Genesis (band)

Genesis is a British progressive rock group that was formed in 1967 when founding members Peter Gabriel and Tony Banks were still students at Charterhouse School. Genesis was formed from the merger of two separate school bands — The Garden Wall (Gabriel, Banks) and Anon (Rutherford, Philips). The band was christened and managed by Jonathan King and later by Tony Stratton-Smith then Tony Smith. The band enjoyed considerable success in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. Genesis' longevity is only outdone by the likes of the Rolling Stones and The Kinks.

Discography

Studio albums

• 1969 From Genesis to Revelation (Gabriel, Banks, Rutherford, Phillips, Silver) #170 US (charted in 1974) Worldwide Sales: 2,000,000
• rereleased in 1974 as In The Beginning
• rereleased in 1980 as Where The Sour Turns To Sweet
• rereleased as Genesis:Rock Roots
• 1970 Trespass (Gabriel, Banks, Rutherford, Phillips, Mayhew) #98 UK (charted in 1984) Worldwide Sales: 2,000,000
• 1971 Nursery Cryme (Gabriel, Banks, Rutherford, Hackett, Collins) #39 UK (charted in 1974) Worldwide Sales: 3,000,000
• 1972 Foxtrot (Gabriel, Banks, Rutherford, Hackett, Collins) #12 UK Worldwide Sales: 3,000,000
• 1973 Selling England by the Pound (Gabriel, Banks, Rutherford, Hackett, Collins) #3 UK, #70 US (charted in 1974), US Sales: 500,000 Worldwide Sales: 5,000,000
• 1974 The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (Gabriel, Banks, Rutherford, Hackett, Collins) #10 UK, #41 US (charted in 1975), US Sales: 500,000 Worldwide Sales: 4,000,000
• 1976 A Trick of the Tail (Banks, Rutherford, Hackett, Collins) #3 UK, #31 US, US Sales: 500,000 Worldwide Sales: 5,000,000
• 1976 Wind & Wuthering (Banks, Rutherford, Hackett, Collins) #7 UK, #26 US, US Sales: 500,000 Worldwide Sales: 4,000,000
• 1977 Spot the Pigeon EP (Banks, Rutherford, Hackett, Collins)
• 1978 ...And Then There Were Three (Banks, Rutherford, Collins) #3 UK, #14 US, US Sales: 1,000,000 Worldwide Sales: 6,000,000
• 1980 Duke (Banks, Rutherford, Collins) #1 UK, #11 US, US Sales: 1,000,000 Worldwide Sales: 8,000,000
• 1981 Abacab (Banks, Rutherford, Collins) #1 UK, #7 US, US Sales: 2,000,000 Worldwide Sales: 12,000,000
• 1983 Genesis (Banks, Rutherford, Collins) #1 UK, #9 US, US Sales: 4,000,000 Worldwide Sales: 18,000,000
• 1986 Invisible Touch (Banks, Rutherford, Collins) #1 UK, #3 US, US Sales: 6,000,000 Worldwide Sales: 24,000,000
• 1991 We Can't Dance (Banks, Rutherford, Collins) #1 UK, #4 US, US Sales: 4,000,000 Worldwide Sales: 22,000,000
• 1997 Calling All Stations (Banks, Rutherford, Wilson) #2 UK, #54 USWorldwide Sales: 2,000,000

Live recordings and compilations

• 1973 Genesis Live #9 UK, #105 US (charted in 1974) Worldwide Sales: 3,000,000
• 1976 Genesis in Concert (Concert film)
• 1977 Seconds Out #4 UK, #47 US Worldwide Sales: 5,000,000
• 1982 Three Sides Live (Side 4 of the US release featured studio tracks, but the UK release featured live tracks from the 1976 and 1978 tours. When the "Definitive Edition Remaster" of this album came out on CD in the late 1990s, all editions worldwide used the live tracks, and the studio tracks were reissued in the box set Archive #2 — 1976-1992.) #2 UK, #10 US, US Sales: 500,000 Worldwide Sales: 7,000,000
• 1982 Three Sides Live (Video)
• On October 2nd 1982, Gabriel and Hackett performed with Genesis at a one-off reunion concert, "Six of the best", which has been widely bootlegged. The outdoor concert was a benefit for Gabriel's WOMAD Festival which had lost a large amount of money. The reunion was a huge success despite torrential rain.
• 1984 The Mama Tour (Video)
• 1992 The Way We Walk — Live in Concert (Video)
• 1992 ' #3 UK, #35 US, US Sales: 500,000 Worldwide Sales: 9,000,000
• 1992 ' #1 UK, #20 US Worldwide Sales: 4,000,000
• 1998 ' (4-CD box set compilation of live and rare material) #35 UK
• 1999 ' #4 UK, #65 US, US Sales: 500,000 Worldwide Sales: 5,000,000
• 2000 ' (3-CD box set compilation of live and rare material)
• 2003 Live at Wembley Stadium (UK DVD release of 1987 concert)
• 2004 The Genesis Platinum Collection #100 US (3-CD compilation of Genesis songs from 1970 until 1997). Notable for being compiled in reverse chronological order, and for including new remixes of several songs.
• CAREER: 159,000,000 Albums sold

Hit singles

• from "Selling England by the Pound"
• 1974 "I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)" #21 UK
• non-album EP
• 1977 "Spot the Pigeon EP" (Match of the Day/Pigeons/Inside and Out) #14 UK
• from "...And Then There Were Three"
• 1978 "Follow You Follow Me" #7 UK, #23 US
• from "Duke"
• 1980 "Misunderstanding" #14 US
• 1980 "Turn It On Again" #8 UK
• from "Abacab"
• 1981 "Abacab" #9 UK, #26 US (1982 release)
• 1981 "Keep It Dark" #33 UK
• 1981 "No Reply at All" #29 US
• 1982 "Man on the Corner" #40 US
• from "Three Sides Live"
• 1982 "3 x 3 EP" (Paperlate/Me and Virgil/You Might Recall) #10 UK
• 1982 "Paperlate" #32 US
• from "Genesis"
• 1983 "Mama" #4 UK
• 1983 "That's All" #16 UK, #6 US
• from "Invisible Touch"
• 1986 "Invisible Touch" #15 UK, #1 US
• 1986 "In Too Deep" #19 UK, #3 US (1987 release)
• 1986 "Land of Confusion" #14 UK, #4 US
• 1986 "Throwing It All Away" #22 UK (1987 release), #4 US
• 1987 "Tonight, Tonight, Tonight" #18 UK, #3 US
• from "We Can't Dance"
• 1991 "No Son of Mine" #6 UK, #12 US
• 1992 "I Can't Dance" #7 UK, #7 US
• 1992 "Hold on My Heart" #16 UK, #12 US
• 1992 "Jesus He Knows Me" #20 UK, #23 US
• 1992 "Never a Time" #21 US
• from "The Way We Walk, Vol. 1: The Shorts"
• 1992 "Invisible Touch" (live) #7 UK
• from "We Can't Dance"
• 1993 "Tell Me Why" #40 UK
• from "Calling All Stations"
• 1997 "Congo" #29 UK

Other releases of interest

• 1975 Voyage of the Acolyte is a Steve Hackett solo album, but is regarded by some as a quasi-Genesis album; it features Hackett, Rutherford and Collins in addition to John Hackett (flute, ARP synthesizer, bells); Nigel Warren-Green (cello); Robin Miller (oboe, cor anglais); John Acock (Mellotron, harmonium, piano) John Gustafson (bass) and Sally Oldfield (vocals).
  According to Robert John Godfrey of The Enid, the album's title was originally slated for the first Enid album, but was "leaked" to Hackett, who decided to use it on his album. The Enid were forced to retitle their album In the Region of the Summer Stars, which Godfrey contends was a better title anyway.
• 1977 The Geese and the Ghost is the first solo album by Anthony Phillips, former Genesis member. The album contains songs composed by Phillips and Mike Rutherford, such as the title track. Phil Collins guest sings in a couple of songs and John Hackett plays the flute.
• 1991 Genesis: A History (Documentary video)
• 1996 Steve Hackett: Genesis Revisited. Another Steve Hackett solo album, but this album includes only remakes of earlier Genesis songs, plus one that Hackett co-wrote with Garbriel in 1973, but which was never recorded. Incorporating an orchestra and some artists affiliated with Genesis and its members in the past (such as Paul Carrack, vocalist in Mike & The Mechanics) the album is a tribute as well as an effort to fresh up some old Genesis songs and present them in a more modern context.
• 2001 The Genesis Songbook (Documentary DVD)