Peter Gabriel SO Vinyl LP Geffen GHS 24088 NM #1 Press Sledgehammer In Your Eyes

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Peter Gabriel SO Vinyl LP - Geffen GHS 24088 Near Mint First Pressing with Shrink Wrap with Sledgehammer, In Your Eyes, Don't Give Up, Red Rain
Condition: Near Mint Vinyl and Near MInt Cover. Vinyl was play-tested and plays beautifully. Cover still has shrink wrap. Includes original inner sleeve with lyrics. Great copy!
So is the fifth studio album by Peter Gabriel, released in 1986. Gabriel drew on various musical influences, fusing pop, soul, and art rock with elements of traditional world music, particularly African and Brazilian styles. It is Gabriel's first non-eponymous album, So representing an "anti-title" that resulted from label pressure to "properly" market his music. Gabriel toured So on the This Way Up tour (1986–1987), with some songs performed at human rights and charity concerts during this period.
Often considered his best and most accessible album, So was an immediate commercial success and transformed Gabriel from a cult artist into a mainstream star, becoming his best-selling solo release. It has been certified fivefold platinum by the RIAA. The album's lead single, "Sledgehammer" reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and was followed by four singles, "Don't Give Up" (a duet with Kate Bush), "Big Time", "In Your Eyes", and "Red Rain".
The album received positive reviews from most critics, who praised its songwriting, melodies and fusion of genres. So was nominated for the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1987 but lost to Paul Simon's Graceland. It has appeared in lists of the best albums of the 1980s, and Rolling Stone included the album in their 2003 and 2020 editions of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. 
Tracklist
Side One Red Rain Sledgehammer Don't Give Up That Voice Again
Side Two In Your Eyes Mercy Street Big Time We Do What We're Told (Milgram's 37)
Personnel (Partial list) Peter Gabriel – lead and backing vocals, CMI, Prophet synth, piano, Linn 9000, synthesizer, percussion  Tony Levin – bass guitar (tracks 1–5), drumstick bass  David Rhodes – guitar (all except tracks 6 & 9), backing vocals  Jerry Marotta – drums (tracks 1 & 8), additional drums (track 5) Manu Katché – drums (tracks 2–5), percussion (tracks 3–5), talking drum (tracks 5 & 9) Stewart Copeland – hi-hat (track 1), drums (track 7) Daniel Lanois – guitar (tracks 1, 2 & 4), tambourine, surf guitar, twelve-string guitar  Richard Tee – piano (tracks 3, 5 & 6) Simon Clark – keyboards, backing vocals, Hammond organ, programming, bass guitar  Kate Bush – vocals (track 3) L. Shankar – violin (tracks 4 & 8) Larry Klein – bass guitar (tracks 5 & 6) Youssou N'Dour – backing vocals (track 5) Bill Laswell – bass guitar (track 9) Nile Rodgers – guitar (track 9) Laurie Anderson – synthesizer and vocals (track 9)
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MINT (M) - Absolutely perfect in every way. Most often this is a still sealed record, records that have been opened are rarely if ever marked as Mint.

NEAR MINT (NM) - A good description is that it looks like it just came from a retail store and it was opened for the first time. In other words, it?s nearly perfect, with no visible defects. 

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