Tonight’s mystery artist has always been on the cutting edge of the music industry from being a pioneer in digital distribution to winning more MTV video awards for a single song than anyone else has even to this day. Think you know who he is or his big video hit??

These litanies of success come from BoomsBeat about Genesis founder Peter Gabriel. In 1975 Peter left Genesis to become a solo act and met with great success when his stop animation video for ‘Sledgehammer’ won 13 MTV Video awards. In fact Peter gives MTV the credit for the song being a success at all. He also co founded OD2 one of the first digital download services. Peter has been inducted twice into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

His first hit as a solo artist is tonight’s featured song.

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