It's not easy being a Peter Gabriel fan in 2018. He hasn't released an album of original tunes since 2002's Up, even if he's supposedly been picking away at a follow-up called I/O since 2005.
Peter Gabriel is the kind of guy you would call a musical genius without feeling as though you’re stretching the truth.
It’s not as if he recorded Say Say Say and The Girl Is Mine, is it? He didn’t cowrite either Do They Know It’s Christmas? or We Are the World. He hasn’t been accused of abusing women or children; and at no point did he step in as a replacement lead singer for Queen, Deep Purple or INXS.
On Jan. 24, 1975, Genesis performed at Los Angeles’ Shrine Auditorium during their Lamb Lies Down on Broadway tour.
From Friday 18 May Peter's music catalogue will start to be released on Spotify.
One of those musical fogies has long been Peter Gabriel, the U.K. artist perhaps best known here in the States for his eye-popping videos and providing the soundtrack to Lloyd Dobler's boombox hoisting plea in Say Anything (a move recently given a smartphone upgrade in Deadpool 2).
Peter Gabriel’s ground breaking video for the song ‘Sledgehammer’ has been newly remastered in high definition 4K by the team at Aardman and premieres from today on Apple Music.
You can argue back and forth over whether Peter Gabriel or Phil Collins was the better Genesis singer, but you can’t deny that this Gabriel-led album is one of the band’s best.
Genesis had been dormant for a decade when Tony Banks, Phil Collins and Mike Rutherford staged a worldwide 2007 reunion tour.
Phil Collins has recalled the unfair advantage that landed him the job when he auditioned for the drumming gig for Genesis in 1970.