Peter Gabriel

See also: list of musicians with multiple self-titled albums. For the Democratic candidate for District 25 in Texas and the former head of the Houston NAACP, please see Al Green (politician). The 2004 release of Myst IV: Revelation (developed by UbiSoft Montreal) featured a song written especially for the game called "Curtains" (often called 'Portal to Serenia' or 'Portal to Dreamworld'), and he also did a large voice acting part.
. The 2003 videogame Uru: Ages Beyond Myst featured the single "Burn You Up, Burn You Down" in several portions of the game. The next year, Green was inducted into the Gospel Music Association's Gospel Music Hall of Fame. Recently, Peter Gabriel has been working with video game companies Cyan Worlds and UbiSoft to aid in the sound production of their latest video games. Green released in 2003 a non-religious (secular) album entitled I Can't Stop, his first collaboration with Willie Mitchell since 1985's He is the Light.

Peter Gabriel is one of the founders of On Demand Distribution (OD2), an online music enterprise, and additionally is co-founder (with Brian Eno) of a musicians union called Mudda, short for "magnificent union of digitally downloading artists.". The Grammys presented Green with a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002. Melanie sang on Gabriel's 2003 Growing Up tour. In 2000, Green published Take Me to the River, a book discussing his career. Peter Gabriel has two daughters from his first marriage, Melanie and Anna, and a son, Isaac, from his second marriage. Green's first secular album in some time was Your Heart's In Good Hands (1995), released to positive reviews but disappointing sales, the same year Green was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It has been reported that he suffers from bipolar disorder, but despite some claims, he never confirmed this information. His 1994 duet with country music singer Lyle Lovett blended country with R&B, garnering him ninth Grammy, this time in a pop music category.

Gabriel's song "We Do What We're Told (Milgram's 37)" from So refers to Milgram's experiment, and in particular the 37 out of 40 subjects who showed complete obedience in one particular experiment. First, he released a duet with Annie Lennox, "Put A Little Love In Your Heart" for Scrooged, a Bill Murray film. He has a long-standing interest in human rights, and launched the Witness program to supply video cameras to human rights activists to expose abuses. After spending several years exclusively performing gospel, Green began to return to R&B. He has also recently been interested in multimedia projects, creating the Xplora and Eve CD-ROMs. In 1984 director Robert Mugge released a documentary film, The Gospel According to Al Green, including interviews about his life and footage from his church. He created the Real World Studios and record label to facilitate the creation and distribution of such music by various artists, and he has worked to educate Western culture about the work of such musicians as Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Youssou N'dour. From 1981 to 1989 Green recorded a series of gospel recordings, garnering eight "soul gospel performance" Grammys in that period.

This influence has increased over time, and he is the driving force behind the WOMAD (World of Music, Arts and Dance) movement. His first gospel album was The Lord Will Make a Way. Gabriel has been interested in world music for many years, with the first musical evidence appearing on his third album. He then concentrated his energies towards pastoring his church and gospel singing, also appearing in 1982 with Patti Labelle in the musical Your Arms Too Short to Box With God. It was discovered that he had fallen asleep in front of the microphone, but had continued to sing. In 1979, Green was injured while performing and interpreted this accident as a message from God. He also collaborated with Laurie Anderson on two versions of her composition "Excellent Birds" - one for her album, Mister Heartbreak, and a slightly different version called This is the Picture which appeared on cassette and CD versions of So. In 1987, when presenting Gabriel with an award for his music videos, Anderson related an occasion in which a recording session had gone late into the night and Gabriel's voice began to sound somewhat strange, almost dreamlike. 1977's The Belle Album was critically acclaimed but did not regain his former mass audience.

Another duet, "Don't Give Up" became a hit, however. Continuing to record R&B, Green saw his sales start to slip and the critics grew steadily harsher. Their duet of Roy Harper's "Another Day" was discussed for release as a single, but this never came to pass. Green converted to Christianity after recovering from the assault and in 1976 became an ordained pastor of the Full Gospel Tabernacle in Memphis. He has collaborated with singer Kate Bush several times, including an appearance on her television special. She then killed herself in an adjacent bedroom. A follow-up video for the song "Big Time" also broke new ground in music video animation and special effects. On October 18, 1974, Green's girlfriend, Mary Woodson, poured boiling grits on him as he was showering, causing second-degree burns on his back, stomach and arm.

The video won numerous awards at the 1987 MTV Music Video Awards, and set a new standard for art in the music video industry. Call Me was a critical sensation, and was also just as popular at the time; it is one of his most fondly remembered albums today. Gabriel's song "Sledgehammer" was accompanied by a visually stunning music video, which was a collaboration with director Stephen Johnson, Aardman Animation, and the Brothers Quay. Let's Stay Together (1972) was an even bigger success, as was I'm Still In Love With You (1972). They are usually differentiated by number in order of release, or sleeve design. The next LP, though, Al Green Gets Next To You (1970), was a massive success that included four gold singles as Green developed his vocal and songwriting talents. He famously refused to title his first four solo albums, since he wanted them to be considered as issues of a magazine instead of individual works. The album was a moderate success.

"Games Without Frontiers" from his third album and "Shock the Monkey" from his fourth), Gabriel achieved his greatest popularity with songs from the 1986 So album, most notably "Sledgehammer" and "In Your Eyes.". Green's debut album with Hi Records was Green is Blue, a slow, horn-driven album that allowed Green to show off his powerful and expressive voice, with Mitchell arranging, engineering, and producing. His first solo success came with the single "Solsbury Hill", an autobiographical piece expressing his thoughts on leaving Genesis. Although early on he achieved critical success and some commercial success (e.g. Mitchell predicted stardom for Green, coaching him to find his own, unique voice at a time when Green had previously been trying to sing like his heroes Jackie Wilson, Wilson Pickett, James Brown, and Sam Cooke. Gabriel has had a long and successful career after unexpectedly leaving the band in 1975, with his position as lead singer then filled by drummer Phil Collins. Al Green met bandleader Willie Mitchell of Memphis' Hi Records in 1969, when Mitchell had hired him as a vocalist for a Texas show with Mitchell's band and then asked him to sign with the label. On one occasion he broke a leg leaping into the crowd, but managed to climb back up onto the stage and finish the performance. The Soul Mates' subsequent singles did not sell as well.

During "The Knife", a popular live song from the Trespass album, Gabriel would perform a stunt that, two decades later, became extremely common: stage diving. The band, now known as the Soul Mates, recorded "Back Up Train" and released it on Hot Line Music; the song was an R&B chart hit. Genesis quickly become one of the most talked-about bands in the UK, largely due to Gabriel's flamboyant stage presence, which involved numerous bizarre costume changes and comical, dreamlike stories told as the introduction to each song. Curtis Rogers and Palmer James, two members of the Creations, formed an independent label called Hot Line Music Journal. He first came to fame as a member of the progressive rock group Genesis, which he founded as a student at Charterhouse School with bandmates Tony Banks, Anthony Phillips, and Mike Rutherford. Green formed a group called Al Greene & the Creations in high school. Peter Brian Gabriel, born February 13, 1950, in Cobham (Surrey), England, is an English musician. He was kicked out of the group by his father because he was caught listening to Jackie Wilson.

Real World (http://www.realworld.co.uk/). They toured extensively in the mid-1950s in the South until the Greenes moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan, when they began to tour around Michigan. And through the wire (http://www.deltaforce.net/~jnu/pg/) fan site. The son of a sharecropper, he started out at age nine in a Forrest City quartet called the Greene Brothers; he dropped the final "e" from his last name years later as a solo artist. Another fan site (http://rec.horus.at/music/gabriel/). April 13, 1946) is an American gospel and soul music singer, born in Forrest City, Arkansas. Fan site (http://www.solsburyhill.org). Al Green (b.

Official website (http://www.petergabriel.com/). Grammy Awards website (http://www.grammy.com). 1994 "SW Live EP" #39 UK. NPR interview (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1082212). from "Secret World Live"