Peter Gabriel has withdrawn his permission for one of his songs to be used as “bumper” music by Rush Limbaugh.
As I remember, Gabriel was a 1-2 hit wonder and has disappeared from the music scene other than small venue stages. He won’t be missed.
This was a great example of when MTV had good artistic music videos, from Madonna (Like a Virgin and Express Yourself), Beat It (Michael Jackson) and the all time great “Thriller”, to Weird Al Yankovich’s “Eat It” and “Like a Surgeon”, the Cars “You Might Think”, and “Take Me Home” by A Ha (from about 1981 - 1992.
After that, rap music destroyed musical videos for a decade until Country/Western took over with “Tobey Keith” (What do you think about me now), “Tobey Keith and Willie Nelson” (Beer for My Horses), Brooks and Dunn (”Red Brick Road”, “Boot Scootin’ Boogy”), Keith Urban (A Girl Like You), and Brad Paisley, “The Fishing Song” and “”Celebrity” with William Shatner, Martina McBride “Concrete Angel”, Sara Evans “Suds in the Bucket”, and just about anything with Shania Twain.
Also can’t forget Kenney Chesney and Alan Jackson’s vacation songs, including “It’s 5 O’clock somewhere”, and other Jimmy Buffet-type videos.
Those were the good old days for kids raised in the 80’s. For us old-timers, it was film clips from “American Bandstand”, the Alan Freed movies (those with “Rock” in their titles”), “Beach Blanket Bingo” (we all loved Annette), and ELVIS, the KING movies.
Gabriel has had a 30 year career. Before going solo he was the lead singer for “Genesis”. All you need is a couple of hit records and you are financially set for life.
You are also forgetting Gabriel is inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame along with Genesis in 2010
Peter Gabriel was lead singer for Genesis.
Wow, do you remember WRONG!
Peter Gabriel was a founding member of Genesis, and while the band achieved its greatest financial success after he left, his influence on their music made them the #1 progressive rock band in the world for many years. Once he went solo, he continued on and his music has evolved quite a bit incorporating many different genres of music while still creating very popular pop music.
The simple fact that there's huge competition among musicians the world over to play with him, and how his concerts still sell out stadiums (including 100,000+ soccer stadiums) all over the world make it clear that he's no "One Hit Wonder." BTW, "The Secret World, Live" concert DVDs is still one of the best live performance concert DVDs ever released.
Mark