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Peter Gabriel tells why he left Genesis in "Solsbury Hill," the key track on his 1977 solo debut. Majestically opening with an acoustic guitar, the song finds Gabriel's talents gelling, as the words and ...Read full review
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There's something about count-ins and the first Peter Gabriel record. Take this song: "A-one cluck!, a-two cluck!, a-one, a-two, a-three, a-..." Cue the drums and the intro of this languid blues pastiche. Waiting for the big one is another big departure from anything heard before or since from PG. The style being aped is the urban blues, originating most probably from the Chicago area long after Blind Lemon Jefferson had hung up his guitar and coke bottle. The difference between a Chicago club and Waiting for the Big One is that Peter takes the urban blues form and inflates it to double its normal size. The drums boom, the guitars slide and clink at the appropriate intervals and the piano tinkles away in the echoey background, all for around seven minutes.
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Generally regarded as Peter Gabriel's finest record, his third eponymous album finds him coming into his own, crafting an album that's artier, stronger, more song oriented than before. Consider its ominous ...Read full review
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In 2000, Gabriel followed Us with the music to OVO, a soundtrack for the Millennium Dome Show in London, and Long Walk Home, the music from the Australian movie Rabbit-Proof Fence, early in 2002. In September 2002, he released Up, his most recent full-length album, which was entirely self-produced, and returned to some of the less commercial, darker themes of his work in the late '70s and early '80s. The album ... shows Gabriel's continued freedom from the typical requirements for airplay of songs: aside from the ending piano ballad "The Drop," no song on Up is shorter than six minutes, and many go through several distinct movements, with great dynamics in sound and theme. --Bio Courtesy of wikipedia
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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.
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Gabriel has cited Old Man River as inspiration and prototype for Indigo. Old Man River, written by Kern and Hammerstein for the musical Show Boat, is a similarly emotive song, though essentially a protest against the situation of negros in the late Nineteenth Century. On Indigo, Peter takes the basic template of Old Man River minus the protest (only to resurface later in Biko) and grafts the tumbling melody to a polished lyric filled with clever internal rhymes and poignant images.
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