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vinyl LP front cover detail
artwork: David Gardner, Malcolm Poynter, Peter Gabriel
detail photo of album cover by Styrous®
Today is the birthday of Peter Gabriel. I will never forget seeing the video on MTV of his single, Shock the Monkey, from his fourth self-titled album, which was issued in the US under the title Security. All songs were written by Gabriel with "Texte" (lyrics) by Gabriel and Horst Königstein. The song peaked at number 29 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart and number one on the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. Monkey was Gabriel's first Top 40 hit in the US. In the UK, the song charted at number 58. According to AllMusic:
, " . . . the song has a "relentlessly repeated hook" that "sounded nothing like anything else on the radio at the time".And that's true; even though I was familiar with his previous albums and his work with Genesis, I had never heard anything like it ANYWHERE. Of course, I immediately ran out and bought the album!
vinyl LP back cover detail
artwork: David Gardner, Malcolm Poynter, Peter Gabriel
detail photo of album cover by Styrous®
However, Monkey
turned out to be the tip of the iceberg; each and every song on
the album is completely unique, fascinating and brilliant and I fell
head over heels in love with it. Then, a while later, I was
rummaging around in a record store and, lo and behold, I discovered it had been recorded
in German! My eyes popped out and I snapped it up immediately!!!
vinyl LP front cover
artwork: David Gardner, Malcolm Poynter, Peter Gabriel
photo of album cover by Styrous®
Deutsches Album (1982) is Gabriel's German-language adaptation
of his fourth album. It was released simultaneously with the
international edition in Germany. In contrast, Deutsches Album differs from its international release in several ways. As stated above, it was issued in the US under the title Security.
Some of the songs are substantially remixed and are, for
instance, 15–30 seconds longer or shorter than their international
versions.
Track eight, Mundzumundbeatmung (Kiss Of Life), gains a final coda not found on the English version, while track seven has an earlier instrumental fade. The background vocals are redone in German.
vinyl LP back cover
artwork: David Gardner, Malcolm Poynter, Peter Gabriel
photo of album back cover by Styrous®Tony Levin performs on the album with electric bass and Chapman Stick; he has worked with Gabriel since 1977. I saw Levin at the Greek Theater in Berkeley, California (link below), when he was here with King Crimson; it was an amazing concert.
vinyl LP back cover detail
artwork: David Gardner, Malcolm Poynter, Peter Gabriel
detail photo of album cover by Styrous®Larry Fast performs on synthesizer and he is fantastic. He is best known for his 1975–1987 series of synthesizer music albums (Synergy) and for his contributions to a number of popular music acts, including Foreigner, Nektar, Bonnie Tyler, and Hall & Oates.
David Lord also plays synthesizer on the album. He is an English composer and record producer, known for his work with Gabriel as well as The Pretenders, The Korgis and XTC.
John Ellis sings backup as well as plays guitar on the album. Ellis was a co-founder of the pub rock band Bazooka Joe in 1970 and a founding member of the punk rock band The Vibrators. Between late 1990 and 2000, Ellis was a member of the punk rock band The Stranglers, starting with the album Stranglers in the Night.
Also singing backup on some of the cuts is Peter Hammill. He is an English singer-songwriter and a founder member of the progressive rock band Van der Graaf Generator. In 1991 he wrote the opera, The Fall of the House of Usher, based on the 1839 short story by Edgar Allan Poe, which starred new wave singer, Lene Lovich, playing Madeline Usher.
In 1997, I used the song, Der Rhythmus der Hitze (The Rhythm Of The Heat) in the last fashion show I produced for the art to wear boutique, Obiko (link below).
Peter Gabriel was born on February 13, 1950, in Chobham, Surrey, in South East England.
He is an English musician, singer, songwriter, record producer and
activist. He rose to fame as the original lead singer of the progressive rock band Genesis. After leaving Genesis in 1975, he launched a successful solo career with Solsbury Hill as his first single. His 1986 album, So,
is his best-selling release and is certified triple platinum in the UK
and five times platinum in the U.S. The album's most successful single, Sledgehammer, won a record nine MTV Awards at the 1987 MTV Video Music Awards and, according to a report in 2011, it was the most played music video on MTV of all time.
Gabriel remarked of his early influences, "Hymns played quite a large part. They were the closest I came to soul music
before I discovered soul music. There are certain hymns that you can
scream your lungs out on, and I used to love that. It was great when you
used to get the old shivers down the back."
At age 12, Gabriel wrote his first song, Sammy the Slug. Around this
time, an aunt gave him money for professional singing lessons, but he
used it to buy the Beatles' first album Please Please Me. In September 1963, he started at Charterhouse, a public school in Godalming, Surrey. There, he was a drummer and vocalist for his first band: the trad jazz outfit the Milords (or M'Lords). This was followed by a holiday band called the Spoken Word.
In 1965, Gabriel formed Garden Wall with school friends Tony Banks on piano and Chris Stewart
on drums. Banks had started at Charterhouse at the same time as
Gabriel; the two were uninterested in school activities but bonded over
music and started to write songs. At a final concert before they split,
Gabriel, dressed in a kaftan and beads, showered the audience with
petals he had picked from neighbouring gardens.
Track listing
Side One
- "Der Rhythmus der Hitze" (The Rhythm Of The Heat) – 5:36
- "Das Fischernetz" (The Fishing Net) – 6:45
- "Kon Takt!" (I Have The Touch) – 4:31
- "San Jacinto" – 6:13
Side two
- "Schock den Affen" (Shock The Monkey) – 5:43
- "Handauflegen" (Lay Your Hands On Me) – 6:02
- "Nicht die Erde hat dich verschluckt" (Wallflower) – 5:59
- "Mundzumundbeatmung" (Kiss Of Life) – 4:54
Personnel:
- Peter Gabriel – vocals, programming and sequencing (tracks 1–6), synthesizer, piano (track 7), surdo (tracks 1, 8), additional drums on track 2
- Tony Levin – bass guitar (tracks 1, 6–8), Chapman stick (tracks 2–5)
- David Rhodes – guitar (tracks 2–8)
- Jerry Marotta – drums, percussion (tracks 1, 5, 6)
- Larry Fast – synthesizer (tracks 1–5, 7, 8), electronic percussion (track 8)
- John Ellis – backing vocals on tracks 1, 3, 8, guitar on tracks 2, 4
- Roberto Laneri – treated saxophone on track 4
- Morris Pert – timbales on track 6, percussion on track 8
- Stephen Paine – programming on track 4
- David Lord – synthesizer on tracks 6, 7, piano on tracks 7, 8
- Peter Hammill – backing vocals on tracks 4, 5, 6
- Jill Gabriel – backing vocals on track 2
- Ekome Dance Company – Ghanaian drums on track 1
- Greg Fulginiti – mastering
- Malcolm Poynter, with professional help from his editor friend David Gardner and Peter Gabriel – sleeve design
Companies, etc.
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Phonogram International
Mixed At – Crescent Studios
Lacquer Cut at – PRS Hannover
Credits:
• Engineer [Sound Assistant] – Neil Perry
• Lyrics By – Horst Königstein
• Producer – Peter Gabriel
• Producer, Engineer [Sound] – David Lord
• Written-By – Peter Gabriel
Notes:
On labels:
℗ 1982
Made in West Germany
Barcode and Other Identifiers
Matrix / Runout (Label side B): AA 6302 221.2 Y
Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, stamped): 6302 221 1Y 320 O 1
Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, stamped): 6302 221 2Y 320 L 1
Rights Society: GEMA
Label Code: LC 1409
Peter Gabriel – Deutsches Album
Label: Charisma – 6302 221
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: Germany
Released: Sep 7, 1982
Genre: Rock
Style: Art Rock
Label: Charisma – 6302 221
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: Germany
Released: Sep 7, 1982
Genre: Rock
Style: Art Rock
Viewfinder links:
Net links:
Dangerous Minds ~ Peter Gabriel’s German albums
Peter Gabriel ~ deutsches album
Louder Sound~ Peter Gabriel’s German Release Excursion
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