jessicafischerqueen: <Travissimo>
Thanks for the Hermit's Crabs and also for Moribund the Burgermeister, from one of my favorite records- Peter Gabriel's first solo recording!!
<Moribund> is the most "Genesis-sounding" track on this outing, and of course the big hit from this record was "Solsbury Hill," which is an account of his feelings about Genesis and leaving them.
Here is a very fine live version of <Solsbury Hill> by Pete and his all-star "world beat" musicians:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah3v...
Startlingly, as you can see from the video, at this point in his career Pete decided, for some reason, to start looking EXACTLY like <Mel Gibson>.
The record these two songs is from is named <Peter Gabriel>.
So are his second and third records.
heh
He wanted to name his fourth record <Peter Gabriel> as well, but his record company point blank refused to release it unless he gave it an actual title.
Pete refused, but he was in money trouble yet again and his lawyers informed him he had no choice.
So Pete says OK but they have to give something up too...
So the record is officially named <Security>, but when it was shipped, the title was only included as a sticker on the shrink wrap of the album.
The title does not actually appear anywhere on the album itself once you take off the wrapping.
heh
Happily, this last of the "Genesis-style" Gabriel records outsold all three of his previous solo efforts combined, and started his big comeback and a change in direction to power pop songs that catapulted him to the very top of the music biz in the 1980s, and made him a rich man for the first time in his life.
After <Sledgehammer>, the top three live acts in the World in terms of how much money you had to pay them to play were, in order, <Bruce Springsteen, U2, Peter Gabriel, and Paul Simon>- my source for that statistic is a biography of Bruce Springsteen that I read.
Mrs. Genesis Historian
