Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer (The Prince's Trust Rock Gala 1988)

@itspetergabriel & The Midge Ure All Star Band performing Sledgehammer at the Prince's Trust Rock Gala charity event held over two nights at the Royal Albert Hall on the 5th-6th June 1988.

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[melquizedec]

*So....how many musicians do you want in the stage?*
Peter Gabriel: YES

[torstenreil]

I cannot get over how good Collins‘ drum playing is. Transforms the whole song.

[chopinopus]

Collins is KILLING IT on the drums!!! Katche is an amazing drummer too, but I've never heard this song being so insanely groovie!

[danielthenorwegianguy]

Let’s face it guys, this was about as close as we’d get to a classic Genesis reunion

[joememphis]

Brian May on his Red Special just jamming out. Phil Collins on drums. Peter Gabriel kicking ass as always.

[houseofglass]

Damn, Phil's drums slam hard on this. Great performance.

[maxmeyer]

Peter Gabriel is one of those vocalists that is always just as good singing live as on any record

[misaelyajurepirone]

What could be better than May, Gabriel and Collins in the same stage?

[evanjazzista]

That's quite a line-up here. The musos I can tell are:
Brian May - guitar
Mick Karn - fretless bass
Midge Ure - tambourine / guitar
David Rhodes - guitar
L. Shankar - double violin
Howard Jones - keyboards
Phil Collins - drums

[billmulvey]

Thanks so much for sharing this!!

I did very detailed research on this & came up with the following for every musician onstage here (yes, I had too much time on my hands!!):

Peter Gabriel - vox
David Rhodes - guitar, b.vox
Lakshminarayana Shankar - violin
Midge Ure All Star Band-
Howard Jones - keys
Brian May - lead guitar
Midge Ure - rhythm guitar, tambourine, md
Mick Karn - bass
Phil Collins - drums
Mark "the Octopus" Brzezicki - drums
Gillian O'Donovan - b.vox
Suzie O'List - b.vox
Gary Barnacle - tenor saxophone
Barry Gardner - flugelhorn
John Thirkell - trumpet
Luke Tunney - trumpet
Pete Thoms - trombone

[Steviec]

Mick Karn on bass. Wonderful feel. R.I.P. Much missed.

[fherkenwood]

Awesome!! Phil and Peter after Genesis in the same stage.

[StevenInCornwall]

Phil lifts so many of these Princes Trust songs. Brings so much energy to them, even slower songs like Whiter shade of pale.

[davyo]

Maybe the best recorded performance of this song he ever did! So much energy and he just nails it all and with Phil on the drums no less.

[mindhead]

Mick Karn from Japan on bass. Incredible vibe.

[gianniguerriero]

Peter Gabriel is a ruler of the stage!

[GB-gfdm]

You can never really say too much about how great the 80's music was.

[DoorCloser]

Now this is my favorite version. I mean MU dancing along with PG that's make me happy

[alexcarratu]

So much talent here in 1988, one of the best live performances in music history.

[gregbutcher_musicplacecheck]

One of the greatest songs of the 80's. What an awesome decade for music.