Name one song, with best crescendo build up

Actually took for page two to come around before someone mentioned what I thought was one of the most obvious choices. It's the one that sprang to my mind first. 

I was thinking about this in the car yesterday as the CD happened to be in the player. It is a weird one in many different ways. 

First of which is that it is mostly created in the mixing desk, Phil Colins is beating several shades of sh*t out of his drum kit for the whole duration of the crescendo, no doubt hitting them as hard as drummers invariably do and therefore being as loud as any drummer can be, so when you compare that with the other musicians (organ, guitar, bass) you can hear that they are also playing at a constant loudness for the whole crescendo so the gradual increase in volume is created by the mixing engineer, not the musicians. 

In itself this would not result in a crescendo but merely a protracted fade-in. 

But something else happens, the tone seems to change too, becoming fuller as the volume increases - this gives the impression that the music is not fading-in but is approaching you (if you can imagine the band matching towards you). 

Again this effect would not result in a crescendo but a clever version of the lengthy fade-in (a bit like the famous oasis scene in Lawrence of Arabia). 

Yet this is a real musical crescendo because Hackett introduces more instruments as the piece builds up, adding more depth to the increasing volume (the choral voices followed by the dramatic power chords and then the chimes of the tubular bells)... 

and then as we approach the denouement... 

it quickly fades-out (but not as a diminuendo) to an anti-climax. 

Most strange but very effective in its own way.