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Genesis (band)



Genesis performing "The Carpet Crawlers" in Herning, June 2007
Genesis performing "The Carpet Crawlers" in Herning, June 2007

After much speculation regarding a reunion, Banks, Collins and Rutherford announced Turn It On Again: The Tour on 7 November 2006; nearly 40 years after the band first formed. The tour would take place during Summer 2007, and play twelve countries across Europe, followed by a second leg in North America. The trio had wanted to reunite as a five-piece with Gabriel and Hackett for a live performance of The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. While Gabriel reportedly agreed in principle to perform, he was unable to commit to a date. Collins later observed that "Peter is a little over-cautious about going back to something which fundamentally is just fun".[35] Hackett agreed to participation, but without Peter joining in on the tour, Phil, Tony and Mike thought that it would be more appropriate to bring back Chester Thompson and Daryl Stuermer. Hackett, however still maintains good relations with the rest of the band. A short note expressing his good wishes for the reunion tour currently appears on his Web site.[36] In their stead, both Stuermer and Thompson returned as backing musicians.

The band and long-time producer, Nick Davis, are due to re-release their back catalogue in three batches over the course of 2007 and 2008, each comprising a third of the band's albums (from Trespass to Calling All Stations) in a boxset-style release. Each will comprise a double-disc set containing a multi-channel hybrid Super Audio CD, as well as a DVD-Video with DTS 24bit/96K and Dolby Digital 24bit/48K 5.1 tracks. The DVD will include extras such as promo videos and new interviews in which the band discuss the period surrounding each album release. Instead of the Hybrid SACDs there will only be standard CDs for the U.S. and Canada. The first two of these collections have been issued as box sets, starting with Genesis 1976-1982 in July 2007 and with Genesis 1983-1998 in October 2007. The last set Genesis 1970-1975 is to be released in 2008.

On 12 May 2007, the band were honourees at the second annual VH1 Rock Honors, along with Ozzy Osbourne, Heart and ZZ Top. The setlist was, "Turn It On Again", "No Son of Mine" and "Los Endos" the performance aired on VH-1 in the US on 24 May 2007.[37] On 11 June 2007 Genesis officially kicked off their 2007 Turn It On Again World Tour in Helsinki, Finland. The band performed over 50 shows in several countries including Denmark, Belgium, Germany, Poland, France, Italy, Great Britain, the United States and Canada. The German show was broadcast live to several cinemas across the UK and Europe. On 7 July 2007, Genesis participated at Live Earth, a series of concerts to promote action to confront global climate change at the new Wembley Stadium in London, along with other artists including Madonna, Duran Duran and Red Hot Chili Peppers.[38]

In an August 2007 interview, Collins has stated that the recording of a new album is currently "very, I repeat, very unlikely" [emphasis in original], citing a lack of both time and inspiration.[39] However, Banks, on August 22, stated "The three of us would be quite keen to have a go and see what happens."[40]

On October 2nd Starbucks released the CD Sampler "Genesis: 14 From Our Past", the track list is The Knife, Happy The Man, Watcher Of The Skies, I Know What I Like, The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway, Squonk, Your Own Special Way, Follow You Follow Me, Turn It On Again, Abacab, That's All, Land Of Confusion, Hold On My Heart, and Congo.

Also on October 2, 2007, Genesis released their second box set, Genesis 1983-1998, in Europe on the EMI International label, and was released in North America on November 20, 2007 by Rhino and Atlantic Records. This set features the music of the power-trio era of the group, including the albums 'Genesis', 'Invisible Touch', 'We Can't Dance' and '... Calling All Stations'. Each of the albums include the original album in a remastered stereo mix (Hybrid SACD format in Europe and regular CD in North America) and a bonus DVD with the original album remastered in DTS 24bit/96K and Dolby Digital 24bit/48K 5.1 Surround Sound. In addition, the DVDs have music videos from each album's period, rarities and band interviews from this year discussing each of the albums.

An album of the reunion tour, entitled 'Live Over Europe 2007' was released in November of that year. The tracklist features a balanced set list covering most of their career. None of the songs recorded during Wilson's time with the band were featured. In addition to the aforementioned album, sound deck recordings of each show were released by "The Music" [41] A DVD of the concert on 14th July 2007 in Rome's Circo Massimo, 'When In Rome - Live 2007' is released May 26th. A microsite has been launched to accompany the release: www.wheninromedvd.com.

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Inspiration and influences

Genesis has taken influence from a wide range of music, ranging from classical music to mainstream rock and jazz. Banks drew influence from Alan Price of The Animals, whom he regarded as "[t]he first person who made me aware of the organ in a rock context".[42] Other organists cited included Procol Harum's Matthew Fisher, and Keith Emerson of The Nice and later Emerson, Lake and Palmer. Classical influences include Rachmaninov, Ravel, Mahler, and Shostakovich. Many of their contemporaries and immediate predecessors, including The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Simon and Garfunkel, have affected the band's music. He was also influenced by the Beach Boys, particularly their Pet Sounds album. Collins has cited Buddy Rich and the jazz outfits The Mahavishnu Orchestra and Weather Report, while Gabriel's early career with Genesis took influence from Nina Simone and King Crimson.[43] Musical arrangements on the band's first album From Genesis to Revelation drew on the works of The Moody Blues, Family, and the Bee Gees—Jonathan King was a self-professed admirer of their music. Though Gabriel and David Bowie similarly relied on on-stage theatrical performances, neither claimed to be influenced by the other.[44]

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Legacy

As a group that influenced the growth of the progressive rock genre, Genesis has been cited by a number of progressive rock groups, including Marillion,[45] Dream Theater,[46][47] Camel and Kansas.[citation needed] In a biography of Peter Gabriel by Spencer Bright, it is noted how much modern bands of the 1990s and 2000s such as Radiohead and the The Verve were influenced by Genesis. Although in the Meeting People is Easy DVD, Radiohead deny getting any influence from either Genesis or Pink Floyd, with Thom Yorke even saying 'We all hate progressive rock.'[citation needed]

Several Genesis tribute bands, including Re-Genesis, The Musical Box, Duke, G2, The Waiting Room, In the Cage Turn it on Again and TRESPASS routinely perform material from the Peter Gabriel and Phil Collins eras.

Collins became the first artist to cover a Genesis song—"Behind the Lines"—which he included on Face Value one year after the original's release. Other former members subsequently performed the band's material live during their solo shows—Gabriel played "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway" and "Back in NYC", while Hackett has performed "In That Quiet Earth", "Los Endos", "Horizons",[22] "Firth of Fifth" and "Blood on the Rooftops", among others. Hackett has performed "I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)" on his own solo tours, and on a 1986 tour with his short lived supergroup GTR. Rutherford has performed "I Can't Dance" during his tours with the Mechanics. Collins also later formed The Phil Collins Big Band, which played jazz arrangements of Genesis songs, which were "That's All", "Invisible Touch", "Hold On My Heart" and "Los Endos" (renamed "The Los Endos Suite"), during its 1998 world tour. Ray Wilson has covered the most Genesis songs during his solo concerts. His two solo live albums, Live and Life and Acoustic, feature the Genesis songs "The Carpet Crawlers", "Follow You Follow Me", "I Can't Dance", "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway", "No Son of Mine", "Shipwrecked", and "Mama". He has interpreted two songs from the solo careers of his two predecessors—"In the Air Tonight" (Collins) and "Biko" (Gabriel).

Jeff Buckley reworked "Back in NYC" for the posthumously released 1998 Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk. The Swedish death metal band In Flames covered "Land of Confusion" on Trigger, as did Disturbed on their 2005 album Ten Thousand Fists. Disco-pop band Alcazar, also from Sweden, has covered parts of "Land of Confusion" on their song "This is the World We Live In". Dream Theater covered Turn It On Again as part of their song "The Big Medley". In 2007 Simon Collins recorded his own version of "Keep It Dark" as a tribute to the 40th anniversary of his father's band.

Beyond purely musical ventures, the theatrical style of Genesis's 1970s concerts with Gabriel and advanced lighting of their 1980s shows have provided inspiration for Cirque du Soleil's productions: the 2004 anniversary show Midnight Sun and the arena-based touring show Delirium trace their musical and multimedia elements back to these concerts. According to Victor Pilon, co-creator and co-director of both shows, "We're not inventing anything. Genesis did it years ago. We're just using new technology."[48]

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Album cover art

The band's album covers often incorporate complex and intricate art intended to reflect the themes explored in the music. The initial release of the band's first album, From Genesis to Revelation, used a plain black sleeve with Genesis written in a green gothic typeface. The three subsequent album covers were developed by the popular Charisma Records graphic artist Paul Whitehead. The Foxtrot sleeve depicts a feminine figure in a red dress with the head of a fox. Whitehead has said in an interview that Jimi Hendrix's "Foxy Lady" was an inspiration for the character.[49]

After Whitehead moved to Los Angeles, Genesis signed with the art collective Hipgnosis, whose artists had created high profile album covers for Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon and Led Zeppelin's Houses of the Holy. Hipgnosis's first Genesis album cover was for The Lamb, which featured a male model, credited simply as "Omar", portraying the album's protagonist "Rael".

Through the 1970s, various Hipgnosis artists—among whom Colin Elgie contributed heavily—designed all Genesis studio albums. The Trick of the Tail cover depicts many of the characters in the album, including the robber from "Robbery, Assault and Battery", the beast from the title track, and a metaphoric image of old age reminiscing on youth from the song "Ripples". Beginning with Duke, Genesis albums have featured artwork designed by Bill Smith Studios. The band's highest-selling album Invisible Touch, features the artwork of Assorted Images, which had previously designed sleeves for Simple Minds, Duran Duran and Culture Club. The We Can't Dance cover art features the work of Felicity Bowers, and is reminiscent of Wind & Wuthering, now presented in hazy watercolour. The Calling All Stations and the compilation Turn It On Again: The Hits sleeves were designed by Wherefore Art?.

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Criticism

Early incarnations of Genesis were often targets for criticism during the 1970s. An article in Q Magazine describes a 1977 Ray Lowry cartoon which depicted an arena of "either asleep, moribund, [or] comatose" fans watching a live Genesis performance, with the band's name emblazoned on a banner above the stage reading "GENESNOOZE".[50]

More specifically, some in Britain - especially supporters of the punk movement - regarded Genesis in particular, but also the genre more generally, as overtly middle class (paying particular attention to Gabriel, Banks and Rutherford's private education), and claimed that rock music was being taken away from the working class, whom they regarded as its core audience. But Peter Gabriel is quoted as saying in a Genesis biography that their audience was a "mixture of social classes" and that that accusation was a fabrication of the critics. [51]

Gabriel's theatrics were unpalatable to most of the mainstream rock audience, as well as to many fans.[52] This was exemplified during live performances of Gabriel's last Genesis album, The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway, during which he appeared on stage as various characters in the album's lyrics. The elaborate storyline for The Lamb proved difficult to understand and accept, and caused friction within the band.[3] Collins later recalled that "he'd be in a Slipperman costume trying to get a mic anywhere near his throat, and be out of breath - all twisted up. Towards the end I felt the singing wasn't really being heard; the songs weren't really being heard".[53]

Conversely, the band's transition from lengthy, complex songs to more compact, radio friendly material was not welcomed by some critics; Rolling Stone''s review of ...And Then There Were Three... read: "(. . .) this contemptible opus is but the palest shadow of the group's earlier accomplishments.".[54] Collins himself has often been blamed for the band's transformation, in part as he plays much the same type of music as a solo artist. "I don't feel we've bastardised the way we were", Collins remarked in an interview with Music Express: "on a generous day I'll blame me for the change, but I just think it is us growing up, listening to different things".[55]

Tony Banks addressed criticism of the group in a 1991 interview with Rolling Stone, saying "Well, we've never been fashionable." Phil Collins summed up in the same interview, "We know that people like us, because our records sell."

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Discography

Main article: Genesis discography

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