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Don't Give Up...

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Dec 07, 2017
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The original plan Peter Gabriel had for his song Don't Give Up was for it to be a duet between him and Dolly Parton. He wrote it with Dolly in mind. She gave up before she began; she had no interest in recording the song with him. Gabriel heard it, in part, as a country song.

You hear the song in a new way imagining Dolly Parton performing it with Peter …

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