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Four classic Peter Gabriel live albums reissued on half-speed mastered vinyl

Plays Live • Live in Athens 1987 • Secret World Live • Growing Up Live

Peter Gabriel is to reissue four classic live albums on vinyl, with each multi-disc package half-speed mastered and coming with a hi-res download card.

The albums in question are Plays Live, Live in Athens 1987, Secret World Live and Growing Up Live. Each is from the tour that followed Gabriel’s last four studio albums (Peter Gabriel/Security, So, Us and Up).

Of the four, only Plays Live has been issued on vinyl previously. Secret World Live was only ever released on CD and cassette, Live in Athens 1987 was included on CD was part of the So 25th anniversary reissue and until now, Growing Up Live has only ever been a DVD / Blu-ray concert film.

All the albums have been half-speed remastered and cut to lacquers at 33RPM by Matt Colton at Alchemy Mastering, mastered by Tony Cousins at Metropolis and overseen by Peter Gabriel’s sound engineer Richard Chappell. The LPs also come with a hi-res audio download code.

Plays Live comes in a wide-spine single sleeve with full colour printed inner bags that are faithful to the original LP design (images are newly re-scanned). Marc Bessant at Real World has handled all the artwork and has created new designs for Live in Athens 1987 and Growing Up Live. The latter is the only gatefold and also the only 3LP vinyl set.

These are being released via Caroline International at monthly intervals, starting with Plays Live on 28 August. Live in Athens follows on 16 October (was 25 Sep), Secret World Live on 6 November and finally Growing Up Live on 27 November 2020

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Live in Athens 1987 - 2LP vinyl

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Plays Live 2LP vinyl

Side A

The Rhythm Of the Heat                        6:26
I Have the Touch                                       4:50
Not One of Us                                             5:29
Family Snapshot                                       4:48

Side B

D.I.Y.                                                             4:06
The Family and the Fishing Net           7:34
Intruder                                                        5:03
I Go Swimming                                          4:44

Side C

San Jacinto                                                  8:29
Solsbury Hill                                                4:41
No Self Control                                           5:03
I Don’t Remember                                    4:13

Side D

Shock the Monkey                                   7:09
Humdrum                                                    4:23
On the Air                                                    5:22
Biko                                                                6:54

Live in Athens 1987 2LP vinyl

Side A

This Is The Picture 5:56
San Jacinto 7:26
Shock The Monkey 6:45
Family Snapshot 4:36

Side B

Intruder  5:26
Games Without Frontiers  5:29
No Self Control 6:16
Mercy Street  9:15

Side C

The Family And The Fishing Net 7:06
Donʼt Give Up 8:15
Solsbury Hill  5:11
Lay Your Hands On Me 6:15

Side D

Sledgehammer  5:06
Here Comes The Flood 2:48
In Your Eyes  10:39
Biko 9:36

Secret World Live 2LP vinyl

LP

Side A

Come Talk to Me                                      6:14
Steam                                                           7:43
Across the River                                         6;00
Slow Marimbas                                         1:46
Shaking the Tree                                       9:18

Side B

Red Rain                                                       6:15
Blood of Eden                                             6:57
San Jacinto                                                  7:34
Kiss That Frog                                             5:57
Washing of the Water                             4:07

Side C

Solsbury Hill                                                4:46
Digging in the Dirt                   7:37
Sledgehammer                                          4:59
Secret World                                               9:11

Side D

Don’t Give Up                                             7:36
In Your Eyes                                                11:34

Growing Up Live 3LP vinyl

LP

Side A

Here Comes the Flood                                                                 8:37
Darkness                                                                                          8:39
Red Rain                                                                                           6:14

Side B

Secret World                                                                                   9:06
Sky Blue (w/ Blind Boys of Alabama)                                     7:47
Downside Up                                                                                  7:36

Side C

The Barry Williams Show                                                           9:19
More Than This                                                                             6:09
Mercy Street                                                                7:39

Side D

Digging In The Dirt                                                                        7:36
Growing Up                                                                                     6:14
Animal Nation (w/ Dr. Hukwe & Charles Zawose)         8:12
Solsbury Hill                                                                                    4:45

Side E

Sledgehammer                                                                              4:59
Signal To Noise (w / Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan)      9:39

Side F

In Your Eyes (w/ Sevara Nazarkhan)                                     11:34
Father Son                                                                                       6:15

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