'Biko' - Song By Peter Gabriel

Author:
You Tube
Publisher:
You Tube
Publication Date:
12 September 2013
Tags:
South Africa, Europe and Africa, Governance, Human Rights, Music

'Biko' is taken from Peter Gabriel's third self-titled solo album. Video directed by Lol Creme. Released May 22, 1980. The song was in commemoration of Stephen Bantu Biko the South African Black Consciousness leader who died while in police custody on September 12, 1977.

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