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Peter Gabriel

Big Time

1986 · via Peter Gabriel

Peter Gabriel wrote “Big Time” and put out the earliest release of it on file, in 1986. Also recorded by The Brown Derbies (released 1994), Ryeland Allison (released 2002) and Randy Newman (released 2013), among 62 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

Peter Gabriel – Big Time
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Gabriel wrote it and put it on record first, and decades on Randy Newman stepped up and recorded it himself. Play the two back to back and hear what happens when one songwriter sings another's.

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Credited writer: Peter Gabriel.

Earliest release on file: this one, 1986.

Other recordings on file · first release year

62 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

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