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Genesis: Masked Idol

Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 19 January 1974

PETER GABRIEL, man of a thouand faces, is now also a man of several voices. One at least swoops upwards into the stratosphere, gibbers madly, then drops into the bowels of the earth. It's a frightening effect and can only be induced by judicious inhalation of noxious fumes.

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