Peter Gabriel
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Peter Gabriel Biography
As the leader of Genesis in the early '70s, Peter Gabriel
helped move progressive rock to new levels of theatricality. In his
solo career, Gabriel was no less ambitious, but he was more subtle in
his methods. With his first eponymous solo album in 1977, he began
exploring darker, more cerebral territory, incorporating avant-garde,
electronic, and worldbeat influences into his music. The record, as
well as its two similarly titled successors, established Gabriel as a
critically acclaimed cult artist, and with 1982's Security, he began to
move into the mainstream; Shock the Monkey became his first Top 40
hit, paving the way for his multi-platinum breakthrough So in 1986.
Accompanied by a series of groundbreaking videos and the number one
single Sledgehammer, So became a multi-platinum hit, and Gabriel
became an international star. Instead of capitalizing on his sudden
success, he began to explore other interests, including recording
soundtracks and running his company Real World. By the time he returned
to pop with 1992's Us, his mass audience had faded away and he spent
the remainder of the '90s working on multimedia projects for Real World.
Following his departure from Genesis in 1976, Peter Gabriel began work
on the first of three consecutive eponymously titled albums; each
record was named Peter Gabriel,
he said, as if they were editions of the same magazine. In 1977, his
first solo album appeared and became a moderate success due to the
single Solsbury Hill. Another self-titled record followed in 1978,
yet received comparatively 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, innovative musicians, as well as one of its most political
-- Biko, a song about a murdered antiapartheid activist, became one
of the biggest protest anthems of the '80s. Games Without Frontiers,
with its eerie chorus, nearly reached the Top 40.
In 1982, Gabriel released Security, which was an even bigger success,
earning positive reviews and going gold on the strength of the
startling video for Shock the Monkey. Just as his solo career was
taking off, Gabriel participated in a one-shot Genesis reunion in order
to finance his WOMAD -- World of Music, Arts and Dance -- Festival.
WOMAD was designed to bring various world musics and customs to a
Western audience, and it soon turned into an annual event, and a live
double album was released that year to commemorate the event. As
Gabriel worked on his fifth album, he contributed the soundtrack to
Alan Parker's 1984 film Birdy. His score was highly praised and it won
the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes that year. After founding Real World,
Inc. -- a corporation devoted to developing bridges between technology
and multiethnic arts -- in 1985, he completed his fifth album, So.
Released in 1986, So became Gabriel's commercial breakthrough, largely
because his Stax homage Sledgehammer was blessed with an innovative
video that combined stop-action animation with live action. So climbed
to number two as Sledgehammer hit number one, with Big Time --
featuring a video very similar to Sledgehammer -- reaching the Top
Ten and In Your Eyes hitting the Top 30. As So was riding high on the
American and British charts, Gabriel co-headlined the first 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
collection of instrumentals used in Martin Scorsese's film. Passion was
the furthest Gabriel delved into worldbeat, and the album was widely
acclaimed, winning the Grammy Award in 1989 for Best New Age
Performance. In 1990, he released the hits compilation Shaking the Tree.
Gabriel labored long on the pop-music follow-up to So, finally
releasing Us in the spring of 1992. During the recording of Us, Gabriel
went through a number of personal upheavals, including a painful
divorce, and those tensions manifested themselves on Us, a much darker
record than So. For various reasons, not the least of which was the
fact that it was released six years after its predecessor, Us wasn't as
commercially successful as So, despite positive reviews. Only one
single, the Sledgehammer knockoff Steam, reached the Top 40, and
the album stalled at platinum sales. In 1993, Gabriel embarked on the
most ambitious WOMAD tour to date, touring the United States with a
roster 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 Secret World Live, which went gold. Later in 1994, he
released the CD-ROM Xplora, one of many projects he developed with Real
World. For the next three years, Gabriel concentrated on developing
more multimedia projects for the company. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine,
All Music Guide
Written by Stephen Thomas Erlewine