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“More than just music – it’s part of your DNA”: What The Beatles’ Sgt Pepper did for prog
By Dave Everley published
Rick Wakeman, Roger Waters and Robert Fripp were among those listening when the BBC played the record in full in 1967 – and weren’t the only ones who experienced artistic epiphanies that night

“They’d ask what I was doing while those guys were in the charts”: Tony Banks outside Genesis
By Raziq Rauf published
Keyboardist’s solo albums may not have reached the heady heights of his bandmates’ output – but he’s had a great time making “more progressive” music with artists of his own choosing, including Fish, Toyah and Nik Kershaw

Genesis’ Selling England By The Pound wore a smile over hidden depths
By Daryl Easlea published
By the time they’d toured their 1973 album, they’d had a sit single, proved Phil Collins could deliver lead vocals, and offered a hint at what would come after Steve Hackett and Peter Gabriel left

How Peter Gabriel talked actor Adrian Lukis out of signing a music contract
By Jo Kendall published
After connecting with fellow public schoolboys, he went on to admire Pink Floyd’s intellectualism, appreciate Curved Air’s sexiness, and get lost in Jean-Luc Ponty while on acid

Steve Hackett on The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway and keeping the Genesis flame alight
By Dave Ling published
Former Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett's latest 'themed' tour enables him to visit "the best of both worlds"

“We’d gone out on a limb”: Genesis genuinely feared that Foxtrot might fail
By Chris Roberts published
Barely planned, recorded in fits and starts and complete with one of King Crimson’s Mellotron, their 1972 album was, they believe, the moment they began to be taken seriously

“I felt they were having second thoughts… I got quite angry – ‘Just stop the bus, I’ll get off, no problem’”: Ray Wilson knows what went wrong during his time in Genesis
By Chris Roberts published
The singer who fronted 1997’s Calling All Stations only had one serious argument with Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford – and remains glad he was there at all

"Genesis owes him so much." Band members pay tribute to former tour manager Richard Macphail
By Jerry Ewing published
Former Genesis and Peter Gabriel tour manager and "sixth-member" Richard Macphail has died aged 73

The maverick attitude that built Decca’s offshoot Deram into a label that pioneered prog
By Mike Barnes published
Pye Hastings, Davy O’List and others recall the company that aimed for an audience of “groovy people” and backed The Moody Blues, Caravan, The Move, Camel, Procol Harum and others
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