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Birdy (Peter Gabriel album)

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Released
  
18 March 1985

Length
  
34:50

Release date
  
18 March 1985

Recorded
  
October–December 1984

Artist
  
Peter Gabriel

Movie
  
Birdy

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Label
  
Geffen Records (US & Canada) Charisma Records

Genres
  
Progressive rock, Ambient music, Experimental rock, Hard rock

Producers
  
Peter Gabriel, Daniel Lanois

Similar
  
Peter Gabriel albums, Progressive rock albums

Birdy is the first soundtrack and sixth album overall by the English rock musician Peter Gabriel, for the movie of the same name, released in 1985 (see 1985 in music). The album marked Gabriel's first work with producer Daniel Lanois. It was remastered with most of Gabriel's catalogue in 2002.

Contents

In addition to composing new pieces for the soundtrack, Gabriel also used instrumental themes and sections from earlier works to form the basis of some tracks. There were, however, no songs with lyrics on the album.

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Track listing

All songs written by Peter Gabriel.

Personnel

  • Peter Gabriel - vocals, keyboards
  • Jon Hassell - trumpet
  • Ekome Dance Company - drums
  • Larry Fast - keyboards
  • Tony Levin - bass guitar, double bass, backing vocals
  • Jerry Marotta - drums, percussion
  • David Rhodes - guitar, backing vocals
  • Manny Elias - drums
  • Morris Pert - drums, percussion
  • John Giblin - double bass, bass guitar
  • Trivia

    The piece "Birdy's Flight" was later used by Hong Kong film director John Woo as part of the score to his A Better Tomorrow films.

    Songs

    1At Night2:46
    2Floating Dogs3:02
    3Quiet and Alone2:35

    References

    Birdy (Peter Gabriel album) Wikipedia