“A mistake”: The album that finally killed Genesis
The final nail in the coffin.
Genesis
‘Against All Odds’: Why Phil Collins initially “discarded” his number one hit song
Too downtempo for his solo beginnings.
The Phil Collins song his bandmate thought he would screw up: “What are you doing?”
Making things needlessly complicated.
The song Phil Collins never wanted to give to Genesis: “They wanted it on the record”
Never quite right for the band.
The Genesis song Phil Collins said was too complicated: “All the air had been sucked out”
Going beyond being complicated.
“Our best spontaneous moments”: the Genesis song Phil Collins calls one of the band’s finest
The height of their musicianship.
The Genesis song Tony Banks thought was way too simple: “Almost too banal”
Too rudimentary for the prog giant.
“Flowing out of us”: how the tiny town of Chiddingfold briefly saved Genesis
A saving grace for a moment.
