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What Lies Ahead

song by the English singer-songwriter and rock musician Peter Gabriel (2014)
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What Lies Ahead

Summary

What Lies Ahead is a musical work/composition[1]. It ranks in the top 5% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (70 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • What Lies Ahead's instance of is recorded as musical work/composition[3].
  • What Lies Ahead's composer is recorded as Peter Gabriel[4].
  • What Lies Ahead's composer is recorded as Isaac Ralph Gabriel[5].
  • What Lies Ahead's genre is pop music[6].
  • What Lies Ahead's genre is art rock[7].
  • What Lies Ahead's genre is progressive rock[8].
  • What Lies Ahead's genre is world music[9].
  • What Lies Ahead was produced by Peter Gabriel[10].
  • What Lies Ahead was performed by Peter Gabriel[11].
  • Among the performers on What Lies Ahead was Paolo Fresu[12].
  • What Lies Ahead's record label is recorded as Real World Records[13].
  • What Lies Ahead's record label is recorded as Sony Music Publishing[14].
  • What Lies Ahead is part of o\i[15].
  • What Lies Ahead's language of work or name is recorded as English[16].
  • What Lies Ahead's country of origin is recorded as United Kingdom[17].
  • What Lies Ahead was released on November 20, 2014[18].
  • What Lies Ahead was released on March 3, 2026[19].
  • What Lies Ahead's lyricist is recorded as Peter Gabriel[20].
  • What Lies Ahead's main subject is nature[21].
  • What Lies Ahead's main subject is future[22].
  • What Lies Ahead's main subject is religiosity[23].
  • What Lies Ahead's main subject is inventor[24].
  • What Lies Ahead's main subject is invention[25].
  • What Lies Ahead's main subject is Ralph Parton Gabriel[26].
  • What Lies Ahead's date of first performance is recorded as November 20, 2014[27].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Release type: Song[28]

  • MusicBrainz ID: de7add6f-afd1-42db-92c7-58385a0ff730[29]

Body

Authorship and Creation

Performers include Peter Gabriel[11] and Paolo Fresu[12]. What Lies Ahead was produced by Peter Gabriel[10].

Publication

Publication dates include November 20, 2014[18] and March 3, 2026[19]. What Lies Ahead's language of work or name is recorded as English[16]. Genres include pop music[6], art rock[7], progressive rock[8], and world music[9]. It is part of o\i[15].

Subject and Themes

Main subjects include nature[21], future[22], religiosity[23], inventor[24], invention[25], and Ralph Parton Gabriel[26].

Why It Matters

What Lies Ahead ranks in the top 5% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (70 views/month).[2]

Related Entities

Peter Gabriel

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . ISWC Network. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . ISWC Network. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . ISWC Network. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [28] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [29] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

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  1. 6w ago · KrBot bot · 2026-05-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Main subject → nature, future, religiosity +3
    Musicbrainz release group id → f276d576-6d5a-47b9-a9c9-563082d0ae8a, c1d1c213-9785-49bc-b0cf-8c055ace9950
    Date of first performance → +2014-11-20T00:00:00Z
    Wikidata description → song by the English singer-songwriter and rock musician Peter Gabriel (2014)
    + 22 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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