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Genesis: Short on Hair, Long on Gimmicks

Richard Cromelin, Rolling Stone, 28 March 1974

LOS ANGELES – Peter Gabriel's five o'clock shadow tints not only cheeks and chin but the shaved patch of flesh which cuts up from the top of his forehead into the center of his hair, as if a tiny lawnmower had gone to work.

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