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b'Peter Gabriel is one of rock music\\u2019s most active innovators. Between his Grammy- award-winning albums, social activism-based concerts, world music festivals, and his claim-to-fame band Genesis\\u2019s 2010 induction into the rock n\\u2019 roll hall of fame, Gabriel\\u2019s creative longevity is unquestionable. Author Daryl Easlea\\u2019s new biography, Without Frontiers: The Life and Music of Peter Gabriel illuminates this musical pioneer\\u2019s life and what inspires him.\\xa0Daryl Easlea delves into the multi-talented Gabriel\\u2019s childhood, where he writes of young Gabriel\\u2019s influences, including his father who fostered his musical interest in everything from The Beatles to soul music. Gabriel began his musical career in the early 1970\\u2019s as the front man for Genesis, a band he created with fellow schoolmates. By 1975, citing the stress of being in the band and that Gabriel was newly married and with a baby, he set out on a solo career.\\xa0Naming his first three albums after himself, he achieved moderate success with the singles \\u201cSolsbury Hill\\u201d and \\u201cShock the Monkey.\\u201d \\xa0It wasn\\u2019t until Gabriel\\u2019s 1986 album, So, with the hits \\u201cSledgehammer,\\u201d \\u201cBig Time,\\u201d and \\u201cIn Your Eyes,\\u201d that he achieved commercial success. It was followed up five years later by the equally successful album US, \\xa0hits \\u201cDigging in the Dirt\\u201d and \\u201cCome Talk to Me\\u201d and as the author notes, is clearly the result of the singer\\u2019s personal struggles and years in therapy.\\xa0Throughout Without Frontiers, Easlea weaves a beautiful biographical tapestry of Gabriel\\u2019s life. Quotes and interviews with friends and fellow musicians who were instrumental in Peter\\u2019s life help to chronicle the man and his immensely creative approach to his music.'