I Grieve is one of the most beautiful songs for people who are grieving as his voice as it builds makes the same sound our souls make during such a painful journey of missing the one you love. I listen to this song often after the loss of my husband almost 10 years ago! ♥️🕊️

I freaking love Peter Gabriel.

Peter Gabriel’s music and stories are my therapy 😊

An under appreciated LEGEND.

This conversation is as soulful as Peter's music. He is so pure. His shyness is endearing to me. There is no bullshit about him at all. I love how he turned the interview around. A clever guy and he didit brilliantly!

Brilliant musician, and such a sound human being

Peter Gabriel makes incredible music

Am I the only one that really liked what Peter was playing and singing? The improv he was doing? He sounds so good! I am ready for a new album...

"Axe in the frozen sea" is a quote from Franz Kafka.

I love him. He seems to be such a nice man.

I love that you guys picked a great composer of his time over a mainstream "musician". My faith in School of Life is forever restored.

Peter Gabriel is one of my favorite singer/musician. This was a very excellent interview.

In the early 70s, PG introduced me to artistry, in the 80s he was my style guru, through it all a wise guide for living an honest life. And the outstanding music has worked into my consciousness and become the soundtrack of my inner life. It's impossible to over estimate the effect of this man on my life

Massive massive fan of Peter and that era of genesis. ..was fortunate enough to see him do the lamb and he became my hero from then on..no better person than him to talk about life music and all the challenges that it throws up...Peter was streets ahead of everyone at his peak with genesis and then went on to even greater achievements and success...a truly remarkable musician and human being....

Peter Gabriel is an excellent choice - a very insightful man! I was most pleasantly surprised. Thank you, School Of Life, for the effort to actually get this wonderful composer/performer for a great interview!

Love Peter Gabriel.. His falsetto is absolutely exquisite!!

Always loved Peter Gabriel - wonderful musician and human being. Great interview and channel. Thank you. ♡☆♡

Mercy Street always made me choke-up during performance. Thank you sincerely for that one❤️

"One good thing about music: When it hits, you feel no pain" - Bob Marley

Wonderful, but the conversation could have gone forever! Love Peter Gabriel,.and thanks Allen for bringing him to your table!!

A wise man, thank you for sharing this wonderful conversation.

This is a great interview. I have always been a Peter Gabriel fan.

Long Live Peter Gabriel!

If this conversation went on for hours, I would still be enrapt.

Thank you so much for this film. I've enjoyed Peter Gabriel's music since the 80s and it's wonderful to hear him speak about music in this way. His music does seem to truly resonate emotionally for people (including myself). I've enjoyed these discussions (such as the one with Nigella Lawson) because the subjects are thinking very deeply about their field and there is plenty of time given to get into the nitty gritty. Thanks again. I think I'll be rewatching this one.

Peter Gabriel was pretty much the first musician I was ever exposed to in my life. Thank you for sharing this, truly inspiring stuff!

I love you!

Tx so much. I saw him live in 87 and just now in Amsterdam May 5 23 . The man is a true genius.

He's simply the best.

"It's a big park..." That line of conversation are words to live by.

Nice! One of my favorite musicians on one of my favorite KZfaq channels. I love hearing these two talk.

Just brilliant ! Two people I admire so much

very sweet about his parents

I've heard it said, "few men have wisdom..and the few who do, even fewer listen to"... Thanks for this interview School of Life.

Alain de Botton is someone whose biography and philosophic perspective I am familiar with, not without reservations. Imagine my surprise happening upon this delightful, thoughtful conversation!!! Wonderful.

God Bless You.

I only know him from 'Book of love' but it's enough for me to see this interview

I was living at an ashram in India in 1986, building a recording studio. Hadn't heard any western music for 3 mths. We fired up the new studio. Someone came in with a new album from Peter & we put it on. 1st thing I heard was Red Rain and it blew me the F away! Thank you Peter!

Peter Gabriel is my favorite. I wish I knew where his music can be listened to streaming these days. I have always appreciated the song, "Darkness." I wonder what it would sound like with the original vocal track and the New Blood instrumental track.

This is the best thing I ever seen or witnessed and watched

I was 18 as i heard the first time Peter Gabriels music. From this time on i am an follower of his does - political and musical. My daughter also growed up with his music. We want miss him.

Cant stop listening to The Musical Box lately ❤❤

This is new. I like it.

One of the best youtube channels and one of my favourite musicians. Perfection.

I found Mr.Gabriel very honest.

Love this chat.Love Peter.Love his music,his voice,his intelligence and humility.Born on the 13th February like Peter.I think that impressed the woman I ended up marrying.She loved Peter.Thank you Peter for everything.

my musical hero..........

Here is the quote " A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.” - Kafka

He was talking about the healing journey many of us must take from our upbringing before anyone else in 'digging in the dirt, find the places that got hurt, open up the places I got hurt.'

Absolute genius!!💚

I would love to attend the school of life. It's becoming essential to my MWF routine. Coupled with a chromecast, a cup of coffee, and a notebook, it has opened up my mind tremendously. Thank you!

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Inspiring person 😊

The bonobo clip is one of the cornerstones of intelligence and a step towards the stair to peace and unity I've come across.

I Grieve is one of my favorite songs too.

Provocative conversation. Thank you.

I loved this so very much. Thanks, really. Also, you should keep doing this kind of things! With musicians, painters, etc.

Superb.Thank you very much indeed.

Always exploring the new and basics of music.

What a humble man.

the most amazing human species & influential person to date that I have been fortunate to learn of * a true genious in many or all regards.

Peter Gabriel and The School Of Life is not a combination I would of expected, but I guess tsol just got better when I thought it couldn't! ps Foxtrot and lamb lies down on Broadway are two of his best works

I was really hoping Peter was going to stand up suddenly and belt out 'Apocalypse in 9/8.'

Wonderful, if only more music interviews took this sort of approach! I would love for the School of Life to consider making more content about music and such.

Peter: an astute, heart-fathomed insight into a topic which is, at very least, a mainframe institution of remunerative channels which allow associative dispersion(s) of anxiousness and passive undertones to be expressly renounced in the Spirit of Sound which, always divinely congruent with Presence, allows the process of Life to be appreciated responsively and Illumined in the Crystalline, Auric Light of The Supreme Creator.

I am 62 and luckily I married a man at 18 he was 30. We didn't have children for six and then eight years but we were both lucky to be college and my husband a masters degree. We wrote with Robert martin French horn genius but he has none both of us forever. My name is Trina humble skipper my deceased this and was Brian dee humble. We were tremendous fans of Genesis. Luckily were got to know you peter grabriel under Phil Collins. Together you two were the best

I sincerely love what you do on this channel. Philosophy is not dead, music is our lifeblood, and ideas will carry out the future. I'm finally home. (PS: Please do more videos like this)

See you in September… god spares. Love ing Gabriel in my book is a huge understatement.❤

THANKS FOR THIS INTERVIEW 🙏 🙏 🙏 🕊️🕊️🕊️

Wish one day the Honor of performing with him🌎

my favorite musician on my favorite philosophy channel!!!

Great! I've been waiting for this. The event took place on Feb. 1, 2016.

What a lovely conversation

This was great! I was there in the front row

É uma Pena não ter legenda para português, viva Peter!!!

Peter a truth original creative soul.

great conversation! next have on Brian Eno.

very interesting! especially the last part about using music to connect with other species.

Oh! The bonobo keyboard thing makes me cry..

Came across this video as I was listening to Trespass.

Excellent talk!! Still excited for the new book!!

Peter is a very generous man.....would love to hear him do a bare bones acoustic album.....guitars...mandolins....violins....bouzoukis.....etc.....!!

This is so great stuff, thx so much!!!

Lay Your Hands on Me, Come Talk To Me, San Jacinto, Secret World, In Your Eyes, Steam, Red Rain, Diggin’ in the Dirt, Biko, Hear That Voice Again, Mercy Street, … these songs to you I am forever in your debt…

Interesting and amazing

Thank you TSOL, this was a lovely dialogue. Two of my favorite people! Has anyone ever told you that you and Brian Eno resemble each other? I imagine that he would be an excellent guest to have on. He's incredibly intelligent and one of the most interesting people I've ever met. Any thoughts on this? I wish I'd known that TSOL existed whilst I was in London for 8 years! Just moved back to the US 1 year ago, which is when I found your channel here. Thanks again for the fantastic content!

‘Here she finds the octave.’ (25:31) Peter Gabriel’s elegant sentence accompanies a complex moment of minds - his and Panbanisha’s (and ours) - connecting: a heady composition.

CONGRATS ON 1 MILLION SUBS !

wow, what a nice surprise! i love Peter Gabriel! thank you!\o/

"When you are a shy and spotty boy music opens up the world in mysterious ways". For at least half of the audience THAT 'find a mate' thing is pretty interesting. I've tried cornering a few groupies to find out what attracts them to shy, spotty boys in bands. I've heard that they like the creativity, they admire their bravery at 'standing apart from the pack' or even attempting to lead it. I've also heard that its simply a competitive thing with other girls and that its a good way to have meaningless sex without worrying about a long term commitment. But the overall consensus has kind of been that its not the greatest way to find a 'permanent' mate, although Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford seemed to have been more successful in that department than the other members of Genesis. But to have the world open up in those ways when you are dressed as a flower and at concerts which at the time were almost universally male, well, thats quite an accomplishment.

The song don't give up is of course a good song and the discussion here is how it's possibly saved some lives which is probably the case, but a number of years ago when I was suicidal the song put me in a worse state of mind so these days if I'm having a bad day I'll listen to something more upbeat with carefree lyrics and on a good day where things are going well I'll enjoy a song like don't give up

looove this

Holy crow… the ape playing keys was amazing

Panbanisha is better at the keys than me! ;) - awesome concept and great work from Peter

Hey Alain, I'd love to see your favourite meaningful songs. I really loved your interpretations of paintings in Art as therapy. I still have those as my desktop wall papers.

You are half Egyptian?! Me too! I love school of life even more. :)

You listen to Peter Gabriel, yes; but you listen to live it; remember PG's Modern Love😊

I once put up a scaffold on his New World studio in Box, just outside Bath, and on the day we put it up (someday in the early nineties, he actually had Aswad there (look them up) and they were having a jam session on the lawn (it's a big place). My only claim to fame.

Thanks. I wish it wasn't that short!

wow!!!! awesome!!!!!