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Release Date
6 June 1983
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Length
16 tracks
Plays Live is the first live and fifth album overall released by British rock musician Peter Gabriel. This album was originally released as a double album and longplay cassette, with sixteen songs and a running time of over 80 minutes. It was eventually issued as a double CD set, and, in 1985, as a single CD version Plays Live – Highlights with only twelve songs and some significant track time alterations. It was remastered and reissued in 2002, the Highlights version was released in the US while the full double-CD set, containing all the songs, was released in the UK.
The album's one previously unreleased song, "I Go Swimming," received airplay and made the US charts in 1983. (The song was initially performed by Gabriel during his 1980 world tour, in support of his third album). "I Don't Remember" was issued as a single, with an accompanying music video, in the US as well.
Track listing
All songs written by Peter Gabriel.
Original release
Disc one
Side one
"The Rhythm of the Heat" – 6:26
"I Have the Touch" – 5:18
"Not One of Us" – 5:29
"Family Snapshot" – 4:44
Side two
"D.I.Y." – 4:20
"The Family and the Fishing Net" – 7:22
"Intruder" – 5:03
"I Go Swimming" – 4:44
Disc two
Side three
"San Jacinto" – 8:27
"Solsbury Hill" – 4:42
"No Self Control" – 5:03
"I Don't Remember" – 4:19
Side four
This side was recorded at Memorial Hall, Kansas City, Kansas on December 4, 1982.
"Shock The Monkey" – 7:10
"Humdrum" – 4:23
"On the Air" – 5:22
"Biko" – 7:01
Plays Live – Highlights
"I Have the Touch" – 4:47
"Family Snapshot" – 4:47
"D.I.Y." – 4:05
"The Family and the Fishing Net" – 7:38
"I Go Swimming" – 4:54
"San Jacinto" – 8:19
"Solsbury Hill" – 4:41
"No Self Control" – 5:04
"I Don't Remember" – 4:12
"Shock The Monkey" – 7:10
"Humdrum" – 4:21
"Biko" – 6:52
Personnel
Peter Gabriel – synthesiser, piano, vox
Jerry Marotta – drums, percussion & b. vox
Tony Levin – bass, stick & b. vox
David Rhodes – guitar & b. vox
Larry Fast – synthesiser, piano
Charts
Album
Year Chart Position
1983 Billboard Pop Albums 44
1983 UK 8
Singles
Year Single Chart Position
1983 "I Don't Remember"/"Solsbury Hill"/"Kiss Of Life"(on 12")(All live) UK 62
1983 "I Go Swimming" Billboard Mainstream Rock 38
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