Peter Gabriel has gone his own way over the course of his remarkable, brilliant career — leaving Genesis at the band’s artistic peak, using the same title for his first several solo albums (I mean, ...
Peter Gabriel sat at his keyboard singing a ballad. A straight piano ballad — tender, sentimental, sweet — just hushed keys, strings, bass and Gabriel’s voice. Then, after four or five quiet minutes, ...
In June 1982, Peter Gabriel headlined the first WOMAD Festival, an event he co-founded to showcase music, artists, and dancers from around the world. The three-day festival was held June 16-18 at the ...
Nobody would accuse Peter Gabriel of being terribly prolific. The forthcoming album “i/o” is his first in a dozen years and only his fifth in the past 30. And Gabriel doesn’t really commit to a tour ...
In the summer of 1986, when his song Sledgehammer attained the number one spot on the US singles chart, Peter Gabriel swapped his position as a cult artist for that of a pop sensation. He’d had hits ...