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.