Africa Calling Is Special - so Is Being a Dad at 55 ; Peter Gabriel, the Star Who Brought Us World Music, Talks Proudly of His Two Babies - the Eden Project Concert and Four-Year-Old Isaac

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IT IS unbelievably difficult getting hold of former Genesis frontman Peter Gabriel. He's busy doing a Nelson Mandela concert in Norway with Annie Lennox. Then he's off to goodness knows where to start recording a new album and then, in between times, he's here at his home in Box, near Bath.

It's not just his home, this glorious mill house set down a tiny road - it's also home to his Real World Studio and his organisation Womad (World of Music and Dance). "It's quite difficult to find," his helpful assistant had told me over the telephone. I told her I knew exactly where Box was, for, many years ago, I applied for a job at Womad. There were two jobs going. I got down to the last three.

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Africa Calling Is Special - so Is Being a Dad at 55 ; Peter Gabriel, the Star Who Brought Us World Music, Talks Proudly of His Two Babies - the Eden Project Concert and Four-Year-Old Isaac

But, as it turns out, it is almost impossible to get to Box as, on the day I am due to meet Gabriel, the M4 is under such a deluge from torrential rains and storms that it has virtually turned into a river. I creep along until, far later than planned, I arrive at the mill where I find absolutely no one.

Finally, I stumble into a...

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