![]() Revisiting the album in its entirety, live on stage, is an unusual, almost time-warping, experience for him and his band. At the time, I felt it was a great work, but it’s never very clear.” But you have no idea how far these things will go. Back then, we felt like we had something. ![]() “I’ve re-created the band from the 1986 tour that took the ‘So’ album around the world. ![]() “The main criteria for this tour is that they were there the first time,” Gabriel said, speaking by phone from Sardinia, off the coast of Italy. The vocals parts done on the album by Kate Bush are being handled live by Ane Brun. They include former Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band keyboardist David Sancious, French drummer Manu Katché, erstwhile King Crimson bassist Tony Levin and veteran guitarist David Rhodes. To capture that passion and energy anew, Gabriel’s new touring band features four of the same musicians who performed on the original “So” tour and album. Other than that, I didn’t think: ‘This is a classic record - it will be the biggest-selling record (of my career).’ We just thought we had some great songs we played with passion and energy.” I think that was my only concession to ‘normality’ and the request of the record company. “I had a regular photo of me on the front, which is the only time I did that. “There was an attitude and a smile and intention behind the cover of ‘So,’ ” he recalled. Enter - six years and three more solo albums later - “So,” replete with its undistorted photo of the soon-to-be-world-famous Gabriel. ![]() Only one of his 12 albums since “So” - 1992’s “Us” - has also had a cover photo of the former lead singer and restlessly conceptual mastermind of the pioneering English art-rock band Genesis.Īs if to reinforce the fact that he was loath to make commercial compromises, his first four solo albums all have the same title: “Peter Gabriel.” His third album, which featured drums but no cymbals, was deemed so uncommercial by Atlantic Records that the record company refused to release it. Coincidentally, it was the first of Gabriel’s seven solo albums up until then to include a cover photo of him (not counting the distorted, half-melted image of him on 1980’s “Peter Gabriel”). 1 on the album charts in Canada, Holland, Italy and the United Kingdom. “Age is cruel!” said Gabriel, who performs here Monday at Valley View Casino Center (formerly the San Diego Sports Arena).įueled by the chart-topping success of the propulsive, Otis Redding-inspired “Sledgehammer,” “So” sold more than 5 million copies in the U.S. So, what does the balding, white-bearded Peter Gabriel of today think when he comes face to face with the clean-shaven, dark-haired Peter Gabriel of 1986 on the cover photo of his “So” album? The tour also features him faithfully performing all of the songs from “So,” the 1986 album that made him an international superstar and yielded such memorable hits as “Sledgehammer,” “In Your Eyes” and “Don’t Give Up.” His current concert tour, “Back to Front,” finds him reinventing various favorites from his 35-year solo career. That is the challenge for singer, songwriter and tireless World Music champion Peter Gabriel, who - at 62 - looks and sounds every bit the distinguished creative elder he has become. Album covers can be another matter, however, especially for a veteran artist revisiting a landmark recording three decades later. ![]() The best music transcends time and place. Where: Valley View Casino Center, 3500 Sports Arena Blvd., Midway District Peter Gabriel, with Jennie Abrahamson & Linnea Olsson ![]()
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