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Genesis was one of the most popular progressive rock bands in the 1970's, 1980's and 1990's. During the 1970's, Peter Gabriel was the lead singer until his 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, the original lineup consisted of Peter Gabriel, Anthony Phillips, Tony Banks, Mike Rutherford, and Chris Stewart, though Stewart was soon replaced as drummer by John Silver and then John Mayhew. By the end of 1970, Phillips and Mayhew had left the band, wi ...read more
Genesis was one of the most popular progressive rock bands in the 1970's, 1980's and 1990's. During the 1970's, Peter Gabriel was the lead singer until his 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, the original lineup consisted of Peter Gabriel, Anthony Phillips, Tony Banks, Mike Rutherford, and Chris Stewart, though Stewart was soon replaced as drummer by John Silver and then John Mayhew. By the end of 1970, Phillips and Mayhew had left the band, with Collins joining as drummer, and by early 1971, guitarist Steve Hackett had filled the gap left by Phillips. The lineup of 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 rock era, including Nursery Cryme, Foxtrot (featuring the side-long epic “Supper’s Ready”) and the seminal album Selling England by the Pound, which generated Genesis’ first foray into the charts with “I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)”. This lineup culminated with the band’s magnum opus The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway in 1974. Following the tour promoting the album, 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, which found the band proving to themselves and to the world that they could move on after Gabriel’s departure. Collins stepped up to fill the role of lead vocalist after countless auditions for a new singer proved fruitless by the completion of recording for A Trick of the Tail. Hackett quietly departed after the Wind & Wuthering tour in 1977, feeling that his creative input for the band was being repressed. Genesis then became a trio which began to move away from the dying embers of progressive rock. They established themselves as a more commercially-friendly outfit with the release of their 1978 album …And Then There Were Three…, finding their first U.S. hit with the single “Follow You Follow Me”. Banks, Rutherford, and Collins became more adept at writing radio-friendly songs in the 1980's. This reached a peak with the release of 1986’s Invisible Touch, in which more than half of the album’s eight songs made it to the singles chart, including the title track, “Land Of Confusion” and “In Too Deep”. All three band members produced solo albums during Genesis’ downtime in the 80's and 90's - most notably Collins’ increasingly successful solo work, and Rutherford’s sideline group Mike and The Mechanics which found moderate success - with evolving styles reflected both solo and when recording together as Genesis. Collins left the group in 1996, and was replaced vocally by Ray Wilson, the former lead singer of Scottish band Stiltskin. Israeli born drummer Nir Zidkyahu and Spock’s Beard drummer Nick D’Virgilio stepped in to fill the drumming role. Their 1997 album Calling All Stations was unable to find worldwide success, and despite scoring a minor U.K. hit with “Congo”, the group slowly faded out of public consciousness. In 1998, after the Calling All Stations tour (the U.S. leg of which was cut short due to poor album sales), Wilson was released from the band, and Zidkyahu and D’Virgilio, having never been “official” band members, went their separate ways. The band, now down to only Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford, took a break from performing and recording. In 1999, Banks, Rutherford, Collins, Gabriel, and Hackett collaborated to re-record “The Carpet Crawlers” for the greatest hits 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-man configuration. Genesis' management stated that there were no current plans at that time, and that nothing would change in the following twelve months. Phil Collins then said in a radio interview in April 2006 that the classic Genesis line-up was considering a new live-staging of The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, but it was not to be. On 7th November 2006, Phil Collins, Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford announced they would be doing a twenty-date tour of Europe in the summer of 2007, with a North American tour to follow. In April 2011, Phil Collins, after completing a reunion tour with Genesis, said in a newspaper interview that he has no plans to tour or make another album, retiring after over 40 years in the music business and effectively ending the group. However, in 2015, Collins announced an end to his retirement. Collins, Banks and Rutherford eventually planned a reunion tour, dubbed The Last Domino? Tour, scheduled to begin in Dublin, Ireland in September of 2021. « hide |
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