![]() ![]() At only 35, an age only considered old by professional athlete perspectives, he was often thrown into the same bucket as Sting and his former bandmate, Phil Collins, both equal in terms of success, but each seeming a bit more out of touch. When Peter Gabriel released So in 1986, he was already being considered one of the “elder statesmen” of rock. Even more important, the album still holds up after nearly 40 years. Having started in that prog world and flamboyantly dressing at times like flowers, foxes, or the embodiment of Brittania itself, So found the then 35-year-old starkly serious, emotionally mature, and artistically complex, free of artifice and obfuscation. ![]() He had left the Hipgnosis cover art behind for a classic look from Peter Saville, and had long moved on from the prog-rock leanings of his youth as the frontman of Genesis. “ Melt“), it was his fifth album, the somewhat sarcastically titled So that became his biggest seller, having him finally hit the proverbial “Big Time,” going five times platinum an amazing 20 years into his storied career.Įverything was different. Having used that name as the eponymous titles for four consecutive albums, all with nicknames that best describe the theme of the cover art (e.g. One might think this combination of two saints a bombastic stage name, but Peter Gabriel was born with it, his holy birthright. Put the two names together and one is given access to a divine musical realm, an entry into a harmonic convergence of synthetic technological breakthroughs along with analog rhythms from around the world. ![]() Separate, one the sainted keeper of the pearly gates of Heaven, the so-called “rock” upon which Jesus’ church was built, and the other the trumpeting archangel of the Annunciation, horn always at the ready.
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