In case you didn't know, these are the big boys who, for the most part, try to tell you what to listen to. Although independents account for 28 per cent of the market, the music industry today is still dominated by 'the Big Four' record companies.Universal Music GroupChairman and CEO Doug Morris presides over the largest record company in the world. Taken together, its labels such as Island, Polyd
If we're going by strictly a video resume, no one did it better than Peter Gabriel.Example is "Big Time". Not only a great song, from a great album, but also an excellent music video.
MUSIC NEWS - Some of the biggest names in rock and pop music; including Peter Gabriel, Bill Wyman, Bryan Ferry Nick Mason (Pink Floyd ), Jamie Cullum and Roger Taylor (Queen),and Irish folker Cara Dillon, among others, joined together to sing The Beatles classic "All You Need Is Love," for a charity single release for this years BBC Children In Need fundraiser; 2009's Bandaged Together album
The Academy Awards are cutting this year’s song performance times down so short that Oscar-nominee Peter Gabriel has pulled the plug on his performance for the telecast.Even though there are only three songs nominated for Oscars this year,...There's more on this story at the following link...
English singer/songwriter Peter Gabriel and Venezuelan composer Jose Antonio Abreu won this year's Polar Music Prize. Often called the 'Nobel Prize of Music,' the prize is one of the most prestigious and unique music prizes in the world, recognizing exceptional contributions to both popular and classical music. Past recipients include Sir Paul McCartney, Sir Elton John, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd...
NME.com is reporting that Peter Gabriel, that's right, Peter Gabriel of all people, is set to release a covers album. The album, Scratch My Back, is looking at a spring 2010 release.The record is described as "orchestral reinterpretations", but that just seems like a fancy way to say covers to me.Anyway, the track list may or may not look like this:'Heroes' (David Bowie)'Street Spirit' (
