Peter Gabriel

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Peter Gabriel is an internationally-famous musician and Third World activist, and was the original lead singer with Genesis. A major player in the staging of the African segment of Live 8 in the early 00s, he is not only known for his Eastern and African-influenced music, but also for several groundbreaking music videos (most notably Sledgehammer, his highest-charting release on both sides of the Atlantic).

After leaving Genesis, Peter Gabriel began to experiment with various elements of world music as the underpinning for his dense, poetic lyrics. In addition to a series of successful song-oriented albums Peter Gabriel 1,2,3,4 (aka Car, Scratch, Melt, Security) he didn’t really hit the commercial high until 1986 with his now seminal album So and its slightly less successful counterpart Us. The last studio album from Gabriel was 2002’s Up, he has also composed and recorded soundtracks for films as diverse as Birdy (which contained re-purposed snippets of his studio albums to date), The Last Temptation of Christ, and Rabbit Proof Fence. He also sang the Randy Newman composed title song to Babe: Pig in the City called That’ll Do.

He created one of the more innovative videos of its time, for the song

Sledgehammer, with the then fledgling Aardman Animations studio.

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Add this track to your playlist Solsbury Hill full track	4:20	81,211	Buy mp3
Add this track to your playlist Sledgehammer full track	5:16	69,088	Buy mp3
Add this track to your playlist In Your Eyes full track	5:30	48,554	Buy mp3
Add this track to your playlist Red Rain full track	5:39	37,610	Buy mp3

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–	1	Add this track to your playlist Solsbury Hill full track	2,149
–	2	Add this track to your playlist Sledgehammer full track	1,937
–	3	Add this track to your playlist In Your Eyes full track	1,450
1	4	Add this track to your playlist Don't Give Up full track	1,026
1	5	Add this track to your playlist Red Rain full track	1,012
1	6	Add this track to your playlist Big Time full track	891
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–	8	Add this track to your playlist Shock the Monkey full track	805
–	9	Add this track to your playlist Mercy Street full track	767
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1	11	Add this track to your playlist Biko full track	577
1	12	Add this track to your playlist Digging In The Dirt full track	541
–	13	Add this track to your playlist Steam full track	482
2	14	Add this track to your playlist I Grieve	462
–	15	Add this track to your playlist San Jacinto full track	447
4	16	Add this track to your playlist Family Snapshot full track	428
3	17	Add this track to your playlist I Don't Remember full track	427
1	18	Add this track to your playlist I Have the Touch full track	410
–	19	Add this track to your playlist Blood of Eden full track	390
2	20	Add this track to your playlist Come Talk to Me full track	387

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–	1	Add this track to your playlist Solsbury Hill full track	28,105
–	2	Add this track to your playlist Sledgehammer full track	23,879
–	3	Add this track to your playlist In Your Eyes full track	16,997
1	4	Add this track to your playlist Red Rain full track	12,856
1	5	Add this track to your playlist Big Time full track	12,854
1	6	Add this track to your playlist Don't Give Up full track	12,525
1	7	Add this track to your playlist Games Without Frontiers full track	12,436
–	8	Add this track to your playlist Shock the Monkey full track	9,820
–	9	Add this track to your playlist Mercy Street full track	9,393
1	10	Add this track to your playlist Biko full track	8,065
1	11	Add this track to your playlist I Grieve	7,985
–	12	Add this track to your playlist Here Comes the Flood	7,860
–	13	Add this track to your playlist Digging In The Dirt full track	7,459
–	14	Add this track to your playlist Steam full track	6,846
1	15	Add this track to your playlist I Don't Remember full track	5,968
1	16	Add this track to your playlist Family Snapshot full track	5,900
–	17	Add this track to your playlist San Jacinto full track	5,828
1	18	Add this track to your playlist Come Talk to Me full track	5,781
1	19	Add this track to your playlist I Have the Touch full track	5,697
–	20	Add this track to your playlist Blood of Eden full track	5,352
–	21	Add this track to your playlist Secret World full track	5,239
–	22	Add this track to your playlist Signal to Noise full track	4,769
1	23	Add this track to your playlist Zaar full track	4,574
1	24	Add this track to your playlist Growing Up	4,516
–	25	Add this track to your playlist Kiss That Frog full track	4,420
–	26	Add this track to your playlist Washing of the Water full track	4,256
–	27	Add this track to your playlist That Voice Again full track	4,226
–	28	Add this track to your playlist Sky Blue	3,982
2	29	Add this track to your playlist The Feeling Begins full track	3,952
2	30	Add this track to your playlist The Drop	3,885
1	31	Add this track to your playlist Shaking the Tree full track	3,882
3	32	Add this track to your playlist More Than This	3,861
–	33	Add this track to your playlist The Barry Williams Show	3,820
–	34	Add this track to your playlist Darkness	3,678
–	35	Add this track to your playlist A Different Drum full track	3,543

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