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Peter Gabriel born in 1950 attended Charterhouse public school where he formed a rock band with fellow students. That band was later to become Genesis and enjoyed a cult following with Gabriel as the front man.
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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.
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Three live tracks, recorded in 1979 and 1980, appear on the second edition of the Bristol Recorder, a combination album/magazine issued by a small English label in 1981, a forerunner of Gabriel's full-length live album. The two-disc Plays Live was recorded in America in 1982 (although some acknowledged "cheating" was later done) and features a good recap of his solo career, relying most heavily on the two most recent records. The four-piece band includes Tony Levin and Larry Fast. (The double-CD contains the entire album; in Britain, fans on a budget could ... choose an abbreviated single disc.)
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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. Though tensions were high, both Gabriel and the remaining members of Genesis have stated publicly that Gabriel left the band on good terms, supported by the fact that he officially left 8 months after telling the band it was time for him to move on.
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The Internet provides "a much more democratic musical process," says Gabriel, who has recorded 10 solo albums since leaving the band Genesis in 1975. He's worried about the alternative: That the Net could be a vehicle for big music labels to expand their dominance. "There's ... a great opportunity to get screwed," he frets.
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