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Peter Gabriel has had his work covered by countless artists who haven't quite been able to do it justice, but he fears that he once did the same to a band.
He was born in 1946 in Boston, Massachusetts, and started out as a classical double bassist before turning to rock and jazz.
WASHINGTON – With a tip of his cap and a bow, Peter Gabriel emerged on stage to address the crowd. He started his chat about time, which “has every single one of us in its claws,” moved on ...
Most songwriters can only quote their heart, but Peter Gabriel knew that few could match the true professionals in their field. Read more about it here.
If there’s anything that made me work with Peter Gabriel in the first place it was his natural sense of humility. Humility in the Christian sense of the word, in that he’s a humble guy.
“Time is the boss,” said Peter Gabriel, 73, as he took the stage last week in Milwaukee. “I would ask you now to come back with me 4.5 billion years, when our planet was a dead planet,” he ...
By Jon Pareles “If I was a butterfly, 21 years would be an eternity,” Peter Gabriel observed in a video interview last week. “And if I was a mountain, it would be a little flash. So it’s ...
Before talking about the meat of Peter Gabriel’s new album, “i/o,” which stands for “input/output,” it is inevitable that initial discussion will focus on the level of output (or the ...
Sheryl Crow‘s new LP Evolution arrives March 29, and she’s just shared a cover of Peter Gabriel‘s 1992 classic “Digging in the Dirt,” which will appear on the deluxe edition. She’s ...
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 ...
“Peter Gabriel said, as soon as he saw me sit down on a drum stool, he knew that I was the drummer, and I got a call to say I got the job. But all went slowly downhill from there,” he joke ...