![]() Yet you might also have guessed that his early embrace of technology and highly visual artistic concepts would also mean he would be in the vanguard of ground-breaking videos on MTV. Quite some journey for a man who had dressed like a demented concoction of vegetables during his Genesis days. In a few short years he would also intelligently engage with the new synthesizer technology (and have a profound influence on people like Kate Bush) as well as step towards world music, establish his Real World label and become the driving force behind Womad. Gabriel's trust in his imagination - the same which had driven Lamb Lies Down - was well placed and those first four solo albums show the growth of an artist adept at balancing the personal and political, the surreally silly and the serious. I walked right out of the machinery, my heart going boom boom boom". In a voice of increasingly urgency he sang, "I did not believe the information, I just had to trust imagination. In the song Solsbury Hill on his debut solo album of '77 - the first of four albums simply entitled "Peter Gabriel" - he put it another way. "I just felt that if I'd stayed I would have got trapped into roles that I was beginning not to enjoy - both within the band and within myself." In late '77 Peter Gabriel - two years after quitting Genesis at their creative peak with the ambitious concept album The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - told NME "I felt that were just at a point of breaking through to the Big Time.
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