Peter Brian Gabriel (born 13 February 1950) is an English singer, songwriter and human rights activist. He was the original lead singer of the progressive rock band Genesis. After leaving the band in 1975, he launched a solo career with "Solsbury Hill" as his first single. His fifth studio album, So (1986), is 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 and, according to a report in 2011, it was MTV's most played music video of all time.
Gabriel has been a champion of world music for much of his career. He co-founded the WOMAD festival in 1982. He has continued to focus on producing and promoting world music through his Real World Records label. He has pioneered digital distribution methods for music, co-founding OD2, one of the first online music download services. Gabriel has also been involved in numerous humanitarian efforts. In 1980, he released the anti-apartheid single "Biko". He has participated in several human-rights benefit concerts, including Amnesty International's Human Rights Now! tour in 1988, and co-founded the Witness human rights organisation in 1992. Gabriel developed The Elders with Richard Branson, which was launched by Nelson Mandela in 2007.
Gabriel has won three Brit Awards—winning Best British Male in 1987, six Grammy Awards, thirteen MTV Video Music Awards, the first Pioneer Award at the BT Digital Music Awards, the Q magazine Lifetime Achievement, the Ivor Novello Award for Lifetime Achievement, and the Polar Music Prize. He was made a BMI Icon at the 57th annual BMI London Awards for his "influence on generations of music makers". In recognition of his many years of human rights activism, he received the Man of Peace award from the Nobel Peace Prize laureates in 2006, and Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2008. AllMusic described Gabriel as "one of rock's most ambitious, innovative musicians, as well as one of its most political". He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Genesis in 2010, and as a solo artist in 2014. In March 2015, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of South Australia in recognition of his achievements in music.
from this album in RP library
albums by Peter Gabriel
Catholic Church and some evangelical Christians definitely did not like the movie. Seems that the image of Jesus Christ shouting "Oh God" as he finished inseminating Mary Magdalene was somehow "inappropriate".
I appreciate or respect the intentions of the Church to hold true to their conception of and passion for Jesus. But...
before they go condemning others for an alternative -- and imho an entirely legitimate and equally inspiring interpretation of the origins of the gospels and works of a human life of inarguably vast and eternal consequence -- they really ought to acknowledge the Church's own seedy, unseemly, global immersion in child and sexual abuse.
It's about as far from the preachings teachings of Jesus as it's possible to get. Still, they have clung to their exclusive, exclusionary, almost elitist grasp of Jesus and the Bible as if they OWN it. So, OK, what about ruining young boys and men, excluding women, the Apocrypha and how they tolerated, or not, other views of Jesus over 1,000, 1,200 years or "Christian" murder and mayhem? Own up up to the toxic actions, then we can talk about how to move forward. Otherwise, fuck off.
Catholic Church and some evangelical Christians definitely did not like the movie. Seems that the image of Jesus Christ shouting "Oh God" as he finished inseminating Mary Magdalene was somehow "inappropriate".
LIKE THE BIGGEST CON GAME IN HISTORY HAS A VALID STATEMENT ON ANYTHING...
Catholic Church and some evangelical Christians definitely did not like the movie. Seems that the image of Jesus Christ shouting "Oh God" as he finished inseminating Mary Magdalene was somehow "inappropriate".
And some wee Scots didn't like Mel Gibson's film foray into Scottish heritage either. Others, his anti-Semitic rant.
Martin Luther King Jr. - Spiritual Death
Catholic Church and some evangelical Christians definitely did not like the movie. Seems that the image of Jesus Christ shouting "Oh God" as he finished inseminating Mary Magdalene was somehow "inappropriate".
I just watched The last temptation of Christ again. In the brief and subtle love scene with Jesus and Mary Magdelene, he doesn't shout "Oh God" or anything else; he remains quiet as she says, in a breathy voice, "We can have a child... we can have a child." This is apppropriate within the overall development of the plot. This film is a work of art, based on a novel, with thought-provoking plot twists, unlike the Hollywood interpretations of the Gospels that run on TV for the Easter holidays, which tend to follow religious doctrine and Sunday school lessons more closely, provoking far less controversy.
LIKE THE BIGGEST CON GAME IN HISTORY HAS A VALID STATEMENT ON ANYTHING...
Aside from the Jesus–Mary Magdalene relationship, I think some religious leaders were upset that Jesus was portrayed as being full of doubt and self pity about his role as the son of God.
Great movie
This was our soundtrack the year we bought our farm
1989
Good year
Ancient history to some of you
Just yesterday to us
Thanks RP for bringing it all back home
Totally worked for me... so well that I was stunned by the similarity. I would never have heard it if Bill hadn't shown me. Logged on to make the comment, only to find yours.
Brilliant, Bill !
I would have liked the segue more had it played more smoothly on my phone. The songs overlapped by a good five seconds and made a burned hash of the transition.