Wikipedia - "'Sledgehammer' is a song by British musician Peter Gabriel from his 1986 album So. ... The song was influenced by 1960s soul music, in particular the music made by the Memphis label Stax. The distinctive horn track was provided by the Memphis Horns, house musicians at Stax. The opening horn riff is similar to the beginning of John Coltrane's 'Chronic Blues' from the Coltrane album. The song also features a synthesized shakuhachi flute generated with an Emu Emulator II sampler. The lyrics are a mosaic of sexual innuendos, with references to steam trains, bumper cars, Big Dipper (roller coaster) and fruit cage as metaphors for male and female sexual organs and references to pollination, acting like a sledgehammer, fruit and bees as metaphors of sexual acts."
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