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Secret World (song)
"Secret World" is the final song on Peter Gabriel's 1992 '' Us'' album. It was released as a promotional single and reached the ''Billboard'' Album Rock Tracks chart and the Canadian Top Singles Chart. Gabriel used the title for his 1993–94 Secret World Tour, where the song served as the final song of his main set. The song appeared on his '' Secret World Live'' album and '' Secret World'' concert film; it also served as the subtitle for Gabriel's multimedia CD ROM game '' Xplora1: Peter Gabriel's Secret World''. Background Gabriel wrote "Secret World" following the dissolution of his marriage with Jill Gabriel and his breakup with Rosanna Arquette. He said that the song was "about the private world that two people occupy and the private worlds that they occupy as individuals within that space." An early piano-oriented demo of "Secret World" was recorded on 2 February 1991; the lyrics had yet to be finalised by this point. Instrumentally, the song begins with what music criti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Gabriel
Peter Brian Gabriel (born 13 February 1950) is an English singer, songwriter, musician, and human rights activist. He came to prominence as the original frontman of the rock band Genesis. He left the band in 1975 and launched a solo career with " Solsbury Hill" as his first single. After releasing four successful studio albums, all titled ''Peter Gabriel'', his fifth studio album, '' So'' (1986), became his best-selling release and is certified triple platinum in the UK and five times platinum in the US. The album's most successful single, " Sledgehammer", won a record nine MTV Awards at the 1987 MTV Video Music Awards. A 2011 ''Time'' report said "Sledgehammer" was the most played music video of all time on MTV. A supporter of world music for much of his career, Gabriel co-founded the World of Music, Arts and Dance (WOMAD) festival in 1982, and has continued to produce and promote world music through his Real World Records label. He has pioneered digital distribution met ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline Lavelle
Caroline Lavelle is an English singer-songwriter and Cello, cellist who has created three solo albums and contributed vocals, music, and production help to many other artists and bands. Career Lavelle studied at the Royal College of Music in London. Throughout the early to mid-eighties she busked in the city, often outside Kensington South Kensington tube station, Tube Station and Covent Garden, playing baroque music with Anne Stephenson and Virginia Astley (or Virginia Hewes; sources are confused) in a group called ''Humouresque''. She was spotted by Frankie Gavin (musician), Frankie Gavin, a member of Ireland's De Dannan band, who asked her to join. She was part of the band up to the early nineties, alongside Mary Black and Dolores Keane. In 1992, she contributed vocals and cello to the track "Home of the Whale" on the Massive Attack EP ''Hymn of the Big Wheel''. Producer William Orbit liked it, contacted her, and eventually produced, and mixed, her debut solo album, ''Spiri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
