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Music video. Peter Gabriel – "Solsbury Hill" on YouTube. " Solsbury Hill " is the debut solo single by English rock musician Peter Gabriel. He wrote the song about a spiritual experience atop Solsbury Hill in Somerset, England, [ 5 ][ 2 ][ 6 ] after his departure from the progressive rock band Genesis, of which he had been the lead vocalist ...
Peter Gabriel is the debut studio album by the English singer-songwriter and producer Peter Gabriel, released on 25 February 1977 by Charisma Records. After his departure from the progressive rock band Genesis was made public in 1975, Gabriel took a break to concentrate on his family life. In 1976, he began writing material for a solo album and ...
Little Solsbury Hill (more recently known as Solsbury Hill, because of the popularity of the Peter Gabriel song) is a small flat-topped hill and the site of an Iron Age hill fort, above the village of Batheaston in Somerset, England. The hill rises to 625 feet (191 m) above the River Avon, which is just over 1 mile (2 km) to the south, and ...
The song is a combination of several inspirations. The lyrics directly reference a recurring dream Gabriel was having where he swam in his backyard pool drinking cold red wine. Another version of the dream had bottles in the shape of people falling from a cliff. In it, a stream of red liquid would seep out of the people-shaped bottles as they ...
A total of 100 hours were spent shooting the music video, with each second of video consisting of 25 unique poses from Gabriel. [30] A major hit on music television, "Sledgehammer" won nine MTV Video Music Awards in 1987, [4] the most awards a single video has won. [5] It ranked at number four on MTV's 100 Greatest Music Videos Ever Made (1999).
Gabriel has won numerous music awards throughout his career, including three Brit Awards—winning Best British Male in 1987, six Grammy Awards, thirteen MTV Video Music Awards, the first Pioneer Award at the BT Digital Music Awards, and in 2007, he was honoured as a BMI Icon at the 57th annual BMI London Awards for his "influence on ...
Peter Gabriel is the third solo studio album by the English rock musician Peter Gabriel, released on 30 May 1980 [10] by Charisma Records. The album, produced by Steve Lillywhite, has been acclaimed as Gabriel's artistic breakthrough as a solo artist. AllMusic wrote that it established him as "one of rock's most ambitious, innovative musicians".
Rolling Stone. [4] Plays Live is the first live and fifth album overall by English rock musician Peter Gabriel. It was originally issued as a double album and long-play cassette in 1983, with sixteen songs. It was re-released in 1985, as a single CD called Plays Live (Highlights) with only twelve songs, some of which are edited so the album ...