Off Peter Gabriel‘s fourth album, Security, in 1982, “Shock the Monkey” reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and No. 29 on the Hot 100, making it his first Top 40 ...

Gabriel suddenly had his first Top 30 hit on the Hot 100, as "Shock the Monkey" spent 18 weeks on the chart after its Sept. 20, 1982, debut. Gabriel's gold-selling fourth album, called Security in ...