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“They say it all went wrong when I started singing. But really, we all changed. It was a metamorphosis. I think we got better”: Genesis’ evolutionary A Trick Of The Tail, track by track

50 years ago, as Phil Collins took over from Peter Gabriel, the always-divisive band had fans to appease and debts to pay. This is how they did it

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"We have a very special chemistry.” Steve Hackett and Steve Rothery share first new music from their upcoming album with video for The Black Sea

Hackett & Rothery will release their instrumental guitar album, The Roaring Waves, in August

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"We kept writing songs, trying to ignore the fact they'd be a bit boring without a singer." From trauma to triumph: The story of Genesis's A Trick Of The Tale

After Peter Gabriel left Genesis, many thought it signalled the end of the band. But Phil Collins stepped up to the mic, and the triumphant result was one of their greatest albums

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“If you'd have told the 15-year-old me, just discovering Genesis, that one day Steve would be a friend of mine, I’d have fallen over!" Steve Rothery and Steve Hackett announce their long-awaited collaborative album, The Roaring Waves

Steve Hackett and Steve Rothery's collaborative instrumental guitar album, The Roaring Waves, will be released in August

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“If I’d been sacked, or left over musical differences, I’d have felt a right flunker”: Genesis ex Anthony Phillips on why he really quit – and why he’s not their version of The Beatles’ Pete Best

Amiable co-founder of the prog giants reflects on leaving before the band became huge, and explains why he wishes he’d met his replacement Steve Hackett sooner

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From Cream and Velvet Revolver to Them Crooked Vultures and Temple Of The Dog, these are the best supergroups in rock history

Some supergroups just aren't worth the sum of their parts. These are the exceptions

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“Some of the public found Genesis with Peter Gabriel a bit too strange. But there was a lot of fear about whether we could carry on without him”: How Phil Collins became the singing drummer and led Genesis from despair to superstardom

“In the end, my wife said, ‘Why don’t you do it, Phil?’”

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“The Genesis guys said they liked the track, which was ironic. It was one of the reasons I’d left. I thought there was no chance of getting them to do it”: How Steve Hackett’s risky solo move paid off

A fateful Jaco Pastorius show, a run-in with LA cops, rebuilding a Genesis song… Please Don’t Touch! aimed to tackle the unanswerable question, ‘What is prog?’

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“Some fans preferred it to Genesis… I had record labels asking for my next album, and half a band forbidding me from doing it”: The unexpected consequences of Steve Hackett’s Voyage Of The Acolyte

Guitarist believes his solo debut proved Genesis had a future after Peter Gabriel’s departure – but it also led to two years of soul-searching

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“I thought it would be fun. That was a big mistake. I underestimated just how difficult it would be”: When Phil Collins made a guest appearance playing drums with a Genesis tribute act – and ended up admitting, “It was horrible!”

Plus: the Collins solo record that Charlie Watts bought

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“Pretentious, perhaps. But let’s call it pioneering instead”: Peter Gabriel called it “knock and knowall” – but five decades on, here’s why we still like Genesis’ The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

Surreal imagery, crediting classic poets and philosophers, trying to scare each other with freak-out jams, inspiration from mime artists… it’s without doubt the most adventurous music any member the band ever made

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Thursday news quiz: badges, badgers and bad decisions

Test yourself on topical news trivia, pop culture and general knowledge every Thursday. How will you fare?

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Steve Hackett's on the front cover of the new issue of Prog, on sale now!

Plus Big Big Train, Neal Morse, Karnivool, Darryl Way's Wolf, Happy The Man, Soen, Wolverine, Textures, Tiger Moth Tales, Esoterica and loads more...

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“A twist for the fingers as well as the brain”: Players like Steve Hackett are masters of extended chords/harmony – here’s how you can use them too

Today in extended chords 101, we look at 11th chords – both minor and major – and explain how these “harmonically dense” voicings look on the fretboard

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Rick Wakeman, Steve Hackett, Asia, Caravan, Focus and more lined up for huge new prog cruise taking place this summer

Prog-friendly venue Trading Boundaries announces a new prog cruise venture up and down the Rhine for July

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“Kate Bush gave me a copy of Aerial at a party. I knew it was a gentle, emotional record. She said, ‘Don’t fall asleep while listening!’” Simon Drake’s career as a magician was inspired by prog

He helped create Bush’s one and only tour show, corrupted light entertainment TV into a counterculture variant, and refused to star in Cats – mainly because of Arthur Brown and Peter Gabriel

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New issue of Prog is on sale now! The essential end-of-year issue!

Featuring Steven Wilson, Genesis, Marillion, Yes, David Gilmour, Rush, EBB, Martin Barre, Steeleye Span and more...

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"These guys are simply timeless": Triumph's Rik Emmett picks five essential guitar albums

Canadian guitar legend and founding member of Triumph Rik Emmett picks five guitar classics that inspired his own path

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“I thought no one’s gonna buy this because it’s too long. I thought our label would say, ‘Sorry boys, you’ll be hearing from our lawyers’”: How Genesis wrote one of prog’s wildest epics –with help from a rumoured exorcism

Genesis’ mad 1972 epic is up there with Stairway To Heaven and Shine On You Crazy Diamond

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Genesis made long, complex, instrumentally elaborate rock for hirsute proggers: Then they wrote the song that brought women to their shows

Genesis's first single since becoming a three-piece was a savvy change of tack

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“I had a big lump in my throat when we did the last gigs. A big chapter in my life was coming to an end – and I couldn’t tell anyone”: The curious tale of Genesis and The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway tour

The final road trip with Peter Gabriel featured an over-ambitious stage set, performing a double-album no one had yet heard, and dealing with dangerous and deadly mishaps – all while suspecting their singer was going to quit and the band might end

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Marillion/Tangerine Dream offshoot Bioscope cancel December tour plans

Steve Rothery, Thorsten Quaeschning and Alex Reeves were due to tour as Bioscope through Europe in Deceber

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“People say Genesis ended when Peter Gabriel left, or when Steve Hackett left. But he was the anchor that everything else revolved around”: An appreciation of Tony Banks, by John Boegehold

Pattern-Seeking Animals keyboardist praises Banks’ ear, taste and understatement, which he argues is essential to everything Genesis achieved

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“I strive to get away from the Genesis vibe. But it’s so deeply ingrained… I’ve been doing it longer than Peter Gabriel was in the band!” Nad Sylvan is more himself than ever on solo album Monumentata

Best known for his12 years with Steve Hackett, the US-born Swede explores his own life and times at last. And is that a Pink Floyd reference as sings about being frontman and sideman in someone else’s project?

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“It was the rats you could hear running up and down the air ducts. Either that or it was haunted. Jimmy Page says it was haunted”: Peter Gabriel and Genesis dissect their bonkers but brilliant prog swan song

Album was “a journey into the soul” says singer

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