However, in November 1998, both engineers decided to focus on completing the OVO soundtrack, so work on Up was temporarily put on hold.

The appeal was that it was a huge project which offered the ability to dream up some crazy things, and there was a budget there to pay for it."

The bad public image and the problems revolving around the Millennium Dome were taken by Gabriel as a challenge: "I knew what I was walking into and that it was a quite unpopular project.

Douglas Hodge would join Fisher and Gabriel as a writer in 1998, before being assigned as director in the same year, on the condition that The Walt Disney World Resort near Orlando, Florida would sponsor the show and later ship the whole stage and set over to the Resort for a future attraction.

In 2007, Walt Disney Imagineering asked Hodge and some of the cast to assist in converting the stage and sets into a Ride Based on the Toy Story Franchise.

They jumped at the offer and Toy Story Midway Mania was officially opened at Disney's Hollywood Studios on 31 May 2008.

Comparing the album with 2002's Up, Gabriel saw a number of differences: "It's referential to folk music, and there are futuristic elements that I wouldn't normally work with.

"[1] "Different versions of Britain" piqued Gabriel's interest: "There was the traditional view of a white England, with folk references which I knew very little about musically and had to research.

Then there was contemporary Britain, and the aim was to include Asian, African, Caribbean, and Irish elements from what is now a very multicultural society."

Gabriel deliberately chose rap as genre in the opening track "The Story of OVO" where singer Neneh Cherry and rapper Rasco narrate the story line: "I wanted to make it appeal to kids, and rap seems to be their No.

[1][7] The double CD edition with the title "OVO The Millennium Show" contains a different cover and booklet, a comic book and bonus track "The Tree That Went Up".

Every CD of every edition includes a multimedia part with the time lapse video "The Nest That Sailed the Sky".

While the single CD version's booklet contains an introduction by Peter Gabriel and lyrics, the double CD version's booklet contains a short summary of the story, statements of artists involved and images from the Millennium Dome Show.

[6] The tracks were individually distributed to different interlinked sites timed to expire at the official release date.

"Downside-Up" and "The Nest That Sailed The Sky" were also performed as part of The New Blood Tour in 2010 and 2011, the former as a duet between Peter and Melanie Gabriel and the latter as the closing, orchestra-only track of the show.

"The Tower That Ate People" also appears on the Back to Front: Live in London DVD released in 2014.

[8] Long ago on the island of Albion lived Theo, a man who loved the earth.

He began to develop machines made of iron, which would decisively change the lives of the villagers in agriculture and all other areas to an industrial society.

All tracks are written by Peter Gabriel, except for “The Weaver's Reel”, co-written with Richard Evans.The numbers in brackets refer to the single CD edition.