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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

Deram (and Decca) celebrated in Psych! British Prog, Rock, Folk & Blues box set
By Joe Banks published
A sprawling 3CD / 2LP retrospective of Britain’s first “groovy” record label

Phil Collins: My role as Genesis’ class clown and their only contact with the outside world
By Mark Blake published
How the “junior member” broke into the band’s songwriting clique, his embarrassment over his solo success, and how the Sex Pistols influenced his choice of record label
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