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an urban legend that hasn't made it to the urban legends sites yet?
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
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.
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.
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.