Table of Contents
Prologue: A Man Who Would Never Compromise His Art For Anything 9
Introduction: A Really Interesting Life 13
Part 1 From Genesis: 1950-1975
1 Lead A Normal Life 21
2 Crying Or Masturbating, Or Both: Charterhouse 28
3 Listen And Cast Your Mind Into The Sound Spectrum 41
4 Christmas Wishes 49
5 The Famous Charisma Label 60
6 If Keith Emerson Likes Them, They Must Be Good 74
7 Always Worried About Something Or Another 90
8 Part-James Brown, Part-Chamber Of Horrors, Part-Camp Seaside Revue 101
9 Love, Peace And Truth Incorporated: Selling England By The Pound 113
10 A Yellow Plastic Shoobedoobe - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway 127
Part 2 I Will Show Another Me: 1975-1986
11 Walked Right Out Of The Machinery 149
12 The Expected Unexpected 157
13 Keeping It Small 174
14 Happy In The Dark 188
15 A New Age Of Electronic Skiffle: Security 209
16 As Excited As We Were: WOMAD 220
17 Watch The Birdy 233
18 The Tremble In The Hips: So 245
Part 3 To Revelation: 1986-2018
19 Life Is One Big Adventure: So And Its Aftermath 259
20 Unquestionably Rhubarb 278
21 Dark And Sticky 288
22 See It. Film It. Change it. 299
23 A General Feeling Of Beautiful Dread - Up 319
24 Man Of Peace 330
25 That Sort Of Light Footedness I Enjoy Now: Scratch My Back 344
26 Happy Family Snapshot 353
27 Dream Big And Let Your Imagination Guide You 366
Afterword: Peter Is Who Peter Is 381
Peter Gabriel: A Postface by Richard Macphail 387
Discography 389
Acknowledgements 411
Bibliography 414
Index 432