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Phil Collins & Marilyn Martin - "Separate Lives"
from the album White Nights (Original Soundtrack) (1985)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #1 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 16

Today's Song of the Day comes from Phil Collins, whose third album No Jacket Required had scored Phil back-to-back #1 pop hits in America with "One More Night" and "Sussudio". In between singles from the album, he released a single he recorded for the ballet intrigue movie White Nights, "Separate Lives". The film, starring tap dancer and singer Gregory Hines and ballet star and Russian defector Mikhail Baryshnikov, had the two as dancers and political refugees. The single, written by Stephen Bishop, who already had a movie "hit" of his own with "It Might Be You" from the movie Tootsie, paired Collins with singer Marilyn Martin, a back-up singer for the likes of Stevie Nicks and Tom Petty...

"Separate Lives" became Phil's fourth #1 hit in November of 1985, while also topping Billboard magazine's adult contemporary (or "easy-listening") radio chart. The single also went to the top of the chart in Canada, and in his native Britain it peaked at #4.

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Here's the songwriter performing his composition live...