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Biographical facts about Peter Gabriel:

Peter Gabriel was born in the town of Chobham in England. And Peter Gabriel was born on a Monday on the date of 02-13-1950. He is know as a Musician,Record producer,Singer.

Summary:

• Born: 1950-02-13
• Born in: Chobham, England
• Gender: Male
• Profession: Musician,Record producer,Singer

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peter Gabriel?

whats that song thats pretty new it talks about the seaside and its like tommy plays with bill and stuff like that at the beginning or whatever?

Answer:"Games Without Frontiers" It's not new though. That song is 28 years old. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bz-qeJOo7cs

What Is Your Favorite Genesis Album And Who Is The Better Frontman: Peter Gabriel Or Phil Collins?

Also, who are your othere favorite Prog Rock bands?

Answer:I liked them both- my favorite album Pete era is the Lamb, my favorite album Phil era is Wind and Wuthereing.

What's The Difference Between Peter Gabriel's Genesis Vs. Phil Collins'?

Answer:Peters genesis was outlandish phils was more good time music

Does Anyone Know If There Is Any Justice Or Injustice Background To The Song Biko By Peter Gabriel?

I am taking a Social Justice classs and we have to interpret the lyrics. Does anyone know if theree is any realtion to justice or injustice in this song?

Answer:Ah, children today. Steven Biko was a noted South African anti-apartheid activist who died in police custody. The cops claimed he died because he was on a hunger strike, but he had massive injuries, whichh pretty much showed he had been beaten to death.

What Does "But This Feels So Unnatural Peter Gabriel, Too" Mean?

I have heard two of Vampire Weekends songs with this line in it, and I have no idea what it mean! Someone please help bring meaning to these songs.

Answer:"Cape Cod Kwasa Kwasa" is about living a sheltered, suburban life where you don't really know anything besides what you pick up from magazines and your parents. (Listen to "Admit It!" by Say Anything). Peter Gabriel intertwined an African dance rhythm (Kwasa Kwasa) inot some of his music, and made it more popular. But just because you've listneed to Gabriel's music, doesn't mean you actually -know- what "Kwasa Kwasa" is. It's a felse kind of knowledge--like saying you know who The Beatles are just because you've heard bits and pieces of "Hey Jude" on the movie "Across the Universe".

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Scratch My Back
Average Rating: 3.5
Price: $13.99
Artist: Peter Gabriel
Manufacturer: EMI Label Services
UPC: 180030000185
Peter Gabriel s Scratch My Back album project is the first part of a series of song
exchanges in which Gabriel and other leading artists reinterpret each other s songs.
To help craft his recording of the album s eclectic array of cult favorites and classic
tracks, Gabriel enlisted former Durutti Column member John Metcalfe, composer,
arranger and the expertise of producer Bob Ezrin (Pink Floyd s The Wall , Lou
Reed s Berlin ) and engineer, mixer and producer Tchad Blake (Suzanne Vega,
Sheryl Crow, Tom Waits).
Gabriel describes this as a very personal record with twelve songs performed only
with orchestral instruments and voice. He made the choice not to include guitar or
drums. The album s richly diverse sounds include the sparse romance of Lou Reed s
The Power of the Heart , the powerful musical journey of David Bowie s Heroes
and an epic arrangement of Arcade Fire s My Body Is A Cage. Gabriel and his
collaborators recorded the album at George Martin s Air Lyndhurst Studios and the
Real World Temple with further editing and mixing at his own Real Worlds Studio in
Wiltshire. The Scratch My Back release is one of the most creative and engaging
records from an iconic artist in a long time. The marketing focus is to penetrate
Peter Gabriel s core fan base as well as fans of all genres and in all demographics
given the scope of artists being covered as well as its depth of composition.

Scratch My Back
Average Rating: 3.5
Price: $9.00
Artist: Peter Gabriel
Manufacturer: EMI Label Services
UPC: 180030000178
Peter Gabriel s Scratch My Back album project is the first part of a series of song
exchanges in which Gabriel and other leading artists reinterpret each other s songs.
To help craft his recording of the album s eclectic array of cult favorites and classic
tracks, Gabriel enlisted former Durutti Column member John Metcalfe, composer,
arranger and the expertise of producer Bob Ezrin (Pink Floyd s The Wall , Lou
Reed s Berlin ) and engineer, mixer and producer Tchad Blake (Suzanne Vega,
Sheryl Crow, Tom Waits).
Gabriel describes this as a very personal record with twelve songs performed only
with orchestral instruments and voice. He made the choice not to include guitar or
drums. The album s richly diverse sounds include the sparse romance of Lou Reed s
The Power of the Heart , the powerful musical journey of David Bowie s Heroes
and an epic arrangement of Arcade Fire s My Body Is A Cage. Gabriel and his
collaborators recorded the album at George Martin s Air Lyndhurst Studios and the
Real World Temple with further editing and mixing at his own Real Worlds Studio in
Wiltshire. The Scratch My Back release is one of the most creative and engaging
records from an iconic artist in a long time. The marketing focus is to penetrate
Peter Gabriel s core fan base as well as fans of all genres and in all demographics
given the scope of artists being covered as well as its depth of composition.

Big Blue Ball
Average Rating: 4.0
Price: $12.99
Artist: Peter Gabriel
Manufacturer: REAL WORLD
UPC: 884108014523
Big Blue Ball is the long-awaited, much-anticipated collection of stand-out tracks culled from the all-star, pan-global collaborations that took place over three years of Peter Gabriel s legendary Recording Week gatherings at his state-of-the-art Real World Studios in the English countryside.

Produced by Peter Gabriel, Karl Wallinger (of World Party, Waterboys) and Stephen Hague (Pet Shop Boys, OMD), it s a nonstop stream of poignant, sterling performances by a truly stellar lineup of artists-- including Gabriel, Wallinger, Sinead O Connor, Natacha Atlas, Iarla O Lionaird and James McNally (both of Afro Celt Sound System), Papa Wemba, Joseph Arthur, Tanzania s late music legend Hukwe Zawose, Hungary s Marta Sebestyen, Tim Finn, Cameroonian starFrancis Bebey, Vernon Reid, Justin Adams, Jah Wobble, Billy Cobham, Rupert Hine, gospel group the Holmes Brothers, flamenco guitarist Juan Canizares, Japanese percussionist Joji Hirota, and many more...in all totaling 75 artists from over 20 countries.

It s like a wall of sound coming at you, listening to the planet from outer space, says Karl Wallinger of the final mix. It s a real world-view of music, a snapshot of the music-making continents at that time. It s a more apt time to release it now than ever before. I think it s actually gathered weight with time, because it s people from all over the world playing together, just getting on together. There s an iconic aspect about that which is probably more important now. Things have become more partisan. It s a timely reminder of how you can cooperate.

Big Blue Ball s songs were created and recorded between 1991 and 1995, but the album has been an active work-in-progress at Real World ever since, a labor of love with ace producer Stephen Hague working closely with Peter Gabriel and Karl Wallinger. Holding the disparate elements in place is the powerful backbone of big drum tracks underpinning many of the songs. Wallinger says, Everyone was in orbit around this groove, and there is a universal language of dance, of dance grooves. That groove is the one bit that s non-denominational on the album.

Says Peter Gabriel, It s a fine wine ready to be drunk. It was the most fun music making I ve ever had. I d love to do it again.

Hit
Average Rating: 4.0
Price: $15.97
Artist: Peter Gabriel
Manufacturer: Geffen Records
UPC: 602498610992
A judiciously-selected two-CD compendium of Peter Gabriel's finest moments, Hit offers a far more generous windfall than can be found on the only previous Peter Gabriel best-of selection, the 1990 Shaking the Tree. The devil, after all, is in the detail, particularly on the second disc (self-deprecatingly entitled Miss), which really traverses the whole gamut of Peter Gabriel's globally-visioned artistry. It includes recent soundtrack work (the haunting "Cloudless" from Long Walk Home: Music from the Rabbit-Proof Fence), material from 2002's sterling Up ("Signal To Noise", featuring a compelling vocal from the late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and some ominous string arrangements, really does sound like a thinking man's Massive Attack) and goes right back to that fourth album when marrying the reticence of cold, synthesised new wave with insistent African percussion seemed like a good idea (it was). The first disc--including the MTV smash "Sledgehammer", anti-apartheid war cry "Biko", "Big Time" (interesting how the styles of Gabriel and his former group Genesis seem to converge at this time) and "Games Without Frontiers"--really speaks for itself, although with hindsight it seems the single-buying public-at-large had a particular taste for a certain kind of Peter Gabriel record. Universally excellent throughout, the collection is rendered even more desirable by the inclusion of three previously unreleased tracks: a live rendition of "Downside Up", a shorter version of "Blood of Eden" and "Burn You Up, Burn You Down", latterly included on a video game and initially earmarked for the Up album but jettisoned at the last minute. --Kevin Maidment

Peter Gabriel - Secret World Live
Average Rating: 4.0
Price: $10.97
Director: François Girard
Manufacturer: Interscope Records
UPC: 606949359492
Studio: Uni Dist Corp (music) Release Date: 10/23/2003

Up
Average Rating: 4.5
Price: $11.68
Artist: Peter Gabriel
Manufacturer: Interscope
UPC: 606949338824
That Up exists at all is faintly miraculous. Over the past seven years, with guests including Youssou N'Dour, Peter Green, the Blind Boys of Alabama, and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Peter Gabriel has held recording sessions in Senegal, Atlanta, Singapore, the French Alps, and on a boat on the Amazon River, as well as at his own RealWorld studios. Having written and prepared over 150 songs, he's managed to cut this huge body of work down to just 10 tracks. There's a remarkable consistency and contemporary feel here that springs from a thoughtful layering process, with Gabriel combining tribal rhythms with complex backing vocals, samples, rock guitar, piano and--crucially--electronic effects. Indeed, the opener, "Darkness," begins with an aggressiveness that recalls the Prodigy, before hints of vulnerability and fear surface. Elsewhere, there is the dreamy "The Drop" and the orchestral heights of "Signal to Noise." Throughout, Gabriel uses water metaphors to put forward his positivist message. And it's all brilliant, sophisticated, and soulful. The man's a marvel and Up is a masterwork. --Dominic Wills

Peter Gabriel - Growing Up Live
Average Rating: 4.5
Price: $19.98
Manufacturer: Geffen Records
UPC: 602498611432
Studio: Uni Dist Corp (music) Release Date: 10/03/2006

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