{"id":2439135,"date":"2026-05-31T15:43:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T15:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2439135"},"modified":"2026-05-31T15:43:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T15:43:44","slug":"peter-gabriel-releases-new-song-a-hard-lesson-listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/peter-gabriel-releases-new-song-a-hard-lesson-listen\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Gabriel Releases New Song \u2018A Hard Lesson\u2019: Listen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Another full moon brings another new single from the musician\u2019s <em>o\\i<\/em> project<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tMay 31 marks the second full moon of the month, known as the blue moon, and with it comes another new single from <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/peter-gabriel\/\" id=\"auto-tag_peter-gabriel\" data-tag=\"peter-gabriel\">Peter Gabriel<\/a>\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/peter-gabriel-lp-o-i-full-moon-1235493412\/\">slowly gestating project, <em>o\\i<\/em>,<\/a> \u201cA Hard Lesson.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tLike his previous LP, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/chinese-democracy-peter-gabriel-albums-finally-coming-out-1234656806\/\">2023\u2019s<em>\u00a0i\/o<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0he\u2019s slowly unfurling his upcoming album with songs from\u00a0<em>o\/i<\/em>\u00a0releasing with every full moon through the course of 2026. It culminates with the album\u2019s release.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cA Hard Lesson\u201d is the oldest song from his upcoming project, the musician revealed on his website. It was written in the late Eighties or early Nineties while Gabriel was in Senegal.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Quirky, strange, a journey. Peter Gabriel - A Hard Lesson. New music for the full moon\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rW1t3UE3qvI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cI was falling in love with the music I heard there. I loved the tension created by the use of polyrhythms, particularly the threes and fours, so that was the start of this song,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s a quirky, strange and long track but it\u2019s a journey. It\u2019s about trying to find a place, your place, how you fit in. I\u2019ve enjoyed playing with old R&amp;B and folk references as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Peter Gabriel - A Hard Lesson (Bright-Side Mix)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uJz_RkGFRWU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tHe explained the reason why the song took some decades to come to fruition. \u201cSometimes things take time \u2014 most people do stuff a lot faster \u2013 but I have no problem with understanding my own process,\u201d he wrote. \u201cSome things will mature and evolve spontaneously and some will just stay hidden-away in a box until their moment in the light appears.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tAs with his previously released <em>o\\i<\/em> songs, the track will receive two mixes. The one he released Sunday is a bright-side mix by Mark \u201cSpike\u201d Stent. The dark-side mix from Tchald Blake will arrive \u201con the next moon,\u201d per his website.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.rollingstone.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another full moon brings another new single from the musician\u2019s o\\i project May 31 marks the second full moon of the month, known as the blue moon, and with it comes another new single from Peter Gabriel\u2019s slowly gestating project, o\\i, \u201cA Hard Lesson.\u201d Like his previous LP, 2023\u2019s\u00a0i\/o,\u00a0he\u2019s slowly unfurling his upcoming album with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2439136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[350806],"class_list":["post-2439135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-peter-gabriel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Peter-Gabriel-Releases-New-Song-\u2018A-Hard-Lesson-Listen.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2439135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2439137,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439135\/revisions\/2439137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2439136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2439135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2439135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2439135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}