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Phil Collins: Genesis Of A Solo Career
Interview by Chris Salewicz, Creem, January 1982
SET IN THE STOCKBROKER belt 30 miles to the southwest of London, the Genesis studio complex is exactly what you might expect: several thatched, suitably ...
Interview by Richard Cook, New Musical Express, 2 October 1982
After the ambitious WOMAD Festival, the bailiffs cometh and PETER GABRIEL has decided to get himself out of hock – even if it means a ...
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Interview by Johnny Black, Rock's Backpages audio, September 2000
Follow You, Follow Me: Johnny Black hears from Phil Collins, Mike Rutherford and Tony Banks about Phil's joining, becoming front man, and his departure.
File format: mp3; in 4 parts, total file sizes: 81.3mb, total interview length: 1h 17' 44" sound quality: ****
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Live Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 26 August 1968
AT THEIR best, wthe Grateful Dead are a wondrous group and they were at their best for a weekend dance concert sponsored by Pinnacle at ...
In The Beginning There Was... Genesis
Profile and Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 24 April 1971
GENESIS ARE going to cause outrage and chaos in the coming year. Already they are breaking through with a blend of showmanship and original music ...
Interview by uncredited writer, ZigZag, May 1971
Peter Gabriel talks about the downs and ups of Genesis… ...
Profile and Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, 25 March 1972
ASK GENESIS how their careers are progressing and they'll tell you they're superstars in Aylesbury and Belgium, but little known elsewhere. In fact their fame ...
Report and Interview by Jerry Gilbert, Sounds, 9 September 1972
PETER GABRIEL – slightly eccentric or acute schizophrenic? He cycles to Island Studios to begin a day's work on the new Genesis album, and unpacks ...
Genesis: The Band Who Want To Be Booed
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 23 September 1972
A PARTICULAR quality of certain successful groups has been their ability to create moods, to take an audience a little further than the surface excitement ...
Review by Jerry Gilbert, Sounds, 30 September 1972
"HAVE YOU GOT a copy of the new album yet?", Mike Rutherford inquired meekly as Genesis prepared to go onstage at the Marquee last week. ...
Lindisfarne, Genesis: Dublin Stadium, Dublin
Live Review by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 7 October 1972
TO BE CASUAL is to be Lindisfarne, but even the most relaxed of bands have a hard time putting over a set of new numbers ...
Review by Richard Cromelin, Rolling Stone, 26 October 1972
THE COUNTRYSIDE COTTAGE in which (it says here) Genesis regrouped their creative energies must have had a lot of strange stuff coming out of the ...
Interview by Jerry Gilbert, Sounds, 4 November 1972
WERE YOU and Tony Banks the prime instigators of the original Genesis back at Charterhouse School? ...
Genesis: A Hit LP in the Making
Profile and Interview by Steve Turner, Beat Instrumental, December 1972
Some people are too embarrassed to ask Peter Gabriel about his spot of artificial 'premature' baldness. He's seriously thinking of making a public statement saying ...
Report and Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 10 February 1973
FOR THOSE who have ears as well as eyes, the current British tour by Genesis, which opened at London's Rainbow theatre on Sunday, should prove ...
Live Review by Jerry Gilbert, Sounds, 3 March 1973
ENTERING NEWCASTLE'S City Hall these days is like shaking hands with an old friend. Peter Gabriel wishing that his metaphysical fantasies could suddenly become reality ...
Genesis at Philharmonic Hall, New York
Live Review by Ron Ross, Phonograph Record, May 1973
IN A MUSICAL WORLD dominated by dueling banjos, pop boys, wimpoid artist and Soul Train, is there a place for a British group that writes ...
Genesis: What Genesis Did On Their 'Holidays'
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 28 July 1973
NOT MANY groups conduct their rehearsals squashed together in a Morris Mini. But if you are in the habit of strolling around the backwaters of ...
Genesis: The Rainbow Theatre, London
Live Review by Andrew Tyler, New Musical Express, 10 August 1973
IT'S A LITTLE dishonest using the same strokes to hammer Genesis as are periodically used against Yes. But there you go. Such is the nature ...
Genesis: The Man Behind The Mask
Interview by Barbara Charone, New Musical Express, 25 August 1973
THE MUSIC world rarely awakens before noon, but I met Peter Gabriel at the unlikely hour of 9.30 a.m. Genesis, having finished their Selling England ...
Interview by Barbara Charone, New Musical Express, 25 August 1973
"OBVIOUSLY we're out of the public's attention – but we come back that much stronger; some bands seem afraid to take time off; they feel ...
Genesis: Selling England By the Pound (Charisma)
Review by Barbara Charone, New Musical Express, 29 September 1973
GENESIS FANS unite, stand proud and be counted; get ready to say 'I told you so' to all those people who have been doubting your ...
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 6 October 1973
GENESIS have lain dormant throughout the summer, at least as far as the public was concerned. Then came the sensational appearance at Reading Festival, when ...
Interview by Barbara Charone, New Musical Express, 13 October 1973
THE MUSIC world rarely awakens before noon, but I met Peter Gabriel at the unlikely hour of 9.30 a.m. Genesis, having finished their 'Selling England ...
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 19 January 1974
PETER GABRIEL, man of a thouand faces, is now also a man of several voices. One at least swoops upwards into the stratosphere, gibbers madly, ...
Genesis: Drury Lane Theatre, London
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 26 January 1974
GENESIS'S WEEK at London's Drury Lane Theatre, proved that rock and theatre can mix and have a validity outside of mere exhibitionism. The band arc ...
Profile and Interview by John Swenson, Crawdaddy!, March 1974
Genesis combines surreal songwriting with an interesting instrumental and visual approach. Lead singer Peter Gabriel notes: "We all took courses in pretentiousness." ...
Genesis Is The Start Of Something?
Report by Barbara Charone, New Musical Express, 16 March 1974
ARRIVING AT THE seedy looking Capitol Theatre, New Jersey's lower middle-class palace of rock, you could tell something good was going on inside. With even ...
Genesis: Short on Hair, Long on Gimmicks
Interview by Richard Cromelin, Rolling Stone, 28 March 1974
LOS ANGELES – Peter Gabriel's five o'clock shadow tints not only cheeks and chin but the shaved patch of flesh which cuts up from the ...
Genesis: Evolution & Revelation
Profile and Interview by Anne Moore, Valley Advocate, 17 April 1974
GENESIS IS the perfect combination/blend of rock, theatrical production and intelligent literary comment. Genesis is also a five man group from London, England. Their popularity ...
Genesis: The New Face Of Gabriel
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 26 October 1974
Don't lose hope, Genesis fans! Their tour may be cancelled, but there's a new album on the way. And the new-look Peter Gabriel has given ...
Genesis: The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway (Charisma)
Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 23 November 1974
I WISH that rock musicians would learn the importance of self-editing. A few golden, miraculous notes, and some choice pithy words are worth all the ...
Genesis: The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway (Charisma COS 101)
Review by Karl Dallas, Let It Rock, January 1975
JUST WHAT the world needs now, as Frank Zappa might well have been heard to exclaim, another concept album! ...
Genesis: To Them, It's Only Rock & Role
Interview by Barbara Charone, Rolling Stone, 2 January 1975
LONDON – Having recently sold England by the pound, Genesis and Atlantic Records now turn their attention to the United States, where the esteemed buck ...
Genesis: The Future of Rock Theatre
Report and Interview by Ron Ross, Phonograph Record, February 1975
THE LAMB LIES DOWN ON BROADWAY is a short story that comprises no fewer than 48 different plot movements, and a stage show with 3000 ...
Will America Swallow The Lamb? Why Genesis wouldn't chop up The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Report and Interview by Ron Ross, Circus, March 1975
For years Genesis had dreamed of cooking up a recipe of their most powerful surreal visuals and most mesmerizing music. Yet they feared their ambitious ...
Genesis: Gabriel's Cosmic Juice
Report and Interview by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 15 March 1975
"I believe in getting art out of the galleries and onto the streets. Status Quo are so cultural, so Wagner..." ...
Live Review by Pete Makowski, Sounds, 26 April 1975
THE STAGE was set. On the left hand side, Steve Hackett was seated with guitar and a melange of effects around him. Behind him, Michael ...
Obituary by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 23 August 1975
AS PETER GABRIEL QUITS GENESIS, CHRIS WELCH RECALLS A GREAT BRITISH BAND ...
Report and Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 23 August 1975
THE MELODY MAKER last week front-paged the growing doubts about Gabriel's future in the band. Reports, denied by the management of Genesis, indicated that Gabriel ...
Genesis: The Lamb Lies Down But Genesis Carries On
Interview by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 13 September 1975
THE GATHERING was far from morose. No black clothes or sombre faces. No mourning music or dirge-like drones. No sullen postures, despondent looks or vehement ...
Profile and Interview by Barbara Charone, ZigZag, October 1975
"I THINK SOME PEOPLE have a rip-off concept of us," Peter Gabriel remarked with a touch of cynicism as if he'd just had a revelation. ...
Peter Gabriel: Behind Peter Gabriel's Mask
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 6 December 1975
PETER GABRIEL'S departure from Genesis was one of the biggest shocks of 1975 for those who admired, nay loved, the combination of perverse talent they ...
Collins cleans up with Brand X
Interview by Karl Dallas, Melody Maker, 10 January 1976
LET'S GET two things very clear at the outset: one, Brand X is a serious, full-time band, not a spare-time excuse for jamming or having ...
Report and Interview by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 14 February 1976
YES, PETER IS PAST, but the legacy remains. And Tony Banks, keyboards' player with Genesis, is finding it difficult to swallow that. Peter Gabriel has ...
Bill Bruford: Have Drum Will Travel
Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 10 April 1976
IT WAS IN the unlikely setting of the Una Billings School of Dancing's basement that the partnership which will be titillating the timpani of drum ...
Bill Bruford: 'It's all Ringo's fault!'
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 10 April 1976
THERE HAS been a lot of stunning lately. I was stunned when Peter Gabriel quit Genesis. And stunned once more when Bill Bruford joined Genesis. ...
Genesis: Beacon Theatre, New York
Live Review by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 24 April 1976
WITH THE RELEASE of A Trick Of The Tail Genesis demonstrated that, on record at least, they could carry on at the same degree of ...
Interview by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 1 May 1976
ARE YOU quite sure that you're definitely not joining Genesis full-time? ...
Genesis: Supper Is Definitely Ready
Report and Interview by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 15 May 1976
Thursday April 8 ...
Genesis: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Miles, New Musical Express, 19 June 1976
IF YOU take the trouble to embroider "Genesis" in fancy letters on the back of your pressed denim jacket, or if you are prepared to ...
Genesis: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 19 June 1976
SO MUCH was happening on stage during the first sensational concert by Genesis at Odeon Hammersmith on Wednesday last week, that one needed stereoscopic earsight ...
Genesis: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 19 June 1976
Genesisteria sweeps city – hundreds injured in trick of the tail overdose – five night musical orgy destroys London – thousands converted to Genesis religious ...
The Trick of the Tale: Phil Collins Talks
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 3 July 1976
PHIL COLLINS IS A spry, restless man with seemingly limitless amounts of energy and intense drive. It is this drive that has made him one ...
Genesis: Apollo Theatre, Glasgow
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 17 July 1976
HEAT, DUST, smoke, lasers and Genesis combined to turn the Glasgow Apollo into a replica of Dante's Inferno when the band descended on the city ...
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 24 July 1976
GENESIS ARE an enigma, an unknown quantity to the rock business and public at large, mainly because they are among the last of that old ...
From England's Genesis, here's Steve Hackett
Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar Player, October 1976
STEVE Hackett usually inhabits the deepest, darkest corner of Genesis' performing stage. Perched on a footstool, the English lead guitarist opts more for guitar technique ...
10cc, Genesis, Fleetwood Mac, ELO et al: Split Ends
Overview by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 4 December 1976
SOME come, others go, but the name lives on for ever...10cc set no precedent by splitting in half last week, but the decision by Graham ...
Genesis: Wind & Wuthering (Charisma) *****
Review by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 18 December 1976
FIRST IMPRESSIONS: Too much to digest on one listening. Overall album sound even better than A Trick Of The Tail. Less immediate but more substantial ...
Genesis: Wind And Wuthering (Charisma)
Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 18 December 1976
Phil Collins (voices, drums, percussion), Steve Hackett (electric guitars, nylon classical 12-string, Kalimba, auto-harp), Mike Rutherford (basses, electric and acoustic guitars, bass pedals), Tony Banks ...
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 25 December 1976
THE PUBLIC has a strange image of rock and roll musicians. Most imagine them to be public school educated, with a passionate dedication to the ...
Genesis: Wind & Wuthering (Atco SD-36-144); Brand X: Unorthodox Behavior (Passport PPSD-98019)
Review by Bruce Malamut, Crawdaddy!, March 1977
GENESIS REACHES WUTHERING HEIGHTS ...
Report and Interview by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 26 March 1977
ON THE ROAD. Again. The Rainbow seems like years ago. Yesterday they had a rare day off in New Orleans, arriving at the Marie Antoinette ...
Interview by Chris Salewicz, Gig, May 1977
If Mick Jagger were to quit the Rolling Stones or Robert Plant were to leave Led Zeppelin, there doesn't seem to be the least possibility ...
The Re-Genesis Of Peter Gabriel
Report and Interview by Tony Stewart, New Musical Express, 1 October 1977
For someone who once accepted the Noble Order Of The Pension Book, this chap is rather lively. TONY STEWART saw him knocking out audiences at ...
Genesis: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by David Hancock, Evening News, London, 28 March 1980
Victims of the British disease ...
Genesis: Duke (Charisma CBR 101)
Review by Hugh Fielder, Sounds, 5 April 1980
Power pomp supremos ...
Genesis: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Hugh Fielder, Sounds, 5 April 1980
More tricks from the wardrobe ...
At Home With The Stars Special: So Tell Us Phil, How Do You Feel About Solo Success?
Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 21 March 1981
The remarkable Mr. Collins stays awake long enough to cure NICK KENT of his insomnia. ...
Interview by J.D. Considine, Musician, March 1982
Seminal art-rockers in the '70s, Genesis takes off in an exciting new direction, leaner and more aggressively funky, yet moody and lyrical, led by Phil ...
Genesis and Peter Gabriel: Milton Keynes Bowl
Live Review by Hugh Fielder, Sounds, 9 October 1982
March Of The Giant Hogwash ...
Phil Collins Does Everything Better Than Everyone Else
Interview by J. Kordosh, Creem, May 1983
THINGS SEEM to be going poorly for drummers of late, what with Buddy Rich undergoing bypass surgery earlier this year and a regular series of ...
Live Review by Max Bell, The Times, 28 February 1984
WHEN GENESIS first came to prominence, some 12 years ago, they were regarded as leaders in the rock-as-theatre movement. The combination of their former vocalist ...
Review by Roy Trakin, Creem, March 1984
IT'S THE BAND that just won't go away, the thing that wouldn't die, no matter how many limbs are cut off or obstacles put in ...
Review by Richard Cook, Sounds, 14 June 1986
HAVE THEY paid enough? Have their sins been atoned for? Are the misdemeanors of that Genesis far enough past for the big-chap sophistipop of this ...
Genesis: Invisible Touch (Virgin GENLP2); The Smiths: The Queen Is Dead (Rough Trade 96)
Review by Simon Frith, The Observer, 15 June 1986
I KNOW there are hundreds of thousands of people out there (most of them Observer readers) who took forward to a new Genesis LP, but ...
Interview by Chris Welch, Creem, October 1987
"BECAUSE I'VE HAD solo success, people say I've suddenly got a stranglehold on the group, who want to make as much money as possible and ...
Interview by J.D. Considine, Musician, July 1990
IN A REVIEW of Phil Collins' latest album, ...But Seriously, J.D. Considine wrote that Phil was more fun when he was frivolous. That's where Phil ...
Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, December 1991
CALLING IT WE CAN'T DANCE may be a chucklesome admission that, in the five years since Invisible Touch, Genesis have candidly let the rave scene ...
Genesis: We Can't Dance (Virgin)
Review by Max Bell, Vox, December 1991
GENESIS'S 17TH album arrives some five years after Invisible Touch. As befits these sedate Home Counties chaps, We Can't Dance is the product of modest ...
Interview by Steven P. Wheeler, Music Connection, January 1992
WITH THE band's last studio album, Invisible Touch, Genesis became the first rock band in U.S. chart history to send five consecutive singles into the ...
Interview by J.D. Considine, Musician, June 1992
VISITING REHEARSALS FOR A STADIUM TOUR ...
Genesis: Giants Stadium, New Jersey
Live Review by Deborah Frost, Newsday, 4 June 1992
"DRUMMER SENSITIVE to acoustic music" read the want ad Genesis once placed in an English music paper. Its ironieshave never been more apparent or more ...
Genesis: Archive 1967-75 (Virgin)
Review and Interview by Kit Aiken, Uncut, September 1998
4CD box mainly featuring the Tony Banks, Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel, Steve Hackett, Mike Rutherford incarnation of seminal progressive band with live cuts, a rare ...
The Soul in the Machine: Whatever Happened to Atlantic Records?
Book Excerpt by Barney Hoskyns, What'd I Say, 2001
"UNFORTUNATELY, we’re running a big business here now," Ahmet Ertegun confessed to author Gerri Hirshey in 1982. "And it sort of ... well, it drives ...
Retrospective and Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, MOJO, April 2007
Stung by the exit of Peter Gabriel, slandered by punk and riven with insecurities, Genesis survived '70s prog to become the biggest band of the ...
In The Mood: The Favourite Albums Of Rush's Geddy Lee
Guide by Mick Middles, The Quietus, 29 June 2012
Mick Middles speaks to Rush bassist and singer Geddy Lee about his favourite albums of all times... and finds surprises amidst the classic of the ...
Mike Rutherford: The Trick Of The Tale
Retrospective and Interview by Daryl Easlea, Record Collector, February 2014
Genesis and Mike + The Mechanics' founder Mike Rutherford has written an autobiography with a difference. Daryl Easlea met him to discuss The Living Years. ...
Seventies prog rockers Genesis are back, but are they welcomed?
Retrospective and Interview by Nick Hasted, The Independent, 10 October 2014
THE SIGHT OF Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, Tony Banks, Mike Rutherford and Steve Hackett lined up in a studio, albeit only to reminisce for a ...
The privileged are taking over the arts – without the grit, pop culture is doomed
Comment by Stuart Maconie, New Statesman, 4 February 2015
With school music spending down and the benefits system crippled, the voices of pop have lost their bite. ...
Cruisin' with Justin & the Fudge: Five Days at Sea with the Rock Boomers
Report by Mark Leviton, Rock's Backpages, February 2019
"I've realized audiences aren't listening to the lyrics of my first song – they're too busy trying to figure out how old I look..." Al ...
The shambolic Genesis reunion that saved Peter Gabriel from financial ruin
Retrospective by Ian Winwood, Daily Telegraph, 6 August 2020
Womad crippled Peter Gabriel, so his former bandmates offered to keep the bailiffs away. If only they could remember how to play together… ...
see also Phil Collins
see also Peter Gabriel
see also Mike + the Mechanics
see also Steve Hackett
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