“Supper’s Ready,” the epic closer from 1972’s Foxtrot, conjures scenes from the end of the Book of Revelation: “Can’t you feel our souls ignite? / Shedding ever-changing colors / In the darkness of the fading night / Like the river joins the ocean.”Īfter leaving the band, Gabriel turned into an unlikely international pop star, navigating a solo career that grappled brilliantly with advances in technology and schisms in world politics, like calling out South African apartheid while exploring synthesizers and drum machines on the 1980 hit “Biko.” But he never stopped musing on the power in numbers. This is the most scrutable message to be gleaned from the metaphysical narratives he pitched in an impactful stint as the singer of Genesis, the prog-rock band he created with schoolmates in 1967, whose apocalyptic concept albums resolve themselves through calls for radical togetherness. If there’s a through line to be teased out of the over 50 years of shiftless musical experimentation by British art-rock titan Peter Gabriel, it’s that there’s no obstacle humanity can’t overcome by pooling resources.
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