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Peter Gabriel: Peter Gabriel (Charisma) *****

Review by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 19 February 1977

DEAR PETER, Hangin' round Times Square just the other day when some strange sounds caught my ear. Bundled up my leather jacket, tucked a can ...

Rhythm Of The Pete

Interview by Richard Cook, New Musical Express, 2 October 1982

After the ambitious WOMAD Festival, the bailiffs cometh and PETER GABRIEL has decided to get himself out of hock – even if it means a ...

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Peter Gabriel (1981)

Interview by Mick Gold, Rock's Backpages audio, 21 January 1981

On the back of his breakthrough solo hit single 'Games Without Frontiers', Gabriel talks about making Peter Gabriel 3, drum machines and technology, the influence of African music, the death of John Lennon and his take on punk, the Pistols and PiL.

File format: mp3; file size: 59.4mb, interview length: 1h 04' 53" sound quality: **

Peter Gabriel (1992)

Interview by Adam Sweeting, Rock's Backpages audio, 27 July 1992

Gabriel talks about his Real World studios and record label and its association with WOMAD; his recording methods and his new album Us; being in therapy, his marriage breakup, and his children... and Rosanna Arquette; his early love of soul, and seeing Otis Redding; surviving punk; his dislike of the "World music" tag, and records soundtracks for films such as The Last Temptation of Christ.

File format: mp3; file size: 90.6mb, interview length: 1h 34' 21" sound quality: ** (wind and trains)

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Genesis to Revelation

Obituary by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 23 August 1975

AS PETER GABRIEL QUITS GENESIS, CHRIS WELCH RECALLS A GREAT BRITISH BAND ...

Peter Gabriel Quits Genesis

Report and Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 23 August 1975

THE MELODY MAKER last week front-paged the growing doubts about Gabriel's future in the band. Reports, denied by the management of Genesis, indicated that Gabriel ...

Peter Gabriel: Behind Peter Gabriel's Mask

Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 6 December 1975

PETER GABRIEL'S departure from Genesis was one of the biggest shocks of 1975 for those who admired, nay loved, the combination of perverse talent they ...

Peter Gabriel: Toronto Tales Of The Overkill Kid

Report and Interview by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 2 October 1976

FOR OVER an hour now, some of the world's finest musicians have been rehearsing 16 very complicated bars of music. Several unorthodox time changes present ...

Peter Gabriel: Say Goodbye to the Bubble Creature

Report and Interview by Barbara Charone, Circus, 17 March 1977

BOB EZRIN CALLS him the overkill kid. And it's easy to see why. Right now Peter Gabriel wants to sandwich 16 complicated bars of music ...

Peter Gabriel: The Palladium, New York

Live Review by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 26 March 1977

Gabriel knows what he likes ...

Peter Gabriel: The Lamb Stands Up

Interview by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 16 April 1977

'Because Genesis are now part of the English establishment I felt I'd been seen in context with them. But the better the album does the ...

Peter Gabriel: Peter Gabriel

Review by Stephen Demorest, Rolling Stone, 5 May 1977

WHEN PETER GABRIEL resigned as frontman of Genesis two years ago, he said it was to search for the unexpected. On the evidence of his ...

Peter Gabriel, Nona Hendrix: City Hall, Newcastle

Live Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 24 September 1977

PETER GABRIEL used to the the guy behind the make-up, behind the monster-mask, behind the smokescreen; an original performer, a one-man spectacular. I admired but ...

Peter Gabriel/Nona Hendryx: Live in Sheffield

Live Review by Andy Gill, New Musical Express, 24 September 1977

NONA HENDRYX possesses all the lumps and bumps, (in abundance), in all the right places, and flaunts her curvacity in a performance which promises sexuality ...

Newcastle Welcomes Peter Gabriel

Review and Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 1 October 1977

In the car park round the corner from Newcastle City Hall a bootleg baker was trafficking in bread buns from the back of an unmarked ...

The Re-Genesis Of Peter Gabriel

Report and Interview by Tony Stewart, New Musical Express, 1 October 1977

For someone who once accepted the Noble Order Of The Pension Book, this chap is rather lively. TONY STEWART saw him knocking out audiences at ...

Peter Gabriel: Peter Gabriel (2)

Review by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 3 June 1978

WITHOUT a doubt Peter Gabriel's second solo album is the very best record to surface from the entire Genesis-Steve Hackett-Anthony Phillips-Brand X-Gabriel vinyl conglomerate. ...

Gabriel: The Image Gets A Tweak

Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 10 June 1978

The Crazy Baldhead of Bath Meets NME's Sublime Subterranean— NICK KENT to you. ...

Peter Gabriel

Interview by Caroline Coon, Sounds, 24 June 1978

THIS BLOKE stands menacingly in the entrance to Bath Spa Station. "Hmm," I muse to myself, taking note of his close crop, "a West Country ...

The Stranglers, Peter Gabriel, The Skids et al: Punishment Park

Live Review by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 23 September 1978

IF NOTHING ELSE, at least the sun shone undisturbed for the duration of the Stranglers' long-awaited London gig on Saturday afternoon ("They're trying to strangle ...

Peter Gabriel: The Lamb Brought Down In Paris

Report and Interview by Penny Valentine, Melody Maker, 23 December 1978

ON THE WAY TO Paris to meet a man I've never seen there is a white sign splashed across a motorway bridge: 'Vive Le Proletariat' ...

Peter Gabriel: Peter Gabriel (Charisma)

Review by Hugh Fielder, Sounds, 7 June 1980

YOU COULDN'T call Peter Gabriel prolific. And neither of his solo albums so far have lived up to expectations, mainly because the ideas and the ...

Mr. Clean: Peter Gabriel

Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 14 June 1980

PETER GABRIEL was a little flustered. He is both a well-mannered and considerate man. He doesn't like to keep you waiting and possibly give the ...

The Evolution Of Peter Gabriel – Why He Believes In Taking Risks With His Music

Report and Interview by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 3 July 1980

IN RETROSPECT, Peter Gabriel is mildly amused. His third solo album, Peter Gabriel, is an unqualified success in his native England, hitting the No. 1 ...

Peter Gabriel: Peter Gabriel (Mercury SRM 1-3848)

Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 1980

MUSIC WITHOUT FRONTIERS ...

Peter Gabriel: Peter Gabriel

Review by Dave Marsh, Rolling Stone, 18 September 1980

LUCID AND DRIVEN, Peter Gabriel's third solo album sticks in the mind like the haunted heroes of the best film noirs. With the obsessiveness of ...

Gabriel on Gabriel or Man vs. Record

Interview by Jim Sullivan, Trouser Press, October 1980

PETER GABRIEL is mildly amused. ...

At Home With The Stars Special: So Tell Us Phil, How Do You Feel About Solo Success?

Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 21 March 1981

The remarkable Mr. Collins stays awake long enough to cure NICK KENT of his insomnia. ...

Peter Gabriel: Four (Charisma)

Review by Gavin Martin, New Musical Express, 11 September 1982

DEEP IN the heart of England something stirs..."Smash the radio/No outside voices here / Smash the watch / Cannot tear the day to shreds / ...

Peter Gabriel: Peter Gabriel (Charisma)

Review by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 11 September 1982

SHORTLY BEFORE the release of the Genesis album The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway, the entire band was replaced by superior alien intelligences, physical duplicates ...

Peter Gabriel: Don't Touch Me There

Interview by Hugh Fielder, Sounds, 2 October 1982

Hugh Fielder gets an earbending from PETER GABRIEL ...

Genesis and Peter Gabriel: Milton Keynes Bowl

Live Review by Hugh Fielder, Sounds, 9 October 1982

March Of The Giant Hogwash ...

Peter Gabriel: Tales Of The Gold Monkey

Interview by Phil Bell, Sounds, 1 October 1983

Philip Bell discovers the shocking truth behind Peter Gabriel ...

Peter Gabriel: So (Charisma PG 5) ***½

Review by Richard Cook, Sounds, 24 May 1986

JUST SO STORY ...

Peter Gabriel: From Brideshead to Sunken Heads

Interview by John Hutchinson, Musician, July 1986

PETER AND I were at school together – at Charterhouse, an expensive private school in Surrey, of the variety the British perversely insist on calling ...

U2, Sting et al: Amnesty International, Conspiracy of Hope Benefit, Cow Palace, San Francisco CA

Live Review by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 17 July 1986

Amnesty's rock & roll roadshow All-star lineup gives America the message ...

Daniel Lanois: The Producer as Conscience

Interview by Rob Tannenbaum, Musician, December 1986

"THERE'S A lot of pollution out there," says Daniel Lanois, drinking tea in the gazebo of his Santa Monica hotel one September morning, before continuing ...

Peter Gabriel, Youssou N'Dour: Earls Court, London

Live Review by Len Brown, New Musical Express, 4 July 1987

THE '70S DINOSAURS are dying out; either through lack of brain, excess of dosh or both. ...

David Rhodes: Atmospheric Guitar for Peter Gabriel

Profile and Interview by Mark Dery, Guitar Player, September 1987

DURING HIS RECENT So Tour, poker-faced Peter Gabriel offered fans a glimpse of his slapstick side. During 'Big Time', while Gabriel brayed in mock-macho tones ...

The Second Coming of Robbie Robertson

Special Feature by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 19 November 1987

Eleven, years ago, the enigmatic leader of the Band walked away from the rock world. Now, after some years of wild living, he's joined with ...

Organised Chaos: Peter Gabriel

Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, May 1989

Peter Gabriel: patron of the arts, tireless campaigner for human rights, influential champion of world music and, now, proud proprietor of a studio complex and ...

Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos

Report and Interview by Len Brown, New Musical Express, 3 June 1989

YOUSSOU N'DOUR and PETER GABRIEL, the pair that have set so many causes alight, have combined again, this time to champion female emancipation. LEN BROWN ...

An Alien In The Real World

Interview by Len Brown, New Musical Express, 10 June 1989

Although he's never appeared in the Sunday Sport, PETER GABRIEL has achieved enough for anyone else's lifetime. In part two of this interview, he talks ...

Daniel Lanois: Let the music speak

Interview by David Toop, The Times, 2 February 1990

David Toop meets Daniel Lanois, the hit producer of albums for U2, Peter Gabriel and Bob Dylan, now a performer himself on record and visiting ...

Nelson Mandela Tribute Concert, Wembley Stadium, London

Live Review by Robert Sandall, Rolling Stone, 31 May 1990

WHILE THE black south African leader Nelson Mandela was still in jail, his seventieth birthday, in June 1988, inspired the starriest gathering of rockers since ...

Peter Gabriel: World Party

Report by Johnny Black, Q, November 1991

One week this summer, Peter Gabriel's dream came true. Musicians of the world, from Sinead O'Connor and Van Morrison to stars of Lapland and Tanzania, ...

Peter Gabriel (1992) [Transcript]

Audio transcript of interview by Adam Sweeting, Rock's Backpages transcripts, 27 July 1992

This is a transcript of Adam's interview with Gabriel. Listen to the audio of this interview. ...

Peter Gabriel: Us

Review by Robert Sandall, Q, November 1992

THE '80S BOOM IN world music generated much tourism but comparatively few settlers: quick excursions into Township jive, brief flirtations with hot Latin rhythms, the ...

Peter Gabriel: Gawp Factor Ten

Interview by 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. ...

Are We Making Art Yet? Music in the age of interactive entertainment

Report by Alan di Perna, Musician, June 1994

MUSIC, OF course, has always been interactive. People dance to it, make love to it, sing along with the lyrics and figure out the chord ...

Peter Gabriel: Electric Disneyland

Profile and Interview by Nick Coleman, MOJO, October 1994

Peter Gabriel is developing an interactive self-therapy device. He talks of machines that can interface with plants. He sees himself not as a musician, more ...

Ryuichi Sakamoto: invisible jukebox

Interview by Mark Sinker, The Wire, October 1994

Every month we play a musician a series of records which they're asked to identify and comment on — with no prior knowledge of what ...

Peter Gabriel Plugs in for WOMAD

Live Review by Charles Bermant, Rolling Stone Online, 30 June 2001

IF MUSIC IS the food of love and life, then perhaps sometimes we need exotic tastes to cleanse the palate. ...

Peter Gabriel: Peter Gabriel 1, 2, 3 & 4; Plays Live; Birdy; So; Passion; Snaking The Tree; Us

Review by Phil Sutcliffe, MOJO, June 2002

Fine body of life's work remastered and reissued in "contemporised" Japanese-style mini vinyl die-cut gatefold sleeves. ...

Peter Gabriel: Gods And Monkeys

Review and Interview by Sylvie Simmons, MOJO, October 2002

Gabriel's long-awaited follow-up to '92's US. Musicians include Peter Green, The Blind Boys Of Alabama, Daniel Lanois and Nusrat Fatch All Khan. ...

Peter Gabriel: Peter Gabriel [2]

Review by Steven Ward, PopMatters, 3 December 2003

FIRST, THERE'S THE voice. It's a scratchy tenor. Peter Gabriel was only 28 when he recorded his second solo album in 1978. I'm sure his ...

Going for a song: Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush's 'Don't Give Up'

Retrospective by Tom Cox, The Sunday Times, 19 November 2006

I'D HAD WAITING jobs before, and could deal with the £2.56 hourly wage, the slave-driving supervisor who wouldn't stop talking about his masturbation habits, and ...

Peter Gabriel is back in the habit

Report and Interview by Robert Sandall, The Sunday Times, 31 January 2010

Lately more a technology guru than a singer, he now has a new CD – Scratch My Back is a covers album with a difference. ...

Peter Gabriel: Scratch My Back

Review by Mat Snow, MOJO, February 2010

FOR MOST OF US, the prospect on paper of, quote, a "song exchange concept" between Peter Gabriel and a dozen other thinking-person's art-rockers old and ...

Peter Gabriel's New Blood

Report and Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, MOJO, September 2011

"NEXT TIME YOU see me I might have a full head of hair," says Peter Gabriel — which would be a surprise, because he's been ...

Peter Gabriel: An Invasion Of Privacy

Interview by John Doran, The Quietus, 19 September 2011

Peter Gabriel tells John Doran about reworking his back catalogue, almost playing in space, being mistaken for a terrorist and how life might be four ...

Peter Gabriel: "Don't try to be liked"

Interview by Jude Rogers, The Word, October 2011

Sage, musicologist, digital pathfinder, born-again dad — Peter Gabriel offloads his recyclable bag of wisdom ...

Peter Gabriel: TD Garden, Boston

Live Review by Jim Sullivan, Cape Cod Times, 26 September 2012

THERE WAS music and magic at TD Garden on Monday, lots of it. Peter Gabriel was on stage for more than two hours and there ...

Peter Gabriel: So – 25th Anniversary Edition

Review by Jude Rogers, bbc.co.uk, 22 October 2012

An innovative album that slipped comfortably inside the '80s mainstream. ...

Peter Gabriel: Back To Front – Peter Gabriel Live In London

Film/DVD/TV Review by Stephen Dalton, loudersound.com, 16 July 2014

Leaden concert video. ...

Seventies prog rockers Genesis are back, but are they welcomed?

Retrospective and Interview by Nick Hasted, The Independent, 10 October 2014

THE SIGHT OF Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, Tony Banks, Mike Rutherford and Steve Hackett lined up in a studio, albeit only to reminisce for a ...

"You still have us": how Peter Gabriel's 'Don’t Give Up' became a lifeline for the lonely

Retrospective by Ian Winwood, Daily Telegraph, 27 March 2020

IT IS ALMOST eight years since the video clip for 'Don't Give Up' first appeared on YouTube. Written and sung by Peter Gabriel, and featuring ...

The shambolic Genesis reunion that saved Peter Gabriel from financial ruin

Retrospective by Ian Winwood, Daily Telegraph, 6 August 2020

Womad crippled Peter Gabriel, so his former bandmates offered to keep the bailiffs away. If only they could remember how to play together…  ...

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