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BORN: February 13, 1950, London, England Peter Gabriel has been writing songs for some 30 years. Before he hit the 'big time', he started writing songs while at about 11 or 12 years old. "The first song I wrote was called 'Sammy The Slug.' Everyone else was writing about girls, and I was writing about slugs, which shows what I was interested in." (PG quote). While attending Charterhouse school in Surrey, England, he met up with Tony Banks, Mike Rutherford and Anthony Phillips and together started the band Genesis. Their first single "The Silent Sun" was 'on the air' in 1968. Anthony became ill and had to leave Genesis so the other band members went 'looking for someone' to replace him and the drummer, and in the fall of 1970 Steve Hackett and Phil Collins joi More... (Submit New Peter Gabriel Lyrics) (Submit New Peter Gabriel Lyrics) One of Gabriel's most moving songs | Reviewer: Brian Steele ------ About the song Passion performed by Peter Gabriel This is an instrumental that needs no words to produce huge emotion. As an accompaniment to the crucifixion (or passion) of Christ in the film Last Temptation of Christ, the song consists of slow, sonorous coloratura by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Youssou n'Dour (ironically both Moslems) and a choirboy to produce a climax of (literally) biblical proportions. The raison d'etre of Nusrat's Sufi singing style is to produce religious emotion through music and this is a perfect example of how successful this can be. Where are the rest of the lyrics?? | Reviewer: tomi ------ About the song While The Earth Sleeps performed by Peter Gabriel Hello, I'm frustrated because it seems to be an act of congress to find the rest of the lyrics to this song, which are indecipherable upon simply listening to the song. Yet every webpage only displays the same small paragraph of lyrics. No comprendy... Wonderful | Reviewer: Anonymous ------ About the song The Book of Love performed by Peter Gabriel This is the most beautiful song I've heard for years. Simple melody and witty lyrics; Peter Gabriel sings with a frailty and poignancy no one else could manage. I should have been a hit, but I guess there's no room for genius in the age of the 7 second attention span? Simply Beautiful | Reviewer: Anonymous ------ About the song The Book of Love performed by Peter Gabriel A simple and beautiful poem, expressing emotions where words fall short - for anyone who is in love deeply enough to understand. The movie from which this song comes is at the same time an exploration of a man's dealing with his own life and a romance uniquely portrayed. My all time love | Reviewer: Mary ------ About the song In Your Eyes performed by Peter Gabriel I saw the movie "say Anything" and fell in love with this song! Peter Gabriel is the man...I hopeone day a guy will sing it to me or at least have it playing at our wedding! Madness | Reviewer: DeLisa ------ About the song In Your Eyes performed by Peter Gabriel Its crazy how a song like this can invoke so many feelings of love and longing and yet its a feel good~hush I need a moment to inhale this tune. I love this song nomatter what heartbreak. One of many songs that got me through... | Reviewer: Tim N. ------ About the song No Self Control performed by Peter Gabriel This IS typical Peter Gabriel, I'll give you that -- but there is nothing typical about Peter Gabriel or that which he creates. This is but one of many songs that he has made that has helped me with my own things. One does not need to be anomic or hurtful to identify here, just be aware of your own inner beasts before they get the better of you. Enjoy the music for what it is, and either take or leave any impact of the message. And, having seen him perform solo numerous times and with Amnesty, he and all the other talents with him are simply the most amazing -- and I've seen a lot of shows (and produced a few, including one of PG's earlier cohorts from Genesis). Good song! | Reviewer: Lindsay ------ About the song No Self Control performed by Peter Gabriel It's a good song, but very typical Gabriel so you have to acquire a taste for it. Good Song | Reviewer: Liz ------ About the song Big Time performed by Peter Gabriel This is a good song. I heard it off of WM 22 and Norbit. I thought it sounded pretty good, so I started to listen to it. Good song. Terrifying | Reviewer: burple ------ About the song The Drop performed by Peter Gabriel This song offers close-up glimpse of what Hannah Arendt called the banality of evil. On what is that conclusion based? Let’s consider what we learn from its spare verses: 1. The narrator is inside an airplane, moving toward the open cockpit door, where he takes a position alongside the pilot, who is looking down, outside, “to see what lies ahead.” 2. The pilot is watching things fall, one by one. The pilot has no idea where these falling things are going to land. 3. But the question of “where they’ve gone” is important and consequential, because this line is repeated twice, very sadly. 4. It is evening. City lights are visible below. 5. The song emphasizes how removed the narrator is from the reality of the city below. He notices in a detached way how the lights resemble “the nerves inside the brain.” He’s simply musing over this, it seems interesting to him. 6. Even though it is evening, the city lights are going OUT one by one. “You watch them dim.” 7. As the song closes, the listener should be asking a series of increasingly urgent questions: what IS falling from the plane? What kind of plane is it? Why are the lights below going out, even though we know it’s evening? Shouldn’t they be just coming on? (If they’re going out, something must really be wrong down there.) And why is the entire song pervaded with an eerily detached calm, even while the singing is drenched with an awful sadness and loss? It seems rather obvious that the narrator is in an airplane that is dropping bombs on a city. The song lulls the listener into thinking that it is about something soft, slow, and peaceful, only to shatter this reverie with the dawning realization that the song is really about the absurd detachment and unreality of sitting peacefully in an airplane looking down at the lights of a city, while unleashing terrible violence on those below, violence that unfolds silently, even beautifully, from the point of view of its perpetrator. People are being blown to bits, lives are being snuffed out, while the agent of this monstrous act muses unconcernedly that the city’s lights look like the nerves inside the brain. I’ve seen dozens of comments about this song on the web and I’m amazed at the number of people who think this terrifying, horrifying song is a peaceful, soothing lullaby. It’s not. It’s a deeply disturbing window into the psychopathic lack of empathy entailed by technological, state-sanctioned, mass killing. The most awful part of all is the realization of how disturbingly easy it is to sit there, watching the bombs fall, knowing nothing and caring nothing about the lives below, the agony below, the death below. The listener realizes that he too could do that. At the end, when it becomes clear what the song is about, the listener realizes too that, like the narrator, he has been lulled into a state of obliviousness to an act of almost inconceivable violence – violence which, to the extent that it is visible at all, appears dreamlike, slow-motion, abstract, and lacking in meaningful consequences. Blood of Eden | Reviewer: Anonymous ------ About the song Blood Of Eden performed by Peter Gabriel One of most beautiful songs ever . The chour just rip soul apart... Im so gald i know know this masterpiece! Haunting.... | Reviewer: Mariah ------ About the song I Grieve performed by Peter Gabriel I love Peter Gabriel, and this song is a prime example of how his voice can touch the soul... hearing him sing/cry the words, "I Grieve," echoes the feelings of anyone who has lost a loved one. I love the fast section, "life carries on..."- up-tempo, how we push ahead yet still feel the pain.... a wonderfully healing song. warm and thoughtful | Reviewer: jamie jamal ------ About the song Don't Give Up performed by Peter Gabriel this song is truely one song that gets to me everytime and makes me think. the video of kate and pete cuddling is also very simple but touching just like the song Lost | Reviewer: sandra ------ About artist/band Peter Gabriel Where are the list of quotes from Peter Gabriel with his 'perspective' on what is behind his lyrics. Just Plain GREAT | Reviewer: Larry Ritter ------ About the song Father, Son performed by Peter Gabriel My Dad love animated movies, He's 81 years old and only have a few months? to live Live Cancer and this song gets me in the Heart everytime. This counldn't have come in a better time. God Bless You Peter and keep up the Great work. Larry lady killers | Reviewer: carl ------ About the song Sledgehammer performed by Peter Gabriel t play this song to the ladies and there yours forever Peter is the original lady killer moved my heart | Reviewer: Ceceilia ------ About the song Book of Love performed by Peter Gabriel I hEARD THIS SONG ON A SHOW i WAS WATCHING AND IT MOVED MY HEART TO A GOOD PLACE. THANKS Thumbs Up! | Reviewer: Petia Koceva ------ About the song While The Earth Sleeps performed by Peter Gabriel The Song is very good, and many tanx to the Team of sing365 that you have writen the origin lyrics of that song and mentioned that the song is old folk bulgarian song. It's sung by bulgarian folk singer Katja Petrova from Varna city (a Black sea capital of Bulgaria big town- http://varna.info.bg/english/default.htm ) PS.I have writen already to Your about the translation of this song, but you publish the version of some other bulgarian woman as i see... (some Mara-Tamara) But anyway... it's imortant that you've got released it. Tanx for that. what can I say? | Reviewer: Anonymous ------ About the song Sky Blue performed by Peter Gabriel I'm sitting in front of my computer, listening to this simply beautiful song...and I'm melting...I wish I could see this blue..but there is only awful black and dark The time of the turning | Reviewer: Tanja ------ About the song The Time Of The Turning (Reprise) / The Weavers Reel performed by Peter Gabriel Who is the vocal on that song? Sounds like kate bush? You could review the artist/band Peter Gabriel in Biography page You could review Peter Gabriel album by visiting Albums page and selecting an album You could review Peter Gabriel song by clicking the song which you like | | ||||||||||
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