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Peter Gabriel 3
Peter Gabriel 3

Peter Gabriel 3 (Melt) (UK / CD)

One of Q Magazine's top 100 Greatest British Albums Produced by Steve Lillywhite, this album of May 1980 features Jerry Marotta and Phil Collins drumming, the guitar of Robert Fripp, David Rhodes, Paul Weller and XTC's Dave Gregory, with vocals from Peter and Kate Bush. The album produced the 1980 hit single "Games Without Frontiers", and the anthemic "Biko".

"Album 3 we did the sleeve with Storm again, Hypnosis and he introduced me to these things called, kerismographs? I think, but there was a photographer called Les Krims, who discovered that if you take a Polaroid and you squash it you can get the colours to run, and we used to go after them with different objects and sort of burnt matches and coins and fingers and all sorts of things and it was, it was a lot of fun 'cause you had to get the timing right, but you got some wonderful effects out of the distortions."

"The third album was the first time I had a chance to work with Kate Bush who was singing on Games Without Frontiers, and I heard Wuthering Heights that I really like I thought she had an extraordinary wonderful voice and was doing great thing as a writer and, you know, obviously went on to work with her again in the future on Don't Give Up."

"with Biko, which became a very important song for me, I'd not written an overtly political song before and later on, you know, I think it lead me towards some of the human rights stuff, which I'm still very much involved with today, so it was as much a thing that helped shape me as the other way round."

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This is the new Remastered and repackaged version.

"There were a number of reasons why we decided to do the re-masters. We had the opportunity now with much better technology to get things sounding better and I know there's certain records that I've done in the past that I've always felt we could get more out of."

"Quite a few of the later albums of the, perhaps the richer textured albums have benefited from the work, but also the second album, for instance, I think sounds a lot of better now than it did previously."

"This whole process of re-mastering has changed quite a lot partly because the equipment, and the centre of that is the part that converts analogue to digital which is sort of music into numbers and that equipment has got much better and less digital sounding."

"Dickie Chappell my engineer and Tony Cousins who was working at Metropolis I think spent probably two months on this process, I had about a couple of weeks there myself."

"It's now much easier to put together and manipulate digitally than it was in the past but at the end of the day if you put the original against what we've just done with this re-mastering I think anyone can hear the difference."

"We have a wonderful designer working with us, Marc Bessant. <French accent> Marc Bessant from Portishead, near Bristol <laughs> and he's done a fantastic job I think working on these records and he's taken some of the artifacts of the of the time, the tape boxes and photos and trawled through acres of old archive stuff."

"Part of the search for material was a sort of call for help from old friends, musicians, fans, anyone we knew that really had stuff that we might be able to use and Larry Fast was a great cameraman on a lot of the early tours and Tony Levin has some great photos which were a lot of fun to look back at and Jerry Marotta had a good selection of things and some of the more humorous items and then on the professional photographer side the pictures were provided by Armando Gallo and Phil Kaman and Mick Smith had a wonderful collection of scrap books which we raided."

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