Gabriel's launches "Back to Front" tour (Updated January 10, 2013)

On May 22, 2012 it was announced through Peter Gabriel's web site that a new tour would be "focusing on the entirety of the multi-platinum "SO" album. The tour, entitled "Back to Front", featured Gabriel with many of the members of the original band he toured with 25 years ago, along with the album's songs from start to finish plus some of his other biggest hits.

The tour kicked off September 9 in Quebec City, and the front leg wrapped at the Santa Barbara Bowl in California in October. The set list included a four song acoustic intro, six songs played with the entire band, nine songs from "So" and a two song encore. The tour received heavy critical acclaim, with one calling it a more honest and intimate performance than ever witnessed in a large arena. Rolling Stone described crowds as 'euphoric' and noted that, 'despite the many physical changes [Gabriel] has undergone over the past few decades, he lost none of his flair for showmanship.'

Gabriel will be taking the 'Back To Front' tour into Europe in Autumn 2013. He recently announced, via his website, a new app that will allow fans to remix songs from the classic 1986 album, "So." The "MusicTiles" app launched in the Apple App store on January 8, 2013. The app includes songs of the original album -- including "Sledgehammer," "In Your Eyes" and "Big Time" -- but also contains new versions of each song in different, modern styles (including electronica and industrial) for the fans "to play with and develop according to their own individual taste."

A History of Peter Gabriel tickets

Singer and songwriter Peter Gabriel has certainly garnered a broad swath of fans over his more than 40 years of making music, due in large part to the vast expanse of interest and musical curiosity he has explored in his career. Born in 1950 in Surrey, England, Gabriel embarked on his career as a musician in 1967 when he started the progressive rock band Genesis with his prep schoolmates Tony Banks on keyboards, Anthony Phillips on guitar, Mike Rutherford on bass, and Chris Stewart on drums. An early experimenter during Genesis concerts with bizarre costumes, stage lighting and theatrical interludes between songs, Gabriel set the tone for his band's reputation as a group not afraid to venture beyond convention. The bands success was built on their live shows, in fact, with Gabriel's haunting melodies and lyrics, and his theatricality. The band's albums also explored philosophical concepts and theatrical devices, particularly after its inaugural release, "From Genesis to Revelation", in 1969. The 1970 album "Trespass" paved the way for the band's albums throughout the rest of the decade, such as "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway", recorded in 1974, now with Phil Collins on drums and vocals. Gabriel left Genesis, however, in 1975 as Collins assumed the band's leadership, and embarked on a solo career that surpassed the success of the band he founded.

Like No Other

Peter Gabriel continued to set himself apart as a solo artist, working intriguing lyrics among his melodies, such as in his songs 'Games Without Frontiers' from his second solo album (his first four solo albums were titled, simply, "Peter Gabriel" but have since been assigned one-word titles), and 'Shock the Monkey' and 'I Have the Touch,' both from "Peter Gabriel 4" since titled "Melt". His 1986 album "So" , featuring the blockbuster singles 'Sledgehammer,' 'Don't Give Up,' 'In Your Eyes' and 'Big Time,' brought Peter Gabriel international fame and made him a household name. He has continued a steady recording and performing career, releasing "Scratch My Back, I'll Scratch Yours" in 2010, and continuing to attract arenas full of fans. After more than four decades exploring the extreme parameters of rock music, his shows still inspire fans to snatch up Peter Gabriel tickets.