Peter Gabriel on his Genesis swansong: "It was a journey into the soul"

 

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"The New York setting of the story of Puerto Rican street kid Rael and his surreal journey through a bizarre underworld was, they explained, an attempt to distance Gabriel’s metaphor for personal introspection from the very English landscape of earlier albums such as Foxtrot and Selling England By The Pound. “When you first go to New York it is one of the most exciting cities in the world,” he said. “I felt it would be easier for me and easier for the story to be accepted if there was some distance there. I was a huge fan of West Side Story so there’s some of that there and then there are various other things like [Alejandro] Jodorowsky’s films which were an influence. It was in a sense a search into the self but through this persona of this Puerto Rican kid.”" 

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Peter Gabriel on his Genesis swansong: "It was a journey into the soul" - UNCUT