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Peter Gabriel, released in 1980, is Peter Gabriel's third eponymous album and his first (and only) for Mercury Records and re-issued in 1983 on Geffen Records. The album was met with wide critical acclaim and contains two of Gabriel's most famous songs, "Games Without Frontiers," which reached the U.S. Top 50, and "Biko". It was remastered with most of Gabriel's catalog in 2002.
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Recently, Peter Gabriel has been working with video game companies Cyan Worlds and Ubisoft to aid in the sound production of their latest video games. The 2003 videogame Uru: Ages Beyond Myst featured the song "Burn You Up, Burn You Down" in several portions of the game. The song, in a different mix, features the Blind Boys of Alabama (who ... collaborated with Gabriel on the song "Sky Blue") and was on a press release copy of Up, but deleted before the album's actual release.
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In 1977, Peter Gabriel released his first solo record. Like the next three albums, it was untitled, but fans dubbed it “CAR” because the cover showed an almost undiscernible Peter sitting in a car that was wet with rain. Musically, it was as far away from that Genesis style as possible. The songs sounded quite different, and some of them became his first solo successes, e.g. Solsbury Hill, Peter’s “declaration of independence”, and the apocalyptical Here Comes The Flood. Since Peter lacked experience as a producer, he decided to go with whatever song-oriented American producer Bob Ezrin suggested. As a result, many arrangements sound hopelessly crowded to Peter these days.
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Peter Gabriel employed an innovative approach in the marketing of the "US" album. Not wanting to only feature images of himself, he asked artist filmmakers Nichola Bruce and Michael Coulson to coordinate a marketing campaign using contemporary artists. Artists such as Helen Chadwick, Rebecca Horn, Nils-Udo, Andy Goldsworthy, David Mach and Yayoi Kusama, collaborated to create original artworks for each of the 11 songs on the multi-million selling CD. Coulson and Bruce documented the process on Hi-8 video. Bruce left Real World and Coulson continued with the campaign, using the documentary background material as the basis for a promotional EPK, the long form video: All About Us and the interactive CD-ROM "Xplora."
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Peter Gabriel's eagerly awaited 11th studio album, UP, is released in September 2002. Work began on the album in 1993, and whilst writing and recording UP, Gabriel ... developed a stage show called Zulu Time, with the French Canadian theater director Robert Le Page and released a score for the Philip Noyce film, Rabbit Proof Fence, entitled Long Walk Home.
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As the leader of Genesis in the early '70s, Peter Gabriel helped move progressive rock to new levels of theatricality. In his solo career, Gabriel was no less ambitious, but he was more subtle in his methods. With his first eponymous solo album in 1977, he began exploring darker, more cerebral territory, incorporating avant-garde, electronic, and worldbeat influences into his music. The record, as well as its two similarly titled successors, established Gabriel as a critically acclaimed cult artist, and with 1982's Security, he began to move into the mainstream; "Shock the Monkey" became his first Top 40 hit, paving the way for his multi-platinum breakthrough So in 1986. Accompanied by a series of groundbreaking videos and the number one single "Sledgehammer," So became a multi-platinum hit, and Gabriel became an international star. Instead of capitalizing on his sudden success, he began to explore other interests, including recording soundtracks and running his company Real World.
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