This song is a lampoon on TV evangelists such as Jim Bakker. It came during a period when many televangelists such as Robert Tilton and Benny Hinn were under investigation for promising financial success to their listeners, provided they sent money to them.
The video features singer Phil Collins as an unscrupulous televangelist who lives like a millionaire thanks to donations from his followers. The comedic video also features fellow band members, keyboardist Tony Banks and guitarist Mike Rutherford as fellow evangelists. Collins, in an orange suit, tries to have his viewers raise $18,000,000 in one weekend. In the final minute on the video, money rains down on the set of the fake program. As the toteboard reaches his goal, the amount of money shown increases in intervals of at least $800,000.
While Collins was slamming televangelism as a whole, he was also taking aim at one in particular: Pentecostal preacher Ernest Angley, known for his eponymous one-hour program that taught faith healing and the ever-popular but non-traditional prosperity gospel. Angley got himself into hot water in 2007 when he claimed prayer could cure HIV/AIDS in South Africa. Incidentally, Collins' parody didn't phase him - he was actually flattered.
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