The years that end with a two are, in Peter Gabriel’s case, special years. Because in them, an astonishing number of his solo albums have a round anniversary. We would like to comemorate the anniversary with a small series of articles.
In October 2021, Peter helped his daughter Anna Gabriel present her book Eye-D. It shows close-ups of the eye parts of many famous stars. Peter is only indirectly involved in the project.
This was Peter Gabriel’s first soundtrack for a whole film – at the wish of its director, Alan Parker. Gabriel fulfilled his rnwish of using existing compositions, but still created something new, too. The outcome is a gloomy, but absolutely rnworthwhile collection of emotions in music.
In January 2015 Steve Hackett granted himself a special show variation. Together with Todmobile and an orchestra he played two gigs in Iceland. Volker Warncke has been there.
After a double DVD selection set Amnesty International has now also released a DVD box with the full coverage of the four events from 1986 to 1998. Peter Gabriel performed at each of the shows. We have taken a long hard look a the six DVDs.
Surprisingly, three years after Scratch My Back the second part of the song swap project is released. Twelve artists of all musical walks of life are assembled on a varied And I’ll Scratch Yours.
At the core of the So25 boxset, the So DNA CD permits exciting glimpses at how the album developed. Here is our attempt at an analysis.
While Peter Gabriel still celebrates the 25th anniversary of So we are already celebrating the 20th anniversary of Us and examine how Gabriel’s second most popular album holds up.
It was three years after the end of the tour for Peter Gabriel’s most successful album that the accompanying concert film came out in 1990. It has never been released on digital media, but we still take a look at it.