“Take Me Home” by Phil Collins

"Take Me Home" closes No Jacket Required, Phil Collins's third solo album, from 1985, as its tenth track, and it's a hypnotic, pulsing way to bring the lights down. Collins wrote it alone and plays drums, drum machine and keyboards himself, with Leland Sklar on bass and Daryl Stuermer on guitar, and the backing vocals are a small summit: Peter Gabriel, Sting and Helen Terry stacked behind him. He produced it with Hugh Padgham, who engineered.

Britain got it as a single in July 1985 and took it to No. 19; America waited until March 1986 and sent it to No. 7. The extended mix from the 12-inch later became one of the six tracks on the remix album 12″ers in 1987, and Rolling Stone readers voted it fifth among Collins's ten best songs.

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