Biography
Peter Brian Gabriel is an English singer-songwriter, record producer and humanitarian who rose to fame as the original lead singer and flautist of the progressive rock band Genesis. After leaving Genesis in 1975, Gabriel 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. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Gabriel
Album & Cover
Peter Gabriel 2 also known as ‘scratch’, is the second solo studio album by English singer-songwriter Peter Gabriel. The album is the second of four with the same eponymous title. Guitarist Robert Fripp served as producer, whose influence on the album is evident in the use of ‘Frippertronics’ on the track “Exposure”. The album did not sell as well as the first Peter Gabriel, but reached No. 10 on the UK charts. “Mother of Violence” was written by Peter and his first wife Jill Gabriel. This album is often referred to as Scratch, referring to the album cover.This album was originally intended as part of a loose trilogy with Robert Fripp’s Exposure and Daryl Hall’s Sacred Songs (all three albums were produced by Fripp).
An obsession with Hipgnosis was the 2D/3D conundrum and is used to great effect on the cover. As Richard Manning says that this was a relatively simple artwork to produce. I was given the b/w picture and then tore strips from a sheet of cartridge paper and with Columbia Cement fixed them in position, to give the impression he had scratched the print away with his finger nails. http://www.richardmanning.co.uk/hipgnosis-album-cover-art/peter-gabriel-2—1980/29
Cover Location: Somewhere in New York in the snow and beside Hipgnosis studio in London.
Who Did What: Photography: A. Powell/P. Christopherson. Graphics: Colin Elgie/Hipgnosis.
Label: Atlantic SD 19181(US), Charisma CDS 4013(UK)
Source: Vinyl. Album. Cover. Art, The Complete Hipgnosis Catalogue: Aubrey Powell
| Side One On The Air D.I.Y. Mother Of Violence A Wonderful Day In A One-Way World White Shadow |
Side Two Indigo Animal Magic Exposure Flotsam And Jetsam Perspective Home Sweet Home |
Credits
Acoustic Guitar – Robert Fripp (tracks: A5), Sidney McGinnis (tracks: A2, A3)
Arranged By [Recorder Arrangements] – Tony Levin (tracks: B1, B4)
Backing Vocals – Jerry Marotta (tracks: A1, A4, B5, B6), Peter Gabriel (tracks: A1, A4, B2, B5, B6), Sidney McGinnis (tracks: B2), Tony Levin (tracks: A1, A4, B2, B5, B6)
Bass – Tony Levin (tracks: A1, A5, B2, B3, B5, B6)
Bass [String Bass] – Tony Levin (tracks: B2)
Chapman Stick – Tony Levin (tracks: A2, A4, B4)
Coordinator – Richard Macphail
Drums – Jerry Marotta (tracks: A1, A2, A4, A5, B1 to B6)
Electric Guitar – Robert Fripp (tracks: A1, A3, A5, B5), Sidney McGinnis (tracks: A1, A4, B3 to B6)
Electronics [Frippertronics] – Robert Fripp (tracks: B3)
Engineer – Ed Sprigg, Michael Getlin, Steve Tayler, Steve Short
Engineer [Assistant] – Michael Ruffo
Keyboards – A2, A4, B1, B2, Roy Bittan (tracks: A1, A3, A5, B1, B5, B6)
Management – Tony Smith (13)
Mandolin – Sidney McGinnis (tracks: A2)
Music By, Words By – Peter Gabriel
Organ – Peter Gabriel (tracks: B6)
Other [Insects Courtesy Of] – John Tims
Piano – Peter Gabriel (tracks: A2)
Producer – Robert Fripp
Recorder – George Marge (tracks: B1, B3, B4)
Saxophone – Timmy Capello(tracks: B5, B6)
Steel Guitar – Sidney McGinnis (tracks: A3 to A5, B1, B4, B6)
Synthesizer, Performer [Treatments}] – Larry Fast (tracks: A1, A2, A5, B2, B5)
Technician [Equipment] – Albert Lawrence, David Price
Written-By – Peter Gabriel
