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Flotsam And Jetsam (Peter Gabriel Album)
''Flotsam and Jetsam'' is a compilation album of B-sides, remixes and rarities by English rock musician Peter Gabriel. It was released on 13 September 2019 in digital stores and on streaming services only. Track listing Source Omissions Notable non-album tracks missing from this compilation include: * "Out Out" (''Gremlins, Gremlins: Music from the Motion Picture'', 1984) * "No More Apartheid" (Artists United Against Apartheid ''Sun City (album), Sun City'', 1985) * "Lovetown" (''Philadelphia (film)#Soundtrack, Philadelphia (Music from the Motion Picture)'', 1993; also on ''Hit (album), Hit'') * "While the Earth Sleeps" (''Strange Days (film)#Music, Strange Days (Music from the Motion Picture)'', 1995) * "Seven Zero" (Real World CD-Extra #2, 1996) References External links * * * * Peter Gabriel albums Compilation albums by English artists 2019 compilation albums Real World Records compilation albums Republic Records compilation albums Virgin EMI Records ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Gabriel
Peter Brian Gabriel (born 13 February 1950) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and activist. He rose to fame as the original lead singer of the progressive rock band Genesis. After leaving Genesis in 1975, he launched a successful solo career with "Solsbury Hill" as his first single. His fifth studio album, '' So'' (1986), is his best-selling release and is certified triple platinum in the UK and five times platinum in the US. The album's most successful single, " Sledgehammer", won a record nine MTV Awards at the 1987 MTV Video Music Awards and, according to a report in 2011, it was MTV's most played music video of all time. Gabriel has been a champion of world music for much of his career. He co-founded the WOMAD festival in 1982. He has continued to focus on producing and promoting world music through his Real World Records label. He has also pioneered digital distribution methods for music, co-founding OD2, one of the first online music download ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biko (song)
"Biko" is an anti-apartheid protest song by English rock musician Peter Gabriel. It was released by Charisma Records as a single from Gabriel's eponymous third album in 1980. The song is a musical eulogy, inspired by the death of the black South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko in police custody on 12 September 1977. Gabriel wrote the song after hearing of Biko's death on the news. Influenced by Gabriel's growing interest in African musical styles, the song carried a sparse two-tone beat played on Brazilian drum and vocal percussion, in addition to a distorted guitar, and a synthesised bagpipe sound. The lyrics, which included phrases in Xhosa, describe Biko's death and the violence under the apartheid government. The song is book-ended with recordings of songs sung at Biko's funeral: the album version begins with " Ngomhla sibuyayo" and ends with " Senzeni Na?", while the single versions end with "Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika". "Biko" reached No. 38 on the British cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blood Of Eden
"Blood of Eden" is the third single from English rock musician Peter Gabriel's 1992 album '' Us'', featuring backing vocals by Sinéad O'Connor. It narrowly failed to enter the UK top 40, peaking at number 43. The single has two B-side tracks: A remix of "Mercy Street" (originally from Gabriel's previous studio album '' So'', released in 1986) by William Orbit and an earlier version of the a-side. This version had originally appeared in the Wim Wenders film ''Until the End of the World'' (1991) but was not included on the official soundtrack. The female vocal part of the song was performed on the 1993–1994 Secret World Tour first by British musician Joy Askew, then by Sinéad O'Connor for a few months, and finally by American singer-songwriter Paula Cole. Cole's duet with Gabriel was released on both the ''Secret World Live'' album, as well as on the ''Secret World Live'' concert film. In 2011, Gabriel re-released the song with orchestral background on the album '' New Blood ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Orbit
William Mark Wainwright (born 15 December 1956),"William Orbit." ''Contemporary Musicians''. Vol. 30. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, 2000. Retrieved via ''Biography in Context'' database, 7 May 2017. Available onlinvia ''Encyclopedia.com'' known professionally as William Orbit, is a British musician and record producer who has sold 200 million recordings worldwide of his own work, his production and song-writing work. He is a recipient of multiple Grammy Awards, Ivor Novello Awards and other music industry awards. Early life Orbit (Wainwright) was raised in Palmers Green, a suburb of London. His parents were both schoolteachers; he was the elder of two sons. He left school at the age of 16, and subsisted for a number of years in various low-paying jobs, while seeking an outlet for his creativity. Around this time, while rooming with a friend who was trying to start a recording studio, Orbit found his musical calling. Torch Song and Bassomatic In 1980, Orbit teamed up with electro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mercy Street
"Mercy Street" is a song written by English musician Peter Gabriel from his 1986 album '' So''. Background and recording The song was inspired by the personal and confessional works of the American poet Anne Sexton, who wrote a play titled ''Mercy Street'' and a poem titled "45 Mercy Street". It features two harmonious Gabriel vocals; one a shadow vocal an octave below the main vocal. Intended to give a sensual, haunting effect, he could only capture this effect upon waking up. The song is based around the Forró drum rhythm, which Gabriel recorded in Brazil. Originally the rhythm was used in an early incarnation of the song, titled "Don’t Break This Rhythm" (later released as a B-side to ''Sledgehammer''), but he became dissatisfied with it. He then changed the song to include an English folk melody and strapped on lyrics based on Anne Sexton’s work. Piano playing by Richard Tee was added to the song, but Gabriel felt it made the song too complex arrangement-wise, so it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steam (Peter Gabriel Song)
"Steam" is a song by English rock musician Peter Gabriel, released as the second single from his sixth album, '' Us'' (1992). Gabriel has said that the song is about a relationship in which the woman is sophisticated, bright, cultured, and knows everything about anything while the man knows nothing about anything; however, he does know about the woman, and she does not know much about herself. "Steam" reached number 10 on the UK Singles Chart, number 32 on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100, and number one on the US Modern Rock Tracks chart. In Canada the single became a number-one hit, topping the ''RPM'' Top Singles chart on the week of 27 February 1993, knocking Whitney Houston's hit "I Will Always Love You" off the top spot after a 10-week run. "Steam" also charted within the top 10 in Iceland, Ireland, New Zealand and Portugal. An alternative version of this song called "Quiet Steam" was a B-side on the "Digging in the Dirt" single. It is a very lo-fi take on the popular version ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Digging In The Dirt
"Digging in the Dirt" is a song by British musician Peter Gabriel. It was released as the first single taken from his sixth studio album, '' Us'', on 7 September 1992. The song was a minor hit on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100, peaking at number 52, but it topped both the ''Billboard'' Modern Rock Tracks and Album Rock Tracks charts. The song was moderately successful on the UK Singles Chart, where it peaked at number 24, and it reached the top 10 in Canada, Portugal, and Sweden. Music video The music video for the single was directed by John Downer and utilised stop motion animation, a technique used in the videos for Gabriel's earlier hits " Sledgehammer" and " Big Time". The work was painstaking, especially for Gabriel himself who was required to lie still for hours at a time over the course of several days. The video won the Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video in 1993. The woman in the video is played by Francesca Gonshaw. According to Gabriel himself, "the meadow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Rain (song)
"Red Rain" is the first track on English rock musician Peter Gabriel's 1986 solo studio album '' So''. In the United States, it was the second single from the album and reached number three on '' Billboard'' magazine's Mainstream Rock chart in 1986, where it stayed for three weeks between July and August. In the rest of the world it was not released until 1987 and received less airplay and fewer sales, peaking at 46 in the UK singles chart after entering the chart in July of that year.David Roberts ''British Hit Singles & Albums'', Guinness World Records Limited A live version also charted in the US and the UK in 1994. Background and reception The song is a combination of several inspirations. The lyrics directly reference a recurring dream Gabriel was having where he swam in his backyard pool drinking cold red wine. Another version of the dream had bottles in the shape of people falling from a cliff. In it, a stream of red liquid would seep out of the people-shaped bottles as t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Time (Peter Gabriel Song)
"Big Time" is a song by English rock musician Peter Gabriel from his 1986 album '' So''. It was his second top-ten single on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, peaking at no. 8. Recording The song underwent a lot of changes: Jerry Marotta remembers an early version of "Big Time", which he described as more intense and so far out from the released version that it "would not have been a hit." The song's bass guitar part is unique in that backing bassist Tony Levin and then-backing drummer Jerry Marotta teamed up to record it. Levin handled the fingerings while Marotta hit the strings with his drumsticks, resulting in a percussive sound; it was inspired by a technique developed by Gene Krupa in the 1940s or early 1950s. Inspired by this sound, Levin later invented funk fingers, which were little drumstick ends that could be attached to the fingers to achieve a similar bass guitar effect in concert. The drum parts were a considerable challenge to record, with Marotta, Manu Katché and St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don't Give Up (Peter Gabriel And Kate Bush Song)
"Don't Give Up" is a song written by English musician Peter Gabriel and recorded as a duet with Kate Bush for Gabriel's fifth solo studio album '' So'' (1986). The single version was released as the second single from the album in the UK in 1986 and as the fifth single in the US in 1987. It spent eleven weeks in the UK Top 75 chart in 1986, peaking at number nine. The song was included in Gabriel's Secret World Live tour featuring singer Paula Cole. The DVD release of a performance in Italy in 1993 (released in 1994) included the duet. An all-orchestral recording featuring Ane Brun was released on Gabriel's '' New Blood'' album in 2011. In 1987, the song won Ivor Novello Award for ''Best Song Musically and Lyrically''. Background The song was inspired by the Depression-era photographs of Dorothea Lange, showing poverty-stricken Americans in Dust Bowl conditions. Gabriel saw Lange's images in a 1973 book titled ''In This Proud Land''. He felt that a song based on this was w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
In Your Eyes (Peter Gabriel Song)
"In Your Eyes" is a song by English rock musician Peter Gabriel from his fifth solo album '' So'' (1986). It features Youssou N'Dour singing a part at the end of the song translated into his native Wolof. Gabriel's lyrics were inspired by an African tradition of ambiguity in song between romantic love and love of God. "In Your Eyes" was not released as a single in the UK but released as the second single from ''So'' in the US, achieving strong radio airplay and regular MTV rotation. It reached No. 1 on the U.S. ''Billboard'' Mainstream Rock Tracks on 13 September 1986, and peaked at No. 26 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 in November. Gabriel released two extended versions of the song as a 12" vinyl single in the US. The first (The Single Mix) ran 6:15 and the version released as a single. The second (The Special Mix) ran 7:14 and was the B-Side. In Australia, "In Your Eyes" peaked at No. 97 in November 1986. N.B. The Kent Report chart was licensed by ARIA between mid 1983 and 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sledgehammer (Peter Gabriel Song)
"Sledgehammer" is a song by English rock musician Peter Gabriel. It was released on 21 April 1986 as the lead single from his fifth studio album, '' So'' (1986). It was produced by Gabriel and Daniel Lanois. It reached No. 1 in Canada on 21 July 1986, where it spent four weeks; No. 1 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart in the United States on 26 July 1986; and No. 4 on the UK Singles Chart, thanks in part to its music video. It was his biggest hit in North America and ties with " Games Without Frontiers" as his biggest hit in the United Kingdom. The song's video won a record nine MTV Video Music Awards at the 1987 MTV Video Music Awards and Best British Video at the 1987 Brit Awards. The song also saw Gabriel nominated for three Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance, Record of the Year and Song of the Year. In a 2005 poll conducted by Channel 4 the music video was ranked second on their list of the 100 Greatest Pop Videos. Background and release "Sledgehammer" has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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