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The Pop Song That Fell Out of a Jam: How Genesis Accidentally Wrote ‘Invisible Touch’
The Pop Song That Fell Out of a Jam: How Genesis Accidentally Wrote “Invisible Touch” On the morning of July 19, 1986, the three members of Genesis woke up as something they had never been before: the owners of the number one single in America. After nearly two decades of twenty-minute suites, mythology, costumes, and…
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Genesis: The Schoolboy Bond That Outlasted Fame
On March 26, 2022, at London’s O2 Arena, Phil Collins sat in a chair at center stage and told the crowd it was the last show Genesis would ever play. He could no longer stand for a full concert, let alone play the drums. His son Nic sat behind the kit instead. And out in…
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How Genesis Made “The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway”: The Album That Broke the Band
In the summer of 1974, Genesis rented a crumbling country house, moved in with their instruments, and tried to make the most ambitious record of their lives. What came out, four months later, was “The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway,” a double album about a Puerto Rican street kid’s surreal journey through a subterranean New…
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The Untold Story of Genesis: The Band That Was Really Two Bands
There is a running joke among Genesis fans that the band’s career is really two careers stapled together under one name. And the joke exists because it is true. For the first act, they were Britain’s grandest, most theatrical progressive rock band, fronted by a singer who dressed like a flower and a bat to…