Musicians :
Peter Gabriel (keyboards, flute, vocals), Robert Fripp (electric guitar, classical guitar, banjo), Tony Levin (bass guitar, tuba, leader of the Barbershop Quartet), Jozef Chirowski (keyboards), (Larry Fast (synthesizer), Steve Hunter (acoustic guitar, lead guitar, electric guitar, rhythm guitar, pedal steel), Jimmy Maelen (percussion, synthibam, bones), Allan Schwartzberg (drums), London Symphony Orchestra, Michael Gibbs arrangement of orchestra.

- Peter Gabriel "Peter Gabriel 1 (Car)" !

- His self-titled debut album !

- 180 gram limited edition silver vinyl / album download included !

Jacket artwork w/ Hipgnosis-designed cover and inner bag mirroring the original

Peter Gabriel's self-titled debut album, affectionately known as Car, due to the iconic Hipgnosis-designed cover. This is a 1 LP silver vinyl release with jacket artwork and inner bag as per the original LP release. Having left Genesis in the summer of 1976, Peter's first solo album arrived in February 1977. He was 26.

With legendary producer Bob Ezrin taking charge, the intention was to make a more direct and tougher record : something different from what had gone before. The record also provided one of Peter's most recognisable songs in the shape of Solsbury Hill.

"I really wanted the first record to be different from what I'd done with Genesis so we were trying to do things in different styles", Gabriel says. "A bit of barbershop, which Tony Levin helped with, there were more bluesy things, a variety of songs and arrangements that were consciously trying to provide something different than what I'd done before. It took me three albums to get the confidence and to find out what I could do that made me different from other people. And the first record really was a process of trying"...