“On ‘Sweet Thing’, he asked me to imagine myself as a young, French drummer who was witnessing his first execution,” recalls veteran drummer Tony Newman, recalling the sessions for David Bowie’s 1974 album Diamond Dogs in John Robinson’s cover story for this month’s Uncut, which goes on sale this Friday, February 28.
As he prepares to release his new concert film, Peter Gabriel: Back To Front, Peter Gabriel is set to answer your questions in Uncut as part of our regular Audience With… feature.
So is there anything you’ve always wanted to ask the legendary musician?
Does he ever get self-conscious watching himself on film performing?
Is he planning to release new music any time soon?
Does he still have any of his famous costumes from the Genesis days?
The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame has announced its inductees for 2014.
Following the committee vote, Peter Gabriel, Hall And Oates, Cat Stevens, Linda Ronstadt, Nirvana and Kiss will be inducted, while The E Street Band will be given the Award For Musical Excellence. Artists are eligible for induction 25 years after the release of their first record, meaning Nirvana, who released debut album 'Bleach' in 1989, have been nominated at the first possible opportunity.
Peter Gabriel is to release a new single, "Courage" on November 4, 2013.
The track was originally part of the sessions for the singer's 1986 album, So. It was 'rediscovered' during the search for materials for the So 25th anniversary box set
Peter Gabriel has recorded a new song and score for a forthcoming film, Words With Gods.
It will be Gabriel's first new material since "Down To Earth", which written for the Pixar film, WALL-E.
Gabriel - who has also written scores for Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation Of Christ and Phillip Noyce's Rabbit Proof Fence - hasn't released a new album of original material since Up in 2002.
His last album, 2011's New Blood, comprised orchestral reworkings of his own material.
Peter Gabriel is to play his 1986 album, So, in its entirety.
Gabriel, who is currently celebrating the 25th anniversary of the album, is to bring to the UK next October his current Back To Front tour, featuring the original live band who toured So with him in the mid-Eighties. Gabriel will perform So in its entirely as well as material from his entire career.
Gabriel will play:
Monday 21st October 2013 : LONDON, THE O2
Tuesday 22nd October 2013 : LONDON, THE O2
Thursday 24th October 2013 : GLASGOW, THE HYDRO
The current issue of Uncut features a review of the lavish reissue of Peter Gabriel’s groundbreaking So album – to accompany that, it seemed like a perfect time to republish this great interview with the man himself, from Uncut’s July 2007 issue (Take 122). Gabriel joins Uncut for a look at his glorious career, and at those remarkable costumes… “You could feel the horror,” he remembers. “I thought, ‘Oh, this is exciting!’” Words: David Cavanagh
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