Hit

Tracklist

• 1
  Solsbury Hill
  4:23
  4.5 ★
• 2
  Shock the Monkey (edit)
  3:59
  3.8 ★
• 3
  Sledgehammer
  4:51
  3.4 ★
• 4
  Don’t Give Up
  5:55
  3.8 ★
• 5
  Games Without Frontiers
  3:57
  4.4 ★
• 6
  Big Time
  4:28
  4.8 ★
• 7
  Burn You Up, Burn You Down
  5:26
• 8
  Growing Up (Tom Lord‐Alge mix)
  4:48
• 9
  Digging in the Dirt
  5:15
  3.6 ★
• 10
  Blood of Eden (radio edit)
  5:06
• 11
  More Than This (radio edit)
  4:33
• 12
  Biko
  6:58
  4.5 ★
• 13
  Steam
  6:02
  3.1 ★
• 14
  Red Rain
  5:39
  4.4 ★
• 15
  Here Comes the Flood
  4:32
  4.0 ★

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Release credits

• Adrian Chivers
  background vocals [8]
• Alex Swift
  programming [8]
• Allan Schwartzberg
  drums (drum set) [1]
• Andy Clark
  Hammond organ [6], bass synthesizer [6], programming [6], sampler [6], synthesizer [4]
• Arona N’diaye Rose
  sabar [7]
• Assane Tham
  talking drum [9]
• Ayub Ogada
  vocal [9]
• Babacar Faye
  djembe [9]
• Billy Cobham
  drums (drum set) [7]
• Bob Ezrin
  producer [1]
• Brian Christian
  recording [1]
• Chris Hughes
  drum machine [14]
• Chuck Norman
  programming [7]
• Coral Gordon
  background vocals [3, 6]
• Daniel Lanois
  engineer [3, 6, 14], guitar [3, 6, 14], hi-hat [10], producer [3-4, 6, 9-10, 13-14], tambourine [3], vocal [10]
• Dave Harris
  additional [1]
• David Bascombe
  recording [6, 14]
• David Bottrill
  editor [9, 13], engineer [9], mix [9-10, 13], programming [9-10, 13], recording [7, 9-10, 13]
• David Lord
  producer [2]
• David Rhodes
  12 string guitar [10], background vocals [2, 11, 14], guitar [2-9, 11-12, 14]
• Dee Lewis
  background vocals [3, 6]
• Dominic Greensmith
  drums (drum set) [11]
• Don Mikkelsen
  trombone [3, 6]
• Ged Lynch
  drums (drum set) [8, 11], percussion [8, 11]
• Gus Isidore
  guitar [10]
• Hossam Ramzy
  surdo [9]
• Hugh Padgham
  engineer [5], whistle [5]
• Jerry Marotta
  bass [6], drums (drum set) [2, 5, 12, 14], percussion [5]
• Jim Frank
  additional [1]
• Jimmy Bralower
  drum machine [6]
• Jimmy Maelen
  bones [1], percussion [1]
• Jon Brion
  chamberlin [11], mandolin [11], prepared piano [11]
• Jozef Chirowski
  keyboard [1]
• Jules Shear
  background vocals [7]
• Justin Adams
  guitar [7]
• Karl Wallinger
  background vocals [7], piano [7], vocal [7]
• Kate Bush
  background vocals [5], guest [4], performer [4]
• Keith Grant
  additional [1]
• Kevin Killen
  engineer [3-4, 6, 14]
• Larry Fast
  bagpipe [12], bass synthesizer [5], programming [1], synthesizer [1-2, 5, 12]
• Leo Nocentelli
  guitar [9]
• Lévon Minassian
  duduk [10]
• Manu Katché
  drums (drum set) [3-4, 8-9]
• Mark Rivera
  alto saxophone [6], baritone saxophone [6], saxophone [3], tenor saxophone [6]
• Melanie Gabriel
  background vocals [11]
• P.P. Arnold
  background vocals [3, 6]
• Pete Davis
  programming [8]
• Peter Gabriel
  background vocals [2, 6, 14], bass [7], bass synthesizer [5], drum machine [6, 12], flute [1], keyboard [1, 9-10], keyboard bass [8-10], lead vocals [5-6, 14-15], organ [7-8, 11], piano [3-4, 11-12, 14-15], producer [2-4, 6-11, 13-15], programming [9], recorder [1], sampler [2, 6, 8, 14], synthesizer, vocal [1-12], whistle [5]
• Peter Hammill
  background vocals [2], vocal [9]
• Phil Collins
  surdo [12]
• Richard Blair
  additional [9, 13], programming [9, 13]
• Richard Chappell
  compiler, recording [7-8, 11]
• Richard MacPhail
  vocal [9]
• Richard Tee
  piano [4]
• Robert Fripp
  banjo [1], classical guitar [1], electric guitar [1], guitar [1]
• Robert Stasiak
  additional [1]
• Robert “Ringo” Hrycyna
  additional [1]
• Rod O’Brien
  additional [1]
• Shankar
  violin [10]
• Sinéad O’Connor
  vocal [10]
• Stephen Hague
  producer [7]
• Steve Hunter
  acoustic guitar [1], electric guitar [1], guitar [1], pedal steel guitar [1]
• Steve Lillywhite
  producer [5, 12], whistle [5]
• Steve Osborne
  additional [8]
• Stewart Copeland
  drums (drum set) [6], hi-hat [14]
• Tchad Blake
  mix [7, 11]
• The Blind Boys of Alabama
  background vocals [11]
• The Holmes Brothers
  background vocals [7]
• Tom Lord‐Alge
  remixer [8]
• Tony Cousins
  mastering
• Tony Levin
  Chapman stick [2], bass [1, 3-4, 6, 9-11], electric bass guitar [14], tuba [1]
• Wayne Jackson
  cornet [6], trumpet [3, 6]
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Issues

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  Hit

  2x CD (slipcase, Deutsche Ausgabe)
  31 October 2003
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  Hit

  CD, Enhanced CD
  3 November 2003
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  Hit

  CD, Enhanced CD (The Definitive Two CD Collection)
  3 November 2003
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  H
  Hit

  2x CD
  4 November 2003
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  H
  Hit

  CD
  2003
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  H
  Hit

  CD
  2003
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  H
  Hit: The Definitive Two CD Collection

  2x CD
  14 March 2007
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  Hit

  Digital Media
  14 November 2019
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  Hit

  CD, Enhanced CD