Secret World Live (film)

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Secret World Live
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ReleasedSeptember 13, 1994 (1994-09-13)
Recorded16–17 November 1993
Venue Palasport Nuovo, Modena, Italy
Genre Rock
Length132 mins.
Label Geffen (US & Canada), Virgin
Peter Gabriel chronology
Peter Gabriel Revisited
(1992)
Secret World Live
(1994)
Growing Up: Live
(2003)

Secret World Live is a film filmed in two Peter Gabriel concerts in 1993, as part of his Secret World Tour to support his sixth solo album, Us . The show is performed across two stages: a square and a circular stage, bridged by a conveyor belt. It was released on VHS, LaserDisc and DVD. An album of the same title with a similar track listing was also released.

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The film received the 1996 Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video, honouring video director Francois Girard and video producer Robert Warr. [1] [2]

The film has been remastered and became available on DVD and Blu-ray on 2 July 2012 in the UK [3] and 24 July 2012 in North America. [4] The new release also contains the song "Red Rain" that was not present on the original releases.

Track listing

  1. "Come Talk to Me" – 6:39
  2. "Steam" – 7:53
  3. "Across the River" – 5:57
  4. "Slow Marimbas" – 1:45
  5. "Shaking the Tree" – 7:12
  6. "Blood of Eden" – 7:02
  7. "San Jacinto" – 7:34
  8. "Kiss That Frog" – 6:21
  9. "Washing of the Water" – 3:55
  10. "Solsbury Hill" – 4:27
  11. "Digging in the Dirt" – 6:55
  12. "Sledgehammer" – 6:05
  13. "Secret World" – 10:16
  14. "Don't Give Up" – 7:34
  15. "In Your Eyes" – 12:48

Bonus tracks [5]

  1. "Red Rain"
  2. "Steam" (remixed "quiet" version)
  3. "The Rhythm of the Heat"

Personnel

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart performance for Secret World Live
Chart (1994–2014)Peak
position
Australian Music DVD (ARIA) [6] 40
Austrian Music DVD (Ö3 Austria) [7] 5
Dutch Music DVD (MegaCharts) [8] 7
French Music DVD (SNEP) [9] 3
Italian Music DVD (FIMI) [10] 3
New Zealand Music DVD (RMNZ) [11] 1
Portuguese Music DVD (AFP) [12] 9
Swedish Music DVD (Sverigetopplistan) [13] 6
Swiss Music DVD (Schweizer Hitparade) [14] 8
UK Music Videos (OCC) [15] 3

Certifications

Certifications for Secret World Live
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Argentina (CAPIF) [16] Platinum8,000^
Australia (ARIA) [17] Gold7,500^
Canada (Music Canada) [18]
DVD
3× Platinum30,000^
Canada (Music Canada) [18]
VHS
Gold5,000^
France (SNEP) [19] Gold10,000*
Germany (BVMI) [20] 3× Gold75,000^
New Zealand (RMNZ) [11] 2× Platinum10,000^
Poland (ZPAV) [21] Gold5,000*
United Kingdom (BPI) [22] Gold25,000^
United States (RIAA) [23] Platinum100,000^

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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