Peter Gabriel – Peter Gabriel (VG+/VG) – LP, Australasia 1982

Peter Gabriel is an LP by Peter Gabriel from 1982 released on the Charisma label.

About this album

Peter Gabriel’s third solo album is the breakthrough that sharpened his post-Genesis identity into a vivid, adventurous art-rock voice. Issued in 1982, it balances muscular rhythm, uneasy atmosphere and memorable melody, with “Shock the Monkey” becoming his first major solo hit and a defining track of the early MTV era. The album also reaches wider emotional and political terrain on songs such as “The Rhythm of the Heat” and “Wallflower”, showing Gabriel’s gift for combining experimental arrangements with direct impact. It helped establish him as one of the most distinctive and ambitious figures in British rock.

Genre: Pop & Rock

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