Peter Gabriel
The huge, abruptly cut-off drum sound that defined 80s pop was famously captured from Phil Collins's kit during sessions for Peter Gabriel's third album, where Gabriel had banned cymbals altogether.
By then he had left Genesis, where he fronted the band in costumes and masks, and his early solo records, all simply titled Peter Gabriel, mixed art rock with sampling and African rhythms, as on the anti-apartheid anthem 'Biko'. So became his biggest seller, with 'Sledgehammer', its stop-motion video an MTV fixture, and the Kate Bush duet 'Don't Give Up'.
He co-founded the WOMAD festival and Real World Records to champion music from around the globe. i/o, released in 2023, was his first collection of new songs in more than two decades, and its mirror-image follow-up o\i has been arriving a track at a time through 2026.
If you like Peter Gabriel you should check out: Kate Bush, Talking Heads, Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, King Crimson, Talk Talk, Roxy Music, David Bowie, Radiohead, Massive Attack
