The final track released from i/o was 'Live and Let Live', 'This song was a late developer, the last to be written. The verses went through three incarnations before I settled on something that I felt really worked. I was asked if I’d ever written something on forgiveness and

The eleventh track released from i/o was 'And Still', ‘I wrote a song for my dad a number of years back, which I was actually able to play him, which was ‘Father, Son’. When my mum died, I wanted to do something for her, but it's taken a while before I felt comfortable and

“When we came to go through all the songs, I left to one side some of the obvious hits, and went more for the songs that were telling a story, or working with textures or mood that seemed to have the raw material that could translate well to orchestra and provide an interesting

Robert Lepage is a multi-disciplinary artist; an actor, a director, a playwright and a stage director. Back in 1992 Peter brought Robert in to work on the stage show for the ‘Secret World Live’ tour. In 2002 they worked together again on the ‘Growing Up Live’ tour, and more

Peter performing ‘Steam’ on Saturday Night Live, on April 10, 1993, having played two nights at The Academy in NYC just days before.

In 2022, ‘Live Blood’ was released as a part of Record Store Day as a limited edition 3LP on red vinyl. Never previously released on vinyl the concert was recorded at the Hammersmith Apollo, London, 23 & 24 March 2011.

“I was determined that it shouldn’t be just a sort of ‘Hits

In celebration of Record Store Day, we are taking a look back at Peter's releases for RSD. In 2010, in support of the Scratch My Back album, there were two double A-sided 7inch singles. Real World released Peter’s version of ‘Book Of Love’ alongside Stephin Merritt of The

The tenth track released from i/o was 'This Is Home', ‘It began with inspiration from some of the great Tamla Motown rhythm sections so we’re trying to recreate that in a modern way, complete with the tambourine and handclaps. The groove I like a lot.’ - pg

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Following yesterday’s posting of the Father Son video shoot we were reminded of some little seen photos of Peter taken by York Tillyer that same day in April, 2004. Here’s one…

'Father Son’ was originally released in 2000 on the OVO record, though it had been written before the Millennium Dome project came about.”Because it was about the relationship of different generations” says Peter 'it seemed like it would fit well.'

The promo video was filmed

The ninth track released from i/o was 'Love Can Heal', 'A dreamy, experiential piece with some abstract imagery. A carpet of sound, a tapestry where things are woven together, but not necessarily supposed to stick out, but just form part of a whole. I think the song fits right

“When I first met up with Phillip, one of the ideas I proposed to him was that we build up a lot of the soundtrack from natural sounds that he could have recorded as he was shooting the film. I pictured them making this amazing journey along the rabbit proof fence without a whole

The eighth track released from i/o was 'Olive Tree', ‘I wanted it to have some speed to it but I also wanted some mystery, too. I think it is a celebration in a way and there's a real sense of being alive.’ - pg

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The seventh track released from i/o was 'So Much', “I wanted to get a very simple chorus, but one which still had some substance to the harmony and melody – something that was easy to digest but still had some grit and character to it.
I think when you get to my sort of age, you

In mid-December 2022, Peter and Nadav Kander met for a new photo session to support the release of i/o. It was their first session together since 2006.

Go behind the scenes of a memorable day >> petergabriel.com/focus/meeting-…

'The sixth track released from i/o was 'Road To Joy', ‘It was actually very late in the record that we got to this. There had been a song that musically I'd started, I think, around the OVO project called Pukka. It was very different to this, but it was actually the starting

These images by Daniel Mason give a sneak peak into the production of the i/o Box Set.

Head over to the website to read more from Daniel about the printing process. petergabriel.com/focus/making-o…

The fourth track released from i/o was the title track, “We are like packets of atoms. We think we are independent and isolated - little floating islands, controlling and steering everything that we do. But if you look under the surface you find we are all connected in multiple