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Some guy, whose writings (about Disney) I normally respect, has some story about how Peter Gabriel's "Solsbury Hill" was written after he had spent some time in a mental institution following his divorce caused by his having an affair with Kate Bush.

Nevermind that
  • Kate would have only been 18 at the time
  • Nobody had heard of her except David Gilmour and Andrew Powell (of Alan Parsons Project), then recording demos of her under a contract with EMI
    • while Peter had only just left Genesis and signed onto Atlantic's ATCO label
  • Peter was still happily married to his first wife at the time (and would be until 1987)
  • Peter has never spent time in a mental institution
    • he did take a "break" between Us and Up (aside from doing the Ovo project and some film scores - he did few live appearances during that time), but the divorce was well and done by then.
    • neither "Leading a Normal Life" nor "Shock the Monkey" were based on personal experience.
*sigh*

where do people get this stuff?  He claims it's "not exactly a secret" but google ain't coming up with didly for this one.  5 pages into a search someone suggests that they recall something about an affair during the recording of "Games without Frontiers" but nobody's confirming it.

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