I Have the Touch
| "I Have the Touch" | |
|---|---|
| Single by Peter Gabriel | |
| from the album Peter Gabriel | |
| Released | 8 September 1982 |
| Recorded | 1981-1982 |
| Genre |
Experimental rock (original version) Pop rock, new wave, synthpop (1983 remix) |
| Length |
4:30 3:45 (1983 remix) |
| Label | Charisma (UK), Geffen(U.S.) |
| Writer(s) | Gabriel |
| Producer(s) | David Lord, Peter Gabriel |
"I Have the Touch" is a song by Peter Gabriel from his album Security. The song's working title during the recording sessions was "Hands".[1] Peter Gabriel and Robbie Robertson remixed the song for the 1996 film Phenomenon. As a result, it charted 14 years after it was first released. This song was also featured in a 1988 movie called The Chocolate War, an off beat film that explored the Catholic School's strictness of a common tradition of students raising money by selling chocolate bars.
In 1996, Heather Nova recorded a cover version of the song for the teen-witch horror film The Craft.
The B-Side of the single, "Across the River", was an instrumental which came from a session between Gabriel, Stewart Copeland, Ravi Shankar, and long-time Gabriel guitarist David Rhodes, recorded for on a Womad benefit album, Music And Rhythm, that had been released six months earlier. The track would appear again on other singles, and a live version would appear on the album Secret World Live released in 1994.