Peter Gabriel

See also: list of musicians with multiple self-titled albums.
. 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. In 2004, Jim Kale started touring with his version of the Guess Who (known as the "Klones" by Cummings), Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings are planning on touring as the Bachman-Cummings Band in the summer of 2005 with Toronto's The Carpet Frogs. The 2003 videogame Uru: Ages Beyond Myst featured the single "Burn You Up, Burn You Down" in several portions of the game. For lead vocalist Cummings, it was a privilege to receive the doctorate, since he did not graduate from high school. 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. In 2001, a year after the Guess Who went on a cross-Canada national tour, the band received honourary doctorates at Brandon University in Brandon, Manitoba.

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 Guess Who broke up in 1975, but a new incarnation has since been formed and continues to tour in the tradition of the group and sound Cummings made famous. Melanie sang on Gabriel's 2003 Growing Up tour. The Guess Who continued with more hit singles such as "Share The Land" and "Clap For The Wolfman" (an homage to disc jockey Wolfman Jack, who incidentally, lent his own voice to the recording). Peter Gabriel has two daughters from his first marriage, Melanie and Anna, and a son, Isaac, from his second marriage. Group differences led Randy Bachman to leave the group, return to Winnipeg, and form Brave Belt, which eventually evolved into the hit group Bachman Turner Overdrive. It has been reported that he suffers from bipolar disorder, but despite some claims, he never confirmed this information. By the beginning of the 1970s, the group moved towards an edgier hard-rock sound with the album "American Woman", which featured among its tracks the title song (the only Number One hit the group had in the U.S.), "When Friends Fall Out" (a short ditty that was sort of a cross between Strawberry Alarm Clock, Jefferson Airplane and the Lennon Sisters), and the Top Ten hit "No Time".

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. 1969's "These Eyes" was the group's first Top Ten hit under new group leader Burton Cummings. 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. As the group lineup changed, so did their sound. He has also recently been interested in multimedia projects, creating the Xplora and Eve CD-ROMs. The band was originally known as "Chad Allan & The Expressions" before their record label tried a stunt of hiding the name of the band with the words "Guess Who?" The reception proved so positive that the name stuck. 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. They were the first Canadian rock group to have a No.1 hit on the American Music Charts.

This influence has increased over time, and he is the driving force behind the WOMAD (World of Music, Arts and Dance) movement. The Guess Who is a Canadian rock music band from Winnipeg, Manitoba that was one of the first to establish a major successful following in their own country as well as abroad in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Gabriel has been interested in world music for many years, with the first musical evidence appearing on his third album. The Guess Who's iTunes Music Store album list  (http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewArtist?artistId=216203) (requires iTunes to be installed). It was discovered that he had fallen asleep in front of the microphone, but had continued to sing. Excellent Guesswhooligan web site (http://guesswhofans.com). 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. Steiss's Guess Who Site (includes lyrics of most Guess Who songs) (http://www.ghg.net/bnsteiss).

Another duet, "Don't Give Up" became a hit, however. Mark Chadbourne's All Hashed Out Guess Who web site (http://community-2.webtv.net/mmchadbourne/AHO). Their duet of Roy Harper's "Another Day" was discussed for release as a single, but this never came to pass. Vance Masters' website (http://www.members.shaw.ca/vancemasters). He has collaborated with singer Kate Bush several times, including an appearance on her television special. Greg Leskiw's website (http://www.swingsoniq.com/). A follow-up video for the song "Big Time" also broke new ground in music video animation and special effects. Donnie McDougall's website (http://www.duckrecords.com).

The video won numerous awards at the 1987 MTV Music Video Awards, and set a new standard for art in the music video industry. Bill Wallace's website (http://www.beancakes.com). 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. Randy Bachman's official website (http://www.randybachman.com). They are usually differentiated by number in order of release, or sleeve design. 2004 The Best of Running Back Thru Canada. 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. 2004 Road Food/Power in the Music (Remastered, The Guess Who x2).

"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.". 2004 Rockin'/Flavours (Remastered, The Guess Who x2). 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. 2004 So Long Bannatyne/#10 (Remastered, The Guess Who x2). 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. 2004 Wheatfield Soul/Artificial Paradise (Remastered, The Guess Who x2). On one occasion he broke a leg leaping into the crowd, but managed to climb back up onto the stage and finish the performance. 2003 The Guess Who: Anthology.

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. 2003 Platinum & Gold Collection: The Guess Who. 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. 2001 This Time Long Ago. 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. 2000 Running Back Thru Canada (Live). Peter Brian Gabriel, born February 13, 1950, in Cobham (Surrey), England, is an English musician. 2000 Share the Land (Remastered).

Real World (http://www.realworld.co.uk/). 2000 Live At The Paramount (Remastered). And through the wire (http://www.deltaforce.net/~jnu/pg/) fan site. 2000 American Woman (Remastered). Another fan site (http://rec.horus.at/music/gabriel/). 1999 The Guess Who: Greatest Hits. Fan site (http://www.solsburyhill.org). 1999 Down The Road (Live).

Official website (http://www.petergabriel.com/). 1998 The Spirit Lives On (Live). 1994 "SW Live EP" #39 UK. 1997 Razor's Edge. from "Secret World Live"