Peter Gabriel
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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 ...
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 ...
Audio interviews
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: **
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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Obituary by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 23 August 1975
AS PETER GABRIEL QUITS GENESIS, CHRIS WELCH RECALLS A GREAT BRITISH BAND ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
Peter Gabriel: Through The Wire Darkly
Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, New Music News, 14 June 1980
PETER GABRIEL — thinner and more youthful than any photographer's image, successfully straddling both commercial and creative peaks with his freshly-hatched, chart-trouncing third eponymous album. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Mandela's Day — The Journey To Freedom
Report and Interview by Ted Mico, Melody Maker, 28 April 1990
TWO YEARS AGO, THE POP WORLD TURNED OUT IN FORCE TO CELEBRATE HIS 70TH BIRTHDAY AND DEMAND HIS RELEASE FROM PRISON. ON EASTER MONDAY, NELSON ...
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 ...
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]
Transcript of audio 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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
Interview by uncredited writer, The Line of Best Fit, 11 January 2016
As he returns to television and lines up a stage show in London next month, Brian Pern – Rhys Thomas' musical creation portrayed by Simon ...
"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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