Peter Gabriel: Gawp Factor Ten
Robert Sandall, Q, July 1993
NOBODY LIKES being stuck inside one of those old red telephone boxes with a suspect handset and Peter Gabriel is clearly not a happy man. "Won't you please talk to me?" he howls plaintively into the receiver. "Won't you please talk to me?"
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