Peter Gabriel is the first studio album produced by Bob Ezrin, This album is often referred to as Peter Gabriel 1, Car, or Rain, referring to the album cover by Peter Christopherson, The car was a Lancia Flavia. 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. Nick Kent, writing in the NME in 1978, described the album as "a fine record with at least one 24-carat irresistible classic in Solsbury Hill and a strong supporting cast of material that, all in all, in a year besmeared with great albums was, in retrospect, sorely underrated." The album went to #7 in UK and #38 in the USA. Peter Gabriel is the first studio album produced by Bob Ezrin, This album is often referred to as Peter Gabriel 1, Car, or Rain, referring to the album cover by Peter Christopherson, The car was a Lancia Flavia. 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. Nick Kent, writing in the NME in 1978, described the album as "a fine record with at least one 24-carat irresistible classic in Solsbury Hill and a strong supporting cast of material that, all in all, in a year besmeared with great albums was, in retrospect, sorely underrated." The album went to #7 in UK and #38 in the USA. false 2023-01-15 10:11:05 Peter Gabriel 9.1 2003 2003-04-29 2003-04-29 42 Art Rock Experimental Rock Pop Pop Rock Progressive Rock Rock 114242 2129694 92043a7d-1a7b-48ec-b0aa-a867c9b64119 8e66ea2b-b57b-47d9-8df0-df4630aeb8e5 4e6f2a81-ec6d-378c-a824-0cd0538bbb21 /media/data/media5/Music/Peter Gabriel/1977 Peter Gabriel 1 - Car [2010 Remastered]/folder.jpg Peter Gabriel AlbumArtist /config/metadata/People/P/Peter Gabriel/folder.jpg Peter Gabriel Artist /config/metadata/People/P/Peter Gabriel/folder.jpg Peter Gabriel Peter Gabriel 1 Moribund the Burgermeister 04:20 2 Solsbury Hill 04:21 3 Modern Love 03:38 4 Excuse Me 03:20 5 Humdrum 03:25 6 Slowburn 04:36 7 Waiting for the Big One 07:15 8 Down the Dolce Vita 05:05 9 Here Comes the Flood 05:37 Peter Brian Gabriel (born 13 February 1950) is an English singer, songwriter and human rights activist. He was the original lead singer of the progressive rock band Genesis. After leaving the band in 1975, he launched a solo career with "Solsbury Hill" as his first single. His fifth studio album, So (1986), is his best-selling release and is certified triple platinum in the UK and five times platinum in the US. The album's most successful single, "Sledgehammer", won a record nine MTV Awards at the 1987 MTV Video Music Awards and, according to a report in 2011, it was MTV's most played music video of all time. Gabriel has been a champion of world music for much of his career. He co-founded the WOMAD festival in 1982. He has continued to focus on producing and promoting world music through his Real World Records label. He has pioneered digital distribution methods for music, co-founding OD2, one of the first online music download services. Gabriel has also been involved in numerous humanitarian efforts. In 1980, he released the anti-apartheid single "Biko". He has participated in several human-rights benefit concerts, including Amnesty International's Human Rights Now! tour in 1988, and co-founded the Witness human rights organisation in 1992. Gabriel developed The Elders with Richard Branson, which was launched by Nelson Mandela in 2007. Gabriel has won 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, the Q magazine Lifetime Achievement, the Ivor Novello Award for Lifetime Achievement, and the Polar Music Prize. He was made a BMI Icon at the 57th annual BMI London Awards for his "influence on generations of music makers". In recognition of his many years of human rights activism, he received the Man of Peace award from the Nobel Peace Prize laureates in 2006, and Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2008. AllMusic described Gabriel as "one of rock's most ambitious, innovative musicians, as well as one of its most political". He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Genesis in 2010, and as a solo artist in 2014. In March 2015, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of South Australia in recognition of his achievements in music.