Peter is teaming up with Vodaphone and Tony Blair to get used mobile phones to Africa.

Voda pushes phone recycling
14:55PM Tue 24 October 2006

Peter Gabriel, left and John Robertson.

Vodafone has joined in a campaign to send unwanted mobile phones to developing countries.

Phones 4 Africa hopes to increase the number of handsets that are reused by encouraging thousands of people in Britain to recycle their mobiles.

Vodafone has teamed up with Fonebak, a specialist company in recycling and distributing used phones in the developing world, to launch the campaign, while prime minister Tony Blair and singer Peter Gabriel have shown their support.

Blair said: ‘Phones 4 Africa is a great idea. It means people in Britain can help thousands of people in Africa use ordinary mobile phones to break out of poverty.’

Gabriel joined Vodafone Enterprise Business Unit director Kyle Whitehill and MP John Robertson last week in Westminster to launch the campaign.

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Also, luabp found this article on LiCipanni, which you can read in it’s entirety here..

Peace and quiet at rock hotel

By Jon Clarke, Daily Mail

Peter Gabriel is reclining in a white T-shirt and shorts on a sunbed beside the water at Li Capanni, his exclusive Sardinian hotel retreat.

‘I never wanted to be a hotelier, but when I heard that my favourite hotel was about to be bought and destroyed by developers, I thought it was time to give it a go,’ he explains.

‘The other option was to lose it for ever, which would have been heart-breaking. It was time to call the bank manager.’

And so began the journey of one of our most successful musicians into the competitive and risky hotel business.

It is almost ten years since Gabriel, 53, and his wife Meabh began their love affair with the hotel, strategically placed on the fashionable Costa Smeralda, which the Aga Khan turned into a playground for the ultra rich a few decades ago.

Now, when was that new CD supposed to come out again???? I’ve lost track…..

Ah yes, it was August 5, 2006, that Billboard came out with the story, and it said: ""Big Blue Ball" is due globally on Real World/EMI this fall." We have until December 21st 2006. And, considering that Real World kind of goes on vacation around mid December….. hmmm.