Growing Up Live is a concert film

Concert film

A concert movie, or concert film, is a type of documentary film, the subject of which is an extended live performance or concert by a musician ....

 by Hamish Hamilton

Hamish Hamilton (director)

Hamish Hamilton is a Grammy and BAFTA Award nominated British director, who is best known for directing concert videos and award shows. His career began at the BBC in Scotland where he was trained as a producer and director. His early work included a stint directing the acclaimed BBC travel...

 and Peter Gabriel

Peter Gabriel

Peter Brian Gabriel is an English singer, musician, and songwriter who rose to fame as the lead vocalist and flautist of the progressive rock group Genesis. After leaving Genesis, Gabriel went on to a successful solo career...

. It features a live performance from Gabriel's 2003 "Growing Up" tour. The concert is notable for its dynamic set design by Robert Lepage

Robert Lepage

Robert Lepage, is a playwright, actor, film director, and stage director from Québec City, Québec, and is one of Canada's most honoured theatre artists.- Life and work :...

. Also of note is the addition of Melanie Gabriel, his daughter, for backing vocals in this concert footage. Bonus features include Tony Levin

Tony Levin

Tony Levin is an American progressive rock musician, specializing in bass guitar, Chapman stick and upright bass ....

's photo album selections and an interview with Peter Gabriel about the story of Growing Up.

Track listing

All songs are written by Peter Gabriel

Peter Gabriel

Peter Brian Gabriel is an English singer, musician, and songwriter who rose to fame as the lead vocalist and flautist of the progressive rock group Genesis. After leaving Genesis, Gabriel went on to a successful solo career...

.

1. "Here Comes the Flood" – 8:37
2. "Darkness" – 8:39
3. "Red Rain
   Red Rain (song)
   "Red Rain" is the first track on Peter Gabriel's 1986 solo album So. In the USA, it reached #3 on Billboard magazine's Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. Stewart Copeland from The Police played the hi-hat for the rain-like background sound; the rest of the drumming was handled by Jerry Marotta.The song...
   
   " – 6:14
4. "Secret World" – 9:06
5. "Sky Blue" – 7:47
6. "Downside Up" – 7:36
7. "The Barry Williams Show" – 9:19
8. "More Than This" – 6:09
9. "Mercy Street" – 7:39
10. "Digging in the Dirt
    Digging in the Dirt
    "Digging in the Dirt" is a 1992 song by British musician Peter Gabriel. It was the first single taken from his sixth studio album, Us. The song was only a minor hit on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart, but it topped both the Billboard Modern Rock and Mainstream Rock charts...
    
    " – 7:36
11. "Growing Up" – 6:14
12. "Animal Nation" – 8:12
13. "Solsbury Hill
    Solsbury Hill (song)
    "Solsbury Hill" is a song by British musician Peter Gabriel, about a spiritual experience atop Solsbury Hill in Somerset, England. Gabriel wrote the song after his departure from the progressive rock band Genesis, of which he had been the lead singer since its inception, explaining the reasons...
    
    " – 4:45
14. "Sledgehammer
    Sledgehammer (song)
    "Sledgehammer" is a song by British musician Peter Gabriel from his 1986 album So. It hit number one in Canada on 21 July 1986 where it spent four weeks; number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States on 26 July 1986; and number four in the UK singles chart, thanks in part to a...
    
    " – 4:59
15. "Signal To Noise" – 9:39
16. "In Your Eyes
    In Your Eyes (Peter Gabriel song)
    "In Your Eyes" is a song by British musician Peter Gabriel from his 1986 album So. It reached #1 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks and #26 on the Billboard Hot 100 in November, 1986. It was not released as a single in the UK...
    
    " – 11:34
17. "Father, Son" – 6:15

Personnel

• Peter Gabriel – lead vocals, keyboards.
• Richard Evans – guitars, mandolin, whistles, backing vocals.
• Melanie Gabriel – lead and backing vocals.
• Tony Levin
  Tony Levin
  Tony Levin is an American progressive rock musician, specializing in bass guitar, Chapman stick and upright bass ....
  
   – bass, electric upright bass, backing vocals.
• Ged Lynch – drums, percussions.
• David Rhodes – guitars, backing vocals.
• Rachel Z
  Rachel Z
  Rachel Carmel Nicolazzo better known as Rachel Z, is a jazz pianist. She attended the Berklee College of Music Summer School and Manhattan School of Music pre-college, where she launched the quintet, Nardis, whilst studying with Joanne Brackeen and Richie Beirach in NYC. Later Rachel Z graduated...
  
   – keyboards, backing vocals.

Special Guests

• The Blind Boys of Alabama
  The Blind Boys of Alabama
  The Blind Boys of Alabama are a gospel group from Alabama that first formed at the Alabama Institute for the Negro Blind at Talladega, Alabama in 1939. The three main vocalists of the group and their drummer/percussionist are all blind....
  
   – lead vocals for "Sky Blue".
• Sevara Nazarkhan
  Sevara Nazarkhan
  Sevara Nazarkhan is an Uzbek singer, songwriter, and musician. She was born 1978 in Andijan city, Uzbek SSR....
  
  – lead vocals.