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01-07 Gabriel To Rejoin Genesis?
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Genesis was one of the most popular progressive rock bands in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. During the 1970s, PeterGabrielwas the lead singer untilhis departure, when drummer Phil Collins stepped up to the mic and replaced him.
Starting as an amalgam of two bands formed by schoolboys attending Charterhouse School in Godalming, England, theoriginallineup consisted of PeterGabriel, Anthony Phillips, Tony Banks, Mike Rutherford, and Chris Stewart, though Stewartwas soonreplaced as drummer by John Silver and then JohnMayhew. By the end of 1970, Phillips and Mayhew had left theband, wi ...read more
Genesis was one of the most popular progressive rock bands in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. During the 1970s, PeterGabrielwas the lead singer untilhis departure, when drummer Phil Collins stepped up to the mic and replaced him.
Starting as an amalgam of two bands formed by schoolboys attending Charterhouse School in Godalming, England, theoriginallineup consisted of PeterGabriel, Anthony Phillips, Tony Banks, Mike Rutherford, and Chris Stewart, though Stewartwas soonreplaced as drummer by John Silver and then JohnMayhew. By the end of 1970, Phillips and Mayhew had left theband, withCollins joining as drummer, and by early 1971, guitarist Steve Hackett hadfilled the gap left by Phillips. The lineupof Gabriel,Banks, Hackett, Rutherford, and Collins remained in place until Gabriel’s departure in 1975.
During the period of 1970-1975, the band produced some of the most widely-acclaimed albums of the progressive rockera,including “Nursery Cryme”,“Foxtrot” (featuring the side-long epic “Supper’s Ready”) and the seminal album “SellingEngland bythe Pound”, which generated Genesis’ first forayinto the charts with “I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)”.This lineupculminated with the band’s magnum opus “The Lamb Lies Down onBroadway” in 1974. Following the tour promotingthealbum, frontman Peter Gabriel left the group in mid 1975.
Genesis decided to continue on as a four-piece, producing two albums, “A Trick Of The Tail” and “Wind & Wuthering”,whichfound the band proving tothemselves and to the world that they could move on after Gabriel’s departure. Collinsstepped upto fill the role of lead vocalist after countlessauditions for a new singer proved fruitless by the completion ofrecording for “ATrick of the Tail”. Hackett quietly departed after the “Wind &Wuthering” tour in 1977, feeling that hiscreative input for theband was being repressed.
Genesis then became a trio which began to move away from the dying embers of progressive rock. Theyestablishedthemselves as a morecommercially-friendly outfit with the release of their 1978 album “…And Then There WereThree…”,finding their first US hit with the single “Follow YouFollow Me”.
Banks, Rutherford, and Collins became more adept at writing radio-friendly songs in the 1980s. This reached a peak withtherelease of 1986’s“Invisible Touch”, in which more than half of the album’s eight songs made it to the singles chart,includingthe title track, “Land Of Confusion” and “InToo Deep”. All three band members produced solo albums duringGenesis’downtime in the 80s and 90s - most notably Collins’ increasingly successfulsolo work, and Rutherford’s sideline group“Mikeand The Mechanics” which found moderate success - with evolving styles reflected both solo and whenrecordingtogether asGenesis.
Collins left the group in 1996, and was replaced vocally by Ray Wilson, the former lead singer of Scottish band“Stiltskin”.Israeli born drummer NirZidkyahu and “Spock’s Beard” drummer Nick D’Virgilio stepped in to fill the drumming role.Their 1997album “Calling All Stations” was unable to findworldwide success, and despite scoring a minor U.K. hit with“Congo”, thegroup slowly faded out of public consciousness. In 1998, after the “Calling AllStations” tour (the US leg of whichwas cutshort due to poor album sales), Wilson was released from the band, and Zidkyahu and D’Virgilio, havingnever been“official”band members, went their separate ways. The band, now down to only Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford, took abreakfromperforming and recording. In 1999, Banks, Rutherford, Collins, Gabriel, and Hackett collaborated to re-record “TheCarpetCrawlers” for greatesthits compilation “Turn It on Again: The Hits”.
During the latter part of 2005, rumors spread that the band would reform again in its most famous five-manconfiguration.Genesis' managementstated that there were no current plans at that time, and that nothing would change inthe followingtwelve months. Phil Collins then said in a radiointerview in April 2006 that the classic Genesis line-up wasconsidering a newlive-staging of “The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway”, but it was not to be.On 7th November 2006, PhilCollins, Tony Banks andMike Rutherford announced they would be doing a twenty-date tour of Europe in the summer of2007,with a North Americantour to follow.
In April 2011, Phil Collins, after completing a reunion tour with Genesis, said in a newspaper interview that he has no planstotour or make anotheralbum, retiring after over 40 years in the music business and effectively ending the group. « hide |
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