What is your review of Peter Gabriel?

I hope someone will chime in here and answer, because I don't know, and I've obviously never met Gabriel. But my intuition is that he's a kind fellow, and perhaps a family man. He left Genesis to attend to family responsibilities, and snuck one of his daughters into a video ("Sledgehammer"). read more

Peter Gabriel is a brilliant musician. I think it's hard to dispute that he's been resting on his laurels for the past couple of decades, however. His political activism seems genuine and I appreciate his promotion of world music through Real World Records and other efforts. Early Genesis is great stuff, if you have a taste for prog. rock. read more

Peter Gabriel's performance at the O2 underlines the strength of the songs on So. Photograph: Brian Rasic/Rex Features "W e hope to start the evening making people thoroughly miserable and continue in that vein," offers Peter Gabriel as his grand, retrospective Back To Front show opens – rather Peter Gabriel-ishly with a lone Armenian musician, in traditional dress, performing a lengthy and mournful air on a duduk. read more

Peter Gabriel So (reissue) Wyndham Wallace , October 30th, 2012 12: 18 We knew roughly who Peter Gabriel was in 1986, of course. The wannabe drummer who'd co-founded Genesis, only to leave eight years later in 1975 and inflict Phil Collins upon the world as a frontman, had a reputation for eccentricity, dressing up during the prog-rock act's shows as, for instance, Britannia or a giant flower. read more