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Wat mij betreft het beste live album van Gabriel. Perfect opgenomen en gemixt (met wat studio toevoegingen) door Steve Walsh.

Dit zijn de originele opnames zoals die als dubbel-lp zijn verschenen. Later is er een 'highlights'-versie op 1 cd verschenen, maar mist hierop een aantal nummers.

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Plays Live is the first live and fifth album overall by English rock musician Peter Gabriel. It was originally issued as a double album and long-play cassette in 1983, with sixteen songs. It was re-released in 1985, as a single CD called Plays Live (Highlights) with only twelve songs, some of which are edited so the album fits on a single disc. It was rereleased in its entirety as a double CD set in 1987. In 2002, a remaster of the Highlights version was issued. In 2019, the complete double-LP version was released on streaming platforms for the first time.

In 2021 the original 2CD version was released in remastered form. The sound recordings copyright (p) date featured on the back of the package suggests this had actually been remastered at the same time as the rest of Gabriel's back catalogue in 2002.

Armando Gallo took the cover photograph. "I was always listening to the music when I photographed a concert," he said. "Somehow my index finger pressed the clicker in time with the lights and the percussion - the heart of the music. I always felt grateful that I could shoot Peter’s entire shows. Once I asked Peter if he didn’t mind me being in the pit photographing his every move. 'No, I love to see a friendly face,' he answered. Making me feel good about it."


Personnel:

Peter Gabriel – lead vocals, piano, synthesizers
Jerry Marotta – drums, percussion, backing vocals
Tony Levin – bass guitar, chapman stick, backing vocals
David Rhodes – guitars, backing vocals
Larry Fast – synthesizers, piano, keyboards


Track List:

CD 1
01) The Rhythm of the Heat
02) I Have the Touch
03) Not One of Us
04) Family Snapshot
05) D.I.Y.
06) The Family and the Fishing Net
07) Intruder
08) I Go Swimming

Cd 2
01) San Jacinto
02) Solsbury Hill
03) No Self Control
04) I Don't Remember
05) Shock the Monkey
06) Humdrum
07) On the Air
08) Biko




Zowel in FLAC als in MP3.