Studio - 1. Peter Gabriel (1977 album), July 1976-January 1977, The Soundstage, Toronto.[Charisma Records] February 25, 1977.

Studio - 1. Peter Gabriel (1977 album)

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Peter Gabriel
Studio album by Peter Gabriel
Released	February 25, 1977 (1977-02-25)
Recorded	July 1976-January 1977, The Soundstage, Toronto
Genre	Experimental rock, progressive rock, hard rock
Length	41:42
Label	Atco (US & Canada) Charisma
Producer	Bob Ezrin
Professional reviews
Allmusic link Robert Christgau (B+) link Rolling Stone (not rated) link
Peter Gabriel chronology
Peter Gabriel (1977) Peter Gabriel (1978)

Peter Gabriel is the first album Peter Gabriel recorded after leaving the progressive rock band Genesis, and the first of four with the same eponymous title. Upon the album's release, Gabriel began touring with a seven-piece band under his own name.

Gabriel and producer Bob Ezrin assembled a team of talented musicians, including Robert Fripp of King Crimson, to record the album.

The album's second track, "Solsbury Hill," describes Gabriel's departure from Genesis and has become one of Gabriel's more popular songs. Erasure covered the song in 2003 on Other People's Songs.

After release, Peter Gabriel felt that the track "Here Comes the Flood" was over-produced. Since then he has created far simpler renditions such as the one on Robert Fripp's album, Exposure, his appearance on Kate Bush's 1979 TV special, and yet a third version on Peter Gabriel's first greatest hits album, Shaking the Tree: Sixteen Golden Greats.

The album went to #7 in UK and #38 in the USA.

This album is often referred to as Car, referring to the album cover by Hipgnosis. The car was a Lancia Flavia owned by Storm Thorgerson. [1]

There is a slightly different version of this album released through Direct Disk Labs, a halfspeed mastered version from the original master tapes. It has a longer version of "Slowburn" (5:16 instead of 4:36) with the song's introduction intact. All other versions of the song seem to have this intro edited out. Normally we hear the song start with a piano, but this rare version begins with a full band...