PETER GABRIEL 3 now hailed as a masterpiece. At time? Got him canned from his label. One exec asked him to his face if he had "mental probs"
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Replying to @EsotericCD
To be fair, execs had a pt: songs on PG3 about assassinating a President (told from assassin's POV!), sexual addiction, insanity & stalking.
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Replying to @EsotericCD
And PG3 ends with a weird 7.5m tribute to unknown murdered South African civil rights activist, complete w/bagpipes & African chant: "Biko."
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Replying to @EsotericCD
The activist wasn't exactly unknown! And the song is one of Gabriel's most famous/popular early tracks.
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Replying to @notjessewalker
Close to his best-ever, I'd reckon. But nobody outside the super-politically engaged knew who Biko was in USA 1980.
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Replying to @EsotericCD
I can only speak for a few years later, but if you were involved at all in anti-apartheid stuff in the '80s, you knew the name.
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(Of course, part of what made him famous was the song.)
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Exactly. Song fed into existing activism base and amplified Biko's story to wider public (including me).
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