Old music: Peter Gabriel – Steam

Those beloved songs of the past? There's no need to drape them in orchestral trappings A curious wheeze afflicts the occasional "maturing" rock star – waste bands. That's waste, not waist. I'm talking orchestral manure in the art, the revisiting of the back catalogue in front of a big, big band. Sometimes a choir will be thrown in for a singalong.This symphonic plague – and it is a plague – has struck, among others, Metallica, Aerosmith, Kiss, Elbow, Elton John and, naturally, Sting. They ...

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