S03E18 – I Don’t Remember (Peter Gabriel Song)

And so now begins the collaborations portion of this third season of the show! There will be a total of five collaboration episodes this season, three of them with the same artist: Peter Gabriel. I Don’t Remember was first sung by Peter and Kate together on stage for the Bill Duffield benefit concert in May 1979. Until then, I Don’t Remember was a Peter Gabriel only track, but during that show, Kate sang harmonies with Peter on this song and was even featured on the album version of said track (albeit in a very distorted manner such that her voice is unrecognizable unless you listen carefully!). During Kate’s sessions for Never For Ever, Kate popped by Peter’s studio to sing background vocals with Peter on three of his songs: I Don’t Remember, No Self-Control (a UK top 40 hit that peaked at #33 in May 1980), and the top 20 hit Games Without Frontiers. All three of those songs ended up on Peter’s third album known as Peter Gabriel, a.k.a. Peter Gabriel 3 or Melt, due to the distinctive cover image. For this episode, and the two following Peter Gabriel collaboration episodes this season (and for Don’t Give Up next year in the Hounds of Love season), Cecilee gets to talk with her husband Andrew Linke, the resident Peter Gabriel fan (though Cecilee is becoming a fan too!). Cecilee and Andrew talk about the lyrics, Kate’s performance on this song, and the ways that she’s already starting to use her voice in a more experimental and very distorted way. Song clips used: I Don’t Remember (live in London 1979 at the Bill Duffield benefit concert) I Don’t Remember (album version from Melt)