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Peter Gabriel

I Go Swimming

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Plays Live is the first live and fifth album overall released by British rock musician Peter Gabriel. This album was originally released as a double album and longplay cassette, with sixteen songs and a running time of over 80 minutes. It was eventually issued as a double CD set, and, in 1985, as a single CD version Plays Live – Highlights with only twelve songs and some significant track time alterations. It was remastered and reissued in 2002, the Highlights version was released in the US while the full double-CD set, containing all the songs, was released in the UK. The album’s one previously unreleased song, “I Go Swimming,“ received airplay and made the US charts in 1983. (The song was initially performed by Gabriel during his 1980 world tour, in support of his third... Read on...

Song lines: ♪ Water all over me ... Swimming in water, swimming in water, swimming in water ... I go swimming ♫

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Rob Eng wrote on November, 25th 2020 at 8:06am:
You can find a studio or demo version on YouTube. According to comments there, it was used as a B-side to the No Self Control 12”.

ken nelson wrote on June, 1st 2020 at 7:35pm:
Was a studio version of this song ever recorded? If so, has it ever been released, or is it still locked away in a vault somewhere?


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