Peter Gabriel - BBC Sessions, Volume 4: In Concert, Mermaid Theatre, London, Britain, 10-19-2011

Here's the fourth and final album of Peter Gabriel performing for the BBC. (At least the fourth so far.) It's different from most Peter Gabriel concerts in that he is backed by a full orchestra.

Earlier in the month of October 2011, Gabriel released a new studio album, "New Blood." It consisted of orchestral re-recordings of songs from earlier in his music career. This concert is basically a live version of that album. But one key difference is he talked a lot between songs to explain their meanings. 

There also is a live album from this tour, called "Live Blood." But it's quite different, with a much longer run time. 

Note that a 2004 concert in Milan, Italy, was also broadcast by the BBC. But this was later released as the live album "Growing Up Live," which is widely available, so I didn't see the need to post that here.

This unreleased album is an hour and 16 minutes long.

01 talk (Peter Gabriel)
02 Heroes (Peter Gabriel)
03 talk (Peter Gabriel)
04 Wallflower (Peter Gabriel)
05 Intruder (Peter Gabriel)
06 talk (Peter Gabriel)
07 San Jacinto (Peter Gabriel)
08 Signal to Noise (Peter Gabriel)
09 talk (Peter Gabriel)
10 Downside Up (Peter Gabriel)
11 Mercy Street (Peter Gabriel)
12 talk (Peter Gabriel)
13 The Rhythm of the Heat (Peter Gabriel)
14 talk (Peter Gabriel)
15 Father, Son (Peter Gabriel)
16 Red Rain (Peter Gabriel)
17 Solsbury Hill (Peter Gabriel)
18 talk (Peter Gabriel)
19 Don't Give Up (Peter Gabriel)
20 talk (Peter Gabriel)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/R1SWwpCb 

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/Qxd4hZDKlaWbVeo/file

The cover image is from this exact concert.

Peter Gabriel - BBC Sessions, Volume 3: Children in Need, Cyfarthfa Castle Park, Merthyr Tydfil, Britain, 11-21-2003

Here's another Peter Gabriel BBC concert, as part of my attempt to respond to the BBC poll I did a few months back. It's a relatively short concert from 2003.

This is a short concert because it was part of a benefit concert, with a bunch of different musical acts having short sets, including the Pretenders and Bryn Terfel. But Gabriel was the headliner so at least he got the longest set. It took place in Wales, and the entire thing was broadcast on BBC Wales.

The sound quality is generally excellent, despite this being unreleased. However, there were a couple of problems. It seems the levels weren't properly set for the first song, "Games without Frontiers," so the vocals were too low. I largely fixed that with the UVR5 program. That's why that song has "[Edit]" in its title. Also, there was a lot of annoying BBC DJ talk before and after the concert, plus during one of the encores. I got rid of all that.

Even though this concert took place in 2003, from the song list it almost could have taken place in 1987. Only two of the songs were more recent: "Burn You Up, Burn You Down" and "Secret World."

This album is 46 minutes long.

01 Games without Frontiers [Edit] (Peter Gabriel)
02 talk (Peter Gabriel)
03 Burn You Up, Burn You Down (Peter Gabriel)
04 talk (Peter Gabriel)
05 Mercy Street (Peter Gabriel)
06 Solsbury Hill (Peter Gabriel)
07 Sledgehammer (Peter Gabriel)
08 talk (Peter Gabriel)
09 In Your Eyes (Peter Gabriel)
10 Secret World (Peter Gabriel)

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alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/TV1bCvkDCTQjqro/file

The cover image is a screenshot I took from a video of this exact concert.

Peter Gabriel - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: In Concert, Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, Britain, 6-26-1994

Here's another BBC album from Peter Gabriel, the top winner of my February 2025 poll. I promise to be focusing more on posting more from the poll winners. This is his full set from the 1994 version of the annual, massive Glastonbury Festival.

The previous volume in this series is from 1979. I really wish I could find some BBC material between that year and this one, since the 1980s were his most creative and commercially successful era of his solo career. But I can only go with what's out there. I'm also a bit disappointed, because this happens to be quite similar to a Peter Gabriel concert I posted that was part of the 1994 Woodstock Festival. It was from the same tour, and the two shows are only two months apart. But again, I just have to go with the shows that happened, not the ones I wish happened. At least this concert is about 20 minutes longer than the Woodstock one, so it has a few more songs.

Gabriel released the studio album "Us" in late 1992. He was still touring to support it in 1994 after not really touring since 1988. The sound quality was a little subpar compared to the usual unreleased BBC concerts I post. Maybe there were some difficulties in recording at the huge Glastonbury Festival. However, I was able to make some adjustments to improve the sound a bit, especially by boosting the lead vocals in relation to the instruments. This should sound better than any other version out there so far, but still not fantastic.

This album is an hour and 56 minutes long.

01 talk (Peter Gabriel)
02 Come Talk to Me (Peter Gabriel)
03 Quiet Steam (Peter Gabriel)
04 Steam (Peter Gabriel)
05 talk (Peter Gabriel)
06 Games without Frontiers (Peter Gabriel)
07 Across the River (Peter Gabriel)
08 Shakin' the Tree (Peter Gabriel)
09 Blood of Eden (Peter Gabriel)
10 Red Rain (Peter Gabriel)
11 San Jacinto (Peter Gabriel)
12 Solsbury Hill (Peter Gabriel)
13 Digging in the Dirt (Peter Gabriel)
14 Sledgehammer (Peter Gabriel)
15 Secret World (Peter Gabriel)
16 In Your Eyes (Peter Gabriel)
17 Biko (Peter Gabriel)
18 talk (Peter Gabriel)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/11mD2N19

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/tBvj7PPIDHpzrGi/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert.

Peter Gabriel - Rock Werchter Festival, Werchter, Belgium, 7-3-1983

I'm posting this album due to a screw-up. When I downloaded this bootleg, I thought it was going to be the next album in my series of Peter Gabriel BBC albums. But then I took a listen to it and heard a DJ at various points talking in a foreign language. I then did a little more research and decided this wasn't a BBC concert after all. And while it is an FM radio broadcast, the sound quality isn't great. However, I noticed that Gabriel's vocals were quite low in the mix, and that's something I could easily fix. So I decided to go through with the fixing and post this, even though it's not the best concert bootleg from his 1983 tour.

I'm not going to say a lot because I'm not that keen on this concert, due to the sound quality being only good instead of great. Perhaps at some later point I'll post a better sounding one from this tour (and one that includes "Games without Frontiers," one of my favorite songs from him). Three of the songs here have "[Edit]" in them because they had a DJ talking over part of the track. As I usually, do I used the UVR5 program to get rid of the talking. And, as mentioned above, I also used UVR5 to boost the lead vocals relative to everything else.

Note that Gabriel also released a live album from the same tour, called "Plays Live." Although I'd also note that it was criticized for its sound quality, and it's taken from multiple concerts.

01 Across the River [Edit] (Peter Gabriel)
02 Intruder (Peter Gabriel)
03 talk (Peter Gabriel)
04 Not One of Us (Peter Gabriel)
05 talk (Peter Gabriel)
06 The Family and the Fishing Net (Peter Gabriel)
07 Humdrum (Peter Gabriel)
08 talk (Peter Gabriel)
09 Shock the Monkey [Edit] (Peter Gabriel)
10 talk (Peter Gabriel)
11 We Do What We're Told [Milgram's 37] (Peter Gabriel)
12 talk (Peter Gabriel)
13 Family Snapshot (Peter Gabriel)
14 talk (Peter Gabriel)
15 Solsbury Hill (Peter Gabriel)
16 San Jacinto (Peter Gabriel)
17 On the Air (Peter Gabriel)
18 Biko [Edit] (Peter Gabriel) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/1GrvbUv5

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/UN354tZAT6BIipC/file

The cover photo is from a concert at the Palais des Sports, in Paris, France, on July 1st, 1983. He wore the same facial make-up for the whole tour, so he almost certainly looked just like this at this concert just a couple of days later.

Peter Gabriel - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: In Concert, Reading Festival, Little John's Farm, Reading, Britain, 8-26-1979

Some weeks ago, I posted a poll asking which musical acts you'd like me to post BBC albums from. (Two polls, actually, but I'm going with the second, bigger poll.) I got sidetracks in recent weeks with posting lots of "PBS Soundstage" concerts I newly discovered, and I'm still kind of focused on that. But I'm going to finally start posting BBC albums from the most popular artists in that poll. I'm starting with Peter Gabriel, who got the most votes. I've found five BBC concerts from him. Here's the first one, from 1979.

The annual Reading Festival started in the early 1970s and is still a big festival as I write this in 2025. The 1979 festival lasted three days and had lots of big names, such as the Police, Motorhead, Thin Lizzy, Cheap Trick, Whitesnake, the Climax Blues Band, and the Ramones. Peter Gabriel was the headliner for the third and final night. 

We're lucky that the BBC broadcast this, because while it has often broadcast parts of the Reading Festival in recent decades, it rarely did so back in the 1970s. In this case, it broadcast more of Gabriel's set, but not all of it. Specifically, the last two songs, "Here Comes the Flood" and "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway," were not included in the broadcast. However, a decent audience bootleg exists for those two songs, so I've used those.

Even though most of this is from a BBC broadcast, the recording was a little rough compared to usual BBC standards. Perhaps they weren't accustomed to recording at really big outdoor festivals. Whatever the case may be, I did a couple of my usual tricks to try to improve the sound. First, I noticed that the lead vocals were somewhat low in the mix compared to the instruments. So I fixed that with the use of the UVR5 audio editing program. Then I noticed the audience noise was rather loud during some (but not all) of the songs, especially the last two from the audience boot. I got rid of most of the cheering where it wasn't needed with the use of the MVSEP program.

Gabriel's first four solo albums were all named "Peter Gabriel." This concert took place after the release of the second one, often known as "Peter Gabriel 2" or "Scratch," released in 1978. However, interestingly, the first song performed, "Biko," was unreleased at the time. It would appear on his next album in 1980. This was only the second time he performed it in public, with the first being a warm-up concert a couple of days earlier.

I find it interesting that Phil Collins played drums on at least a couple of songs. I only know for sure he played on "Mother of Violence" and "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway," but it's possible he played on more. You can hear Gabriel introduce him in the band intros right after "Mother of Violence." Of course, as any Genesis fan knows, Gabriel was the lead vocalist for Genesis until he left for a solo career in 1975. Collins had been the band's drummer from early in the band's career, but took over as lead vocalist and became a big star. But Gabriel and Collins actually have remained good friends and sometimes played on the other's albums.

This album is an hour and 14 minutes long.

01 Biko (Peter Gabriel)
02 On the Air (Peter Gabriel)
03 D.I.Y. (Peter Gabriel)
04 talk (Peter Gabriel)
05 Humdrum (Peter Gabriel)
06 No Self Control (Peter Gabriel)
07 White Shadow (Peter Gabriel)
08 Mother of Violence (Peter Gabriel)
09 talk (Peter Gabriel)
10 Animal Magic (Peter Gabriel)
11 I Don't Remember (Peter Gabriel)
12 Modern Love (Peter Gabriel)
13 Moribund the Burgermeister (Peter Gabriel)
14 Perspective (Peter Gabriel)
15 Solsbury Hill (Peter Gabriel)
16 Here Comes the Flood (Peter Gabriel)
17 The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (Peter Gabriel)

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alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/HsqtxLCUPOGeUZO/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert.

Woodstock '94, Winston Farm, Saugerties, NY, 8-12-1994 to 8-14-1994 - Day 3, Part 17: Peter Gabriel

The 17th and final album from the Woodstock '94 Festival is a set by Peter Gabriel. That also makes it the final album of the entire festival.

I'm not sure why Gabriel was chosen as the final act of the festival. It's not the most enviable spot. For instance, Jimi Hendrix closed out the 1969 Woodstock Festival, but by the time he came on, the vast majority of the crowd had left! I don't know if that was the case for this festival or not. Probably way more were there, because one can see the video of this set, and the audience still looks huge. 

In any case, Gabriel may have gotten the spot because he had more involvement in the festival than most acts. I imagine he had a large role in the WOMAD world music section of the festival that took place earlier on Day Three, and he even performed a bit during that. After all, WOMAD is its own annual musical festival and/or tour that Gabriel has been deeply involved in.

By this point in his career, Gabriel usually took quite a few years between albums. His most recent album at the time was "Us," released in 1992. I guess he was still touring to support that, and he played a bunch of songs from that album. As an aside, one of Gabriel's backing singers at the time was Paula Cole. She would have a couple of big hits of her own a couple of years later. She has a prominent vocal role in the first song, "Come Talk to Me."

Youssou N’Dour performed at the festival on Day Two. He helped sing two songs in this set as well, "Shaking the Tree" and "In Your Eyes." He was on the studio recordings for both.

That's the end of all my postings for this massive festival. Thanks for your patience with the unusually long time it took to get all of these posted. 

This album is an hour and 31 minutes long.

01 Come Talk to Me (Peter Gabriel)
02 Quiet Steam (Peter Gabriel)
03 Shaking the Tree (Peter Gabriel with Youssou N’Dour)
04 San Jacinto (Peter Gabriel)
05 Red Rain (Peter Gabriel)
06 Solsbury Hill (Peter Gabriel)
07 Digging in the Dirt (Peter Gabriel)
08 Sledgehammer (Peter Gabriel)
09 Secret World (Peter Gabriel)
10 In Your Eyes (Peter Gabriel with Youssou N’Dour)
11 Biko [Edit] (Peter Gabriel)
12 talk (Peter Gabriel)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/fhX1PWU1

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/v62SUej76yNJ6v9/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert.

Genesis (including Peter Gabriel): Six of the Best Reunion, National Bowl, Milton Keynes, Britain, 10-2-1982

Peter Gabriel was the lead singer for the British band Genesis from their start in 1967 until 1975, when he left for a very successful solo career. The band's drummer, Phil Collins, took over as lead singer and the popularity of Genesis soared as they switched from a prog rock style to pop rock. After Gabriel left, he only united with his old Genesis bandmates for a single concert in 1982 - this one. Unfortunately, it wasn't professionally recorded or filmed, so all we're left of it is audience bootleg recordings. I've taken the best such recording and significantly improved the sound quality, using the advances in audio technology that have become available in recent years. So even if you have this already, you need to hear this version.

Before I discuss the sonic improvements, I want to explain how this singular concert happened. After Gabriel left Genesis, he remained on good terms with his former bandmates. For instance, Collins played drums on several songs on Gabriel's 1980 solo album. Collins was even Gabriel's best man in his wedding in 2000. Earlier in 1982, Gabriel had arranged a concert called WOMAD (World of Music, Art and Dance), which included performers from dozens of countries (in addition to headliners like Gabriel). It was one of the first efforts to popularize world music in Britain. Unfortunately, the concert was in a difficult to reach location and there was a train worker strike, plus probably many people weren't ready for world music yet. As a result, Gabriel faced huge debts from that one concert. Worse, he owed money to some nasty people who began giving him death threats.

Being a big rock star, he could have raised the money eventually, but he needed it urgently. So he called up his old Genesis bandmates with the idea to have a one-off Genesis reunion to pay off those debts. The concert happened as expected (right at the end of a Genesis tour), and he was able to pay the debts. Since then, he's stuck with the WOMAD idea, and it's gone on to have many concerts over the years promoting world music, until the present day. So the story has a happy ending. But although the musicians involved in this concert claim to have enjoyed it, there has never been another reunion concert or tour since. All the original members of Genesis have occasionally gotten together for interviews and/or photo ops, but that's it. That's probably a reflection of how complicated the music from early Genesis is. It's not like being able to jam to a simple Chuck Berry song. To do the prog rock songs right, one needs a lot of group practice. But at least there was this one reunion.

The band was billed as "Six of the Best" instead of "Genesis." The six mentioned in the name were: Peter Gabriel (lead vocals), Phil Collins (drums), Tony Banks (keyboards), Mike Rutherford (guitars), Daryl Stuermer (guitars), and Chester Thompson (drums). The last two weren't official members of Genesis, but they regularly joined the band for concert tours. Additionally, Steve Hackett was a guitarist for Genesis from 1971 to 1977. He was touring in South America at the time, and only arrived back in Britain the day before the concert. Because he missed most of the rehearsals, he only joined the band for the encores ("I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)" and "The Knife").

The concert went fairly well, despite the fact that it was held outdoors and it rained heavily for over 24 hours straight, leaving the audience totally wet and muddy. Gabriel started the show by rising from a coffin carried to the stage by four pallbearers, a stunt which was a surprise to even the other musicians on stage. The concert happened to take place on Rutherford's birthday, so the crowd sang 'Happy Birthday' to him during the show. 

All the songs were from the years Gabriel sang the lead vocals with Genesis, with two exceptions: "Solsbury Hill" was a 1977 solo hit for Gabriel (and the lyrics actually deal with his feelings about leaving Genesis!) and "Turn It On Again" was a 1980 hit for Genesis without Gabriel. That was the only song in the concert with lead vocals only by Collins. Gabriel attempted to play bongos on "Turn It On Again," but he was foiled by the surprisingly tricky and changing time signatures, and basically gave up before the song ended. 

Now, let me discuss the audit edits I made to this concert. As I mentioned above, the best available recording is an audience bootleg - someone in the audience with a tape recorder. But these can vary drastically in sound quality depending on various factors, such as their position relative to the stage and the quality of the tape recorder. I wouldn't have attempted to improve this except for the fact that I thought the audience boot was an unusually good one. 

The main problem, in my opinion, was that there was the sound of audience cheering during the songs as well as at the ends. No doubt, because of the unique nature of this Genesis reunion, the crowd was especially loud and excited. Luckily, there's a fix for that sort of thing these days. I used the MVSEP audio editing program to split the songs into crowd noise and all other sounds. Then I cut out all the crowd noise I didn't want, while keeping the applause at the ends of songs as well as other times when it felt appropriate. I also kept the crowd noise during the banter between songs, but lowered it a lot so the talking could be better heard.

After I did that, I edited all the songs again. This time, I used the UVR5 audio editing program to isolate the vocals from the instruments. Then I generally boosted the vocals on all the songs, as well as the banter, relative to the instruments. I also listened along, and carefully removed most unwanted vocals, such as fans shouting "WOOHOO!" in the middle of songs.

These edits took a lot of time and effort, but I think they made a big impact. I would argue that this recording now could easily be mistaken for a soundboard bootleg instead. Of course, it could still be even better in a perfect world, but I've heard plenty of soundboards that sound worse than this one does now. So if you've been avoiding this concert due to sound quality issues, I suggest you give it a listen.

Some die-hard fans made an entire booklet to go along with this concert that looks professionally done. So I've included that in the download files. It contains interesting quotes from all the band members about the concert. Furthermore, in case I missed mentioning key details, check out this Wikipedia page just about this one concert:

Six of the Best - Wikipedia

This fan page also has lots of good info about the concert:

Six Of The Best - Genesis (genesis-band.com)

Here are a couple of good quotes about the concert from that link:

Mike Rutherford: "I regret it now, but I was keen not to record the show. I thought it would be a bit rough and ready and that it was better to be there and in the moment."

Gabriel: "I was frustrated because it was very sloppy. I was certainly not sharp enough. You can memorize stuff and work on your own until you're blue in the face, but actually you need to be sitting in with the band and doing some warm-up gigs. So it was frustrating, and yet it felt a warm occasion, there was a nice feeling up on stage. A lot of fans seemed to enjoy it, even though it was very loose."

This album is an hour and 58 minutes long.

01 talk by Jonathan King (Genesis)
02 Back in N.Y.C. (Genesis)
03 Dancing with the Moonlit Knight [Part 1] (Genesis)
04 The Carpet Crawlers (Genesis)
05 talk (Genesis)
06 Firth of Fifth (Genesis)
07 talk (Genesis)
08 The Musical Box (Genesis)
09 talk (Genesis)
10 Solsbury Hill (Genesis)
11 talk (Genesis)
12 Turn It On Again (Genesis)
13 talk (Genesis)
14 The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (Genesis)
15 Fly on a Windshield (Genesis)
16 Broadway Melody of 1974 (Genesis)
17 In the Cage (Genesis)
18 talk (Genesis)
19 Supper's Ready (Genesis)
20 I Know What I Like [In Your Wardrobe] (Genesis)
21 talk (Genesis)
22 The Knife (Genesis)
23 talk (Genesis)

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https://pixeldrain.com/u/TroG7D5n

second alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/O3yZouNIT0MXv90/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert, during the final encore. From left to right: Mike Rutherford, Daryl Stuermer, Chester Thompson, Phil Collins, Steve Hackett, and Peter Gabriel. Tony Banks can't be seen, but I believe that's his red jacket showing one arm between Hackett and Gabriel. Also, Hacket's face was mostly hidden in this photo, so I used another photo from the same sequence and pasted in his head just enough to make it visible behind Collins' shoulder. The "Six of the Best" text at the top is from promotional material for the concert.

Various Artists - Prince's Trust Rock Gala, Royal Albert Hall, London, Britain, 6-5-1988

The Prince's Trust is a charity founded by then Prince Charles, the British crown prince. (He is now King Charles III) as I write this in 2024.) There have been a bunch of benefit concerts for the charity, each with many stars participating. Here's another one.

These Prince's Trust concerts have happened in a very irregular pace. I've already posted benefit concerts from 1982, 1986, and 1987. This one is from 1988. There were more from 1989 and 1990, so it started to seem like an annual thing. However, I think the next one after that took place in 1996. There have been at least five more since then, although I may well be missing some.

This one was similar to the previous two in similar ways. The concert started with some newer acts, like T'Pau and Wet Wet Wet, and they played more songs than one might expect, given the stature of the other acts in the concert. Both T'Pau and Wet Wet Wet actually played four songs each, according to setlists, but I only have two from T'Pau and three from Wet Wet Wet. I can't say I'm lamenting the missing songs, since I don't think one could compare them with nearly all of the acts that came later. Rick Astley and Black were a couple other acts that appeared early, and played the one big hit each of them was known for.

After that, there were many of the same "usual suspects" who played in previous Prince's Trust concerts, such as Phil Collins, Elton John, Howard Jones, Mark Knoplfer, and Eric Clapton. But there were some first timers too, like Leonard Cohen, the Bee Gees, Peter Gabriel, and Joe Cocker. It's frustrating to me that you have someone like Peter Gabriel, whose most recent album at the time, "So," had sold five million copies in the U.S. alone, only getting to play one song. But it is what it is, I guess.

I don't know the exact details, but I believe that many of the big stars backed each other towards the end of the concert, as was the case in previous years. Because people pay extra close attention to Eric Clapton's guitar playing, I was able to find out that once he took the stage with track 26 ("Behind the Mask"), he stayed on stage for the rest of the concert, including playing guitar on songs sung by Knoplfer, John, and Cocker.

Similarly, I was able to determine that Brian May of Queen didn't sing lead vocals on any songs, but he played lead guitar on a bunch of them: tracks 6, 8, 10, 16, 19, 24, 26, and 35. John Deacon, the bassist for Queen, also apparently played on some songs.

Currently, I'm only able to find a few songs from the 1989 and 1990 concerts. If anyone has the full concerts, please let me know. I may try to post the 1996 concert, but I'm probably missing about half of that one.

This album is two hours and two minutes long.

01 Heart and Soul (T'Pau)
02 China in Your Hand (T'Pau)
03 talk (Wet Wet Wet)
04 Wishing I Was Lucky (Wet Wet Wet)
05 Sweet Little Mystery - Twist and Shout (Wet Wet Wet)
06 Dancing with Tears in My Eyes (Midge Ure)
07 talk (Midge Ure & Rick Astley)
08 Never Gonna Give You Up (Rick Astley)
09 talk (Rick Astley & Black)
10 Wonderful Life (Black)
11 talk (Black & Leonard Cohen)
12 Tower of Song (Leonard Cohen)
13 talk (Phil Collins)
14 Doesn't Anyone Stay Together Anymore (Phil Collins)
15 talk (Phil Collins & the Bee Gees)
16 You Win Again (Bee Gees)
17 Jive Talkin' (Bee Gees)
18 talk (Bee Gees & Peter Gabriel)
19 Sledgehammer (Peter Gabriel)
20 talk (Peter Gabriel & Howard Jones)
21 What Is Love (Howard Jones)
22 talk (Phil Collins)
23 I Missed Again (Phil Collins)
24 You Can't Hurry Love (Phil Collins)
25 talk (Phil Collins & Joe Cocker)
26 The Letter (Joe Cocker)
27 talk (Eric Clapton)
28 Behind the Mask (Eric Clapton)
29 Cocaine (Eric Clapton)
30 talk (Eric Clapton & Mark Knopfler)
31 Money for Nothing (Mark Knopfler)
32 talk (Elton John)
33 I Don't Wanna Go On with You like That (Elton John)
34 Layla (Eric Clapton)
35 With a Little Help from My Friends (Joe Cocker)

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https://bestfile.io/en/jJV74b5uh8a36UP/file

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https://www.imagenetz.de/gP7SW

Just like previous years, there was a group photo taken of the performers. Here are all their names.
Back row: Rick Astley, Howard Jones, Peter Gabriel, Joe Cocker, Phil Collins, Midge Ure
Middle row: Mark Knopfler, Brian May, Elton John, Eric Clapton
Front row: The Bee Gees, Robin, Barry and Maurice Gibb

A Conspiracy of Hope, Giants Stadium, East Rutherford, NJ, 6-15-1986, Part 4 - Lou Reed, Peter Gabriel, & Bryan Adams

This is the fourth out of five albums of the last 1986 "Conspiracy of Hope" concert, near New York City. For a description of the concert in general, check out the write-up for the first volume.

All the musical artists on the first three volumes for this concert were reasonably famous, but this is when the really big names started to be featured. The whole concert was broadcast on MTV, but only this part until the end was also broadcast on network TV.

Since these acts are better known, I hopefully don't have to say much about them. Lou Reed was famous for being in the Velvet Underground and his 1972 hit "Walk on the Wild Side," but he also had more commercial success in the 1980s, including having a minor hit in 1984 with "I Love You Suzanne." His set is 28 minutes long.

British singer Peter Gabriel had lots of success in the 1970s and 80s as a member of Genesis then a solo artist, but he arguably reached his peak of popularity in 1986, right around the time of this concert. That year, he put out the album "So," which sold five million copies in the U.S. alone. His song "Sledgehammer" even hit Number One in the U.S. His set is 38 minutes long.

Canadian singer Bryan Adams had gradually built his fame in the 1980s. By 1986, he had become a big star, thanks to the recent hits "Run to You," "Heaven," and "Summer of '69." He would go on to even bigger fame and fortune with his 1991 mega-hit, "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You." His set is 25 minutes long. 

This album is an hour and 31 minutes long.

068 Rock and Roll (Lou Reed)
069 I Love You, Suzanne (Lou Reed)
070 No Money Down (Lou Reed)
071 Turn to Me (Lou Reed)
072 Walk on the Wild Side (Lou Reed)
073 Video Violence (Lou Reed)
074 talk by Bill Graham (Peter Gabriel)
075 Red Rain (Peter Gabriel)
076 Shock the Monkey (Peter Gabriel)
077 Family Snapshot (Peter Gabriel)
078 Sledgehammer (Peter Gabriel)
079 San Jacinto (Peter Gabriel)
080 Biko (Peter Gabriel)
081 Run to You (Bryan Adams)
082 talk (Bryan Adams)
083 It's Only Love (Bryan Adams)
084 Straight from the Heart (Bryan Adams)
085 Tonight (Bryan Adams)
086 Summer of '69 (Bryan Adams)
087 Somebody (Bryan Adams)

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alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/7e463yuU6nd1x1c/file

The cover photo of Peter Gabriel is from this exact concert.

Concert for Human Rights Now, Estadio River Plate, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 10-15-1988, Part 3 - Peter Gabriel

This album continues right where the previous one left off. That's because these are different sets from a benefit concert that was five and a half hours long. The first set mainly featured Senegalese singer Youssou N'Dour, and the second set featured Tracy Chapman. This is Peter Gabriel's set. The remaining two are the sets of  Sting and Bruce Springsteen.

I explained the basics about this concert in Part 1, the Youssou N'Dour set. Read that if you want to know more, including a Wikipedia link about the tour. But the gist is that these artists got together for a short world tour to promote the work of the non-profit Amnesty International and its campaigns against human rights abuses.

Peter Gabriel was a good fit for this concert, due to his interest in human rights abuses as well as world music. For instance, his 1980 song "Biko," which he played here, is about Steven Biko, an anti-Apartheid activist who was beaten to death by security officials while detained in a South African prison in 1977. It's too bad he didn't play "Wallflower," because that's a 1982 song about the mistreatment of political prisoners in Latin America, which couldn't have been more relevant to this concert in Argentina.

One interesting thing about this concert is that there doesn't seem to have been an emcee. Instead, each artist was introduced by the previous one. So the first track here is the introduction by Tracy Chapman. Chapman also helped sing the song "Don't Give Up," taking the female vocal part done by Kate Bush on the record version. Also, Youssou N'Dour sang some on the record version of "In Your Eyes," so he naturally sang on this version as well.

As I mentioned in my Part 1 write-up, there has been an official album of this concert, but it's only a double album, so it merely contains highlights from the full show, which is over five and a half hours long. Luckily, a soundboard bootleg of the entire thing exists, and the sound quality here is excellent.

This album is an hour and five minutes long. Since I consider it a part of the entire concert, I've had the track number start with 24, so you can put all the parts together in one folder and have them be in the proper order.

24 talk by Tracy Chapman (Peter Gabriel)
25 Red Rain (Peter Gabriel)
26 Games without Frontiers (Peter Gabriel)
27 Shock the Monkey (Peter Gabriel)
28 No Self Control (Peter Gabriel)
29 Don't Give Up (Peter Gabriel & Tracy Chapman)
30 Sledgehammer (Peter Gabriel)
31 Monologue (Peter Gabriel)
32 In Your Eyes (Peter Gabriel with Youssou N'Dour)
33 Biko (Peter Gabriel)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15451551/ConcrtfrHumnRightsNw__10-15-1988__Part3-_PetrGbriel.zip.html

The cover is from this exact concert. It's a screenshot I took from a YouTube video. The graphic in the upper left corner was the logo for this tour. I also used the same font that was featured on the promotional material for the tour.

Peter Gabriel - Rarities, Volume 3: Studio Recordings, 1978 (A Mike Solof Guest Post)

First off, I must apologize to Mike Solof for taking so long to post this. I feel like that guy in a "Kids in the Hall" skit who kept saying "It slipped my mind," but it kept slipping my mind. I'll try to do better in the future.

Anyway, hopefully by now you've seen enough albums in this series to understand what this is. Mike has collected all of Peter Gabriel's stray tracks from 1978. Turns out there's enough for an album, even though that was the same year he put out his second solo album (simply titled "Peter Gabriel").

Mike prefers to create a PDF file and then give his own explanation about the music in that, so I'll keep this short. Make sure to read his PDF for more.

This album is 41 minutes long.

01 Merrily upon High (Peter Gabriel & Tom Robinson)
02 On the Air [Instrumental Version] (Peter Gabriel)
03 Perspective [Single Version] (Peter Gabriel)
04 Bully for You [Instrumental Version] (Peter Gabriel)
05 D. I. Y. [Rerecorded Single Version] (Peter Gabriel)
06 Mother of Violence [Single Mix] (Peter Gabriel)
07 Exposure [Combined Mike Mix] (Robert Fripp, Peter Gabriel, Daryl Hall & Terre Roche)
08 Water Music - Here Comes the Flood (Robert Fripp & Peter Gabriel)
09 D. I. Y. [Sax Edit] (Peter Gabriel)
10 Me and My Teddy Bear (Peter Gabriel)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15292463/PeterGab_1978_RaritiesVolum3StdioRecordings__1978_atse.zip.html

I made the album cover, after getting Mike's okay on the photo to use. This one comes from 1978, when Gabriel didn't have much hair. The shadows of the hands on the wall are unchanged from the originals.

Peter Gabriel - Rarities, Volume 2: Live in 1977 (A Mike Solof Guest Post)

First off, my apologies to Mike for having to wait a long time before posting this. Hopefully I'll be much faster next time. As you can see from the title, this is another Mike Solof guest post, continuing his long series of Peter Gabriel solo material.

As usual, Mike has included a PDF file that explains things in detail (and with pictures). But just so you know what you're getting, this album collects all the songs Peter Gabriel did in his first solo tour, in 1977. The vast majority of it relies on a soundboard bootleg from Cleveland. (I've gotta say the sound quality is good but not great, but it's the best available from that tour.) However, Mike rearranged the songs in the order of Gabriel's first solo album, simply called "Peter Gabriel." Then the songs that didn't appear on that album come after that.

There are a few songs done on the tour that weren't played at that Cleveland show. So Mike found the best sounding versions of them and added them to the end. The sound quality slowly declines, to the point that two of the songs didn't make the usual standards and so only appear as bonus tracks. The rest are certainly listenable though.

01 Here Comes the Flood [Piano Version] (Peter Gabriel)
02 Moribund the Burgermeister (Peter Gabriel)
03 Solisbury Hill (Peter Gabriel)
04 talk (Peter Gabriel)
05 Modern Love (Peter Gabriel)
06 talk (Peter Gabriel)
07 Excuse Me (Peter Gabriel)
08 Humdrum (Peter Gabriel)
09 talk (Peter Gabriel)
10 Slowburn (Peter Gabriel)
11 Waiting for the Big One (Peter Gabriel)
12 Down the Dolce Vita (Peter Gabriel)
13 Here Comes the Flood [Band Version] (Peter Gabriel)
14 Back in N. Y. C. (Peter Gabriel)
15 On the Air (Peter Gabriel)
16 talk (Peter Gabriel)
17 A Song without Words [Early Version of Indigo] (Peter Gabriel)
18 Ain't That Peculiar (Peter Gabriel)
19 Why Don't We (Peter Gabriel)
20 All Day and All of the Night (Peter Gabriel)
21 I Heard It Through the Grapevine (Peter Gabriel)
22 White Shadow [Slow Version] (Peter Gabriel)

Animal Magic (Peter Gabriel)
D. I. Y. [Instrumental Version] (Peter Gabriel)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/4TSg8m3g

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https://bestfile.io/en/bwYBfPy5FLm4AkY/file

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https://www.imagenetz.de/frB8F

The cover was selected by Mike. Hopefully he can explain where and when it's from, 'cos I don't know.

Peter Gabriel - Rarities, Volume 1: Free at Last - Studio Recordings, 1974-1977 (A Mike Solof Guest Post)

Here's another Mike Solof guest post. I really like Peter Gabriel's solo career music (most of it, anyway), but Mike takes that fandom to a different level. So I'm leaving the curation of that career for this blog to him. This is just the first album in what promises to be a long series, which is why the title includes the part "Rarities, Volume 1." To be honest, he'd post a lot more of Gabriel's rare music than I would, but I figure more options are always better than fewer.

As usual, Mike has created a PDF file that's included in the zip file with his own comments. Please read that. I'll just say a few additional things here.

One, Peter Gabriel has a history of being a musical perfectionist who is very selective over what he's allowed on his albums. As a result, there's a surprising amount of unreleased material. For instance, the vast majority of this album is made of originals that never made it to any of his albums, and still aren't released as bons tracks or the like. One might even imagine this to be his true first solo album, since there's another material for it.

Two, there are two songs where there have been some musical edits. I want to explain those, since Mike doesn't mention them in the notes. A few weeks ago as I write this, PJ at his blog "Albums I Wish Existed" asked me to use the Spleeter music editing program to remove some weird clapping noises on the song "You Get What You Want." So I did. That was such a good idea that I've used that same edit here too. The other edit is something new. When listening to this, I noticed the lead vocals for the song "Get the Gun (Down the Dolce Vita)" were buried down in the mix. So I used Spleeter again to bring those vocals more to the fore.

However, in case you're someone who doesn't like those edits, the unedited versions for both songs are included as bonus tracks. The edits (or lack thereof) are the only differences with those versions.

This album is 50 minutes long, not including the bonus tracks. And if you like this, there's a lot more where it came from. Mike has already sent me six more volumes that I hope to post relatively soon. And that's for just a fraction of Peter Gabriel's solo career!

01 You Never Know (Peter Gabriel with Phil Collins & Anthony Phillips)
02 Firebirds (Peter Gabriel with Phil Collins & Anthony Phillips)
03 You Get What You Want [Edit] (Peter Gabriel with Phil Collins & Anthony Phillips)
04 Howling at the Moon (Peter Gabriel)
05 Excuse Me (Peter Gabriel)
06 Funny Man (Peter Gabriel)
07 No More Mickey (Peter Gabriel)
08 Get the Guns [Down the Dolce Vida] [Edit] (Peter Gabriel)
09 Here Comes the Flood (Peter Gabriel)
10 God Knows (Peter Gabriel)
11 Strawberry Fields Forever (Peter Gabriel)
12 Slowburn [Extended Version] (Peter Gabriel)
13 Jetzt Kommt Die Flut [German Version of Here Comes the Flood] (Peter Gabriel)

Get the Guns [Down the Dolce Vida] (Peter Gabriel)
You Get What You Want (Peter Gabriel with Phil Collins & Anthony Phillips)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15292299/PeterGab_1974-1977_RaritiesVolum1FreeatLstStdioRcordings__1974-1977_atse.zip.html

For the cover art, I asked Mike to pick a photo, and this is the one he chose. I don't know the details, but I'd guess it's from around 1977, when the punk look was all the rage.

Genesis - An Acoustic Evening with Genesis (1999-2007) (A Mike Solof Guest Post)

If you've been regularly following this blog, you may recall that a couple of months ago, I posted a "dream concert" of sorts by the Monkees. That was put together by a musical friend named Mike. It turns out Mike Solof has a lot more music that he'd like to post here. His musical taste is similar to mine, but he likes some musical artists I'm not that keen on. So, at least for now, he's going to focus on those. Basically, the plan is that he'll send me an album, I'll make some tweaks to it, or maybe not, but in the end the idea and most of the effort putting the album together belongs to Mike. From now on, I'll indicate which albums are Mike's efforts by putting his name in the title.

In terms of explaining things, Mike prefers to make a PDF file where he can write at greater length sometimes, and also include pictures. There's such a PDF included with this zip file. But I'll make some basic comments to give you a rough idea of what this is about.

Genesis is known as a progressive rock band, and definitely aren't known to play acoustically. But Mike has found some acoustic versions of some songs, enough to make an hour-long album. All the versions here were recorded from 1999 to 2007. But in terms of the original material, this runs the range from the early 1970s when Peter Gabriel was the lead singer to the 1990s with Phil Collins in command and the band had gone in a much poppier direction. Most of the songs are sung by Collins, but there's about 20 minutes near the end in which Gabriel's early 1970s vocals were overdubbed onto new recorded solo piano versions of Genesis songs.

Mike has this thing where he likes to present his albums as a single mp3 file, to create a continuous flow of music without any gaps. I prefer having each song as a separate track, which helps having the mp3 tag info for each of the songs. Since file size isn't much of an issue on the Internet, we're having it both ways. I'm presenting two zip files. The names should make clear which is which. Both contain Mike's PDF file. 

As for any more comments about this album, please check out Mike's PDF file. And thanks to Mike for wanting to share his music via my blog this way. Hopefully he'll be able to fill in some gaps with some popular music that I'm not that keen on. It seems he especially has a lot of progressive music that I don't (with Genesis here being a good example).

01 I Can’t Dance (Genesis)
02 Invisible Touch (Genesis)
03 Follow You, Follow Me (Genesis)
04 Afterglow (Genesis)
05 Horizons (Genesis)
06 Please Don’t Ask (Genesis)
07 Turn It On Again (Genesis)
08 Ripples (Genesis)
09 Can-Utility and the Coastliners (Yngve Guddal & Roger T. Matte with Peter Gabriel)
10 The Fountains of Salmacis (Yngve Guddal & Roger T. Matte with Peter Gabriel)
11 The Battle of Epping Forest (Yngve Guddal & Roger T. Matte with Peter Gabriel)
12 Blood on the Rooftops (Yngve Guddal & Roger T. Matte with Phil Collins)
13 Mad Man Moon (Yngve Guddal & Roger T. Matte with Phil Collins)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15118273/Gensis_1999-2007_AnAcoustcEveningwithGen_atse.zip.html

Mike didn't present me with cover art for this album, so I made one. I don't know where the cover art photo comes from. I found it in Mike's PDF file. Maybe he can explain. But it looks like the Phil Collins-led version of Genesis performing acoustically in the time period of this album.