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.
This would be Gabriel's last studio album of new original material for 21 years 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.
Tracklist:
00:00 Darkness
06:51 Growing up
14:25 Sky blue
21:03 No Way out
28:57 I grieve
36:21 The Barry Williams Show
43:37 My head sounds like that
50:06 More than this
56:08 Signal to noise
1:03:45 The Drop
Musicians
Peter Gabriel – vocals (all tracks), piano (1, 3–4, 7–8, 10), keyboards (1, 3, 5), JamMan (1–2), MPC groove (1–4, 6, 8–9), electronics (1, 3, 6, 8–9), organ (2, 6, 8), bass keys (2, 5–6, 9), sampled keyboards (2, 4), bass guitar (4), harmonium (4), Telecaster (4, 6), crotales (4), tom–tom (4), samples (5, 9), harmonica (6), reversed strings (6), string samples (6), Mellotron (6–7, 9), sampled guitar (8)
Tony Levin – bass (1, 3–8)
David Rhodes – guitars (1–4, 7, 9), guitar (6, 8), electric guitar (5), backing vocals (2–3, 6, 8–9)
Manu Katché – drums (1–3, 5–7)
Dave Power – drums (1)
London Session Orchestra – strings (1, 9)
Will Gregory – string arrangements (1, 9)
Isobel Griffiths – string contractor (1, 9)
Nick Ingman – orchestrations (1, 9)
Alex Swift – additional programming (1–3)
Tchad Blake – tape scratches (2), groove treatment effects (6)
Richard Chappell – programming (2), treated loop (6), loop manipulation (7)
Adrian Chivers – backing vocals (2)
Pete Davis – additional programming (2)
Ged Lynch – drums (2, 6, 8), percussion (2–9)
Blind Boys of Alabama – additional vocals (3), backing vocals (8)
Melanie Gabriel – backing vocals (3, 8)
Peter Green – guitar (3)
Daniel Lanois – guitar (3), percussion (3)
David Sancious – Hammond organ (3)
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