| Peter Gabriel |
Peter
Gabriel at Chateau Neuf, Oslo, Norway, 31 August 1978.
|
| Background information |
| Born |
13 February 1950 (1950-02-13) (age 57) |
| Origin |
 Chobham,
Surrey,
England |
| Genre(s) |
Progressive
rock
Pop
rock
New wave
World
music |
| Occupation(s) |
musician, record
producer |
| Instrument(s) |
Vocals, guitar, keyboards, flute, drums, electronics |
| Years active |
1967 – Present |
| Label(s) |
Geffen, Real
World |
Associated
acts |
Genesis |
| Website |
petergabriel.com |
Peter Brian Gabriel (born 13
February 1950,
in Chobham, Surrey, England) is an English musician. He
first came to fame as the lead vocalist and flautist of the progressive
rock group Genesis. After leaving
Genesis, Gabriel went on to a successful solo career. More recently he
has focused on producing and promoting world
music and pioneering digital distribution methods for music. He has
also been involved in various humanitarian efforts.
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Contents
- 1 Genesis
- 2 Solo
career
- 2.1 The
"untitled era"
- 2.2 The
hit years: So, Passion, Us
- 2.3 Later
Albums
- 2.4 Musicians
and collaborators
- 3 WOMAD
and other projects
- 4 Humanitarian
inititatives
- 5 Soundtracks
- 6 Personal
life
- 7 Recent
work and appearances
- 8 Further
reading
- 9 Discography
- 10 References
- 11 See
also
- 12 External
links
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Genesis
Gabriel founded Genesis in 1967 while a
pupil at Charterhouse School with
bandmates Tony Banks, Anthony
Phillips, Mike Rutherford, and
drummer Chris Stewart. The
name of the band was suggested by fellow Charterhouse School alumnus,
the pop music impresario Jonathan King who produced
their first album From Genesis to Revelation.
A lover of soul music, Gabriel was influenced by
many different sources in his way of singing, mainly Nina
Simone, Gary Brooker of Procol
Harum and Cat Stevens. He also played
the flute on Stevens' Mona Bone Jakon
album in 1970.
Genesis quickly became one
of the most talked-about bands in England and eventually Italy,
Belgium, Germany and other European countries, largely due to Gabriel's
flamboyant stage presence, which involved numerous bizarre costume
changes and comical, dreamlike stories told as the introduction to each
song. The concerts made extensive use of black
light with the normal stage lighting subdued or off. A backdrop of
fluorescing white sheets and a comparatively sparse stage made the band
into a set of silhouettes, with Gabriel's fluorescent costume and
makeup the only other sources of light.
Among Gabriel's many famous costumes (which he developed
partly as way of overcoming his stage fright) were "The Flower" (worn
for "Supper's Ready", from Foxtrot), "Magog" (also
worn for "Supper's Ready", from Foxtrot),
"Britannia" (worn for "Dancing With The Moonlit Knight", from Selling England by the
Pound), "The Old Man" (worn for "The Musical
Box", from Nursery Cryme),
"Rael" (worn throughout most of the performance of the album The Lamb Lies Down on
Broadway), and "The Slipperman" (worn during
"The Colony of Slippermen", also from The Lamb Lies Down on
Broadway).
Backing vocals in Genesis during Gabriel's tenure in the band
were usually handled by bassist/guitarist Mike Rutherford,
keyboardist/guitarist Tony Banks, and (most prominently) drummer Phil
Collins, who (after a long search for a replacement)
eventually became Genesis's lead singer after
Gabriel left the band in 1975.
The Departure
Gabriel's departure from Genesis (which stunned fans of the
group and left many commentators wondering if the band could survive)
was the result of a number of factors. His stature as the lead singer
of the band, and the added attention garnered by his flamboyant stage
personae, led to tensions within the band. Genesis had always operated
more or less as a collective, and Gabriel's burgeoning public profile
led to fears within the group that he was being unfairly singled out as
the creative hub of the group.
Tensions were heightened by the ambitious album and tour of
the concept work The Lamb Lies Down on
Broadway, a Gabriel-created concept piece which
saw him taking on the lion's share of the lyric writing. During the
writing and recording of The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway,
Gabriel was approached by director William
Friedkin, allegedly because Friedkin had found Gabriel's short story in
the liner notes to Genesis Live interesting.
Gabriel's interest in a film project with Friedkin was another
contributing factor in his decision to leave Genesis. The decision to
quit the band was made before the tour supporting The Lamb
Lies Down on Broadway, but Gabriel stayed with the band until
the conclusion of that tour.
The breaking point came with the difficult pregnancy of
Gabriel's wife, Jill, and birth of their first child, Anna. When he
opted to stay with his sick daughter and wife rather than go record and
tour, the resentment from the rest of the band led Gabriel to conclude
that he had to leave the band. "Solsbury
Hill", Gabriel's debut single as a solo artist, was written about his
departure.
Solo career
Gabriel refused to title any of his first four solo albums,
which were all labelled Peter Gabriel using the
same typeface, but different cover art. He wanted them to be considered
similar to consecutive issues of a magazine instead of individual
works; they are usually differentiated by number in order of release,
or sleeve design, I, II and III being referred to as Car,
Scratch
and Melt
respectively, in reference to their cover artwork. His fourth solo
album, also called Peter Gabriel in the UK, was
titled Security
in the U.S., at the behest of Geffen Records. Even after acquiescing to
distinctive titles, he has continued to use words as short as possible
to title his albums: So, Us,
and Up. His most recent 2xCD greatest hits
compilation was called, simply, Hit, with one CD
being labeled merely Hit and the other brilliantly Miss
(although all the previously released songs on the CDs charted on Billboard
magazine lists.)
The "untitled era"
Gabriel recorded his first solo album in 1976 and 1977 with
producer Bob
Ezrin, titled Peter Gabriel. His first solo success
came with the single "Solsbury Hill", an
autobiographical piece expressing his thoughts on leaving Genesis.
In it, he sings, "My friends would think I was a nut...", alluding to
his decision to begin a period of self-exploration and reflection,
while he grew cabbages, played the piano for long hours, practiced yoga and biofeedback,
and spent time with his family. Although mainly happy with the music,
Gabriel felt that the album, and especially the track "Here Comes the
Flood" was over-produced. Sparser versions can be heard on Robert
Fripp's Exposure,
and on Gabriel's greatest hits compilation Shaking
the Tree (1990).
Gabriel worked with guitarist Robert
Fripp (of King Crimson fame) as
producer of his second solo LP, in 1978. This album was leaner, darker
and more experimental, and yielded decent reviews, but no major hits.
Gabriel's third album, released in 1980, arose as a
collaboration with Steve Lillywhite, who also produced
early albums by U2.
It was notable for the hit singles "Games Without Frontiers" and "Biko",
for Gabriel's new interest in world music (especially for percussion),
and for its bold production, which made extensive use of recording
tricks and sound effects. Gabriel's third album is generally credited
as the first LP to use the now-famous "gated
drum" sound, invented by engineer Hugh Padgham and Gabriel's old Genesis
band-mate Phil Collins. Collins played drums on several tracks,
including the opener, "Intruder", which featured the reverse-gated,
cymbal-less drum kit sound which Collins would make famous on his
single "In the Air Tonight" and through
the rest of the 1980s. The massive, distinctive hollow sound arose
through some experiments by Collins and Padgham. Gabriel had requested
that his drummers use no cymbals in the album's sessions, and when he
heard the result from Collins and Padgham, he asked Collins to play a
simple pattern for several minutes, then built "Intruder" on it.
Arduous and occasionally damp recording sessions at his rural
English estate in 1981 and 1982, with co-producer/engineer David Lord,
resulted in Gabriel's fourth LP release (Security),
on which Gabriel took more production responsibility. It was one of the
first commercial albums recorded entirely to digital tape (using a Sony
mobile truck), and featured the early, extremely expensive Fairlight
CMI sampling computer. Gabriel combined a variety of sampled and
deconstructed sounds with world-beat percussion and other unusual
instrumentation to create a radically new, emotionally charged
soundscape. Furthermore, the sleeve art consisted of inscrutable,
video-based imagery. Despite the album's peculiar sound, odd
appearance, and often disturbing themes, it sold well and had a hit
single in "Shock the Monkey", which also
became a groundbreaking music video.
Gabriel toured extensively for each of his albums, continuing
the dramatic shows he began with Genesis, often involving elaborate
stage props and acrobatics which had him suspended from gantries,
distorting his face with Fresnel lenses and mirrors, and wearing
unusual makeup. For one tour, his entire band shaved their heads. It is
rumoured that Gabriel shaved his head as a way of asking forgiveness
from his wife Jill for having had an affair, which he had confessed to
her before leaving on the tour.
His 1982-83 tour included a section opening for David
Bowie, where many audience members and critics thought that
Gabriel as opener (especially with his elaborate makeup) overshadowed
Bowie at the height of his commercial popularity. Recordings of this
tour were released as the double LP Plays
Live The stage was set for Gabriel's critical
and commercial breakout with his next studio release So
which was in production for almost three years. During the recording
and production of the album Gabriel found time to work on the film
soundtrack for Alan Parker's 1984 feature Birdy, which
consisted of new material as well as remixed instrumental tracks from
his previous studio album.
The hit years: So,
Passion, Us
Although he had already achieved critical, and some
commercial, solo success (e.g. "Games Without Frontiers"
from his third album and "Shock the Monkey" from his fourth),
Gabriel achieved his greatest popularity with songs from the 1986 So
album, highlights being the '60s-tinged pop and suggestiveness of "Sledgehammer"
(a #1 smash in the US, knocking Genesis's Invisible
Touch off of the top spot), "Big
Time", the ballad "Don't
Give Up" with Kate Bush about the devastation
of unemployment, and the love song "In Your Eyes". "In
Your Eyes" later became ingrained in pop culture in a scene where it is
played on John
Cusack's boom box in the 1989 film Say
Anything.... Gabriel co-produced So with Daniel
Lanois, also known for his work with U2.
Gabriel's song "Sledgehammer" was accompanied by
a visually stunning music video, which was a collaboration
with director Stephen R. Johnson, Aardman
Animations, and the Brothers Quay. The video won numerous
awards at the 1987 MTV Music Video Awards, and set a new
standard for art in the music video industry. A follow-up video for the
song "Big Time" also broke new ground in
music video animation and special effects.
Gabriel played a prominent role in supporting Amnesty
International at this time, appearing on the 1986 U.S. A Conspiracy of Hope Tour
and on the 1988 worldwide Human Rights Now! Tour.
In 1989, Gabriel released Passion,
the soundtrack
for Martin Scorsese's movie The Last
Temptation of Christ. For this work Gabriel
received his first Grammy Award, in the category of Best
New Age Performance. He also received a Golden
Globe nomination for Best Original Score - Motion Picture.
Following this, Gabriel recorded Us
in 1992 (also co-produced with Daniel Lanois), an album in which he
explored the pain of recent personal problems; his failed first
marriage, his relationship with Rosanna Arquette, and the growing
distance between him and his first daughter.
Gabriel's introspection within the context of the album Us
can be seen in the first single release "Digging in the Dirt".
Accompanied by a disturbing video featuring Gabriel covered in worms,
this song also made reference to the way media coverage seems to wallow
in the foibles and mistakes of high visibility artists. Gabriel
describes his struggle to get through to his daughter in "Come Talk To
Me" which featured backing vocals by Sinéad
O'Connor. O'Connor also lent vocals to "Blood of Eden" the third single
to be released from the album. The result was one of his most personal
albums, though one with less success than So,
reaching #2 in the album chart on both sides of the Atlantic, and
making modest chart impact with the singles "Digging in the Dirt" and
the funkier "Steam" which evoked
memories of "Sledgehammer". He followed the
release of the album with a world tour and accompanying double CD and
DVD Secret World Live
in 1994.
Gabriel won three more Grammy Awards, all in the genre of
Music Videos. He won the Best Music Video - Short Form Grammy in 1992
and 1993 for the videos to "Digging in the Dirt" and "Steam"
respectively. Gabriel also won the 1995 Grammy for Best Music Video -
Long Form for his Secret World Live video.
Later Albums
After five years of not releasing any new music, Gabriel
re-emerged with OVO,
a soundtrack for the live Millennium Dome Show in London in 2000,
and Long
Walk Home, the music from the Australian movie Rabbit-Proof Fence,
early in 2002. This soundtrack also received a Golden
Globe nomination for Best Original Score - Motion Picture.
In September 2002, Gabriel released Up,
his first full-length studio album in a decade. Entirely self-produced,
Up returned to some of the themes of his work in the
late '70s and early '80s. Three singles failed to make an impression on
the charts but the album sold well globally, as Gabriel continues to
draw from a loyal fan base from his almost forty years in the music
business. Up was also accompanied by a live concert
DVD, featuring his daughter on backing vocals.
Musicians and collaborators
While the gaps between his studio album releases have become
longer and longer (six years between So and Us,
ten between Us and Up), Gabriel
has continued to work with a relatively stable crew of musicians and
recording engineers. Bass and Stick
player Tony
Levin, for example, has appeared on every Peter Gabriel studio album
except Passion and Long Walk Home as well as performed on every solo
tour and guitar
player David Rhodes has been
Gabriel’s guitarist of choice since 1979, both in the studio and on the
road. Gabriel is known for choosing top-flight collaborators, from
co-producers such as Ezrin, Fripp, Lillywhite, and Lanois to musicians
such as L.
Shankar, Trent Reznor, Youssou
N'Dour, Larry
Fast, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Sinéad
O'Connor, Kate
Bush, Paula Cole, John
Giblin, Papa Wemba, Manu
Katché, and Stewart Copeland.
Over the years, Gabriel has collaborated with singer Kate
Bush several times; Bush provided backing vocals for
Gabriel's "Games Without Frontiers" and "No Self Control" in 1980, and
female lead vocal for "Don't Give Up" (a Top 10 hit in the UK) in 1986,
and Gabriel appeared on her television special. Their duet of Roy
Harper's "Another Day" was discussed for release as a single,
but never appeared.
He also collaborated with Laurie
Anderson on two versions of her composition "Excellent Birds" - one for
her album, Mister Heartbreak, and a slightly
different version called "This is the Picture (Excellent Birds)" which
appeared on cassette and CD versions of So.
In 1987, when presenting Gabriel with an award for his music videos,
Anderson related an occasion in which a recording session had gone late
into the night and Gabriel's voice began to sound somewhat strange,
almost dreamlike. It was discovered that he had fallen asleep in front
of the microphone, but had continued to sing.
In 1998 Gabriel appeared on the soundtrack of Babe:
Pig in the City, not as a composer, but as the
singer of the song "That'll Do", written by Randy
Newman. The song was nominated for an Academy
Award, and Gabriel and Newman performed it at the following year's
Oscar telecast. Many who saw him on that broadcast didn't recognize
him, since his hair had greyed and thinned since his most recent tour
several years earlier.
Gabriel has also appeared on Robbie
Robertson's self-titled album, singing on "Fallen Angel", co-wrote two Tom
Robinson singles, and appeared on Joni
Mitchell's 1988 album, Chalk Mark in a Rainstorm,
on the track "My Secret Place".
WOMAD and other projects
Gabriel has been interested in world
music for many years, with the first musical evidence appearing on his
third album. This influence has increased over time, and he is the
driving force behind the WOMAD (World of Music, Arts and Dance)
movement. He created the Real World Studios and record
label to facilitate the creation and distribution of such music by
various artists, and he has worked to educate Western culture about the
work of such musicians as Yungchen Lhamo, Nusrat
Fateh Ali Khan and Youssou N'dour. He has a
long-standing interest in human rights, and launched Witness [2],
a nonprofit which supplies video cameras to human rights activists to
expose abuses. In 2006 his work with Witness and his long standing
support of peace and human rights causes was recognized by the Nobel
Peace Prize Laureates with the Man of Peace award.
In the 1990s he developed advanced multimedia
CD-ROM-based entertainment projects, creating the acclaimed Xplora
and Eve CD-ROMs. These can no longer be played on
modern PCs, due to changes to their operating
systems.
He was one of the founders of On Demand Distribution (OD2), one of the first
online music download services. Its technology is used by MSN Music UK and others,
and has become the dominant music download technology platform for
stores in Europe. OD2 was bought by US company Loudeye in June of 2004
and subsequently by Finnish mobile giant Nokia in October 2006 for $60 million.
Additionally, Gabriel is also co-founder (with Brian
Eno) of a musicians union called Mudda, short for
"magnificent union of digitally downloading artists."
In June 2005, Gabriel and broadcast industry entrepreneur David
Engelke purchased Solid State Logic, a leading
manufacturer of mixing consoles and digital audio workstations..
In July 2007 Peter performed at WOMAD in Charlton Park for the first time in
the 25 years of the festival.
Humanitarian inititatives
In the late 1990s, Peter
Gabriel and entrepreneur Richard
Branson discussed with Nelson Mandela their idea of a small,
dedicated group of leaders, working objectively and without any vested
personal interest to solve difficult global conflicts.
On July
18, 2007, in
Johannesburg,
South
Africa, Nelson Mandela announced the formation of a new group, Global
Elders, in a speech he delivered on the occasion of his 89th birthday.
The founding members of this group are Desmond
Tutu, Graça
Machel, Kofi
Annan, Ela
Bhatt, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Jimmy
Carter, Li
Zhaoxing, Mary Robinson, and Muhammad
Yunus.[3]
The Elders will be independently funded by a group of
"Founders", including Branson and Gabriel.
Desmond Tutu serves as the chair of The Elders—who will use
their collective skills to catalyze peaceful resolutions to
long-standing conflicts, articulate new approaches to global issues
that are or may cause immense human suffering, and share wisdom by
helping to connect voices all over the world. They will work together
over the next several months to carefully consider which specific
issues they will approach.
Soundtracks
Gabriel's music has appeared in many motion pictures and the
three films that he personally scored :
- Birdy, by Alan
Parker,
- The Last
Temptation of Christ by Martin Scorsese (recorded as
Passion, with additional material found on Passion sources),
- Rabbit-Proof Fence by Phillip
Noyce (recorded as Long Walk Home)
All those records were recorded at Realworld Studios - even
1985 Birdy.
Films that feature Gabriel's music or voice include :
- Against All Odds
(song "Walk Through the Fire")
- Angel Baby (song
"We Do What We're Told)
- Babe: Pig in the City
(song "That'll Do")
- The Bone Collector
(songs "Don't Give up" and "Zaar")
- City of Angels
(song "I Grieve", pre-Up version)
- Gangs of New York
(acoustic version of "Signal to Noise")
- Gremlins (song
"Out, Out")
- In Good Company
(song "Solsbury Hill")
- Phenomenon
(song "I Have the touch", remixed with additional lyrics)
- Philadelphia
(song "Lovetown")
- Natural Born Killers
(song "Taboo", with Nusrat Fateh Ali Kahn)
- Project X
(song "Shock the Monkey")
- Red Planet
(song "The Tower that Ate People", remixed)
- Say Anything
(song "In Your Eyes")
- Shall We Dance?
(song "The Book of Love", a cover of a song by The
Magnetic Fields)
- Strange Days
(song "While the Earth Sleeps" with Deep Forest)
- Until the End of the World
(song "Blood of Eden", non-album version)
- Vanilla Sky
(song "Solsbury Hill")
- Virtuosity (song
"Partyman", co-written with Tori Amos)
- The Wild Thornberrys Movie
(song "Animal Nation")
- The Battle of Shaker
Heights (song "When You're Falling" with Afro
Celt Sound System)
Personal life
Peter Gabriel has two daughters from his marriage to first
wife Jill: Melanie and Anna. Melanie was a backing vocalist during
Gabriel's 2002 Growing Up and 2007 Warm Up tours, and Anna filmed a
documentary of that same tour, called Growing Up On Tour: A Family
Portrait. Gabriel and his second wife, Meabh, had a son, Isaac, in 2002.
Recent work and appearances
He coordinated and performed at the Eden Project Live 8
concert in July 2005.
Gabriel played on stage with Yusuf
Islam (formerly Cat Stevens), 33 years after
having played on Stevens' Mona Bone Jakon album, in
Johannesburg
during Nelson Mandela's 46664 concert. The
two performed the Stevens hit "Wild World".
A double DVD set, Peter Gabriel Live &
Unwrapped, was released in October, 2005.
A future DVD release will be the concert film PoV, previously available on VHS. It is
getting the full 5.1 remix treatment in Gabriel's Realworld studios.
FIFA
asked Gabriel and Brian Eno to organize an opening
ceremony for the 2006 FIFA World Cup finals in
Germany, planned to take place a couple of days before the start of the
tournament. Gabriel had recently become a fan of the game and European
champions Liverpool, and worked on songs for the show in Berlin's
Olympic Stadium. Although the show was cancelled in January 2006 by
FIFA due to going overbudget and supposed lack of interest, the
official explanation was potential damage to the pitch.
Rumours of a possible reunion of the original Genesis
line-up began circulating in 2004 after Phil Collins stated in an
interview that he is open to the idea of sitting back behind the drums
and "let Peter be the singer." The classic line-up has only reformed
for a live performance once before, in
1982. However, the group did work together to create a new version of
an old Genesis song The Carpet Crawlers 1999,
released on the Genesis Hits record. Gabriel later
met with other Genesis band members, and a possible reunion tour of The Lamb Lies Down on
Broadway was discussed. Gabriel declined a
reunion, so Collins, Banks, and Rutherford chose to tour as Genesis
without him.
Gabriel performed John Lennon's "Imagine" at the
Opening Ceremonies of the Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy on February
10, 2006.
Cingular Wireless has aired
commercials featuring Gabriel's "Solsbury
Hill."
Gabriel is currently recording a new studio album entitled
Input/Output, which will be his first new album release since Up
in 2002. No release date has been announced.
Gabriel's song "Digging in the Dirt" is now being used for
promotional videos for the FX show "Dirt"
Gabriel is involved in The Filter, an add-on application for iTunes, Windows
Media Player and some Nokia
phones which can automatically generate playlists based on music you
select.
In November 2006, the Seventh World Summit of Nobel Peace
Laureates in Rome presented Gabriel with the Man of
Peace award. The award, presented by former President of the USSR and
Nobel Peace Prize winner Mikhail Gorbachev and Walter
Veltroni, Mayor of Rome, was an acknowledgement of Gabriel’s extensive
contribution and work on behalf of human rights and peace. The award
was presented in the Giulio Cesare Hall of the Campidoglio in Rome.
Also at the end of 2006 Peter was awarded the Q Magazine
Lifetime achievement award.
Gabriel's most recent project is with the BBC
World Service's competition "The Next Big Thing" to find the world's
best young band. Gabriel is judging the final six young artists with William
Orbit, Geoff Travis and Angelique Kidjo.
First reported in The Times
newspaper on January 21, 2007, Peter Gabriel has announced that he will
release his next album in the U.S. without the aid of a record company.
Gabriel, an early pioneer of digital music distribution, has raised £2
million towards recording and 'shipping' his next as-yet-untitled album
in a venture with investment boutique Ingenious Media. Gabriel is
expected to earn double the money that he would get through a
conventional record deal. Commercial director Duncan Reid of Ingenious
explains the business savvy of the deal, saying, "If you're paying a
small distribution fee and covering your own marketing costs, you enjoy
the lion's share of the proceeds of the album. Gabriel is expected to
outsource CD production for worldwide release through Warner Bros.
Records. The new album deal covers the North America territory, where
Gabriel is currently out of contract.
Gabriel's new album, Big Blue Ball, will
be launched in America thanks to a venture capital trust initiative.
Bosses at London-based firm Ingenious have raised more than $4 million
(GBP 2 million) to help promote his latest release in the US. The
venture capitalists, Gabriel and his Real World Limited partners, have
created a new joint venture company, High Level Recordings Limited, to
oversee the release of the new album in 2007.
On May 24th 2007, he was honoured with the Ivor Novello Award
for lifetime achievement.
Further reading
In 1976, Gabriel covered the Beatles song "Strawberry Fields Forever"
for the musical documentary All This and World War II.
He has also recorded covers of Leonard Cohen's "Suzanne" and the Gershwin
standard "Summertime"
Gabriel's "We Do What We're Told (Milgram's 37)"
from So refers to Milgram's
experiment.
Gabriel's song "Big
Time" was the official theme song of World Wrestling Entertainment's WrestleMania
22.
The 2003 videos Uru:
Ages Beyond Myst from game companies Cyan Worlds and Ubisoft featured
the song "Burn You Up, Burn You Down".
The 2004 release of Myst
IV: Revelation featured "Curtains", originally a B-side from the single
"Big Time" from So. The song, slightly remixed from
its original version, is also often called "Portal to Serenia"
or "Portal to Dreamworld". Gabriel also performs a voice acting part in
the game.
Gabriel was referenced in the December
10, 2003
episode of South
Park called Raisins in a parody of
the John Cusack with boombox scene from Say
Anything.
Discography
-
Main
article: Peter Gabriel discography
References
See also
- List
of best selling music artists
- List
of number-one hits (United States)
- List
of artists who reached number one on the Hot 100 (U.S.)
- List
of number-one dance hits (United States)
- List
of artists who reached number one on the U.S. Dance chart
- List
of artists who reached number one on the U.S. Mainstream Rock chart
- Solid State Logic
External links
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Gabriel |
| Studio Albums |
| Peter Gabriel I (Car)
| Peter Gabriel II (Scratch)
| Peter Gabriel III (Melt)
| Peter Gabriel IV
(Security) | So
| Us
| Up |
| With
Genesis |
| From Genesis to Revelation
| Trespass | Nursery
Cryme | Foxtrot
| Selling England by the
Pound | The Lamb Lies Down On
Broadway |
| Live
Albums |
| Plays Live
| Secret World Live |
| Soundtracks |
| Birdy | Passion:
Music for the Last Temptation Of Christ | OVO
| Long
Walk Home: Music from the Rabbit-Proof Fence |
| Compilations |
| Shaking the Tree
| Revisited
| Hit |
| DVDs |
| Secret World Live
| Growing Up Live
| Growing Up: A Family
Portrait | Play: The Videos
| Still
Growing Up: Live & Unwrapped |
| German
Albums |
| Ein Deutsches Album
| Deutsches Album |
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| v • d • e Genesis |
| Tony Banks
| Phil Collins | Mike
Rutherford |
| Peter Gabriel
| Steve
Hackett | Anthony Phillips | John
Mayhew | John Silver | Chris Stewart | Bill
Bruford | Daryl Stuermer | Chester
Thompson | Ray Wilson |
| Discography |
| Studio albums: From Genesis to Revelation
| Trespass | Nursery
Cryme | Foxtrot
| Selling England by the
Pound | The Lamb Lies Down on
Broadway | A
Trick of the Tail | Wind
& Wuthering | ...And Then There
Were Three... | Duke
| Abacab
| Genesis | Invisible
Touch | We
Can't Dance | Calling
All Stations |
| Live Albums: Genesis
Live | Seconds
Out | Three
Sides Live | Live/The
Way We Walk, Volume One: The Shorts | Live/The
Way We Walk, Volume Two: The Longs | Gladiators
- Live in Rome |
| Compilations: Turn It On Again: The Hits
| Platinum Collection |
| Box sets: Genesis Archive 1967-75
| Genesis Archive 2:
1976-1992 | Genesis
1976-1982 |
| EPs: Spot
the Pigeon | 3 X 3 |
| Films: Genesis:
In Concert |
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Gabriel, Peter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES |
Gabriel, Peter Brian |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION |
musician,
record producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH |
February 13, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH |
Chobham, Surrey, England |
| DATE OF DEATH |
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| PLACE OF DEATH |
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