With a solo career spanning 46 years, 11 studio albums, 3 soundtracks and a catalogue of around 200 songs, Peter Gabriel is still one of the most multifaceted, groundbreaking and original artists inhabiting the rock and pop world. "The Stories Behind the Songs" traces Gabriel's unique output from 1977 to 2023 in the form of a song-by-song analysis, including all his released material - singles, album tracks, covers - and unreleased tracks that have surfaced from live performances and elsewhere. Each of them provides full credits, technical and musical details about the recordings and "behind the scenes" stories told by the people involved (musicians, producers, engineers and Gabriel himself). Drawing on source material, vintage interviews and exclusive conversations specially conducted by the authors for this project, this reference book paints a full portrait of a musical craftsman whose watchword has always been and still is "go ahead".