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Peter Gabriel: Back to Front - Live in London

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Label: Real World Records
Released: 2014.06.20
Time:
 61:23 / 69:34
Category: Progressive Rock
Producer(s): Peter Gabriel
Rating:
Media type: CD double
Web address: www.petergabriel.com
Appears with: Genesis, Tony Banks, Steve Hackett, Mike Rutherford, Phil Collins, Tony Levin, David Rhodes
Purchase date: 2014
Price in €: 1,00





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CD 1

      Acoustic Section (with house lights on for this section only)
[1] Daddy Long Legs
[2] Come Talk to Me
[3] Shock the Monkey
[4] Family Snapshot
      Electric Section (full on electric stage production)
[5] Digging in the Dirt
[6] Secret World
[7] The Family and the Fishing Net
[8] No Self Control
[9] Solsbury Hill
[10] Show Yourself


CD 2

      "So" Album
[1] Red Rain
[2] Sledgehammer
[3] Don't Give Up
[4] That Voice Again
[5] Mercy Street
[6] Big Time
[7] We Do What We're Told (Milgram's 37)
[8] This Is the Picture (Excellent Birds)
      Encores
[9] In Your Eyes
[10] The Tower That Ate People
[11] Biko

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Peter Gabriel / Vocals
David Rhodes / Guitar
Tony Levin / Bass
David Sancious / keyboards
Manu Katche / drums

Jennie Abrahamson - Backing Vocals
Linnea Olsson - Backing Vocals

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This spectacular live concert, filmed at Londons O2 using the latest Ultra High Definition 4K technology, captures Peter Gabriels celebration of the 25th anniversary of his landmark album So. This Deluxe 72 page hardback edition with embossed front cover and bonus CD of the concert. To mark the event Gabriel reunited his original So touring band from 1986/87 and for the very first time fans saw them play the multi-platinum selling album in its entirety. Whilst the core of the performance is the So album, there is so much more to the concert with unfinished, previously unreleased and re-imagined songs sitting effortlessly alongside classic hits reflecting what a multi-dimensional artist Peter Gabriel is. With innovative lighting and staging, Back To Front offers a visual and narrative feast that puts the viewer inside a concert like never before. The Blu-ray Deluxe Edition is a 60 page hardback photo book which includes: 1) Bonus Blu-ray containing the theatrical version of Back To Front which includes montage versions of Solsbury Hill and Sledgehammer featuring footage from live shows across the years plus additional interviews. 2) Double CD of the complete Back To Front show.

Amazon.com




Peter Gabriel has, for most of his career, been an artist who has never looked back. Still, the past few years have seen him reevaluating his large repertoire, between orchestral interpretations documented on New Blood: Live in London (Real World/Eagle Entertainment, 2012) and the Back to Front tour that has, since that time, celebrated the 25th anniversary of the release of So (Charisma, 1986)—the album that turned him from cult hero to (now) pop culture elder statesman. So turned out to be the best-selling record of the singer/songwriter's career, going three times platinum in the UK, five times platinum in the US, with hit songs like "Sledgehammer," whose groundbreaking video with Ardman Animations won the ex-Genesis front man MTV's 1987 Top Music Video Award and Best British Video at the 1987 Brit Awards.

Back to Front: Live in London documents Gabriel's globe-trotting tour that reunited the group that was documented in both the So: 25th Anniversary Immersion Box (Real World, 2012) and, later, Live in Athens 1987: The Full Concert (Real World/Eagle Eye Media, 2013): longstanding guitarist David Rhodes and bassist Tony Levin; drummer Manu Katche, who last toured with Gabriel for the tour in support of So's follow-up, Us (Real World, 1992), and the recently reissued as Secret World Live (Real World/Eagle Entertainment, 2012); and keyboardist/guitarist David Sancious. For the Back to Front tour, Gabriel fleshed out the band with two of the best singers that have graced his stage: Jennie Abrahamson and Linnea Olson, who also adds cello to one of two new songs, "Show Yourself."

Back to Front: Live in London comes in four versions: single-disc DVD and Blu-Ray releases; and Deluxe Limited DVD and Blu-Ray editions which include, in addition to the full concert of the single-disc versions (and a bonus interview feature on the tour's stunning visuals), a second video disc of the same format with the theatrical release (as well as two bonus videos: a "DNA Mashup" of "In Your Eyes" and "FanCam recording of "This is the Picture (Excellent Birds)," omitted from the theatrical program), plus two CDs containing the full concert.

While the full concert is the one to watch again and again, it's worthwhile watching the theatrical version, which includes some interview footage with everyone in the band. The decision to cut the theatrical version down, not just chopping five tunes from the complete set list, but most importantly three songs from the second set (a performance of So from start to finish, plus two encores), is certainly questionable, especially since "That Voice Again" and "Big Time" have rarely been performed live before—certainly never found on any previously released live album or video—leaving the darkly curious "We Do What We're Told (Miligram's 37)" as the only song from So that exists in the theatrical version as a song from the album that's never been heard (or, at least, previously documented) before in concert. "Red Rain," "Sledgehammer," "Mercy Street," "Don't Give Up" and, in particular, an extended version of "In Your Eyes" that, here, features guest African vocalist Daby Toure, are all songs that have been in regular rotation on tours subsequent to 1987, straight through to his most recent Growing Up tour in support of Up (Real World, 2002).

While some of the interview footage is a tad self-congratulatory, it is heartfelt and reveals the wonderful camaraderie that still clearly exists amongst what many believe to be the best touring band Gabriel ever had 25 years after the fact. The performance footage reveals that a quarter century may have passed, with everyone looking a little older (with the exception of the ever-bald-headed and mustachioed Levin, who just never appears to age), but the intrinsic chemistry remains. Gabriel, perhaps, shows more signs of aging than most: now a gray haired, largely bald-headed man of 64 who, in an interview around the time of the Growing Up tour, talked about the challenges of doing stage shows as he used to with, as he self-effacingly referred to, his "expanding girth." True, he may be a bigger man than the scrawny youth who wore makeup, flower heads and other accoutrement with Genesis back in the early-to-mid-'70s, but as he moves around the stage on a killer version of "No Self Control," from Peter Gabriel 3 (Charisma, 1983, commonly known as Melt), which reprises the arrangement as well as updated versions of the boom-driven lights that attacked him at the song's climax of the 1987 tour, it's clear that he's still as graceful as ever.

JOHN KELMAN - July 20, 2014
AllAboutJazz.com



Dieses spektakuläre Konzert zeigt Peter Gabriel bei den Feierlichkeiten zum 25jährigen Jubiläum seinen Meilensteinalbums „So”.

Um das Ereignis angemessen zu zelebrieren holte Gabriel die originale „So”-Tourband aus dem Jahr  1986/87 wieder zusammen und spielte das mit Multi-Platin ausgezeichnete Werk zum ersten Mal in voller Länge. Der Schwerpunkt der Show lag auf den Songs von „So”, hinzu kamen eine Reihe unvollendeter, bislang unveröffentlichter und neu arrangierter Stücke im Stile der klassischen Hits wie „Sledgehammer”, „Solsbury Hill”, „Don’t Give Up”, „Shock The Monkey”, „Big Time”, „Digging In The Dirt”, „Mercy Street”, „No Self Control”, „In Your Eyes” oder „Biko”, die unterstreichen, welch vielschichtiger Künstler Peter Gabriel ist. Mit der innovativen Lichtshow und der atemberaubenden Bühnenperformance  wird „Back To Front” zu einem visuellen und musikalischen Spektakel, das den Zuschauer in ein in dieser Form noch nie zuvor erlebtes Konzert eintauchen lässt. Das Bonusmaterial gewährt sehenswerte Einblicke in die Entstehung der Show.

Die Deluxe Edition von „Back To Front - Live In London“ kommt im großformatigen Mediabook (ca. 30 x 30 cm) und enthält neben der Konzert-DVD eine Bonus-DVD, auf der die Kono-Version von ""Back To Front"" enthalten ist. Dazu Interviews und weiteres Bonusmaterial. Die beiden Bonus-CDs enthalten das komplette Konzert als Audio-Version. Außerdem gibt es ein 60-seitiges Booklet.

Amazon.de



Dieses spektakuläre Konzert zeigt Peter Gabriel bei den Feierlichkeiten zum 25jährigen Jubiläum seinen Meilensteinalbums „So”.

Um das Ereignis angemessen zu zelebrieren holte Gabriel die originale „So”-Tourband aus dem Jahr  1986/87 wieder zusammen und spielte das mit Multi-Platin ausgezeichnete Werk zum ersten Mal in voller Länge. Der Schwerpunkt der Show lag auf den Songs von „So”, hinzu kamen eine Reihe unvollendeter, bislang unveröffentlichter und neu arrangierter Stücke im Stile der klassischen Hits wie „Sledgehammer”, „Solsbury Hill”, „Don’t Give Up”, „Shock The Monkey”, „Big Time”, „Digging In The Dirt”, „Mercy Street”, „No Self Control”, „In Your Eyes” oder „Biko”, die unterstreichen, welch vielschichtiger Künstler Peter Gabriel ist. Mit der innovativen Lichtshow und der atemberaubenden Bühnenperformance  wird „Back To Front” zu einem visuellen und musikalischen Spektakel, das den Zuschauer in ein in dieser Form noch nie zuvor erlebtes Konzert eintauchen lässt. Das Bonusmaterial gewährt sehenswerte Einblicke in die Entstehung der Show.

„Back To Front - Live In London“ wird parallel auch als DVD (EREDV1024) sowie als Blu-Ray-Deluxe- (ERBCD5227) beziehungsweise DVD-Deluxe-Package (EREDV1039) inklusive erweitertem Bonusmaterial, einem 60seitigen Hardback-Fotobuch und beigefügter Doppel-CD veröffentlicht.

Aus der HEIMKINO Redaktion



Dieses spektakuläre Konzert wurde im Londoner O2 mit der neuesten Ultra-High Definition-4K-Technologie aufgezeichnet und zeigt Peter Gabriel bei den Feierlichkeiten zum 25-jährigen Jubiläum seinen Meilensteinalbums „So”.

Um das Ereignis angemessen zu zelebrieren holte Gabriel die originale „So“-Tourband aus dem Jahr 1986/87 wieder zusammen und spielte das mit Multi-Platin ausgezeichnete Werk zum ersten Mal in voller Länge. Der Schwerpunkt der Show lag auf den Songs von „So”, hinzu kamen eine Reihe unvollendeter, bislang unveröffentlichter und neu arrangierter Stücke im Stile der klassischen Hits wie „Sledgehammer“, „Solsbury Hill“, „Don’t Give Up“, „Shock The Monkey“, „Big Time“, „Digging In The Dirt“, „Mercy Street“, „No Self Control“, „In Your Eyes“ oder „Biko“, die unterstreichen, welch vielschichtiger Künstler Peter Gabriel ist.

Mit der innovativen Lichtshow und der atemberaubenden Bühnenperformance wird „Back To Front” zu einem visuellen und musikalischen Spektakel, das den Zuschauer in ein in dieser Form noch nie zuvor erlebtes Konzert eintauchen lässt. Das Bonusmaterial gewährt sehenswerte Einblicke in die Entstehung der Show.

JPC.de



„Respekt: Gabriel macht seinem Ruf als Multi-Media-Pionier - und großartiger Musiker - einmal mehr alle Ehre.“

Audio, Juli 2014



„Auch dieses in Ultra-HD aufgezeichnete Konzert im Londoner O2 ist - wie alle Live-Shows von Gabriel - optisch wie musikalisch ein Hochgenuss.“

Stereo, August 2014
 

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