Genesis’ Tony Banks picks his favourite song by The Beatles
The swinging ’60s were a seminal time.
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“My strength was arranging”: The members Phil Collins called the heart of Genesis
The true heart of progressive rock.
‘The Inheritors’: The novel that inspired Genesis song ‘A Trick of the Tail’
“It’s about an alien with horns and a tail…”
“If we worked on it, we would ruin it”: The one song Genesis decided not to “overblow”
The prog-rockers were aware of their tendency to overcook songs.
Tony Banks on The Beatles’ most climactic song: “They broke a lot of the standard rules”
“We loved The Beatles.”
Tony Banks on the most complex Genesis single: “It sounds simple”
As prog-rockers, Genesis enjoyed complex compositions.
The Genesis song Tony Banks called “controversial”
The track is an anomaly in the band’s back catalogue.
Tony Banks names the musician who is “keeping Genesis alive”
Carrying the sounds of progressive rock.
‘Don’t Talk’: The Beach Boys song Tony Banks has spent the most time deconstructing
The Genesis keyboardist discussed one of his favourites by the surf-rockers.
The Genesis song Tony Banks thinks portended “the bombing of the Twin Towers”
The lyrics actually referred to a separate terrorist attack in 1996.