Up (Peter Gabriel album)

Up
Studio album by
Peter Gabriel
Released23 September 2002
Recorded
  • April 1995 – October 1998
    (principal recording)
  • Early 2000 – April 2002
    (additional recording)
Studio
  • Real World (Box, UK)
    (principal recording)
  • The Meduse (Senegal)
  • Real World Mobile (France)
  • AIR (London)
  • Hype Studios (Singapore)
    (additional recording)
Genre
Length66:40
Label
Producer
Peter Gabriel chronology
Long Walk Home: Music from the Rabbit-Proof Fence
(2002) 		Up
(2002) 		Hit
(2003)
Singles from Up
  1. "The Barry Williams Show"
    Released: 16 September 2002
  2. "More Than This"
    Released: 30 December 2002
  3. "Growing Up"
    Released: 30 June 2003
  4. "Darkness"
    Released: 2 August 2004 (Switzerland only)

Up is the seventh studio and thirteenth album overall by the English rock musician Peter Gabriel, released on 23 September 2002 through Geffen and Real World Records. The album rose to number 9 in the US, number 11 in the UK, and captured the number 1 position in Italy. The album debuted with sales of 76,000 units in the US and was the highest charting album on the Billboard 200 from a British artist that week.[4] Most critics reviewed it positively, though Rolling Stone said Gabriel was "out of touch".[5] This would be Gabriel's last studio album of new original material until the release of I/O (2023), although he did release several studio projects in the interim (including a covers album, Scratch My Back, in 2010, followed a year later by an album of orchestral re-recordings, New Blood).

Gabriel supported the album with a world tour in 2003 called Growing Up, his first in ten years since the Secret World Tour. Gabriel's Growing Up tour included backing vocals by his daughter Melanie, age 26–27. Select dates were filmed and released as Growing Up Live.

  1. ^ "Peter Gabriel Albums from Worst to Best". 19 July 2013.
  2. ^ Easlea, Daryl (13 July 2016). "Peter Gabriel's solo albums Us and Up abandoned pop for prog's darkest side". Louder Sound. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  3. ^ a b "Peter Gabriel Comes To TIDAL: Brush up on a Legend". Tidal. 2017.
  4. ^ Jones, Joanna (12 October 2024). "US Chartfile: Presley Hits Set Takes Top Spot" (PDF). Music Week. p. 6.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference RS was invoked but never defined (see the help page).