Peter Gabriel – 1st album Car
(Charisma Records 1984 CHC39)
Matrix No’s: A1/B1 – UK Pressing
Sleeve in Nr MINT- condition
– a little wear to edges & faint sticker mark top right corner
Vinyl in Nr MINT condition
(there are some surface marks visible on the vinyl when held up to the light but they don’t affect the sound quality)
Peter Brian Gabriel (born 13 February 1950) is an English singer-songwriter, record producer and humanitarian who rose to fame as the original lead singer and flautist of the progressive rock band Genesis. After leaving Genesis in 1975, Gabriel launched a successful solo career with “Solsbury Hill” as his first single. His 1986 album, So, is his best-selling release and is certified triple platinum in the UK and five times platinum in the U.S. The album’s most successful single, “Sledgehammer”, won a record nine MTV Awards at the 1987 MTV Video Music Awards.
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 services.[12] Gabriel has also been involved in numerous humanitarian efforts. In 1980, he released the anti-apartheid single “Biko”. He has participated in several human rights benefit concerts, including Amnesty International’s Human Rights Now! tour in 1988, and co-founded the Witness human rights organisation in 1992. Gabriel developed The Elders with Richard Branson, which was launched by Nelson Mandela in 2007.
Gabriel has won three Brit Awards—winning Best British Male in 1987, six Grammy Awards, thirteen MTV Video Music Awards, the first Pioneer Award at the BT Digital Music Awards, the Q magazine Lifetime Achievement, the Ivor Novello Award for Lifetime Achievement, and the Polar Music Prize. He was made a BMI Icon at the 57th annual BMI London Awards for his “influence on generations of music makers”.
In recognition of his many years of human rights activism, he received the Man of Peace award from the Nobel Peace Prize laureates, and Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world. AllMusic has described Gabriel as “one of rock’s most ambitious, innovative musicians, as well as one of its most political”. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Genesis in 2010, followed by his induction as a solo artist in 2014. In March 2015, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of South Australia in recognition of his achievements in music.
Peter Gabriel is the first studio album by British singer, musician and songwriter Peter Gabriel and the first of four with the same eponymous title. Released on 25 February 1977, it was produced by Bob Ezrin. Gabriel and Ezrin assembled a team of talented musicians, including Robert Fripp of King Crimson, to record the album. Upon the album’s release, Gabriel began touring with a seven-piece band under his own name.
This album is often referred to as Peter Gabriel 1, Car, or Rain, referring to the album cover by Peter Christopherson (a.k.a. “Sleazy” from Hipgnosis). The car was a Lancia Flavia owned by Storm Thorgerson.
The album went to #7 in UK and #38 in the USA.
Gabriel’s first solo success came with the single “Solsbury Hill”, an autobiographical piece expressing his thoughts on leaving Genesis. Although mainly happy with the music, Gabriel felt that the album and especially the track “Here Comes the Flood” was over-produced. Sparser versions can be heard on Robert Fripp’s Exposure, his appearance on Kate Bush’s 1979 TV special and yet a third version on greatest hits compilation Shaking the Tree (1990). He often performs the song live accompanied by only himself on keyboard, either in German or English, depending on the audience.
Track listing
All songs written by Peter Gabriel, except where indicated.
Side One
| No. | Title | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | “Moribund the Burgermeister” | 4:20 | |
| 2. | “Solsbury Hill” | 4:21 | |
| 3. | “Modern Love” | 3:38 | |
| 4. | “Excuse Me” (Gabriel, Martin Hall) | 3:20 | |
| 5. | “Humdrum” | 3:25 |
Side Two
| No. | Title | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | “Slowburn” | 4:36 | |
| 2. | “Waiting for the Big One” | 7:15 | |
| 3. | “Down the Dolce Vita” | 5:05 | |
| 4. | “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” and “Here Comes the Flood”
- Michael Gibbs – arrangement of orchestra
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