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The founding line-up of Genesis consisted of guitarist Anthony Phillips, bassist Mike Rutherford, lead vocalist Peter Gabriel, keyboardist Tony Banks, and drummer Chris Stewart, all pupils of Charterhouse School in Godalming, Surrey.
Presented here is the original Genesis 1969 album "From Genesis to Revelation" in MONO, with additional extras. Peter Gabriel, Anthon...
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From Genesis to Revelation is the first studio album by the British band Genesis, released in March 1969. It was produced by Jonathan King, who discovered them in 1967.
Mar 19, 2019 · Singer Peter Gabriel of Genesis performing on stage circa 1972. Michael Putland/Getty Images. Fifty years ago this month, a new album appeared in British record shops with a black cover and four...
- Supper’s Ready (Foxtrot, 1972) The Mona Lisa, the Guernica, the Ulysses, the veritable Mac Daddy of Gabriel-era Genesis epics. At 23 minutes, its seven sections with recurring motifs mash up classical symphony, rock restlessness and a breath-taking ambition to build the music to end all music: “a new Jerusalem”.
- I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe) (Selling England By The Pound, 1973) The only Gabriel-era hit single. An obvious commercial smash, in hindsight, given its everyday chart-friendly tale of a gardener who refuses to grow up because he’d rather push his lawnmower around forever.
- The Lamia (The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway, 1974) As protagonist Rael navigates his way through the trials and traumas of The Lamb Lies Down – stalactites, stalagmites, wanking, losing his virginity, having his heart removed and shaved – he now finds himself in a languid pool with three Lamias, seductive snake-like sirens who have their wicked way with him, drink his blood, then die, leaving him a distorted, grotesque Slipperman.
- The Cinema Show (Selling England By The Pound, 1973) Another jewel from Selling England By The Pound, that album title being another piece of incontrovertible evidence that fusty old posh boys Genesis were politically on point – prophetic, even - way before it was fashionable.
From Genesis To Revelation is little more than a run of the mill pop album and without Peter Gabriel's distinctive voice you might not even recognise this as Genesis.
From Genesis To Revelation 1969 included a lyric sheet and text: The group started as Genesis, biblical centuries ago. But fate intervened, other groups became Genesis and who were we to fight. So we changed our name in America to Revelation. Moments later up came another Revelation.
