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TIL The unique sound of the drums in the famous drum break in Phil Collins 'In The Air Tonight' was an accident after a studio intercom button was activated in the studio when Collins was recording a Peter Gabriel song. The engineer heard the drums thru the intercom, loved the sound, and used it.

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