Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel 1: Car

Peter Gabriel — Peter Gabriel 1 (Car)

His self-titled debut album

180-gram vinyl w/ album download included

Jacket artwork w/ Hipgnosis-designed cover and inner bag mirroring the original

Peter Gabriel's self-titled debut album, affectionately known as Car, due to the iconic Hipgnosis-designed cover. This is a 1LP black vinyl release with jacket artwork and inner bag as per the original LP release. Having left Genesis in the summer of 1976, Peter's first solo album arrived in February 1977. He was 26.

With legendary producer Bob Ezrin taking charge, the intention was to make a more direct and tougher record: something different from what had gone before. The record also provided one of Peter's most recognisable songs in the shape of Solsbury Hill.

"I really wanted the first record to be different from what I'd done with Genesis so we were trying to do things in different styles," Gabriel says. "A bit of barbershop, which Tony Levin helped with, there were more bluesy things, a variety of songs and arrangements that were consciously trying to provide something different than what I'd done before. It took me three albums to get the confidence and to find out what I could do that made me different from other people. And the first record really was a process of trying ..."

Side A

1. Moribund the Burgermeister

2. Solsbury Hill

3. Modern Love

4. Excuse Me

5. Humdrum

Side B

1. Slowburn

2. Waiting for the Big One

3. Down the Dolce Vita

4. Here Comes the Flood

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