Genesis – Wind & Wuthering “Like the dust that settles all around me, I must find a new home” A Trick Of The Tail was a bona fide success remaining in the UK charts for 39 weeks. With the album done they needed to sort out how to deal with playing live as Collins really …
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Genesis – A Trick Of The Tail “Let the dance begin” So, we find ourselves in May 1975 and just like that, 24 year old Peter Gabriel was gone before most people even knew who he was. Six studio albums in six years from “Where The Sour Turns To Sweet” to “It”. Fox heads, red …
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Genesis – The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway “Don’t look at me I’m not your kind, I’m Rael” OK Let me start by saying this is my favourite Genesis album and it is my second favourite record of all time behind Quadrophenia by The Who and ahead of Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In …
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Genesis – Selling England By The Pound “Take a little trip back with father Tiresias” I am definitely going to get some flack on this post. I mean we are talking about an album that is not only many fans’ favourite Genesis album but one that many consider to be their favourite Prog Rock album …
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Genesis – Genesis Live “That was an unaccompanied bass pedal solo from Michael Rutherford” At one point in the past Live albums could serve as a gateway drug to a band’s back catalog. They were put out often as a stopgap between studio releases but very often at a time when the fanbase was growing …
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Genesis – Foxtrot “Can’t you feel our souls ignite” Following the release of Nursery Cryme Genesis toured extensively in the UK and Europe between November 71 and August 72 promoting the album. A non-album single called Happy The Man was released in May 1972 with Seven Stones from Nursery Cryme as the B-Side. It is …
Genesis – Nursery Cryme “All your hearts now seem so far from me, It hardly seems to matter now” The first few years of the band involved shifts in band members. First Chris Stewart was replaced by Johnathan Silver on drums and then he by John Mayhew. After monumental sales of about 6000 copies of …
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Genesis – Trespass “Nobody needs to discover me, I’m back again” So, September 1969 Gabriel, Banks, Rutherford and Phillips decided to give it a proper go as Genesis as a full-time commitment, however they would write music on their own terms. Jonathan Silver who had played drums on From Genesis To Revelation left for school …
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Genesis – From Genesis To Revelation “It has begun, You’re in the hands of destiny” They were just kids…amazingly Genesis were still in High School when this was recorded. The band formed originally from the remnants of two bands in 1967 at Charterhouse School – which was like a upper middle class boys private school. …
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