Gilbert Gabriel

Gilbert Gabriel
Occupation(s)	Songwriter, film composer, lecturer
Associated acts	The Dream Academy

Gilbert Alexander Gabriel is a songwriter, film composer, producer and lecturer. He studied piano and clarinet at Dartington College of Arts and Goldsmiths before forming the English folk rock trio The Dream Academy, which had the worldwide hit "Life in a Northern Town". Since then he has been writing and producing music for film and television in England and Poland. He has also lectured on 'film and the soundtrack' in Cambridge as well as Liverpool and Cardiff University. His latest album features Kroke's violinist (Nigel Kennedy and Peter Gabriel collaborator).

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The Dream Academy

Gilbert Gabriel Nick Laird-Clowes Kate St John

Studio albums	The Dream Academy (1985) Remembrance Days (1987) A Different Kind of Weather (1990)

Compilation albums	Somewhere in the Sun... Best of the Dream Academy (2000) The Morning Lasted All Day: A Retrospective (2014)

Singles	"Life in a Northern Town" "The Edge of Forever" "The Love Parade" "Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want" "Love"

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