{"id":975411,"date":"2020-03-03T06:53:53","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T13:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=959406"},"modified":"2020-03-03T06:53:53","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T13:53:53","slug":"harry-styles-performs-faithful-cover-of-peter-gabriels-sledgehammer-on-stern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/harry-styles-performs-faithful-cover-of-peter-gabriels-sledgehammer-on-stern\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Styles Performs Faithful Cover of Peter Gabriel\u2019s \u2018Sledgehammer\u2019 on \u2018Stern\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/HarryPeter.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/harry-styles\/\" id=\"auto-tag_harry-styles\" data-tag=\"harry-styles\">Harry Styles<\/a> stopped by&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-howard-stern-show\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-howard-stern-show\" data-tag=\"the-howard-stern-show\">The Howard Stern Show<\/a><\/em> on Monday morning and performed a cover of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/peter-gabriel\/\" id=\"auto-tag_peter-gabriel\" data-tag=\"peter-gabriel\">Peter Gabriel<\/a>\u2019s \u201cSledgehammer\u201d on the SiriusXM show. Styles will kick off his tour this April in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Styles\u2019 full-band cover of \u201cSledgehammer\u201d was a&nbsp;<em>Stern Show<\/em> special, inspired by a long-time fandom of Gabriel. Styles complimented the song, calling it one of the \u201cbest-mixed songs\u201d ever and noted that part of his sophomore album <em>Fine Line<\/em> was recorded in Gabriel\u2019s Real World Studio in England. His rendition of the song is faithful to the original; Stern geeked out over all of the band members\u2019 isolated instrumentals. The host also encouraged Styles to perform the cover live on tour, which the pop star is considering.<\/p>\n<p>This was Styles\u2019 first time interview with Stern, and the pair spoke extensively about their shared love for musicians like Paul McCartney, David Bowie and Stevie Nicks. Styles also spoke about his experience getting robbed on Valentine\u2019s Day this year, giving details about being held at knifepoint by a group of people near his home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, I was robbed on Valentine\u2019s Day. That\u2019s what you get for being single these days,\u201d he joked before detailing the very terrifying experience. \u201cI should have had other plans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the show, Styles also announced that he will be joined by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/madisonc_music\/status\/1234498799302856707\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Madison Cunningham<\/a> for his pair of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/harry-styles-orville-peck-harryween-madison-square-garden-958363\/\">Harryween<\/a>\u201d Halloween shows in New York City. Orville Peck had already been announced as an opening act.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/harry-styles-sledgehammer-peter-gabriel-howard-stern-959406\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harry Styles stopped by&nbsp;The Howard Stern Show on Monday morning and performed a cover of Peter Gabriel\u2019s \u201cSledgehammer\u201d on the SiriusXM show. Styles will kick off his tour this April in the UK. Styles\u2019 full-band cover of \u201cSledgehammer\u201d was a&nbsp;Stern Show special, inspired by a long-time fandom of Gabriel. Styles complimented the song, calling it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-975411","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-18 05:00:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=975411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=975411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=975411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}