Peter Gabriel | Academy of Achievement

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After leaving Genesis in 1975, Gabriel launched a successful solo career with the hit single "Solsbury Hill." His 1986 album, So, sold over 6.8 million copies worldwide. His video "Sledgehammer" remains the most played music video in the history of MTV. Since 1980, when he released the anti-apartheid single "Biko," Gabriel has championed a series of humanitarian projects. He has participated in numerous benefit concerts for different causes, including Amnesty International's "Human Rights Now!" tour, which traveled the world in 1988. In 1980 he founded WOMAD (World of Music, Arts and Dance — to present the world to the world ) which has organized 170 festivals in over 30 countries. He conceived of the human rights organization Witness.org in 1992 to introduce citizen video and technology into human rights campaigning. He also founded The Elders.org with Nelson Mandela and Richard Branson in 2001 to bring together a respected group of world leaders, whose influence could stem not from political, economic or military power, but from experience, integrity and wisdom. His other work interests have been in innovative technology, especially in digital media, audio, music, visual language and more recently health care. To date, Gabriel has won six Grammy Awards and 13 MTV Video Music Awards. He has been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame twice, once as a member of Genesis, and again as a solo artist. 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After leaving Genesis in 1975, Gabriel launched a successful solo career with the hit single "Solsbury Hill." His 1986 album, <em>So, </em>sold over 6.8 million copies worldwide. His video "Sledgehammer" remains the most played music video in the history of MTV. Since 1980, when he released the anti-apartheid single "Biko," Gabriel has championed a series of humanitarian projects. He has participated in numerous benefit concerts for different causes, including Amnesty International's "Human Rights Now!" tour, which traveled the world in 1988. In 1980 he founded WOMAD (World of Music, Arts and Dance — to present the world to the world ) which has organized 170 festivals in over 30 countries. He conceived of the human rights organization <a href="http://witness.org/">Witness.org</a> in 1992 to introduce citizen video and technology into human rights campaigning. He also founded <a href="https://www.theelders.org/">The Elders.org</a> with Nelson Mandela and Richard Branson in 2001 to bring together a respected group of world leaders, whose influence could stem not from political, economic or military power, but from experience, integrity and wisdom. His other work interests have been in innovative technology, especially in digital media, audio, music, visual language and more recently health care. To date, Gabriel has won six Grammy Awards and 13 MTV Video Music Awards. He has been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame twice, once as a member of Genesis, and again as a solo artist. In recognition of his many years of human rights activism, he received the Man of Peace award from the Nobel Peace Prize laureates, and <em>TIME </em>magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world."/> <meta property="og:url" content="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/peter-gabriel/"/> <meta property="og:site_name" content="Academy of Achievement"/> <meta property="article:modified_time" content="2019-11-05T17:21:12+00:00"/> <meta property="og:image" content="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235217im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/gabriel-Feature-Image-3-Recovered.jpg"/> <meta property="og:image:width" content="2800"/> <meta property="og:image:height" content="1120"/> <meta name="twitter:card" content="summary"/> <meta name="twitter:creator" content="@achievers1961"/> <meta name="twitter:site" content="@achievers1961"/> <script type="application/ld+json" class="yoast-schema-graph">{"@context":"https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235217/https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/#organization","name":"Academy of Achievement","url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/","sameAs":["https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235217/https://www.linkedin.com/company/american-academy-of-achievement","https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235217/https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChe_87uh1H-NIMf3ndTjPFw","https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235217/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_of_Achievement","https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235217/https://twitter.com/achievers1961"],"logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/#logo","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/12.png","width":1200,"height":630,"caption":"Academy of Achievement"},"image":{"@id":"https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/#logo"}},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/#website","url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/","name":"Academy of Achievement","description":"A museum of living history","publisher":{"@id":"https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":"https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/search/{search_term_string}","query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/peter-gabriel/#primaryimage","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/gabriel-Feature-Image-3-Recovered.jpg","width":2800,"height":1120,"caption":"December 3, 2014: Peter Gabriel performs live on stage at Wembley Arena during his Back to Front tour, in London, UK. 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quote-marks">It was a life-changing experience...we hadn’t met many people that had been tortured or lost loved ones. And suddenly, there they were, talking to us. It’s very hard then to walk away. I was shocked people could go through some of the experiences and have their horrors denied, buried, and forgotten.</h3> </header> </div> <div class="row"> <aside class="col-md-4 sidebar clearfix"> <h2 class="serif-3 p-b-1">Rock & Roll Hall of Fame</h2> <div class="col-xs-12 sidebar--chunk p-b-2"> <dt class="serif-7">Date of Birth</dt> <dd class="sans-2"> February 13, 1950 </dd> </div> </aside> <article class="editorial-article col-md-8"> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><body data-rsssl="1"><p>Peter Gabriel was born in Woking, Surrey, and raised on his family’s 150-acre dairy farm.  His father, Ralph Gabriel, was an electrical engineer and inventor who commuted to London while employees tended the farm.  Peter’s mother, Irene, played the piano and came from a highly musical family.  Peter was given piano lessons at an early age, but by age nine, he had rebelled against formal musical training.  He rediscovered music as a boy of 11 when he became fascinated by the drummer in a small combo playing at a resort in Spain where the family had gone on holiday.  He began writing songs and finding his own path in music, teaching himself drums, piano, and the flute.</p> <figure id="attachment_61631" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-61631" style="width: 3864px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-61631 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235217im_/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1972-Genesis-Portrait-GettyImages-93328021.jpg"></noscript><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-61631 lazyload" alt="" width="3864" height="2753" data-sizes="(max-width: 3864px) 100vw, 3864px" data-srcset="/web/20200917235217im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1972-Genesis-Portrait-GettyImages-93328021.jpg 3864w, /web/20200917235217im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1972-Genesis-Portrait-GettyImages-93328021-380x271.jpg 380w, /web/20200917235217im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1972-Genesis-Portrait-GettyImages-93328021-760x541.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235217/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1972-Genesis-Portrait-GettyImages-93328021.jpg"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-61631" class="wp-caption-text">1972: The progressive rock group Genesis: (left to right) Drummer Phil Collins, bassist Mike Rutherford, keyboard player Tony Banks, lead singer Peter Gabriel, and guitarist Steve Hackett. (Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)</figcaption></figure> <p>At age 13, he was sent to Charterhouse, one of England’s historic private boarding schools.  Although shy, he sought out friends to play music with, and after drumming for a few bands in school, he moved from behind the drums to the front of the stage as the singer.  Gabriel and his friends were inspired by American soul music, and he fondly remembers going to see the soul singer Otis Redding at a club in London.  In his last year at Charterhouse, Gabriel formed a relatively stable group with schoolmates Tony Banks, Anthony Phillips, and Mike Rutherford, and they began writing original songs together.  Gabriel’s band, called Garden Wall, played school dances and private parties in the neighborhood. At one school dance, Gabriel met Jill Moore, a student at a local girls’ school and the daughter of Lord Moore of Wolvercote.  They began dating, although Gabriel’s focus on music now dominated his life.</p> <figure id="attachment_61633" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-61633" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-61633 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235217im_/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1974-GettyImages-84892713.jpg"></noscript><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-61633 lazyload" alt="" width="2280" height="1500" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20200917235217im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1974-GettyImages-84892713.jpg 2280w, /web/20200917235217im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1974-GettyImages-84892713-380x250.jpg 380w, /web/20200917235217im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1974-GettyImages-84892713-760x500.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235217/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1974-GettyImages-84892713.jpg"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-61633" class="wp-caption-text">1974: Genesis lead singer Peter Gabriel and guitarist Steve Hackett performing at Colston Hall. (Fin Costello/Getty)</figcaption></figure> <p>A Charterhouse graduate named Jonathan King had scored a hit single with “Everyone’s Gone to the Moon” in 1965.  When King returned to the school for a visit, Gabriel’s friends gave him a tape the boys had made over their vacation.  King was impressed with the songs, and the singer, and secured them a one-year contract with Decca Records.  He also selected the group’s new name, Genesis.  He produced their first single, “Silent Sun,” released in February 1968, but the record made little impact at the time.  Later that year, King produced their first album, <em>From Genesis to Revelation</em>.  The band’s music had evolved away from the soul-inspired numbers they had originally played to more elaborate and ambitious compositions, reflecting Gabriel’s interest in folklore and mythology.  A pastoral fantasy scored with acoustic 12-string guitars, vocal harmonies, and a string section, their first album failed to make an impression on the rock-buying public.  Jonathan King lost interest in the group and Decca did not renew their contract.</p> <figure id="attachment_61634" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-61634" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-61634 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235217im_/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1977-GettyImages-720831907.jpg"></noscript><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-61634 lazyload" alt="" width="2280" height="3418" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20200917235217im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1977-GettyImages-720831907.jpg 2280w, /web/20200917235217im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1977-GettyImages-720831907-253x380.jpg 253w, /web/20200917235217im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1977-GettyImages-720831907-507x760.jpg 507w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235217/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1977-GettyImages-720831907.jpg"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-61634" class="wp-caption-text">March 1977: Peter Gabriel performing in New York, a year after leaving Genesis. “Solsbury Hill,” his debut single as a solo artist, was an instant hit, reaching the Top 20 in the UK Singles Chart. (Photo by Michael Putland and Getty)</figcaption></figure> <p>After graduating from Charterhouse, Gabriel and his mates began looking for a new record label and new management. With contributions from their families, they acquired professional equipment and began playing bars and youth clubs up and down England. Most audiences failed to respond to the dreamy acoustic music of their first record, and they began to develop a more aggressive, rock-oriented sound. Music business entrepreneur Tony Stratton-Smith signed the group to his new label, Charisma Records, for the lordly sum of £15 a week. In 1970, Genesis recorded <em>Trespass</em>, their first album for Charisma, featuring a mixture of acoustic and electric material. Not long after recording the album, original guitarist Anthony Phillips left the band.  Guitarist Steve Hackett joined the group, and the group’s drummer was replaced by 19-year-old Phil Collins.</p> <figure id="attachment_61635" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-61635" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-61635 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235217im_/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1982-SHOCK-THE-MONKEY-GettyImages-1135080346.jpg"></noscript><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-61635 lazyload" alt="" width="2280" height="3397" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20200917235217im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1982-SHOCK-THE-MONKEY-GettyImages-1135080346.jpg 2280w, /web/20200917235217im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1982-SHOCK-THE-MONKEY-GettyImages-1135080346-255x380.jpg 255w, /web/20200917235217im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1982-SHOCK-THE-MONKEY-GettyImages-1135080346-510x760.jpg 510w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235217/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1982-SHOCK-THE-MONKEY-GettyImages-1135080346.jpg"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-61635" class="wp-caption-text">1982: Peter Gabriel wearing monkey make-up for the song “Shock the Monkey,” in Rome, Italy. (Luciano Viti/Getty)</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1971, Peter Gabriel and Jill Moore married, with the blessings of their families. Although the sales of Genesis records were disappointing, the group’s live performances attracted better reviews, and they prepared to record a third album, <em>Nursery Cryme</em>. Although this album, too, did not sell well in Britain, it was a surprise hit in continental Europe.  As the front man, Gabriel took the responsibility of entertaining the audience with improvised stories and tall tales during the band’s frequent tuning breaks and equipment failures.  He later augmented these tales by appearing in a series of fanciful costumes, and the audience for the band’s live shows attracted increased attention from the music press.</p> <figure id="attachment_61637" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-61637" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="wp-image-61637 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235217im_/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1986-GettyImages-85847673.jpg"></noscript><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-61637 size-full lazyload" alt="" width="2280" height="3375" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20200917235217im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1986-GettyImages-85847673.jpg 2280w, /web/20200917235217im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1986-GettyImages-85847673-257x380.jpg 257w, /web/20200917235217im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1986-GettyImages-85847673-513x760.jpg 513w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235217/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1986-GettyImages-85847673.jpg"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-61637" class="wp-caption-text">On May 19, 1986, Gabriel released his fifth studio album, <em>So</em>. <em>So</em> was a watershed release in his career. Its marriage of the artistic and the commercial made for an indisputable success, with the album quickly sitting atop the album charts on both sides of the Atlantic. Aside from some intriguing collaborations – with Laurie Anderson on “This Is The Picture,” Kate Bush on “Don’t Give Up” and Youssou N’Dour on “In Your Eyes” – it was the unity of singer, band and producer that made <em>So</em> such a crucial record in the Gabriel canon. (Photo by Ebet Roberts/Redferns and Getty)</figcaption></figure> <p>The next Genesis record, <em>Foxtrot</em>, added a supernatural element to the group’s fairy-tale themes.  It was the group’s first album to sell well in Britain, and the band booked their first American shows, including a well-received performance at New York’s Avery Fisher Hall. Besides his singing and storytelling, Gabriel made other contributions to the band’s sound, playing flute solos, shaking the tambourine, and kicking a bass drum alongside his microphone.  Gabriel’s costumes became more extravagant, with face paint, masks, capes, elaborate headgear, and glittering jumpsuits.  Genesis had now become one of the most popular live attractions in Britain.</p> <figure id="attachment_61636" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-61636" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-61636 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235217im_/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1986-Amnesty-Benefit-Concert-GettyImages-85846731.jpg"></noscript><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-61636 lazyload" alt="" width="2280" height="1520" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20200917235217im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1986-Amnesty-Benefit-Concert-GettyImages-85846731.jpg 2280w, /web/20200917235217im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1986-Amnesty-Benefit-Concert-GettyImages-85846731-380x253.jpg 380w, /web/20200917235217im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1986-Amnesty-Benefit-Concert-GettyImages-85846731-760x507.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235217/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1986-Amnesty-Benefit-Concert-GettyImages-85846731.jpg"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-61636" class="wp-caption-text">June 15, 1986: (from left to right) Bono, Sting, Bryan Adams, Peter Gabriel in a press conference at Giants Stadium for the ”Conspiracy of Hope” tour benefiting Amnesty International. (Photo by Ebet Roberts/Redferns and Getty)</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1973, Genesis recorded their most successful album to date, <em>Selling England by the Pound</em>, which included their first hit single, “I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe).” Gabriel’s leadership of Genesis peaked with the creation of an ambitious concept album, <em>The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway</em>, in 1974. The record was released with a booklet containing an original story by Gabriel, which provided a dreamlike narrative informing the songs.  To support the album, the group undertook a highly profitable North American tour, which featured one of Gabriel’s most outrageous costumes to date, the notorious Slipperman outfit.</p> <figure id="attachment_61638" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-61638" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-61638 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235217im_/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1987-RECORDING-STUDIO-GettyImages-50387714.jpg"></noscript><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-61638 lazyload" alt="" width="2280" height="1542" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20200917235217im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1987-RECORDING-STUDIO-GettyImages-50387714.jpg 2280w, /web/20200917235217im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1987-RECORDING-STUDIO-GettyImages-50387714-380x257.jpg 380w, /web/20200917235217im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1987-RECORDING-STUDIO-GettyImages-50387714-760x514.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235217/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1987-RECORDING-STUDIO-GettyImages-50387714.jpg"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-61638" class="wp-caption-text">1987: Peter Gabriel in his recording studio in Ashcombe House at Swainswick in Somerset, England. Gabriel converted the house’s barn into his home studio and recorded three of his albums: <em>Peter Gabriel/Security </em>(1982), the soundtrack to <em>Birdy </em>(1985), and <em>So </em>(1986). (Photo by Peter Jordan/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images)</figcaption></figure> <p>Gabriel’s wife, Jill, had a difficult first pregnancy, and their newborn daughter, Anna, required intensive medical care.  In these circumstances, Gabriel was unwilling to leave his family’s side for rehearsals and recording sessions, exacerbating the existing friction between him and the other band members. In 1975, with the band enjoying its greatest success to date, Gabriel left Genesis.</p> <figure id="attachment_61639" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-61639" style="width: 2099px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-61639 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235217im_/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1993-Grammy-for-Digging-in-the-Dirt-GettyImages-50705327.jpg"></noscript><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-61639 lazyload" alt="" width="2099" height="3117" data-sizes="(max-width: 2099px) 100vw, 2099px" data-srcset="/web/20200917235217im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1993-Grammy-for-Digging-in-the-Dirt-GettyImages-50705327.jpg 2099w, /web/20200917235217im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1993-Grammy-for-Digging-in-the-Dirt-GettyImages-50705327-256x380.jpg 256w, /web/20200917235217im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1993-Grammy-for-Digging-in-the-Dirt-GettyImages-50705327-512x760.jpg 512w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235217/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1993-Grammy-for-Digging-in-the-Dirt-GettyImages-50705327.jpg"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-61639" class="wp-caption-text">1993: Peter Gabriel holding his Grammy Award for “Best Short Form Music Video” for the second single “Steam” from his album <em>Us</em> at the 36th annual Grammy Awards. (Time Life Pictures/DMI/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty)</figcaption></figure> <p>At age 25, he faced the prospect of carrying on his career without the only collaborators he had ever known.  He spent some months in relative seclusion with his wife and child at their home in Bath. After a year of preparation — and the birth of his second daughter, Melanie — he was ready to return to the music scene as a solo artist. His first solo album, titled simply <em>Peter Gabriel</em>, appeared in 1977.  It featured a lush instrumental sound and produced the hit single <em>Solsbury Hill</em>.</p> <figure id="attachment_61640" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-61640" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-61640 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235217im_/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1993-WOMAD-GettyImages-599012949.jpg"></noscript><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-61640 lazyload" alt="" width="2280" height="3323" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20200917235217im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1993-WOMAD-GettyImages-599012949.jpg 2280w, /web/20200917235217im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1993-WOMAD-GettyImages-599012949-261x380.jpg 261w, /web/20200917235217im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1993-WOMAD-GettyImages-599012949-521x760.jpg 521w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235217/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1993-WOMAD-GettyImages-599012949.jpg"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-61640" class="wp-caption-text">September 3, 1993: Peter Gabriel and Irish singer-songwriter Sinéad O’Connor perform together onstage at Marcus Amphitheater in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, during the U.S. tour of the WOMAD arts festival. (Paul Natkin/Getty Images)</figcaption></figure> <p>Gabriel declined to provide titles for his first four solo albums, which are generally referred to as <em>Peter Gabriel I, II, III,</em> and <em>IV</em>, or by nicknames derived from their cover graphics — <em>Car</em>, <em>Scratch, </em><em>Melt</em>, and <em>Security</em>.  Gabriel toured extensively in the United States and Europe to support these albums.  Shorn of the long locks he had worn in the early ‘70s, he adopted a more austere look, and by and large eschewed the flamboyant theatricality of his performances with Genesis.</p> <figure id="attachment_61642" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-61642" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-61642 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235217im_/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2006-Man-of-Peace-Award-GettyImages-72589936.jpg"></noscript><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-61642 lazyload" alt="" width="2280" height="2410" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20200917235217im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2006-Man-of-Peace-Award-GettyImages-72589936.jpg 2280w, /web/20200917235217im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2006-Man-of-Peace-Award-GettyImages-72589936-360x380.jpg 360w, /web/20200917235217im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2006-Man-of-Peace-Award-GettyImages-72589936-719x760.jpg 719w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235217/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2006-Man-of-Peace-Award-GettyImages-72589936.jpg"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-61642" class="wp-caption-text">November 17, 2006: British musician and human rights activist Peter Gabriel receives the statuette Dafne of Peace as he is awarded the 2006 Man of Peace Prize from two Nobel Peace Prize laureates, Northern Ireland civil rights activist Mairead Corrigan Maguire and Poland’s former President and Solidarity union leader Lech Walesa, during the opening ceremony of the 7th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates in Rome. (PATRICK HERTZOG/AFP/Getty)</figcaption></figure> <p>His second album was produced by King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp, whom Gabriel had long admired, and featured a darker, leaner sound but produced no hits. His third solo album, which featured Genesis drummer Phil Collins and an innovative “gated drum” sound, produced the hits “Games Without Frontiers” and “Biko.”  The album, released in 1980, was a much-admired artistic and commercial success, selling half a million copies in both the United States and in Britain, where it reached number one on the album charts.</p> <p>The song “Biko,” a tribute to the murdered South African human rights activist Stephen Biko, marked a turning point in Gabriel’s career.  For the first time, he directly addressed political and social issues — in this instance, the struggle against the apartheid system of racial segregation in South Africa.  Gabriel had long admired the work of African and Middle Eastern musicians, and his own music increasingly reflected their influence.  In 1980, he founded the WOMAD (World of Music, Arts, and Dance) festival to foster appreciation of the world’s diverse musical cultures.</p> <figure id="attachment_61643" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-61643" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-61643 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235217im_/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2007-The-Elders-GettyImages-94579196.jpg"></noscript><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-61643 lazyload" alt="" width="2280" height="1591" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20200917235217im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2007-The-Elders-GettyImages-94579196.jpg 2280w, /web/20200917235217im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2007-The-Elders-GettyImages-94579196-380x265.jpg 380w, /web/20200917235217im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2007-The-Elders-GettyImages-94579196-760x530.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235217/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2007-The-Elders-GettyImages-94579196.jpg"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-61643" class="wp-caption-text">July 18, 2007: Peter Gabriel greets former South African President Nelson Mandela, in the company of Mandela’s wife Graca Machel, billionaire Richard Branson, and former U.S. President Jimmy Carter in Johannesburg, South Africa. On his 89th birthday, Nelson Mandela announced the formation of The Elders: a small dedicated group of leaders who will work objectively, free from vested personal interest, to help address global challenges. (© Getty)</figcaption></figure> <p>Peter Gabriel’s fourth solo album, his first for Geffen Records, was titled <em>Security</em> for its U.S. release in 1982. Like its predecessor, it sold more than half a million copies in both Britain and the U.S. It featured the hits “I Have the Touch” and “Shock the Monkey,” and was notable for its creative use of digitally sampled sounds, reproduced with the Fairlight CMI sampling computer.  The technique had previously been the province of experimental musicians, but Gabriel’s use was the first to reach a mass audience.  Digital sampling has played a prominent role in popular recorded music ever since. The singer’s theatrical flair was once again on display in the video for “Shock the Monkey.”  It became a favorite on the music video channel MTV, and the song became Gabriel’s first Top 40 hit in the U.S.</p> <figure id="attachment_61644" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-61644" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-61644 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235217im_/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2008-grammy-for-wall-e-song-DOWN-TO-EARTH-GettyImages-81921947.jpg"></noscript><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-61644 lazyload" alt="" width="2280" height="3293" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20200917235217im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2008-grammy-for-wall-e-song-DOWN-TO-EARTH-GettyImages-81921947.jpg 2280w, /web/20200917235217im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2008-grammy-for-wall-e-song-DOWN-TO-EARTH-GettyImages-81921947-263x380.jpg 263w, /web/20200917235217im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2008-grammy-for-wall-e-song-DOWN-TO-EARTH-GettyImages-81921947-526x760.jpg 526w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235217/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2008-grammy-for-wall-e-song-DOWN-TO-EARTH-GettyImages-81921947.jpg"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-61644" class="wp-caption-text">July 13, 2008: Actress Sigourney Weaver and Peter Gabriel attend the UK Premiere of the Pixar film <em>WALL-E</em> at the Empire Leicester Square in London. “Down to Earth,” co-written and performed by Peter Gabriel for the film, won the Grammy Award for “Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media.” (© Jon Furniss)</figcaption></figure> <p>Four years elapsed between the success of <em>Security </em>and Peter Gabriel’s next solo album, but when it came, it would be the greatest success of his career.  His 1986 album <em>So</em> featured the songs “Sledgehammer,” “In Your Eyes,” “Big Time,” and “Don’t Give Up the Fight,” a duet with singer Kate Bush. The album reached number one on the UK album chart, while the song “Sledgehammer” was the top-selling single in the United States.  Gabriel received four Grammy nominations for his work on the record, which sold more than eight million copies worldwide, including two million in the UK and five million in the U.S.  It has been estimated that the video of the album’s single, “Sledgehammer,” is the most played selection in the history of MTV.</p> <figure id="attachment_61645" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-61645" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-61645 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235217im_/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2014-Rock-and-Roll-Hall-of-Fame-GettyImages-483891839.jpg"></noscript><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-61645 lazyload" alt="" width="2280" height="1518" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20200917235217im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2014-Rock-and-Roll-Hall-of-Fame-GettyImages-483891839.jpg 2280w, /web/20200917235217im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2014-Rock-and-Roll-Hall-of-Fame-GettyImages-483891839-380x253.jpg 380w, /web/20200917235217im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2014-Rock-and-Roll-Hall-of-Fame-GettyImages-483891839-760x506.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235217/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2014-Rock-and-Roll-Hall-of-Fame-GettyImages-483891839.jpg"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-61645" class="wp-caption-text">April 10, 2014: Peter Gabriel speaks onstage at the 29th Annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center in New York City. The Hall of Fame Class of 2014 included Nirvana, Brian Epstein and Andrew Loog Oldham, Linda Ronstadt, Cat Stevens, Hall and Oates, KISS and the E Street Band. (© Larry Busacca)</figcaption></figure> <p>Over the years, Peter Gabriel’s song “Biko” had spread around the world and become an informal anthem for human rights activists.  Gabriel was invited to perform in the “Conspiracy of Hope” tour, a series of benefit concerts for the international rights organization Amnesty International.  He would play an even larger role in organizing subsequent concert tours to benefit Amnesty.  A year of commercial success and escalating humanitarian commitments, 1986 also saw the end of Gabriel’s marriage to Jill Moore.</p> <p>Fulfilling a longtime interest in cinema, Peter Gabriel began composing film scores in the 1980s, starting with the film <em>Birdy</em> in 1985. His score for Martin Scorsese’s 1988 film <em>The Last Temptation of Christ</em> was released as the album <em>Passion</em>, which brought Gabriel a Grammy Award, his first, for Best New Age Performance.</p> <figure id="attachment_40763" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-40763" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-40763 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235217im_/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/wp-LondonSummit_0614.jpg"></noscript><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-40763 lazyload" alt="" width="2280" height="1520" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20200917235217im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/wp-LondonSummit_0614.jpg 2280w, /web/20200917235217im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/wp-LondonSummit_0614-380x253.jpg 380w, /web/20200917235217im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/wp-LondonSummit_0614-760x507.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235217/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/wp-LondonSummit_0614.jpg"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-40763" class="wp-caption-text">Two members of the Academy Class of 2017: Award-winning English singer-songwriters Peter Gabriel and Sting at the reception at Claridge’s Hotel in London, England, during the 52nd annual International Achievement Summit.</figcaption></figure> <p>Two years after his first Amnesty concerts, Gabriel led the 20-concert “Human Rights Now!” world tour.  In 1990, he traveled to Chile for the “Embrace of Hope” tour, celebrating the country’s emergence from years of military dictatorship.  Gabriel’s touring and activism had largely kept him out of the studio until 1992, when he released the album <em>Us</em>, in which he reflected on the failure of his marriage and his strained relationship with his children.</p> <figure id="attachment_40777" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-40777" style="width: 3000px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="wp-image-40777 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235217im_/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/wp-LondonSummit_0677.jpg"></noscript><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-40777 size-full lazyload" alt="" width="3000" height="2400" data-sizes="(max-width: 3000px) 100vw, 3000px" data-srcset="/web/20200917235217im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/wp-LondonSummit_0677.jpg 3000w, /web/20200917235217im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/wp-LondonSummit_0677-380x304.jpg 380w, /web/20200917235217im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/wp-LondonSummit_0677-760x608.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235217/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/wp-LondonSummit_0677.jpg"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-40777" class="wp-caption-text">Academy Awards Council member and the violin virtuoso Joshua Bell presenting the Academy of Achievement’s Golden Plate Award to Peter Gabriel during the 2017 International Achievement Summit at Claridge’s in London.</figcaption></figure> <p>Gabriel undertook a world tour to support the <em>Us</em> album and shot a series of innovative videos, winning Grammy Awards for the videos of “Digging in the Dirt” and “Steam” and for his concert film <em>Secret World Live</em>. The same year, he founded the nonprofit organization Witness, which equips activists with film and video technology to document human rights abuses.  Like his inventor father, Peter Gabriel has a longstanding interest in new technology.  In 1999, he co-founded OD2, one of the first online services for downloading music.</p> <figure id="attachment_61701" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-61701" style="width: 1967px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-61701 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235217im_/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2017-wife-Maebh-GettyImages-873735724.jpg"></noscript><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-61701 lazyload" alt="" width="1967" height="3000" data-sizes="(max-width: 1967px) 100vw, 1967px" data-srcset="/web/20200917235217im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2017-wife-Maebh-GettyImages-873735724.jpg 1967w, /web/20200917235217im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2017-wife-Maebh-GettyImages-873735724-249x380.jpg 249w, /web/20200917235217im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2017-wife-Maebh-GettyImages-873735724-498x760.jpg 498w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235217/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2017-wife-Maebh-GettyImages-873735724.jpg"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-61701" class="wp-caption-text">November 13, 2017: Peter Gabriel with his wife Meabh Flynn at the unveiling of the multimedia exhibition “The Adoration Trilogy: Searching for Apollo” by Alistair Morrison and hosted by Roger Daltrey. (David M. Benett/Getty)</figcaption></figure> <p>Ten years elapsed between Gabriel’s fifth and sixth studio albums.  He returned to the studio in 2002 to complete <em>Up</em>, a self-produced collection of longer songs. The album produced no hit singles but sold well worldwide, due to Gabriel’s international popularity, bolstered by years of touring.  That year, Gabriel married Irish costume designer Meabh Flynn; they now have two sons, Isaac Ralph and Luc. His daughters by his previous marriage, Anne-Marie and Melanie, have worked with him often over the years, Anne-Marie as a filmmaker documenting his performances, Melanie as a vocalist in his live shows.</p> <figure id="attachment_61646" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-61646" style="width: 2200px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-61646 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235217im_/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2019-Album-Rated-PG.jpg"></noscript><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-61646 lazyload" alt="" width="2200" height="1467" data-sizes="(max-width: 2200px) 100vw, 2200px" data-srcset="/web/20200917235217im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2019-Album-Rated-PG.jpg 2200w, /web/20200917235217im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2019-Album-Rated-PG-380x253.jpg 380w, /web/20200917235217im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2019-Album-Rated-PG-760x507.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235217/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2019-Album-Rated-PG.jpg"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-61646" class="wp-caption-text"><em>Rated PG</em>, released April 13, 2019, is a collection of Peter Gabriel songs from the movies. Having always loved the combination of film and music (aged 17 he gave up a place at film school to pursue a career in music), Gabriel’s first opportunity to really marry these twin interests came when he was asked to create the music for <em>Birdy</em> in 1985.</figcaption></figure> <p>In 2006, Peter Gabriel sang John Lennon’s “Imagine” for the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics. Also that year, the World Summit of Nobel Laureates selected Gabriel for its Man of Peace Award, presented by Mikhail Gorbachev and the Mayor of Rome, Walter Veltroni.  The following year, Gabriel and his friend, Virgin Records founder Richard Branson, recruited distinguished international statesmen, including former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, former Irish President Mary Robinson, and former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, along with Archbishop Desmond Tutu and South African President Nelson Mandela, to form an organization they called The Elders, leveraging the moral authority of their long experience to resolve civil and international conflicts.</p> <figure id="attachment_64089" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-64089" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="wp-image-64089 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235217im_/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/wp-2280-townshend-et-2019Summit_0646.jpg"></noscript><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-64089 size-full lazyload" alt="" width="2280" height="1520" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20200917235217im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/wp-2280-townshend-et-2019Summit_0646.jpg 2280w, /web/20200917235217im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/wp-2280-townshend-et-2019Summit_0646-380x253.jpg 380w, /web/20200917235217im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/wp-2280-townshend-et-2019Summit_0646-760x507.jpg 760w, /web/20200917235217im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/wp-2280-townshend-et-2019Summit_0646-1520x1013.jpg 1520w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235217/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/wp-2280-townshend-et-2019Summit_0646.jpg"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-64089" class="wp-caption-text">September 2019: Peter Gabriel presents the Golden Plate Award to The Who’s Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey at the Banquet of the Golden Plate ceremonies during the International Achievement Summit in New York City.</figcaption></figure> <p>Gabriel received another Grammy for the song “Down to Earth,” from the 2008 animated film <em>WALL-E</em>.  Genesis was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2010. The same year, Gabriel released <em>Scratch My Back</em>, an album of songs by other writers. The following year, he produced <em>New Blood</em>, a collection of his old songs performed with full orchestra.  Peter Gabriel was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist in 2014.  Today, he makes his home in Wiltshire, England, where he maintains a commercial recording studio and a record label, Real World Records.  In April 2019, Real World Records released <em>Rated PG</em>, a compilation of songs Gabriel has composed or sung for motion picture soundtracks.</p> </body></html> <div class="clearfix"> </div> </article> </div> </section> </div> <div class="tab-pane" id="profile" role="tabpanel"> <section class="clearfix"> <header class="editorial-article__header"> <figure class="text-xs-center"> <img class="inductee-badge" src="/web/20200917235217im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/themes/aoa/assets/images/inducted-badge@2x.png" alt="Inducted Badge" width="120" height="120"/> <figcaption class="serif-3 text-brand-primary"> Inducted in 2017 </figcaption> </figure> </header> <div class="row"> <aside class="col-md-4 sidebar"> <dl class="clearfix m-b-0"> <div class="col-xs-12 sidebar--chunk p-b-2"> <dt class="serif-7">Career</dt> <dd class="sans-2"> <div><a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/#filter=.singer">Singer</a></div> <div><a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/#filter=.musician">Musician</a></div> <div><a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/#filter=.lyricist">Lyricist</a></div> <div><a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/#filter=.entertainer">Entertainer</a></div> <div><a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/#filter=.music-producer">Music Producer</a></div> </dd> </div> <div class="col-xs-12 sidebar--chunk p-b-2"> <dt class="serif-7">Date of Birth</dt> <dd class="sans-2"> February 13, 1950 </dd> </div> </dl> </aside> <article class="col-md-8 editorial-article clearfix"> <p>Peter Gabriel first rose to fame as the flamboyantly costumed lead singer of the innovative progressive rock band Genesis. After leaving Genesis in 1975, Gabriel launched a successful solo career with the hit single “Solsbury Hill.” His 1986 album, <em>So, </em>sold over 6.8 million copies worldwide. His video “Sledgehammer” remains the most played music video in the history of MTV.</p> <p>Since 1980, when he released the anti-apartheid single “Biko,” Gabriel has championed a series of humanitarian projects. He has participated in numerous benefit concerts for different causes, including Amnesty International’s “Human Rights Now!” tour, which traveled the world in 1988.</p> <p>In 1980 he founded WOMAD (World of Music, Arts and Dance — to present the world to the world ) which has organized 170 festivals in over 30 countries. He conceived of the human rights organization <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235217/http://witness.org/">Witness.org</a> in 1992 to introduce citizen video and technology into human rights campaigning. He also founded <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235217/https://www.theelders.org/">The Elders.org</a> with Nelson Mandela and Richard Branson in 2001 to bring together a respected group of world leaders, whose influence could stem not from political, economic or military power, but from experience, integrity and wisdom. His other work interests have been in innovative technology, especially in digital media, audio, music, visual language and more recently health care.</p> <p>To date, Gabriel has won six Grammy Awards and 13 MTV Video Music Awards. He has been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame twice, once as a member of Genesis, and again as a solo artist. In recognition of his many years of human rights activism, he received the Man of Peace award from the Nobel Peace Prize laureates, and <em>TIME </em>magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world.</p> </article> </div> </section> </div> <div class="tab-pane" id="interview" role="tabpanel"> <section class="clearfix"> <div class="col-md-12 interview-feature-video"> <figure> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235217if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/13p3rhiIV5A?feature=oembed&hd=1&modestbranding=1&rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Gabriel_Peter_2018_MasterEdit.00_50_16_01.Still008-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Gabriel_Peter_2018_MasterEdit.00_50_16_01.Still008-760x428.jpg"></div> <div class="video-tag sans-4"> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> <div class="video-tag__text">Watch full interview</div> </div> </div> </figure> </div> <header class="col-md-12 text-xs-center m-b-2"> <i class="icon-icon_bio text-brand-primary"></i> </header> <aside class="col-md-4 sidebar"> <h2 class="serif-3 achiever--biography-subtitle">Rock & Roll Hall of Fame</h2> <div class="sans-2">London. England</div> <div class="sans-2">November 28, 2018</div> </aside> <article class="editorial-article col-md-8">   <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <p><strong>How did your parents feel about your starting Genesis when you were still in school?</strong></p> </div>     <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235217if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/13p3rhiIV5A?feature=oembed&hd=1&modestbranding=1&rel=0&start=16&end=141&version=3" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Gabriel_Peter_2018_MasterEdit.00_26_29_14.Still002-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Gabriel_Peter_2018_MasterEdit.00_26_29_14.Still002-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p>Peter Gabriel: There was a lot of discussion about whether we should continue with music. At that time, you know — the school now would be very proud of Genesis and our history — they weren’t really supportive. They sort of tolerated a rock group. I remember, Mike Rutherford was told not to carry on playing and mixing with disreputable types. So this was something that for us was really important because it was not quite <em>Tom Browne’s School Days</em>, but it was a formal English public school with discipline, not a lot of compassion. And you felt — there was a film Lindsay Anderson did called <em>If</em>, which sort of captured, I think, the emotion of the experience.</p> <p>But the tighter the discipline, the more human nature wants to rebel against it. So music was our way, and we would go down — there was a room where you could play billiards downstairs, but it was a small Dansette record player. And so the very few visits we were allowed to make to the town, I would go down to Godalming and buy Otis Redding or Nina Simone or whatever it was that was firing me up and turn it up full volume in this little room. And then we’d go upstairs to the dining room where the only piano was. And there’d be a big competition. Sometimes you’d have to run into the kitchen and climb through the hatch in order to sit down because it was first-come, first-served at the piano after the lessons finished. So there was a lot of competition.</p> </div> </div>      <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <p>But both Tony Banks and I were part of that sort of songwriting team. And then we had an invitation to join a couple of others in the school to make demos that were sent to various places, including to Jonathan King, who gave us our first recording contract and got us into a studio.</p> <p><strong>Did you see yourself as a songwriter or a singer in those days?</strong></p> <p>Peter Gabriel: I saw myself as a drummer first and songwriter. Yeah, we were planning to be songwriters. We didn’t really want to be a group. The harsh reality of dreams of writing hits is that no one is interested in recording them. So we had to start playing them ourselves. And then that evolved and we wanted to explore different types of music. It was the beginning of the ‘60s and merging different styles seemed to us to be exciting and revolutionary. So that’s what we were trying to do.</p> </div>     <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><body data-rsssl="1"><figure id="attachment_61632" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-61632" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-61632 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235217im_/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1973-MASK-GettyImages-110263566.jpg"></noscript><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-61632 lazyload" alt="" width="2280" height="3482" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20200917235217im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1973-MASK-GettyImages-110263566.jpg 2280w, /web/20200917235217im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1973-MASK-GettyImages-110263566-249x380.jpg 249w, /web/20200917235217im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1973-MASK-GettyImages-110263566-498x760.jpg 498w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235217/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1973-MASK-GettyImages-110263566.jpg"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-61632" class="wp-caption-text">1973: Peter Gabriel of Genesis wearing his “Magog” costume with a geometrical headdress on stage. (Getty Images)</figcaption></figure> </body></html> </div>     <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <p><strong>In your days with Genesis, you were pretty well known for your spectacular costumes. What was the idea behind that?</strong></p> </div>     <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235217if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/xwofJxRt4JQ?feature=oembed&hd=1&modestbranding=1&rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Gabriel_Peter_2018_MasterEdit.00_26_34_13.Still003-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Gabriel_Peter_2018_MasterEdit.00_26_34_13.Still003-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> <figcaption class="achiever__interview-video-terms"> <span>Keys to success —</span> <a class="comma-item" href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/keys-to-success/vision/">Vision</a> </figcaption> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p>Peter Gabriel: The idea was to get rich and famous. We were in a group that was sort of disappearing into the oblivion. I mean that was one side of it. But there was another side, which was an evolution, but we loved the sound of 12-string guitars. This was old days, so it meant there weren’t electronic tuners. Three guys with 36 strings at their command would sit there twiddling knobs until they got their guitars in tune. So there were long pauses between each song. And if you’re in a small club and there’s an audience and a bunch of musicians, you just got something going, and then they’re sitting there and all the energy is being dissipated. They look to the mug behind the microphone to do something. So I started telling stories.</p> <p>So partly, there were characters coming out in these stories and emerging. We had on one album a character which Paul Whitehead had created with a fox head and a red dress. And I sat around with Paul Conroy, who was working at our record company at the time. And he was saying, “Well, why don’t we get someone to walk around the gig in a fox head and a red dress?” And I thought, “Oh, I might as well give that a go.” So I went into my wife’s wardrobe and pulled out a red dress, which was, in fact, an Ossie Clark dress. But at that point, I was thin enough to get into it. And we got this fox head made up.</p> <p>I remember the first gig I wore it was in this former bullring in Dublin, which was not exactly the most enlightened, transgender environment. And there was a shock. Literally, you could hear a pin drop when I walked out in this costume. And I thought, “Oh, that’s interesting.” And the band, of course, didn’t really know that I was going to do this. I had mentioned something with the fox head, but I didn’t discuss it because I knew there would not be a majority vote going my way. And the same when I came up with a whole lot more costumes of the rainbow.</p> </div> </div>      <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235217if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/13p3rhiIV5A?feature=oembed&hd=1&modestbranding=1&rel=0&start=387&end=444&version=3" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Gabriel_Peter_2018_MasterEdit.00_51_25_20.Still007-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Gabriel_Peter_2018_MasterEdit.00_51_25_20.Still007-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p>And the following day, we got on the front page of <em>Melody Maker</em>, and suddenly, from £50 a week per head, we were on 150. Life was looking up. So there were practical advantages to the costumes. But it was actually a lot of fun, and sometimes, when you’d come out — and this weird keyboard sound, and this dry ice, and I’m wearing this sort of UV make-up and bat wings — it was like a sci-fi moment, and you took people to some other place. So we divided a lot of people. We weren’t popular in this country. But we did well in other countries, and we started building a reputation for the band. So I think the musicians in the band were both appalled and delighted.</p> </div> </div>      <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <p><strong>What’s it like to be a rock star? You look out and there are thousands of people, and they know every lyric, and they’re moving to your music. What does that feel like?</strong></p> </div>     <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235217if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/NqVE9N-CaH0?feature=oembed&hd=1&modestbranding=1&rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Gabriel_Peter_2018_MasterEdit.00_10_50_28.Still011-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Gabriel_Peter_2018_MasterEdit.00_10_50_28.Still011-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> <figcaption class="achiever__interview-video-terms"> <span>Keys to success —</span> <a class="comma-item" href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/keys-to-success/passion/">Passion</a> </figcaption> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p>Peter Gabriel: Well, it’s a bit like the seven-year-old jumping on the table in the family get-together and showing off, but it’s on a bigger scale. But actually, when you feel the emotion of — because I’m a real mixture between this sort of show-off extrovert and a very shy person. But when you feel the engagement and you feel the warmth of the people, it’s like nothing else. So it’s a wonderful feeling. And particularly, it’s the interaction with other musicians because it’s a free-flowing emotional language. I mean some nights it feels like you’re just doing the same thing and you’re thinking about did you get your socks in the laundry. But other times, you’re very present. And it’s an amazing experience, a great privilege.</p> </div> </div>      <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><body data-rsssl="1"><figure id="attachment_61657" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-61657" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-61657 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235217im_/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/wp-GettyImages-635943255.jpg"></noscript><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-61657 lazyload" alt="" width="2280" height="1428" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20200917235217im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/wp-GettyImages-635943255.jpg 2280w, /web/20200917235217im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/wp-GettyImages-635943255-380x238.jpg 380w, /web/20200917235217im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/wp-GettyImages-635943255-760x476.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235217/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/wp-GettyImages-635943255.jpg"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-61657" class="wp-caption-text">Peter Gabriel performing on stage during his 1986-87 <em>So</em> Tour. (Photo by LGI Stock/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images)</figcaption></figure> </body></html> </div>     <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <p><strong>Listening to what motivated you as a young man, it doesn’t seem like fame was really your motivation, but you certainly had your share. What are the ups and downs of that?</strong></p> </div>     <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235217if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/u8A0mDY1hh8?feature=oembed&hd=1&modestbranding=1&rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Gabriel_Peter_2018_MasterEdit.00_23_26_26.Still009-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Gabriel_Peter_2018_MasterEdit.00_23_26_26.Still009-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> <figcaption class="achiever__interview-video-terms"> <span>Keys to success —</span> <a class="comma-item" href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/keys-to-success/integrity/">Integrity</a> </figcaption> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p>Peter Gabriel: Well, I think, in truth, we’re a mixture of our higher and lower natures. So there’s definitely part of me that wanted attention and girls, and the other part of me just loved music and wanted to follow my heart. I think the truth is always somewhere in-between, is composite. I always thought of myself as a weekend rock star. You know, it was a fun place to get your ego stroked but toxic if it’s your permanent abode.</p> </div> </div>      <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <p><strong>Genesis was successful when you were all so young, and you were only 25 when you walked away. Why did you do it? Why start over again on your own?</strong></p> </div>     <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235217if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/2lkB9jmRswo?feature=oembed&hd=1&modestbranding=1&rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Gabriel_Peter_2018_MasterEdit.00_10_50_28.Still011-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Gabriel_Peter_2018_MasterEdit.00_10_50_28.Still011-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p>Peter Gabriel: There were a number of things. I think things — you know, I’m quite fond of them all to this day. But you know, band politics is just classic. So it got to the point where to get something done, you’d have to persuade — Tony Banks and I, we were often best friends/worst enemies. I would sometimes try to persuade him that what I wanted was his idea. And he was always very protective of the keyboard. He didn’t want anyone else getting near his keyboard, whereas I wanted to express myself and play with that.</p> <p>But then I think it was a decisive thing when my first daughter, Anna, was born and they didn’t think she would survive. There was a whole number of things. My wife, Jill, wasn’t allowed to see her then, and she was in an incubator. It was the most traumatic experience of my life at that point. And the band were very unappreciative. Phil had a child then, but on the whole, we were trying to get <em>The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway</em> recorded at that time, and that was in far West Wales, and the drive was pretty hellish, getting there and back. There was no question in my mind that family comes first. So I think things got soured at that point.</p> <p>And then I had an invitation from William Friedkin, who had just done <em>The Exorcist </em>and <em>The French Connection</em> at the time. I had considered a place in film school. I always loved film. He was trying to get a sort of new team of young people to come and do something different in Hollywood. He didn’t want me for the music. He wanted me for ideas.</p> </div> </div>      <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <p><strong>There are so many strange images in your songs and stories. Did these come to you without drugs?</strong></p> <p>Except for the odd puff — and I did inhale — I’m a pretty drug-free environment, unlike most of my musical compatriots. I think the only one I was interested in was acid, and that was because it could take you somewhere else, and I was a bit scared of losing control. I’ve actually got some friends my age who’ve just taken acid for the first time. Very smart. So it’s still something that I think maybe one day. But I also saw a lot of destruction around the drugs.</p> <p><strong>You did some pretty creative filmmaking with your music videos — “Sledgehammer,” for instance. There’s a lot of crazy stuff in there. Did you have any idea how popular that would be?</strong></p> </div>     <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235217if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/lQomlg_zZ1U?feature=oembed&hd=1&modestbranding=1&rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Gabriel_Peter_2018_MasterEdit.00_18_56_11.Still010-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Gabriel_Peter_2018_MasterEdit.00_18_56_11.Still010-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p>Peter Gabriel: We knew we were doing something different. I mean I had this very gifted director, Stephen Johnson, and he brought in the Brothers Quay, and I brought in Aardman Animation. And it was for about a month — two weeks of really focused creative work. It was just this extraordinary maelstrom of ideas and people trying stuff. We did it down in Bristol. It was slow and painful, from my point of view, but we had the sense that we were doing something different, and it was a lot of fun. We’re just putting something together now which retells the story of it with Aardman. So that — I just saw it the other day, with interviews from people that I haven’t seen since that session. So that was interesting.</p> </div> </div>      <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <p><strong>How long did it take to make the “Sledgehammer” video, from beginning to end?</strong></p> <p>It was, I think, probably a month from when it was first discussed, but the focused part was about two weeks. Stephen and I were generating some ideas, and then the Quay Brothers and Aardman also brought in a lot of — so it was about a week of actual filming on these little stages with different sets for the different parts of the video.</p> </div>     <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><body data-rsssl="1"><figure id="attachment_61641" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-61641" style="width: 2160px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-61641 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235217im_/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2003-46664-CONCERT-IN-CAPE-TOWN-GettyImages-2769338.jpg"></noscript><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-61641 lazyload" alt="" width="2160" height="1440" data-sizes="(max-width: 2160px) 100vw, 2160px" data-srcset="/web/20200917235217im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2003-46664-CONCERT-IN-CAPE-TOWN-GettyImages-2769338.jpg 2160w, /web/20200917235217im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2003-46664-CONCERT-IN-CAPE-TOWN-GettyImages-2769338-380x253.jpg 380w, /web/20200917235217im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2003-46664-CONCERT-IN-CAPE-TOWN-GettyImages-2769338-760x507.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235217/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2003-46664-CONCERT-IN-CAPE-TOWN-GettyImages-2769338.jpg"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-61641" class="wp-caption-text">November 29, 2003: Peter Gabriel sings a tribute to anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko at the “46664” Concert at Green Point Stadium in Cape Town, South Africa. Former South African President Mandela conceived the “46664” Concert, named after Mandela’s prison number, as part of his world advocacy for action against AIDS. (© Getty)</figcaption></figure> </body></html> </div>     <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <p><strong>How did you come to write the song “In Your Eyes”? It’s such a different kind of love song.</strong></p> </div>     <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235217if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/HR0F9vSRj_w?feature=oembed&hd=1&modestbranding=1&rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Gabriel_Peter_2018_MasterEdit.00_40_17_06.Still005-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Gabriel_Peter_2018_MasterEdit.00_40_17_06.Still005-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p>Peter Gabriel: I was in love with a lot of African music around that time, and bits of it were written in Senegal. But one of the ideas that interested me in African music is that there was a capacity to sing a love song that could be a love for a woman or a love of God. And the two could be confused with no problem — that they could be about love. Whereas, in our society, spiritual was one side, sexual and romantic was another. So that fusion was what I was trying to explore lyrically and in the music. There was definitely some African influence. So it has a life to it that flows effortlessly. And then I was working with Youssou N’Dour, who does this amazing singing. There’s this sort of angelic voice at the end. So I think a combination of those things helped it to work.</p> </div> </div>      <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <p><strong>What did you think when you saw John Cusack playing your song on a boombox in that movie <em>Say Anything</em>?</strong></p> <p>Peter Gabriel: We got asked by Cameron Crowe, and he’d done a couple of films that I enjoyed a lot. So I was very happy about it. I think Cusack is a great actor. I had no idea it was going to become this sort of iconic thing, but I’m very grateful that it was chosen, because it’s one of the most parroted scenes in Hollywood.</p> <p><strong>You’ve done so much work for human rights around the world, especially Amnesty International. The “Human Rights Now!” tour with Springsteen, Sting, Tracy Chapman. What were you trying to accomplish there?</strong></p> </div>     <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235217if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/nrW2LfIjT3I?feature=oembed&hd=1&modestbranding=1&rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Gabriel_Peter_2018_MasterEdit.00_32_00_08.Still004-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Gabriel_Peter_2018_MasterEdit.00_32_00_08.Still004-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> <figcaption class="achiever__interview-video-terms"> <span>Keys to success —</span> <a class="comma-item" href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/keys-to-success/integrity/">Integrity</a> </figcaption> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p>Peter Gabriel: Well, I sort of fell into human rights, really. You know, I came from a comfortable background. And then, when I put my calling card in, I think, was when I wrote the song “Biko.” I’ve been interested in what goes on in the world. When Steve Biko was arrested, a lot of people thought that the publicity surrounding his arrest would be enough to protect him. So there was a real sense of shock when we heard that he’d died or been murdered.</p> <p>I was questioning, at the time, whether this was something that I could do. You know, there was a lot of flack in this country if you come from a middle-class background or a comfortable background. It’s often from middle-class journalists who want working-class heroes. But in the backwater that is Britain, we get very hung up on all this sort of stuff. But it made me question whether I could write an overtly political song and be taken seriously. I was friendly with Tom Robinson, who had been a sort of outwardly very vocal gay activist. He had a song, “Sing If You’re Glad to Be Gay.” And I remember Tom saying to me, “Actually, if you get attention and money going in the right direction, who gives a —” you know? “Let’s just get on with it.” And that was good advice.</p> <p>But as soon as that song was out, I was asked to do Amnesty things. And U2 were doing a “Conspiracy of Hope” tour in ’86 in America. So Bono wanted me to get out there. And I took over his role in ’88, trying to hustle musicians into doing this “Human Rights Now!” tour with Jackie Lee. And it was a sort of life-changing experience for many of us because, you know, human rights means something you read about, see in the <em>Guardian</em> newspaper. But we hadn’t really met many people around the world that had been tortured or lost loved ones. And suddenly, there they were, and they were talking to us. It’s very hard then, at that point, to walk away. I found it very compelling, and I was also shocked that people could go through some of these experiences and then have their horrors totally denied, buried, and forgotten.</p> </div> </div>      <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><body data-rsssl="1"><figure id="attachment_40732" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-40732" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="wp-image-40732 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235217im_/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/wp-LondonSummit_0313.jpg"></noscript><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-40732 size-full lazyload" alt="" width="2280" height="1572" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20200917235217im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/wp-LondonSummit_0313.jpg 2280w, /web/20200917235217im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/wp-LondonSummit_0313-380x262.jpg 380w, /web/20200917235217im_/https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/wp-LondonSummit_0313-760x524.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235217/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/wp-LondonSummit_0313.jpg"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-40732" class="wp-caption-text">2017: Peter Gabriel, English singer-songwriter and humanitarian, addresses Academy of Achievement delegates and members at Claridge’s Hotel in London, England, during the 52nd annual International Achievement Summit.</figcaption></figure> </body></html> </div>     <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <p><strong>It became one of the most powerful anti-apartheid, human-rights songs ever recorded. And what does that feel like, that this song became part of a movement and actually had a pretty big political impact?</strong></p> <p>Peter Gabriel: Well, I heard people would sing it in South Africa, and it was used in rallies, and so on, and in stadiums. So that was great to hear.</p> </div>     <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235217if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/wIv_1vfamJM?feature=oembed&hd=1&modestbranding=1&rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Gabriel_Peter_2018_MasterEdit.00_45_38_14.Still006-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Gabriel_Peter_2018_MasterEdit.00_45_38_14.Still006-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p>When we did the “Human Rights Now!” tour, in fact, it was towards the end of the apartheid government, and there were interesting discussions — whether we should go to South Africa or not — because we’d been asked by the anti-apartheid movement not to go. There was a cultural boycott. Yet Youssou N’Dour and Tracy Chapman, the black artists who were with us, they thought, “Actually, no, this is part of a process that sort of opens things up and liberalizes.” So we had those discussions, and we ended up — Bill Graham was there, and he used to have these two planes: one full of gear and the other full of musicians and crew. And occasionally, when gigs were canceled or people got scared of us, we’d be there with a map of the world. Where can we land our planes? It was quite unlike any other tour. So we went to Harare instead, where — at that time, Mugabe was a hero, and it was sort of a country full of hope, after they kicked out its colonial past, and seemed to be open and moving forward in a very positive way.</p> </div> </div>      <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <p><strong>We’ve seen the video of you singing “Biko” in other countries — Argentina, Chile. It seems like the whole crowd — thousands of people — are listening to your every breath. What does that feel like?</strong></p> </div>     <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235217if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/5wzxsqEA_lY?feature=oembed&hd=1&modestbranding=1&rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Gabriel_Peter_2018_MasterEdit.00_51_25_20.Still007-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Gabriel_Peter_2018_MasterEdit.00_51_25_20.Still007-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p>Peter Gabriel: Well, I think, in Argentina and Chile, where people have been thrown out of airplanes that have protested — horrible, horrible things had happened — to have this big juggernaut of a tour roll into town, into the stadium, it was like a big thing for them. They party like a liberation party. So it meant a lot to the people there, and it was fantastic for us to be up on the stage and feel their celebration and their determination. In Chile, we’d been in this stadium where a lot of people had been murdered. So it was sort of — they were conducting their exorcism, and we were the catalyst.</p> </div> </div>      <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <p><strong>What did the “Human Rights Now!” Tour accomplish?</strong></p> <p>Peter Gabriel: Well, I know Jack Healey and Mary Daly, who we worked with as… part of Amnesty had been to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which all these countries around the world had signed and very few put into practice. Because it covers many areas, including health, employment, housing. It’s not just what people normally think of under the human rights banner of sort of freedom of expression and the right to protest peacefully, et cetera. But I think the membership of Amnesty was doubled around the world as a result of that tour. I think it was important. And for all of us, as musicians, I think it changed the way we saw our role.</p> </div>    <aside class="collapse" id="full-interview">    <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <p><strong>Let’s go back to how it all began. We understand your mother was a musician and you studied piano. Is that how you got started in music?</strong></p> <p>Peter Gabriel: Well, my mother didn’t teach me. I think I was probably a difficult sort to teach. But she organized some piano lessons, and her family were all very musical. And although my dad wasn’t musical, his sister sang opera. But every Christmas, you’d have all the family gathering and singing songs around the piano and performing different things. So that was how I grew up, and she used to run the local music club, which she did into her nineties. And they’d get young classical musicians to come and do their rehearsal concerts in her living room.</p> <p><strong>How old were you when you thought, “I want to make a living as a musician”?</strong></p> <p>Peter Gabriel: Well, I had a little rebellion, I think, when I was about nine years old. I was getting all sorts of lessons, and she was also — my mom — obsessed with horses, as was my sister. So we were given riding lessons, dancing, anything that might turn this wild creature into an English gentleman. I thought I was doing far too many lessons, and I had to go and clear the stables and all that stuff. And I just had a little rebellion because I wouldn’t do it. What was important to me was watching television. I abandoned my piano lessons. And they said to me, at the time, “You probably won’t regret giving up these other lessons, but you’ll miss your piano lessons.” They were right, but I did it anyway.</p> <p><strong>So when did you start spending more time with music?</strong></p> <p>Peter Gabriel: I think, about 11, probably something like that, we went to holiday in Spain, and there was a pretty daft band playing in the hotel. But there was a drum kit. It was sparkling and loud. And I sat behind it, sort of mesmerized, thinking, “This is what I want to do.” So drums was really the way in for me. And then I started getting back into songs and started trying to write things and explore the piano. So I had pretty much to teach myself a second time on how to play. I’d never got very far the first time around, and I’m still not a good player, technically. But I can do enough for what I need.</p> <p><strong>Did anyone in particular influence you in songwriting or music?</strong></p> <p>Peter Gabriel: I think so many people. I think you instinctively absorb from whatever you’re hearing, which is why — my ten-year-old is a DJ on the latest school circuit — so if my next record sounds like Justin Bieber, you’ll know why.</p> <p><strong>Do you like Bieber?</strong></p> <p>Peter Gabriel: Actually, I’ve got to admire the musicality of it and some of the production. But you know, he’s now into rap, so it’s a different sort of evolution. But I love — it was R&B, blues, soul, and the beat boom. You know, the Beatles were — I was 13, in 1963, when I heard “Love Me Do” on the radio in the back of my parents’ car. And people don’t think of the Beatles as sort of rough and revolutionary. But at that time, it was all sort of Shirley Bassey and sweet-sounding songs. And this rough, tough band sound in “Love Me Do” was very, very different.</p> <p>But I think, you know, from singing — although I don’t sing anything like it — but Otis Redding was the king for me. I was lucky enough, at 17, to go down to the Ram Jam Club in Brixton here, and there were maybe three white faces there. It was the best gig of my life, still to this day.</p> <p><strong>Why?</strong></p> <p>Peter Gabriel: It was like the sun coming out. There was just this warmth and then this amazing voice, band, generosity. Springsteen gives a ton when he performs, but Otis pips him, in my opinion. So it was just something else. I mean I guess I was ripe. I mean what hits us hard when we’re 17 stays with us for life. And that was it for me.</p> <p><strong>Do you remember the first time you wrote a song and thought it was really good?</strong></p> <p>Peter Gabriel: What felt good was sort of melody, harmony, and rhythm. And the lyrics, sometimes that worked, and you felt you’d nailed something. Having owned a studio now and watched many bands come in, you’re often seeing a group of players sitting around what I would consider the poor, unfortunate vocalist who is struggling to squeeze a few words out. And sometimes, the words will come easily, but for me, that’s slower — more difficult to get past the censor, my internal censor.</p> <p><strong>So your internal censor, what does it want from you?</strong></p> <p>Peter Gabriel: I think it just wants to get to a certain quality level. And musically, I find it pretty easy to get to something that I feel is working musically, to get to something that I think is working lyrically. And there are — if you look at Leonard Cohen or Bob Dylan or someone of this sort, the bar is pretty high. So trying to get something that you feel means something to you or means something to other people is work. You know, I think talent is hugely overrated. I think most of it’s hard work.</p> <p><strong>So on the success equation, what percent is hard work and what percent is talent?</strong></p> <p>Peter Gabriel: The way I look at talent in any of the arts is that they’re just languages. In other words, if I was dropped in any country in the world and, in order to survive, had to learn some of the language, I would find a way to do it. Some people would be quicker and better and more adept than others, but everyone could do it. And I feel the same with writing music, with painting, or whatever creative form it is. If you really believed that you’d swallowed a pill that would destroy you in 12 months’ time if you hadn’t proved talent in a certain area, you would be amazed at how much you could do and how good you could be.</p> <p>I think people, we’re creatures, naturally — most of us — full of self-doubt. And you need to have that conviction that there’s something worthwhile that you can do. A lot of people I know who end up doing creative stuff are either — they think they’re a piece of shit or they think they’re the best thing in the world, and possibly both at the same time. So it’s to manage that sort of pathway so that you can actually keep on working hard, is what you need to learn. But what I try to say to any young people now is, “Don’t exclude yourself from anything.”</p> <p>This Achievement — at one of the dinners, I sat next to Sir John Gurdon. He told me when he was in school, all the students in the school — of which there were 250 — he was number 250 in science. And you know he’s now got a Nobel Prize. And he found a teacher afterwards who inspired him and allowed him to think, “Actually, I can do this. I’ve got something — you know, clearly something that I can follow and do well.” So that’s what I say to young people now, is that: “Don’t let any obstacle or people discourage you from what you’re passionate about.” I think it should be like dogs going in the park. You know, you go in there with your tail wagging, you sniff anything interesting, and you jump on it.</p> <p><strong>So your message is that everyone has got talent and it’s kind of managing the path to let it blossom.</strong></p> <p>Peter Gabriel: Yeah, some people are going to get there faster, find it easier, and be more eloquent with it. But it should exclude no one. And everyone has their own voice and the possibility of doing some — let enthusiasm be your compass because you’ll end up enjoying what you do, even if you’re not making a lot of money from it, whereas, if you go where you’re not enthusiastic, you’ll end up miserable.</p> <p><strong>You’ve done so many different kinds of things, from human rights to working with technology to — of course — songwriting and singing. What do you think is the core of your talent?</strong></p> <p>Peter Gabriel: I think I’m a hustler. I’m trying to get things to happen slowly and I work hard. So I think probably it’s that I have managed to fool myself into believing things are possible, and then they become more possible. So when I’ve had impossible dreams — I mean The Elders would be one, and we’re talking with Richard, and it just seems highly improbable that you could make something like that materialize. And we knew we had to get Mandela on board. Otherwise, that wouldn’t have happened. But that, to me, is something, which, in my early days, I wouldn’t have thought, “Well, that’s ridiculous to think we could make something like this happen. So why even start?”</p> <p><strong>What did you learn about getting over the hurdles to make something happen?</strong></p> <p>Peter Gabriel: It’s that you need to put yourself in the right place. My wife recently has come out of cancer, so I’ve spent a little time thinking about how people function and what makes them feel good and keeps their health, and so on. One of the people that I was talking to about this said, in the Kabbalah, there’s some saying that if you get very sick, you change your name and change your address. And actually, that’s quite smart because you’re putting your mental framework in a different environment. I think, to get something done, allow yourself to be this other thing. But the baggage, and what they call the Imposter Syndrome — “I’m not going to be able to do this” or “All these people are saying this stuff about me, and maybe they’re right” — that allows you to shut that out and say, “Okay, it doesn’t matter, actually. Let’s just give it a go and go for it.” And that’s really, I think, the main thing for young people — is, there’s going to be plenty of doubt and naysayers. Trust. I have what I call my little voice, and it sometimes says things to me that are non-rational. And I try, whenever I can, to follow it.</p> <p>One of the recommendations for people is to think of everyone you know. Who makes you feel good and bigger? Who makes you feel bad and smaller? You know where to go, and you know who to exclude. That helps. It seems silly. But the same with, I think, a lot of our activities in life. We need just to analyze, “What’s working for us? Where are we instinctively at ease, feeling we’re going with the flow, and where are we feeling the opposite?” And you just do more of the right stuff.</p> <p><strong>After you created these spectacular costumes and personae onstage, do you feel that other people started copying you? Because quite a lot of people in rock and roll started doing things with make-up and costumes.</strong></p> <p>Peter Gabriel: Well, I know Neil Bogart said, “You persuaded this group called KISS to start wearing stuff.” But their story is very different from that. So I don’t know. But there were — [David] Bowie was always in weird dress, so he was there ahead of us. We did one concert with him in the Roundhouse here, and it was with the Living Theatre, and it was one of these hippie festival things. There were probably 40 people on stage, probably 22 in the audience. It was a miserable event, but it was interesting, and that was my first encounter with Bowie, who both Tony Banks and I have been fans of from early stuff, like “I Can’t Help Thinking About Me” — before his big success. But he was always a good songwriter.</p> <p><strong>You mentioned hearing the Beatles’ “Love Me Do” when you were a kid. Did you have any dealings with Paul McCartney?</strong></p> <p>Peter Gabriel: Yeah, well, I’ve done a couple of things with Paul — a couple of which, he called up the other day and wanted to check it. So we’d started a couple of things, and then I think I got busy. We never got to finish it. And I don’t know — he’s been going off and doing his Egypt thing. But there were a couple of ideas which we were playing with. So yeah, to be going down to his studio and looking at the Beatle bass and hearing some of the Beatle stories, that was a thrill.</p> <p><strong>You’ve said, “Music is a universal language. It draws people together and proves as well as anything the stupidity of racism.”</strong></p> <p>Peter Gabriel: We put together this festival, which is still going now. It was in 1980, we started work on it, and ’82 was our first event. It’s called WOMAD: World of Music, Arts and Dance. A bunch of us had really started hearing what we thought were incredible artists from other countries around the world that were never going to get on our radio at that time. And we just thought — there was maybe a couple of record stores where you could find their music in London — so we thought, “Let’s get an event together and bring a lot of people from around the world.”</p> <p>But I think it was — you know, I really worry right now that we’ve got this whole tide moving of politicians in many countries that are becoming elected, trading on fear and hate and division, and racism is underlying that — and the immigrant as the enemy. Whereas, it was a very few countries that weren’t built out of and by immigrants. Our history is always moving and flowing.</p> <p>The tech world — the social media that I believed would be this great liberating, connecting force — are being more effectively manipulated to divide people and feed extremism. I was at a thing the other night, and this guy mentioned the old journalist maxim, “If it bleeds, it leads” — for prominence of story, what gets on the front page — and I feel that’s where we’re going. Because if you put a good newspaper and a bad newspaper, which is the one people will read? Will they stop at “Someone has a picnic,” or will they stop at a car crash? Human nature, we’re drawn to the drama and the disaster and — I think — any situation where we’ve survived and someone else hasn’t. So you have to work with who we are. But at the same time, it’s amplified. So it’s all this extremist, hate-filled, “anti-them” stuff is silencing our better nature, which I’m still convinced is there.</p> <p><strong>Do we need a new world tour to talk about this?</strong></p> <p>Peter Gabriel: I’m trying to write about it now. I would like to see young people, many of whom are still idealistic, as they always are, create some sort of movement. You know, the hippie movement was what happened when I was a kid. I think we need young people to generate some sort of kickback to this extremist, populist monopoly of the media. I can travel around now, whereas, like the American point of view used to be seen in CNN, now it’s Fox News, which is, in my opinion, a much greater source of fake news than any other.</p> <p><strong>You used to be so positive about the power of technology. A mobile phone in the hands of a poor person could give him limitless knowledge. Are you as optimistic about the power of technology now?</strong></p> <p>Peter Gabriel: One hundred percent. I mean I’m not saying that it isn’t used, but the potential of technology — I was at this XPRIZE dinner the other night, and they have projects now to use technology to feed a billion people, to get kids that can’t read or write, reading and writing in any language within 18 months. We have a project we’re trying to kick-start about streaming medical treatment. Because when the digital revolution hits medicine, not just in diagnostics but in treatment, it’s going to get access to people around the world in the same way that the phone gave people access to communication, to Wikipedia, to Google. You know, it’s very powerful. But I think the people who I believe are working for themselves are using media much more effectively than people who are working for mankind.</p> <p><strong>You co-founded the organization Witness, using the power of video to expose human rights abuses. How did that come about?</strong></p> <p>Peter Gabriel: As a result of this Amnesty “Human Rights Now!” tour, what was very clear is whenever someone had suffered a human rights abuse and they managed to get it on video — or they got their experience, and they were telling their story on video — it was much tougher for those in power to bury that story. People would respond emotionally to the video content. So Reebok Human Rights Foundation, who had funded the Amnesty tour, had this — I made a proposal there to try and bring in an entity, either within their foundation or separate, that would use video and technology and try and arm activists and people who found themselves in a human rights struggle, with video. And eventually — it took a while — that was adopted. And now, I think we have the same opportunity with data. There’s an amazing group called Forensic Architecture, who actually are nominated for the Turner Prize, which is the contemporary art prize over here. They have an amazingly detailed approach to data.</p> <p>We are moving to the age when video can be faked much better. So they would look at — for instance, they’ve got some work on bombs in Syria. They’ve taken photos from everyone’s camera around town, where the bomb was dropped, and recreated a three-dimensional format of the cloud created by the bomb. They’ve also been able to identify the bomb and the manufacturer. So it’s like forensic evidence in supreme detail. And they create a timeline. So it’s basically like creating a three-dimensional version of a bad event, so they can absolutely argue — I mean they don’t get involved in the argument. They just present the evidence and the evidence speaks for itself.</p> <p>They, I think, have taken some of the — Israel-Palestine; they’ve taken a terrorist bomb in Germany. It was actually Brian Eno that introduced me to their work, but I was blown away and thought — I’ve since gone back to Witness, saying, “You know, I think this is the next generation of human rights campaigning.” Rather than have better pictures than the other side, get pictures, but get really good data.</p> <p><strong>Why do you spend time on this? You could be sitting at a beautiful piano in your beautiful studio.</strong></p> <p>Peter Gabriel: Well, I think it’s exciting, and my dad was an electrical engineer-inventor, and he came up with some — with an Italian thing called Dial-a-Programme, which was entertainment on demand — so electronic democracy, home shopping, education on demand. But this was 1971 and access through the rotary dial of a telephone. So he was a little ahead of his time, but his mission was sort of empowering technology. So that is part of what presses my buttons, is when you see people that can use technology to great advantage. So I’m interested in being useful to the world as a whole but also entrepreneurial instincts — I want to get involved with cool stuff in different areas. I have friends at MIT. I’m an adviser at the Media Lab there. I love that sort of thing, and then all this sort of techie stuff.</p> <p>So I think the tech world still has a lot to learn. Also, this dinner was — she’s now a baroness, but Joanna Shields. She worked at Google, and then ran Facebook over here, and then ran the Cyber Security Ministry, or whatever it was, in the UK. They had a program that could identify from voice whether people were going to — voice characteristics — commit acts of terrorism. There were certain patterns they started recognizing just in the voice recordings.</p> <p>She then went with this technology that they developed to the main Facebook and Twitter. Neither of them wanted to take it on. And I asked her why not. She said, “Well, maybe if they knowingly have this stuff, then they are accepting responsibility for content, and they’ve always been trying to say, ‘We’re just the publisher.’”</p> <p><strong>Isn’t it the role of the government to take that on?</strong></p> <p>Peter Gabriel: These organizations are now, I think, a lot bigger than governments. I think national governments have become less and less important. I <em>hope</em><em>,</em> in some ways, too, because I would like to see global and local power, and less national power because I think nationalism is dangerous.</p> <p><strong>You mentioned Nelson Mandela, whom you met through The Elders. How did that come about?</strong></p> <p>Peter Gabriel: Well, there were some conversations with some friends about whether you could get wisdom in world affairs a little higher up the agenda. And it seemed that there were individuals around the world that people respected, at the same time as they’re losing trust in governments, institutions, and politicians — and that, if there was a way that one could get some sort of grouping together, that might be something that could have some influence and impact. Richard [Branson], he was excited. We were exploring ideas, and we both concluded that Mandela had more of this sort of moral currency, having come out of 27 years of jail, trusted his enemy to build the future with him, after they’d killed and tortured many of his friends. That’s a pretty big leap that most leaders are not capable of.</p> <p>But we started seriously around 2001 when he had Mandela to lunch. Mandela was then president of South Africa, and he [Branson] was getting his airline going and wanted to fly to Jo’burg, and so on, and knew Mandela. So he brought me along to that lunch and we did our pitch. Mandela was really not very impressed at the beginning. He said, “I’m sure people in power don’t want a bunch of old-timers interfering.” But by the end of the meal, he said, “There was this time when they asked me to intervene with Hutus and Tutsis, who’d been slaughtering each other in Rwanda.” And the young generals on both sides said, “Actually, we’re only going to negotiate with you. Everyone else here has got an agenda. But with you, it’s like talking to our dad, and we trust you, that you have no interest other than a good outcome for everyone.” So that was the sort of currency that persuaded him to take it on and that convinced him that there was something to explore. So he then, with Graça Machel, put out the invites, and it took a while.</p> <p><strong>Did that lunch with Mandela happen in South Africa?</strong></p> <p>Peter Gabriel: No. That was in London, in Holland Park.</p> <p><strong>When you pitched your idea to Nelson Mandela, and he said, “Well, there was that time when I was asked to stop the slaughter,” what were you thinking?</strong></p> <p>Peter Gabriel: That there was a chance. But it still took another few years to get it because he was being hustled by every well-meaning person in the world who knew that the Mandela magic would sprinkle some fairy dust on whatever it was they were trying to do.</p> <p><strong>But he’d never met a hustler named Peter Gabriel.</strong></p> <p>Peter Gabriel: No, and Richard’s not a bad hustler, either! I’ll tell you, eventually he came around and we had this launch in 2007 in Jo’burg in this former court building where a lot of his black colleagues had been sent to jail and so on. It was an amazing moment.</p> <p><strong>You’re only 68 years old as we sit here in this London hotel room. You still have lots more to do, but when you look back, is there anything you would have done differently?</strong></p> <p>Peter Gabriel: When you get reflective, I always think of my deathbed. I’m not really going to care about anything to do with work. It’s the people you love and treating them right. I think I could have done some things better there. But I’ve had a really interesting life, and I push myself to do things that go where I was afraid and what I was uncomfortable in. And I’ve always got a lot back from it. So I feel very grateful and very lucky in lots of ways.</p> <p><strong>Thank you, Mr. Gabriel. That was fascinating.</strong></p> </div>  </aside>  <div class="read-more__toggle collapsed" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#full-interview"><a href="#" class="sans-4 btn">Read full interview</a></div> </article> </section> </div> <div class="tab-pane" id="gallery" role="tabpanel"> <section class="isotope-wrapper">  <header class="toolbar toolbar--gallery bg-white clearfix"> <div class="col-md-6"> <div class="serif-4">Peter Gabriel Gallery</div> </div> <div class="col-md-6 text-md-right isotope-toolbar"> <ul class="list-unstyled list-inline m-b-0 text-brand-primary sans-4"> <li class="list-inline-item" data-filter=".photo"><i class="icon-icon_camera"></i>23 photos</li> </ul> </div> </header> <div class="isotope-gallery isotope-box single-achiever__gallery clearfix"> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.5261044176707" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2017-wife-Maebh-GettyImages-873735724.jpg" data-image-caption="November 13, 2017: Peter Gabriel with his wife, Meabh Flynn, at the unveiling of the multimedia exhibition <i>The Adoration Trilogy: Searching For Apollo</i> by Alistair Morrison and hosted by Roger Daltrey. (David M. Benett/Getty)" data-image-copyright=""The Adoration Trilogy: Searching For Apollo" By Alistair Morrison At The V&A" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2017-wife-Maebh-GettyImages-873735724-249x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2017-wife-Maebh-GettyImages-873735724-498x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.62631578947368" title="Peter Gabriel performing on stage during his 1986-87 So Tour. (Photo by LGI Stock/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images)" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - Peter Gabriel performing on stage during his 1986-87 So Tour. (Photo by LGI Stock/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images)">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/wp-GettyImages-635943255.jpg" data-image-caption="Peter Gabriel performing on stage during his 1986-87 <i>So</i> Tour. (Photo by LGI Stock/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images)" data-image-copyright="Peter Gabriel Performing" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/wp-GettyImages-635943255-380x238.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2019/05/wp-GettyImages-635943255-760x476.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.66710526315789" title="June 15, 1986: (from left to right) Bono, Sting, Bryan Adams, Peter Gabriel in a press conference at Giants Stadium for the ”Conspiracy of Hope” tour benefiting Amnesty International. (Photo by Ebet Roberts/Redferns and Getty)" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - June 15, 1986: (from left to right) Bono, Sting, Bryan Adams, Peter Gabriel in a press conference at Giants Stadium for the ”Conspiracy of Hope” tour benefiting Amnesty International. (Photo by Ebet Roberts/Redferns and Getty)">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1986-Amnesty-Benefit-Concert-GettyImages-85846731.jpg" data-image-caption="June 15, 1986: (from left to right) Bono, Sting, Bryan Adams, and Peter Gabriel in a press conference at Giants Stadium for the "Conspiracy of Hope" tour benefiting Amnesty International. (Photo by Ebet Roberts/Redferns and Getty)" data-image-copyright="Photo of Bryan ADAMS and STING and BONO and AMNESTY CONCERT" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1986-Amnesty-Benefit-Concert-GettyImages-85846731-380x253.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1986-Amnesty-Benefit-Concert-GettyImages-85846731-760x507.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.66710526315789" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/wp-LondonSummit_0614.jpg" data-image-caption="Two members of the Academy Class of 2017: Award-winning English singer-songwriters Peter Gabriel and Sting at a reception at Claridge’s Hotel in London, England, during the 52nd annual International Achievement Summit. (© Academy of Achievement)" data-image-copyright="wp-LondonSummit_0614" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/wp-LondonSummit_0614-380x253.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2017/11/wp-LondonSummit_0614-760x507.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.5261044176707" title="1973: Peter Gabriel of Genesis wearing his “Magog” costume with a geometrical headdress on stage. (Getty Images)" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - 1973: Peter Gabriel of Genesis wearing his “Magog” costume with a geometrical headdress on stage. (Getty Images)">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1973-MASK-GettyImages-110263566.jpg" data-image-caption="1973: Peter Gabriel of Genesis wearing his “Magog” costume with a geometrical headdress on stage. (Getty Images)" data-image-copyright="Peter Gabriel" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1973-MASK-GettyImages-110263566-249x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1973-MASK-GettyImages-110263566-498x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.66710526315789" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2019-Album-Rated-PG.jpg" data-image-caption="<i>Rated PG</i>, released on April 13, 2019, is a collection of Peter Gabriel songs from the movies. Having always loved the combination of film and music (at age 17, he gave up a place at film school to pursue a career in music), Gabriel’s first opportunity to really marry these twin interests came when he was asked to create the music for <i>Birdy</i> in 1985." data-image-copyright="2019 - Album - Rated PG" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2019-Album-Rated-PG-380x253.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2019-Album-Rated-PG-760x507.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.66710526315789" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/wp-2280-townshend-et-2019Summit_0646.jpg" data-image-caption="September 2019: Peter Gabriel presents the Golden Plate Award to The Who’s Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey at the Banquet of the Golden Plate ceremonies during the International Achievement Summit in New York City." data-image-copyright="wp-2280-townshend-et-2019Summit_0646" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/wp-2280-townshend-et-2019Summit_0646-380x253.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2019/05/wp-2280-townshend-et-2019Summit_0646-760x507.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.66578947368421" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2014-Rock-and-Roll-Hall-of-Fame-GettyImages-483891839.jpg" data-image-caption="April 10, 2014: Peter Gabriel speaks onstage at the 29th Annual Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center in New York City. The Hall of Fame Class of 2014 included Nirvana, Brian Epstein and Andrew Loog Oldham, Linda Ronstadt, Cat Stevens, Hall and Oates, KISS and the E Street Band. (© Larry Busacca)" data-image-copyright="29th Annual Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony - Show" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2014-Rock-and-Roll-Hall-of-Fame-GettyImages-483891839-380x253.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2014-Rock-and-Roll-Hall-of-Fame-GettyImages-483891839-760x506.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.8" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/wp-LondonSummit_0677.jpg" data-image-caption="Academy Awards Council member and violin virtuoso Joshua Bell presenting the Academy of Achievement’s Golden Plate Award to Peter Gabriel during the 2017 International Achievement Summit at Claridge’s in London. (© Academy of Achievement)" data-image-copyright="wp-LondonSummit_0677" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/wp-LondonSummit_0677-380x304.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2017/11/wp-LondonSummit_0677-760x608.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.69736842105263" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2007-The-Elders-GettyImages-94579196.jpg" data-image-caption="July 18, 2007: Peter Gabriel greets former South African President Nelson Mandela, in the company of Mandela’s wife, Graca Machel, billionaire Richard Branson, and former U.S. President Jimmy Carter in Johannesburg, South Africa. On his 89th birthday, Nelson Mandela announced the formation of The Elders: a small, dedicated group of leaders who will work objectively, free from vested personal interest, to help address global challenges. (© Getty)" data-image-copyright="Musician Peter Gabriel, second left, shakes the hand of form" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2007-The-Elders-GettyImages-94579196-380x265.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2007-The-Elders-GettyImages-94579196-760x530.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.0570236439499" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2006-Man-of-Peace-Award-GettyImages-72589936.jpg" data-image-caption="November 17, 2006: British musician and human rights activist Peter Gabriel receives the Dafne of Peace statuette as he is awarded the 2006 Man of Peace Prize from two Nobel Peace Prize laureates, Northern Ireland civil rights activist Mairead Corrigan Maguire and Poland’s former president and Solidarity union leader Lech Walesa, during the opening ceremony of the 7th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates in Rome. (PATRICK HERTZOG/AFP/Getty)" data-image-copyright="British musician and human rights activi" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2006-Man-of-Peace-Award-GettyImages-72589936-360x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2006-Man-of-Peace-Award-GettyImages-72589936-719x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.66710526315789" title="November 29, 2003: Peter Gabriel sings a tribute to anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko at the ‘46664’ Concert at Green Point Stadium in Cape Town, South Africa. Former South African President Nelson conceived the ‘46664’ Concert, named after Mandela’s prison number, as part of his world advocacy for action against AIDS. (© Getty)" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - November 29, 2003: Peter Gabriel sings a tribute to anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko at the ‘46664’ Concert at Green Point Stadium in Cape Town, South Africa. Former South African President Nelson conceived the ‘46664’ Concert, named after Mandela’s prison number, as part of his world advocacy for action against AIDS. (© Getty)">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2003-46664-CONCERT-IN-CAPE-TOWN-GettyImages-2769338.jpg" data-image-caption="November 29, 2003: Peter Gabriel sings a tribute to anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko at the "46664" Concert at Green Point Stadium in Cape Town, South Africa. Former South African President Nelson conceived the "46664" Concert, named after Mandela’s prison number, as part of his world advocacy for action against AIDS. (© Getty)" data-image-copyright="Singer Peter Gabriel sings a tribute to" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2003-46664-CONCERT-IN-CAPE-TOWN-GettyImages-2769338-380x253.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2003-46664-CONCERT-IN-CAPE-TOWN-GettyImages-2769338-760x507.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.4587332053743" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1993-WOMAD-GettyImages-599012949.jpg" data-image-caption="September 3, 1993: Peter Gabriel and Irish singer-songwriter Sinéad O’Connor perform together onstage at Marcus Amphitheater in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, during the U.S. tour of the WOMAD arts festival. (Paul Natkin/Getty Images)" data-image-copyright="Gabriel &amp; O'Connor At The Marcus Ampitheater" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1993-WOMAD-GettyImages-599012949-261x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1993-WOMAD-GettyImages-599012949-521x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.484375" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1993-Grammy-for-Digging-in-the-Dirt-GettyImages-50705327.jpg" data-image-caption="1993: Peter Gabriel holding his Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video for the second single, “Steam,” from his album <i>Us</i> at the 36th annual Grammy Awards. (Time Life Pictures/DMI/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty)" data-image-copyright="Peter Gabriel" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1993-Grammy-for-Digging-in-the-Dirt-GettyImages-50705327-256x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1993-Grammy-for-Digging-in-the-Dirt-GettyImages-50705327-512x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.67631578947368" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1987-RECORDING-STUDIO-GettyImages-50387714.jpg" data-image-caption="1987: Peter Gabriel in his recording studio in Ashcombe House at Swainswick in Somerset, England. Gabriel converted the house’s barn into his home studio and recorded three of his albums: <i>Peter Gabriel/Security</i> (1982), the soundtrack to <i>Birdy</i> (1985), and <i>So</i> (1986). (Photo by Peter Jordan/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images)" data-image-copyright="Peter Gabriel" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1987-RECORDING-STUDIO-GettyImages-50387714-380x257.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1987-RECORDING-STUDIO-GettyImages-50387714-760x514.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.4814814814815" title="On May 19, 1986, Gabriel released his fifth studio album So. So was a watershed release in his career. Its marriage of the artistic and the commercial made for an indisputable success, with the album quickly sitting atop the album charts on both sides of the Atlantic. Aside from some intriguing collaborations – with Laurie Anderson on “This Is The Picture,” Kate Bush on “Don’t Give Up” and Youssou N’Dour on “In Your Eyes” – it was the unity of singer, band and producer that made So such a crucial record in the Gabriel canon. (Photo by Ebet Roberts/Redferns and Getty)" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - On May 19, 1986, Gabriel released his fifth studio album So. So was a watershed release in his career. Its marriage of the artistic and the commercial made for an indisputable success, with the album quickly sitting atop the album charts on both sides of the Atlantic. Aside from some intriguing collaborations – with Laurie Anderson on “This Is The Picture,” Kate Bush on “Don’t Give Up” and Youssou N’Dour on “In Your Eyes” – it was the unity of singer, band and producer that made So such a crucial record in the Gabriel canon. (Photo by Ebet Roberts/Redferns and Getty)">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1986-GettyImages-85847673.jpg" data-image-caption="On May 19, 1986, Peter Gabriel released his fifth studio album, <i>So</i>. <i>So</i> was a watershed release in his career. Its marriage of the artistic and the commercial made for an indisputable success, with the album quickly sitting atop the album charts on both sides of the Atlantic. Aside from some intriguing collaborations — with Laurie Anderson on “This Is The Picture,” Kate Bush on “Don’t Give Up,” and Youssou N’Dour on “In Your Eyes” — it was the unity of singer, band, and producer that made <i>So</i> such a crucial record in the Gabriel canon. (Photo by Ebet Roberts/Redferns and Getty)" data-image-copyright="Photo of Peter GABRIEL" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1986-GettyImages-85847673-257x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1986-GettyImages-85847673-513x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.4901960784314" title="1982: Peter Gabriel wearing monkey make-up for the song “Shock the Monkey,” in Rome, Italy. (Luciano Viti/Getty)" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - 1982: Peter Gabriel wearing monkey make-up for the song “Shock the Monkey,” in Rome, Italy. (Luciano Viti/Getty)">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1982-SHOCK-THE-MONKEY-GettyImages-1135080346.jpg" data-image-caption="1982: Peter Gabriel wearing monkey make-up for the song “Shock the Monkey,” in Rome, Italy. (Luciano Viti/Getty)" data-image-copyright="Peter Gabriel" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1982-SHOCK-THE-MONKEY-GettyImages-1135080346-255x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1982-SHOCK-THE-MONKEY-GettyImages-1135080346-510x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.4990138067061" title="March 1977: Peter Gabriel performing in New York, a year after leaving Genesis. “Solsbury Hill,” his debut single as a solo artist was an instant hit, reaching the Top 20 in the UK Singles Chart. (Photo by Michael Putland and Getty)" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - March 1977: Peter Gabriel performing in New York, a year after leaving Genesis. “Solsbury Hill,” his debut single as a solo artist was an instant hit, reaching the Top 20 in the UK Singles Chart. (Photo by Michael Putland and Getty)">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1977-GettyImages-720831907.jpg" data-image-caption="March 1977: Peter Gabriel performing in New York, a year after leaving Genesis. “Solsbury Hill,” his debut single as a solo artist, was an instant hit, reaching the Top 20 in the UK Singles Chart. (Photo by Michael Putland and Getty)" data-image-copyright="Peter Gabriel On Stage" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1977-GettyImages-720831907-253x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1977-GettyImages-720831907-507x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.65789473684211" title="1974: Genesis lead singer Peter Gabriel and guitarist Steve Hackett performing at Colston Hall. (Fin Costello/Getty)" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - 1974: Genesis lead singer Peter Gabriel and guitarist Steve Hackett performing at Colston Hall. (Fin Costello/Getty)">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1974-GettyImages-84892713.jpg" data-image-caption="1974: Genesis lead singer Peter Gabriel and guitarist Steve Hackett performing at Colston Hall. (Fin Costello/Getty)" data-image-copyright="Photo of GENESIS and Peter GABRIEL and Steve HACKETT" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1974-GettyImages-84892713-380x250.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1974-GettyImages-84892713-760x500.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.71184210526316" title="1972: Progressive rock group Genesis: (left to right) Drummer Phil Collins, guitarist Mike Rutherford, keyboard and guitarist Tony Banks, singer Peter Gabriel, and drummer Steve Hackett. (Michael Ochs Archives and Getty Images)" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - 1972: Progressive rock group Genesis: (left to right) Drummer Phil Collins, guitarist Mike Rutherford, keyboard and guitarist Tony Banks, singer Peter Gabriel, and drummer Steve Hackett. (Michael Ochs Archives and Getty Images)">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1972-Genesis-Portrait-GettyImages-93328021.jpg" data-image-caption="1972: Progressive rock group Genesis (left to right): Drummer Phil Collins, guitarist Mike Rutherford, keyboard player Tony Banks, singer Peter Gabriel, and drummer Steve Hackett. (Michael Ochs Archives and Getty Images)" data-image-copyright="Prog-Rock Group "Genesis" Portrait" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1972-Genesis-Portrait-GettyImages-93328021-380x271.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1972-Genesis-Portrait-GettyImages-93328021-760x541.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.4" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/gabriel-Feature-Image-3-Recovered.jpg" data-image-caption="December 3, 2014: Peter Gabriel performs live on stage at Wembley Arena during his <i>Back to Front</i> tour, in London, UK. (Photo by Jim Dyson/Redferns via Getty Images)" data-image-copyright="gabriel-Feature-Image-3-Recovered" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/gabriel-Feature-Image-3-Recovered-380x152.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2019/05/gabriel-Feature-Image-3-Recovered-760x304.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.4448669201521" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2008-grammy-for-wall-e-song-DOWN-TO-EARTH-GettyImages-81921947.jpg" data-image-caption="July 13, 2008: Actress Sigourney Weaver and Peter Gabriel attend the UK premiere of the Pixar film <i>WALL-E </i> at the Empire Leicester Square in London. “Down to Earth,” co-written and performed by Peter Gabriel for the film, won the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media. (© Jon Furniss)" data-image-copyright="WALL-E - UK Premiere" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2008-grammy-for-wall-e-song-DOWN-TO-EARTH-GettyImages-81921947-263x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2008-grammy-for-wall-e-song-DOWN-TO-EARTH-GettyImages-81921947-526x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.68947368421053" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/wp-LondonSummit_0313.jpg" data-image-caption="2017: Peter Gabriel, English singer-songwriter and humanitarian, addresses Academy of Achievement delegates and members at Claridge’s Hotel in London, England, during the 52nd annual International Achievement Summit. 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Carson, M.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/jimmy-carter/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Jimmy Carter</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/johnny-cash/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Johnny Cash</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/william-j-clinton/"><span class="achiever-list-name">William J. Clinton</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/francis-s-collins/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/denton-a-cooley/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Denton A. Cooley, M.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/francis-ford-coppola/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Francis Ford Coppola</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/ray-dalio/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Ray Dalio</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/olivia-de-havilland/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Dame Olivia de Havilland</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/michael-e-debakey-m-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Michael E. DeBakey, M.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/michael-dell/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Michael S. Dell</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/ron-dennis/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Ron Dennis</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/joan-didion/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Joan Didion</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/david-herbert-donald-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">David Herbert Donald, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/david-doubilet/"><span class="achiever-list-name">David Doubilet</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/jennifer-a-doudna-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Jennifer A. Doudna, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/rita-dove/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Rita Dove</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/sylvia-earle/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Sylvia Earle, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/elbaradei/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Mohamed ElBaradei</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/gertrude-elion/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Gertrude B. Elion, M.Sc.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/larry-j-ellison/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Larry J. Ellison</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/nora-ephron/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Nora Ephron</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/julius-erving/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Julius Erving</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/tony-fadell/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Tony Fadell</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/paul-farmer/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Paul Farmer, M.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/suzanne-farrell/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Suzanne Farrell</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/anthony-s-fauci-m-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Anthony S. Fauci, M.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/sally-field/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Sally Field</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/lord-norman-foster/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Lord Norman Foster</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/aretha-franklin/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Aretha Franklin</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/milton-friedman-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Milton Friedman, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/carlos-fuentes/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Carlos Fuentes</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/athol-fugard/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Athol Fugard</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/peter-gabriel/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Peter Gabriel</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/ernest-j-gaines/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Ernest J. Gaines</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/william-h-gates-iii/"><span class="achiever-list-name">William H. Gates III</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/leymah-gbowee/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Leymah Gbowee</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/frank-gehry/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Frank O. Gehry</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/murray-gell-mann-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Murray Gell-Mann, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/carlos-ghosn/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Carlos Ghosn</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/vince-gill/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Vince Gill</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/ruth-bader-ginsburg/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Ruth Bader Ginsburg</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/louise-gluck/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Louise Glück</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/whoopi-goldberg/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Whoopi Goldberg</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/jane-goodall/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Dame Jane Goodall</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/doris-kearns-goodwin/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Doris Kearns Goodwin, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/mikhail-s-gorbachev/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Mikhail S. Gorbachev</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/nadine-gordimer/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Nadine Gordimer</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/stephen-jay-gould/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Stephen Jay Gould, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/carol-greider-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Carol W. Greider, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/john-grisham/"><span class="achiever-list-name">John Grisham</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/sir-john-gurdon/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Sir John Gurdon</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/dorothy-hamill/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Dorothy Hamill</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/demis-hassabis-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Demis Hassabis, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/lauryn-hill/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Lauryn Hill</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/sir-edmund-hillary/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Sir Edmund Hillary</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/reid-hoffman/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Reid Hoffman</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/khaled-hosseini/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Khaled Hosseini, M.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/ron-howard/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Ron Howard</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/john-hume/"><span class="achiever-list-name">John Hume</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/louis-ignarro-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Louis Ignarro, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/daniel-inouye/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Daniel K. Inouye</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/jeremy-irons/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Jeremy Irons</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/john-irving/"><span class="achiever-list-name">John Irving</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/kazuo-ishiguro/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Sir Kazuo Ishiguro</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/sir-peter-jackson/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Sir Peter Jackson</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/donald-c-johanson/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Donald C. Johanson, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/frank-m-johnson/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Frank M. Johnson, Jr.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/philip-johnson/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Philip C. Johnson</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/chuck-jones/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Chuck Jones</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/james-earl-jones/"><span class="achiever-list-name">James Earl Jones</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/quincy-jones/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Quincy Jones</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/beverly-joubert/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Beverly Joubert</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/dereck-joubert/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Dereck Joubert</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/paul-kagame/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Paul Kagame</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/thomas-keller-2/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Thomas Keller</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/anthony-m-kennedy/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Anthony M. Kennedy</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/carole-king/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Carole King</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/b-b-king/"><span class="achiever-list-name">B.B. King</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/coretta-scott-king/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Coretta Scott King</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/henry-kissinger-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Henry A. Kissinger, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/willem-j-kolff/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Willem J. Kolff, M.D., Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/wendy-kopp/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Wendy Kopp</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/henry-r-kravis/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Henry R. Kravis</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/nicholas-d-kristof/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Nicholas D. Kristof</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/mike-krzyzewski/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Mike Krzyzewski</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/ray-kurzwell/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Ray Kurzweil</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/eric-lander-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Eric S. Lander, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/robert-s-langer-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Robert S. Langer, Sc.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/richard-leakey/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Richard E. Leakey</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/leon-lederman-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Leon Lederman, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/robert-lefkowitz-m-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Robert J. Lefkowitz, M.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/congressman-john-r-lewis/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Congressman John R. Lewis</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/maya-lin/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Maya Lin</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/george-lucas/"><span class="achiever-list-name">George Lucas</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/paul-b-maccready-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Paul B. MacCready, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/norman-mailer/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Norman Mailer</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/peyton-manning/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Peyton Manning</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/wynton-marsalis/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Wynton Marsalis</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/john-c-mather-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">John C. Mather, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/johnny-mathis/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Johnny Mathis</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/ernst-mayr-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Ernst Mayr, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/willie-mays/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Willie Mays</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/frank-mccourt/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Frank McCourt</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/david-mccullough/"><span class="achiever-list-name">David McCullough</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/audra-mcdonald/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Audra McDonald</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/admiral-william-h-mcraven/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Admiral William H. McRaven, USN</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/w-s-merwin/"><span class="achiever-list-name">W. S. Merwin</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/reinhold-messner/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Reinhold Messner</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/james-a-michener/"><span class="achiever-list-name">James A. Michener</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/marvin-minsky-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Marvin Minsky, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/mario-j-molina-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Mario J. Molina, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/n-scott-momaday-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">N. Scott Momaday, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/story-musgrave/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Story Musgrave, M.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/ralph-nader/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Ralph Nader</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/peggy-noonan/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Peggy Noonan</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/jessye-norman/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Jessye Norman</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/tommy-norris/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Lt. Thomas R. Norris, USN</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/joyce-carol-oates/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Joyce Carol Oates</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/pierre-omidyar/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Pierre Omidyar</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/jimmy-page/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Jimmy Page</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/larry-page/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Larry Page</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/arnold-palmer/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Arnold Palmer</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/leon-panetta/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Leon Panetta</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/rosa-parks/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Rosa Parks</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/suzan-lori-parks/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Suzan-Lori Parks</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/linus-pauling/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Linus C. Pauling, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/shimon-peres/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Shimon Peres</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/itzhak-perlman/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Itzhak Perlman</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/general-david-petraeus/"><span class="achiever-list-name">General David H. Petraeus, USA</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/sidney-poitier/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Sidney Poitier</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20200917235217/https://achievement.org/achiever/general-colin-l-powell/"><span class="achiever-list-name">General Colin L. 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