This is Peter's first live album and finally it comes with an unambiguous title. Unlike his first four studio albums which were all titled 'Peter Gabriel' this one adds the descriptor 'Plays Live'.
Although the credits are for 4 concerts between Dec 3-7 1982 there is a note saying "additional recording" was done and "the producers" call this "cheating" (sorry for all the quotation marks, that's how it comes across.) That doesn't take away from the excitement of live recording including 'Shock the Monkey', 'Biko' and the evergreen 'Solsbury Hill'. For me, you can't go past the 1994 'Secret World Live' album for amazing concert performances and if you can find the video, even better. Watching Tony Levin in action is always mesmerizing.
