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** There is actually a series of songs that appear on different albums ("Down The Dolce Vita", "Here Comes The Flood", "On The Air", "Exposure", "Red Rain", "Big Blue Ball") that form a song cycle concerning the character Mozo, though they don't really form a story/narrative either. The [[What Could Have Been|original plan]] was to create a movie about him, but it never panned out.
* [[The Cover Changes the Meaning]]: Stephin Merritt of [[The Magnetic Fields]] had this to say about Gabriel's cover of "Book of Love":
{{quote| ''It’s a totally different interpretation. My arrangement and recording of it is emphatically skeletal and all about the insufficiency and helplessness [of love], whereas his sounds like he’s God singing to you about his creation.''}}
** ''Scratch My Back'' is all over this Trope. His cover of [[David Bowie]] takes "Heroes" from cynical to a bittersweet [[Tear Jerker]].
* [[Cross Dresser]]: During the early years of [[Genesis (band)|Genesis]], he wore a long red dress and a fox's head on stage, [http://www.multinet.no/~jonarne/Hjemmesia/Favorittartister/peter_gabriel/Genesis_PeterGabriel_Foxtrot_Paris_Januar1973.jpg like so].
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