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Primary Artist, Arranger, Bass, Composer, Keyboards, Piano, Producer, Programmer, Remixing, Sampling, Synthesizer, Synthesizer Bass, Vocals, Whistle Lullabies for Catatonics: A Journey Through the British Avant-Pop/Art Rock Scene 1967-1974 Primary Artist, Arranger, Composer, Lyricist, Producer It’s time to try again.Think I'm Going Weird: Original Artefacts from the British Psychedelic Scene 1966-1968 It’s a lone misfire in an otherwise flawless career and it’s long forgotten. Let’s hope that the bad experience of “The Barry Williams Show” isn’t holding him back. Gabriel began talking about an Up follow-up album in 2005 that he was calling I/O, but it’s 16 years later and we’re still waiting to hear it. (By comparison, “Sledgehammer” is approaching 44 million plays and a live version of “In Your Eyes” has more than 16 million views.) The video has been played a scant 80,500 times on YouTube. It’s not surprising that he hasn’t played the song a single time since 2003. And while nothing the singer did would have placed him on TRL next to Britney Spears and Eminem that year, launching his album with “The Barry Williams Show” did little to help matters. Up was a major commercial flop and the tour played to oceans of empty seats in many American markets. Everyone involved clearly hoped they had another “Sledgehammer” at the time, but they were woefully wrong. Blood literally oozes onto the set of his stage and everyone is basically in the bowels of hell by the end.
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The real Barry Williams has a cameo in the “Barry Williams Show” video, which was directed by Sean Penn and features Christopher “Shooter McGavin” McDonald as the twisted TV-show host. Gabriel also inadvertently gave his fictional talk show how the same name as the actor that played Greg Brady on The Brady Bunch, making the song somehow even weirder. The Jerry Springer Show and Maury Povich were were still on the air, but they were old news. Such a song surely made sense when Gabriel began recording Up in 1995 and trashy talk shows were a big part of the pop-culture universe, but 2002 was the age of reality shows like Survivor, Big Brother, and The Amazing Race. “The greater pain that they endure/The more you know the show will score.” “Dysfunctional excess is all it took for my success,” Gabriel sings. The song is about a Jerry Springer–like talk show host named Barry Williams. It’s not only the worst song on the album, it’s quite possibly the worst song he’s ever released going all the way back to the earliest days of Genesis in 1967. And while there are many truly great songs on Up like “Signal to Noise,” “Sky Blue,” and “More Than This,” he made the baffling decision to release “The Barry Williams Show” as the first single. The last one of those was 2002’s Up, which was just his third LP of the past 39 years following 1986’s So and 1992’s Us. One thing he isn’t done is release an album of new songs. And in 2016, he launched an innovative tour with Sting where they mashed up their bands and song catalogs into one seamless evening of music. Between 20, he reunited with his Eighties backing band for a tour that featured a nightly performance of his classic LP So.
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In 2011, he re-recorded many of his most beloved songs with an orchestra for the Scratch My Back LP and tour. The song is one of many times in the past few years that he’s reworked material from earlier in his career.