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August 22, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: so

i haven’t got the energy to be totally embarrassed  which is why you are reading  this now  or at some stage.  (whenever)
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged i haven’t got the energy to be totally embarrassed which is why you are reading this now or at some stage. (whenever), Poem, Poem: so, So ·

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December 15, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

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, […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 21, 5, Animal Magic, Car, Don't Give Up, Five, Five Songs, Five Songs For A Friday, Five Songs For Friday, Five Songs For Friday: 21, Five Songs For Friday: 21 – Peter Gabriel, Friday, Gabriel, Genesis, Here Comes The Flood, Melt, No Self-Control, Peter, Peter Gabriel, PG, Scratch, Security, So, Solo, Solo Albums, The Rhythm of The Heat ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 1980s, Classic Album, Dolly Parton, Don't Give Up, Kate Bush, Peter Gabriel, Sinead O'Connor, So, Song, Willie Nelson ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 02, Back To Front, Back To Front: Live In London, Classic Album, Concert, DVD, DVD Review, Gabriel, Genesis, Live, Live In London, Music DVD, Peter Gabriel, Shock, So ·

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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 […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1986, Genesis, Peter Gabriel, Red Rain, So ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Covers, Live, Live Blood, Orchestra, Peter Gabriel, Scratch My Back, So, Up, Us ·

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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 […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1980, Biko, Games Without Frontiers, Genesis, Intruder, LP, Melt, Peter Gabriel, Peter Gabriel 3, Phil Collins, Self-Titled, So, Vinyl ·

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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 […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged Actually, Born In The USA, Faith, Father Figure, George Michael, Listen Withouth Prejudice Vol. 1, Older, Purple Rain, She's So Unusual, So, Songs From The Last Century, Vinyl, Wham! ·

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