our next guest is a six-time Grammy award winner and a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee as a
founding member of the band Genesis uh his uh new CD features orchestral Arrangements of some
of his greatest known songs it's entitled New Blood ladies and gentlemen here's Peter
Gabriel you have met her for 10 years for God's sakes what he been doing in the last 10 years
um I've been making babies making some music good for you how many how many children do you have
well I have two wonderful daughters from round one and two little boys from round two [Laughter]
how many how many rounds was the fight never mind uh and how old are the new girls it's the the new
boys yeah what is that like I mean that's got to keep you I mean you're exhausted right I'm
exhausted oh yeah it's Daddy does the night shift quite often so we're in toilet training
yeah yeah and the kids and what about [Laughter] what about your uh early upbringing as compared
to theirs like when you were do you have a happy childhood yourself um yeah no it was pretty good
but you know I was sent to the school that uh my father and his father were sent to them private
schools so that was a little like Tom Brown's school days at the time what does that mean
is it difficult it was a disciplinary of stern ruled by fear and you know I got there on the
first night and I was used to rooms with curtains there were no curtains and you'd
see the headlights sweeping across the ceiling and there was just a sound of sobbing and masturbating
and I think I think one of the courses was uh subbing and masturbating simultaneously
reminds me of my honeymoon [Music] oh yeah thank you but
um so but but it was a pivotal in your musical career that experience at that school wasn't it
well yes I found a few other lost souls that would make noises and we became a group what
was the name of the first group Genesis that's what you call the first group yeah
so we're just trying to be songwriters really right and then the music that came later yeah
um and and now that you have uh achieved this uh worldly success you've turned your attention to
other things such as uh helping with human rights violations around the world and to me not knowing
much about it what I hear and do know about it is appalling that it exists at such a large scale
yeah no it's um particularly with this uh Declaration of Human Rights that all these
countries signed on to but very few of them including our own practice and so I didn't
know anything about it but after I wrote the song Biko I got invited out to these amnesty tours and
started meeting people have been tortured what their families being killed and and they think
you can be useful so it's hard to walk away from isn't it a staggering to you that in this day and
age the sort of brutality mindless brutality still exists seems to be thriving actually in
certain parts of the world yeah but at the same time you know I think all the Arab Awakening
that's happening is is incredibly hopeful and we now have mobile phones everywhere it was this
wonderful African goes that she was asked what's going to change the world and she just pulled
out her mobile phone and and you're seeing video everywhere and so when people have had the courage
in the past you know they've maybe gone off like a little Firework and then darkness and obscurity is
returned but now you can connect all these little acts of courage and video them get those videos
out get campaigns it's amazing the population has truly now become nearly one organism because of
this electronic device yeah and I think that's very exciting because I think you know a lot of
the bad stuff is allowed to happen because of national Shadows Darkness people think they're
not going to be uh caught they can get away with it exactly now they get seen what uh changing
the the subject again do you see Phil Collins at all uh I haven't seen him much yet I try to hook
up with him when he came to London last time but he's he's had a tough time I think and a
lot of drummers get neck and back injuries after a while and he's he's suffered a bit with that
yeah are these are these you these are me yeah you know see it was it was actually a great
relief to see Adam Sandlin address because I knew I wasn't I wasn't the only one you're
wearing a dress in what appears to be a wolf head yeah well you know what it was an album covered
that was a character called the slipper man and it was complete with inflatable testicles
and we had a sort of a inflatable phallus that would unfold all right ladies and gentlemen of
the jury I'm going to clear the room uh we're gonna take a 10 minute recess and talk this over
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