Artist: PETER GABRIEL
Album: PETER GABRIEL REMASTERED (CD)

Release date: 1977/ 2011
EAN/UPS: 5099973070023
Media type: CD

Peter Gabriel is the first studio album by British singer, musician and songwriter Peter Gabriel and the first of four with the same eponymous title. Released on 25 February 1977, it was produced by Bob Ezrin. Gabriel and Ezrin assembled a team of talented musicians, including Robert Fripp of King Crimson, to record the album. Upon the album's release, Gabriel began touring with a seven-piece band under his own name.

This album is often referred to as Peter Gabriel 1, Car, or Rain, referring to the album cover by Peter Christopherson (a.k.a. "Sleazy" from Hipgnosis). The car was a Lancia Flavia owned by Storm Thorgerson.

The album went to #7 in UK and #38 in the USA.

Gabriel's first solo success came with the single "Solsbury Hill", an autobiographical piece expressing his thoughts on leaving Genesis. Although mainly happy with the music, Gabriel felt that the album and especially the track "Here Comes the Flood" was over-produced. Sparser versions can be heard on Robert Fripp's Exposure, his appearance on Kate Bush's 1979 TV special and yet a third version on greatest hits compilation Shaking the Tree (1990). He often performs the song live accompanied by only himself on keyboard, either in German or English, depending on the audience.

All songs written by Peter Gabriel, except where indicated.

TRACKLIST:

1. "Moribund the Burgermeister"   Gabriel 4:20
2. "Solsbury Hill"   Gabriel 4:21
3. "Modern Love"   Gabriel 3:38
4. "Excuse Me"   Gabriel, Martin Hall 3:20
5. "Humdrum"   Gabriel 3:25

1. "Slowburn"   Gabriel 4:36
2. "Waiting for the Big One"   Gabriel 7:15
3. "Down the Dolce Vita"   Gabriel 5:05
4. "Here Comes the Flood"   Gabriel 5:38

LINE-UP:

Peter Gabriel – vocals, keyboards, flute, recorder
Allan Schwartzberg – drums
Tony Levin – bass, tuba, leader of the Barbershop Quartet
Jimmy Maelen – percussion, synthibam, bones
Steve Hunter – electric, acoustic & rhythm guitar, pedal steel
Robert Fripp – electric & classical guitars, banjo
Jozef Chirowski – Keyboards
Larry Fast – synthesizer, programming
Dick Wagner – backing vocals and solo guitar on "Here Comes the Flood" & "Slowburn"
London Symphony Orchestra on "Down the Dolce Vita" and "Here Comes the Flood"
Michael Gibbs - arrangement of orchestra