Artist: Peter Gabriel Genre(s):
Rock: Pop-Rock
Soundtrack
Rock
Discography:
Hit (CD 2) Year: 2004
Tracks: 14
Hit (CD 1) Year: 2004
Tracks: 15
Up Year: 2002
Tracks: 11
Shaking the Tree: Sixteen Golden Greats Year: 2002
Tracks: 15
Long Walk Home (The Rabbit-Proof Fence OST) Year: 2002
Tracks: 15
Long Walk Home Year: 2002
Tracks: 15
Birdy Year: 2002
Tracks: 12
OVO: The Millenium Show Year: 2000
Tracks: 12
OVO: Millennium Show Year: 2000
Tracks: 12
Ovo: Millennium +1 (Ltd Edition) Year: 2000
Tracks: 12
OVO Year: 2000
Tracks: 12
Secret World Live (CD 2) Year: 1994
Tracks: 5
Secret World Live (CD 1) Year: 1994
Tracks: 10
Secret World Live Year: 1994
Tracks: 10
Us Year: 1992
Tracks: 10
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[1989] Passion Music for The Last Temptation Of Christ Year: 1989
Tracks: 21
Passion - Music for the Last Temptation of Christ Year: 1989
Tracks: 21
Passion Year: 1989
Tracks: 21
SO (Remastered 2002) Year: 1986
Tracks: 9
So Year: 1986
Tracks: 9
Plays Live (CD 2) Year: 1983
Tracks: 8
Plays Live (CD 1) Year: 1983
Tracks: 8
Plays Live Year: 1983
Tracks: 8
Security Year: 1982
Tracks: 8
Peter Gabriel IV Security Year: 1982
Tracks: 8
Peter Gabriel 4 Year: 1982
Tracks: 8
Deutsches Album Year: 1982
Tracks: 8
The 3rd Studio Album Year: 1980
Tracks: 10
Peter Gabriel III Year: 1980
Tracks: 10
Ein Deutsches Album Year: 1980
Tracks: 9
The 2nd Studio Album Year: 1978
Tracks: 11
Peter Gabriel II Year: 1978
Tracks: 11
Peter Gabriel 2: Scratch Year: 1978
Tracks: 11
Peter Gabriel - Ii - Scratch Year: 1978
Tracks: 11
Peter Gabriel 1: Car Year: 1977
Tracks: 9
Peter Gabriel 1 Year: 1977
Tracks: 9
As the drawing card of Genesis in the early '70s, Peter Gabriel helped move progressive rock candy to new levels of theatricality. In his solo career, Gabriel was no less ambitious, merely he was more subtle in his methods. With his first eponymous solo album in 1977, he began exploring darker, more than cerebral soil, incorporating avant-garde, electronic, and worldbeat influences into his music. The track record, as well as its deuce similarly highborn successors, accomplished Gabriel as a critically acclaimed cult artist, and with 1982's
Security, he began to go into the mainstream; "Seismic disturbance the Monkey" became his first Top 40 strike, pavement the way for his multi-platinum breakthrough
So in 1986. Accompanied by a series of groundbreaking videos and the act peerless single "Maul,"
So became a multi-platinum hit, and Gabriel became an external star. Instead of capitalizing on his sudden success, he began to explore other interests, including transcription soundtracks and operative his society Real World. By the prison term he returned to pop with 1992's
Us, his mass audience had washy aside and he spent the residuum of the '90s working on multimedia system projects for Real World.
Following his departure from Genesis in 1976, Peter Gabriel began work on the first of trey back-to-back eponymously highborn albums; each record was named
Saint Peter the Apostle Gabriel, he aforesaid, as if they were editions of the same magazine. In 1977, his first solo album appeared and became a soften success due to the single "Solsbury Hill." Another self-titled track record followed in 1978, so far received relatively weaker reviews. Gabriel's third eponymous album was his artistic breakthrough. Produced by Steve Lillywhite and released in 1980, the album established Gabriel as one of rock's most ambitious, innovational musicians, as good as one of its well-nigh political -- "Biko," a vocal around a murdered antiapartheid militant, became one of the biggest protest anthems of the '80s. "Games Without Frontiers," with its eery chorus, intimately reached the Top 40.
In 1982, Gabriel released
Surety, which was an even bigger success, earning positive reviews and sledding gold on the forcefulness of the startling video for "Shock the Monkey." Just as his solo career was pickings off, Gabriel participated in a round Genesis reunification in order to finance his WOMAD -- World of Music, Arts and Dance -- Festival. WOMAD was intentional to bring versatile world musics and impost to a Western consultation, and it presently sour into an yearly event, and a live forked album was released that yr to record the outcome. As Gabriel worked on his fifth album, he contributed the soundtrack to Alan Parker's 1984 plastic film
Birdy. His score was highly praised and it north Korean won the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes that year. After innovation Real World, Inc. -- a tummy devoted to development bridges betwixt engineering science and multi-ethnic humanistic discipline -- in 1985, he realised his twenty percent album,
So.
Released in 1986,
So became Gabriel's commercial breakthrough, largely because his Stax court "Sledge" was blessed with an innovative video that combined stop-action vitality with live military action.
So climbed to figure 2 as "Maul" make number one, with "Braggy Time" -- featuring a video very alike to "Maul" -- stretch the Top Ten and "In Your Eyes" hitting the Top 30. As
So was horseback riding high on the American and British charts, Gabriel co-headlined the showtime benefit tour for Amnesty International in 1986 with Sting and U2. Another Amnesty International Tour followed in 1988, and the following year, Gabriel released
Passion: Music for The Last Temptation of Christ, a solicitation of instrumentals used in Martin Scorsese's cinema.
Passion was the furthest Gabriel delved into worldbeat, and the album was widely acclaimed, victorious the Grammy Award in 1989 for Best New Age Performance. In 1990, he released the hits compilation
Shaking the Tree.
Gabriel laboured long on the pop music follow-up to
So, finally releasing
Us in the saltation of 1992. During the recording of
Us, Gabriel went through a number of personal upheavals, including a afflictive disunite, and those tensions manifested themselves on
Us, a much darker record than
So. For diverse reasons, non the least of which was the fact that it was released half a dozen years after its forerunner,
Us wasn't as commercially successful as
So, disdain cocksure reviews. Only one single, the "Maul" knockoff "Steam," reached the Top 40, and the album stalled at pt gross sales. In 1993, Gabriel embarked on the near ambitious WOMAD duty tour to appointment, touring the United States with a roll including Crowded House, James, and Sinéad O'Connor, with whom he had an on-off romantic relationship. The following year, he released the double-disc
Mysterious World Live, which went amber. Later in 1994, he released the CD-ROM Xplora, one of many projects he developed with Real World. For the next 3 age, Gabriel concentrated on developing more multimedia projects for the company.
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