Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush - Don’t Give Up (Version 2) (1986)

“Don’t Give Up“ is a song written by English rock musician Peter Gabriel and recorded as a duet with Kate Bush for Gabriel’s sixth solo studio album So (1986). The single version was released as the second single from the album in the UK in 1986 and as the fifth single in the United States in 1987. It spent eleven weeks in the UK Top 75 chart in 1986, peaking at #9. Gabriel drew inspiration from Dorothea Lange’s images such as this, her most famous: “Migrant Mother“. The song was inspired by the Depression-era photographs of Dorothea Lange, showing poverty-stricken Americans in dust bowl conditions. Gabriel saw Lange’s images in a 1973 book titled In This Proud Land. He felt that a song based on this was wholly appropriate to difficult economic conditions in England under Margaret Thatcher. He composed lyrics within a situation about a man whose unemployment causes stress in his domestic relationship. The verses, sung by Gabriel, describe the man’s feelings o