Peter Gabriel (1977 album)

Infobox Album
Name = Peter Gabriel
Type = studio
Artist = Peter Gabriel


Released = start date|1977|2|25
Recorded = 1976, The Soundstage, Toronto
Genre = Experimental rock, progressive rock, hard rock
Length = 41:42
Label = Atco (US & Canada)
Charisma
Producer = Bob Ezrin
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:igue4jj70wat link]
*Robert Christgau (B+) [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=peter+gabriel link]
*"Rolling Stone" (not rated) [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/petergabriel/albums/album/122606/rid/6212031/ link]
Last album =
This album = "Peter Gabriel" (1977)
Next album = "Peter Gabriel" (1978)

"Peter Gabriel" is the first album Peter Gabriel recorded after leaving the progressive rock band Genesis, and the first of four with the same eponymous title. Upon the album's release, Gabriel began touring with a seven-piece band under his own name.

Gabriel and producer Bob Ezrin assembled a team of talented musicians, including Robert Fripp of King Crimson, to record the album.

The album's second track, "Solsbury Hill," describes Gabriel's departure from Genesis and has become one of Gabriel's more popular songs. Erasure covered the song in 2003 on Other People's Songs.

After release, Peter Gabriel felt that the track "Here Comes the Flood" was over-produced. Since then he has created far simpler renditions such as the one on Robert Fripp's album, "Exposure", his appearance on Kate Bush's 1979 TV special, and yet a third version on Peter Gabriel's first greatest hits album, "".

The album went to #7 in UK and #38 in the USA.

This album is often referred to as "Car", referring to the album cover by Storm Thorgerson.

Track listing

All songs written by Peter Gabriel, except where indicated.
# "Moribund the Burgermeister" – 4:20
# "Solsbury Hill" – 4:21
# "Modern Love" – 3:38
# "Excuse Me" – 3:20 (Gabriel, Martin Hall)
# "Humdrum" – 3:25
# "Slowburn" – 4:36
# "Waiting for the Big One" – 7:15
# "Down the Dolce Vita" – 5:05
# "Here Comes the Flood" – 5:38

Personnel

*Peter Gabriel – vocals, keyboards, flute, recorder
*Allan Schwartzberg – drums
*Tony Levin – bass, tuba, leader of the Barbershop Quartet
*Jimmy Maelen – percussion, synthibam, bones
*Steve Hunter – electric, acoustic & rhythm guitar, pedal steel
*Robert Fripp – electric & classical guitars, banjo
*Jozef Chirowski – keyboards
*Larry Fast – synthesizer, programming
*Dick Wagner – backing vocals and solo guitar on "Here Comes the Flood" & "Slowburn"
*London Symphony Orchestra on "Down the Dolce Vita"
*Michael Gibbs - arrangement of orchestra

Charts

Album

External links

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