
  • Daniel Lanois
Peter Gabriel singles chronology
"Big Time"
(1987) 		"Red Rain"
(1987) 		"Biko Live/No More Apartheid"
(1987)
Music video
"Red Rain" on YouTube

"Red Rain" is the first track on English rock musician Peter Gabriel's fifth solo studio album So (1986). In the United States, it was initially only released as a promotional single and reached number three on Billboard magazine's Mainstream Rock chart in June 1986, where it stayed for three weeks between July and August.[3] A year later, in June 1987, it was released as a commercial single in parts of Europe, Australia and the United States, peaking at 46 in the UK Singles Chart after entering the chart in July of that year.[4] A live version also charted in the US and the UK in 1994.

  1. ^ "Music Week" (PDF). p. 27.
  2. ^ Hill, Sarah (2017). "Peter Gabriel, From Genesis to Growing Up". Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9781351554282. Retrieved 1 October 2024.
  3. ^ "Billboard Mainstream Rock Chart History". songdatabase.com. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
  4. ^ David Roberts British Hit Singles & Albums, Guinness World Records Limited