Peter Gabriel, a career punctuated with hits on love and human rights

While waiting for the full album, Musicaline returns to the greatest songs of this artist who has always been committed to the protection of man and the planet.

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Sledgehammerclub in French, Peter Gabriel’s huge hit, the first single from So, his fifth album released in 1986. This song is accompanied by an animated clip produced by the team that will later produce Wallace and Gromit.

Worship, Sledgehammer, became the most streamed music video of all time on MTV. In this title, Peter Gabriel sings of love with barely veiled sexual allusions: “Show me your fruit cage, because I want to be your honey bee”. This tube propelled him to the rank of world star, on the same album appear deeper texts, also become hits.

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Don’t Give Up, Peter Gabriel writes a moving dialogue between an unemployed man and his wife who supports him and tells him to keep hope. Country star Dolly Parton was her first choice, but she declined. He then turned to his longtime friend, Kate Bush, with whom he had already collaborated. Another gem from the So album, one of Peter Gabriel’s most beautiful love songs:

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In In Your Eyes, Peter Gabriel invited Youssou N’Dour whom he describes as an incredible voice. He will accompany him on tour, which will launch the international career of the Senegalese singer. Another guest on the disc, the French drummer Manu Katché whom he finds today on his new album I/Oscheduled for this year, the first for twelve years.

Peter Gabriel has also written committed hits. An inveterate activist, his life’s project is to allow the world to see itself better and to understand what is really going on. Spirituality, ecology, and politics are his favorite themes. In 1980, ten years before Nelson Mandela was released, Peter Gabriel sang Biko in tribute to Stephen Biko, 30-year-old anti-apartheid activist, assassinated in a South African prison in 1977.

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In 1980, when Peter released this single, he became actively involved in the human rights campaign and closed his concerts, fists raised with the public. A reminder that he ended by chanting (Tea stay is up to you) The rest is up to you. Peter Gabriel began his solo work in 1975 after leaving his old band: Genesis.

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Solsbury Hill, is his first solo hit, in 1977. Peter Gabriel is then 27 years old, and recounts his mystical experience at the top of a hill in Somerset, a few minutes from Bath, his city of heart in England. Today at 72, he presents a new album concerned with our ability to destroy our precious planet.

All Peter Gabriel’s hits are available on cd and online, his new single was released on Friday while waiting for the full album.

Peter Gabriel, a career punctuated with hits on love and human rights