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Five Songs For Friday: 21 – Peter Gabriel

It’s been a while since we’ve had a Five Songs For Friday. And today I dug out the first five Peter Gabriel solo albums. I love Peter Gabriel. I love his Genesis stuff – I love almost all of the Genesis stuff, with him, without him and certainly everything he’s done since. I love the soundtracks, […]

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December 7, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Don’t Give Up…

The original plan Peter Gabriel had for his song Don’t Give Up was for it to be a duet between him and Dolly Parton. He wrote it with Dolly in mind. She gave up before she began; she had no interest in recording the song with him. Gabriel heard it, in part, as a country song. You hear the song […]

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August 18, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Peter Gabriel: Back To Front – Live In London

Peter Gabriel Back To Front: Live In London Shock Trust Peter Gabriel – fresh from interpreting his own back-catalogue in new orchestral settings and covering favourite pop tunes, as well as commissioning covers of his songs from sound-alikes and young indie figures clearly under his influence – to do the perform a classic album live […]

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September 7, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1289

Peter Gabriel, So (1986) Growing up when and where I did this was the first album I heard by Peter Gabriel. I knew the story of him as a former lead singer in Genesis but in fact hadn’t heard any of that material at that point. I guess I knew a few of the earlier […]

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April 23, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Peter Gabriel: Live Blood

Peter Gabriel Live Blood Eagle Rock Entertainment It’s funny, Peter Gabriel’s Scratch My Back project is making more sense to me the longer it continues. I found the studio album a tad underwhelming, misguided even, at times. There were one or two rather gorgeous moments, it was – on the whole – well intentioned. But […]

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March 28, 2012 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1557

Peter Gabriel, Peter Gabriel [Melt] (1980) I was a greatest hits-kinda fan first. And that was how I got on to Peter Gabriel. Actually So was the thing that really introduced me to him – given my age. Then it was back to Genesis. And then to the soundtracks and then the first four self-titled […]

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October 8, 2011 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1818

George Michael, Faith (1987) I was never really that impressed by George Michael at the time. Of course Faith was huge and you could not escape it – like Purple Rain and Born In The USA and Thriller and She’s So Unusual and So and Actually and a few other monumentally enormous albums from the […]