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* OldShame: Phil Collins has mentioned in internet postings not to be a fan of 'Match Of The Day', from the Spot The Pigeon EP, which is probably why that track was left off of ''Genesis Archives #2'', where 'Pigeons' and 'Inside And Out' were included. The EP was repressed on vinyl in 2012, however, making the song easily available again.

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* OldShame: Phil Collins has mentioned in internet postings not to be a fan of 'Match Of The Day', from the Spot The Pigeon EP, which is probably why that track was left off of 2000's ''Genesis Archives #2'', #2'' boxset, where 'Pigeons' and 'Inside And Out' were included. The However, all three songs are included in the ''Genesis 1976–1982'' boxset and the EP was repressed on vinyl in 2012, however, making the song easily available again.
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* OldShame: Phil Collins has mentioned in internet postings not to be a fan of 'Match Of The Day', from the Spot The Pigeon EP, which is probably why that track was left off of ''Genesis Archives #2'', where 'Pigeons' and 'Inside And Out' were included. The EP was repressed on vinyl in 2012, however, making the song easily available again.
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** "Match Of The Day" is a hard-to-find track from their 1977 ''Spot The Pigeon'' EP, partly due to Phil's dislike of the lyrics he wrote for it.
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** Their 2007 ''Turn It On Again'' tour started as an attempt to reunite Banks, Collins, Rutherford, Gabriel and Hackett to perform ''TheLambLiesDownOnBroadway''; when Gabriel decided against it, the post-Hackett five-piece touring band reunited instead.

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** Their 2007 ''Turn It On Again'' tour started as an attempt to reunite Banks, Collins, Rutherford, Gabriel and Hackett to perform ''TheLambLiesDownOnBroadway''; when Gabriel decided against it, the post-Hackett five-piece touring band reunited instead.instead.
** When David Lee Roth left VanHalen in 1986, Eddie Van Halen originally wanted ''5150'' to have different singers on each track. One consideration was to include Phil Collins.
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** Mike Rutherford [[WordOfGod has admitted]] to having been influenced by science fiction stories like [[ArthurCClarke Arthur C. Clarke's]] ''ChildhoodsEnd'' and works by JRRTolkien in TheSeventies, which came through in a lot of the early Genesis songs like "Watcher Of The Skies".
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** "Match Of The Day" is a hard-to-find track from their 1977 ''Spot The Pigeon'' EP, partly due to Phil's dislike of the lyrics he wrote for it.


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* SerendipityWritesThePlot: Many of their trademark techniques and tones were developed over a brief period of time between Anthony Phillips' split from the group and the hiring of Steve Hackett to replace him, as they had not yet found a guitarist and were rehearsing as a four-piece, with Rutherford and/or Banks using different methods of making up for the lack of guitar (bass pedals, double-neck guitar, distorted electric piano).
** Their method of writing in the studio via jam sessions, improvisations and group-composing in TheEighties was partly a way of keeping the dwindling band united on a project, particularly as pre-written songs were being used on solo albums. They also felt that the best tracks on ''And Then There Were Three'' and ''Duke'' were group-written, and wanted to continue in that vein and justify their reasons for continuing as a band.
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** Celebrated indie songwriter/musician Kevin Gilbert, who had much respect and love for the "classic" Genesis ([[MomentOfAwesome he performed the entire "Lamb Lies Down" album live on stage]] with his band Giraffe in 1994), was invited to audition to replace Phil Collins in 1996. Unfortunately, Gilbert died of an [[http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/More-Than-The-Piano-Player-Dumped-by-Sheryl-2966770.php accidental suicide]] before his management received the invitation. Considering Gilbert's prog-rock credibility and rising career as songwriter at the time, there's no telling what his talent could've done to help invigorate the band.

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** Celebrated indie songwriter/musician Kevin Gilbert, who had much respect and love for the "classic" Genesis ([[MomentOfAwesome he performed the entire "Lamb Lies Down" album live on stage]] with his band Giraffe in 1994), was invited to audition to replace Phil Collins in 1996. Unfortunately, Gilbert died of an [[http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/More-Than-The-Piano-Player-Dumped-by-Sheryl-2966770.php accidental suicide]] before his management received the invitation. Considering Gilbert's prog-rock credibility and rising career as a songwriter at the time, there's no telling what his talent could've done to help invigorate the band.
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** Celebrated indie songwriter/musician Kevin Gilbert, who had much respect and love for the "classic" Genesis ([[MomentOfAwesome he performed the entire "Lamb Lies Down" album live on stage]] with his band Giraffe in 1994), was invited to audition to replace Phil Collins in 1996. Unfortunately, Gilbert died of an accidental suicide before his management received the invitation. Considering Gilbert's prog-rock credibility and rising career as songwriter at the time, there's no telling what his talent could've done to help invigorate the band.

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** Celebrated indie songwriter/musician Kevin Gilbert, who had much respect and love for the "classic" Genesis ([[MomentOfAwesome he performed the entire "Lamb Lies Down" album live on stage]] with his band Giraffe in 1994), was invited to audition to replace Phil Collins in 1996. Unfortunately, Gilbert died of an [[http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/More-Than-The-Piano-Player-Dumped-by-Sheryl-2966770.php accidental suicide suicide]] before his management received the invitation. Considering Gilbert's prog-rock credibility and rising career as songwriter at the time, there's no telling what his talent could've done to help invigorate the band.
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** Celebrated indie songwriter/musician Kevin Gilbert, who had much respect and love for the "classic" Genesis ([[MomentOfAwesome he performed the entire "Lamb Lies Down" album live on stage]]), was invited to an audition to replace Phil Collins in 1996. Unfortunately, he (Gilbert, not Collins) had died just a few weeks earlier. There's not telling what a talent like Gilbert could've done to invigorate the band.

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** Celebrated indie songwriter/musician Kevin Gilbert, who had much respect and love for the "classic" Genesis ([[MomentOfAwesome he performed the entire "Lamb Lies Down" album live on stage]]), stage]] with his band Giraffe in 1994), was invited to an audition to replace Phil Collins in 1996. Unfortunately, he (Gilbert, not Collins) had Gilbert died just a few weeks earlier. There's not of an accidental suicide before his management received the invitation. Considering Gilbert's prog-rock credibility and rising career as songwriter at the time, there's no telling what a his talent like Gilbert could've done to help invigorate the band.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Celebrated indie songwriter/musician Kevin Gilbert, who had much respect and love for the "classic" Genesis ([[MomentOfAwesome he performed the entire "Lamb Lies Down" album live on stage]]), was invited to an audition to replace Phil Collins in 1996. Unfortunately, he (Gilbert, not Collins) had died just a few weeks earlier. There's not telling what a talent like Gilbert could've done to invigorate the band.
** When the band was forming ideas for what would become ''The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway'', Mike Rutherford suggested composing a song cycle loosely based on Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's novella ''The Little Prince''. Gabriel opted for an [[DarkerAndEdgier edgier]], more Americanized concept album instead (''The Lamb''). While not used then, eventually these themes would lead to songs on 1978's ''...And Then There Were Three...'' and prominently in the song cycle that book-ends 1980's ''Duke''.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Celebrated indie songwriter/musician Kevin Gilbert, who had much respect and love for the "classic" Genesis ([[MomentOfAwesome he performed the entire "Lamb Lies Down" album live on stage]]), was invited to an audition to replace Phil Collins in 1996. Unfortunately, he (Gilbert, not Collins) had died just a few weeks earlier. There's not telling what a talent like Gilbert could've done to invigorate the band.
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When the band was forming ideas for what would become 1974's ''The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway'', Mike Rutherford suggested composing a song cycle loosely based on Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's novella ''The Little Prince''. Gabriel opted Gabriel, however, had a singular vision for an the record and ultimately wrote the lyrics of ''The Lamb'' on his own, with a [[DarkerAndEdgier edgier]], more Americanized concept album instead (''The Lamb''). While not used then, eventually these themes edgier]] tone, and with an American protagonist. Eventually, Rutherford's idea would lead to inspire songs on 1978's ''...And Then There Were Three...'' and most prominently in the song cycle that book-ends 1980's ''Duke''. ''Duke'' (the album's art seems also evocative of the book).
** Attempts were made to make a movie out of ''The Lamb'' since the late 1970s, but nothing came to fruition.



** Among the people being considered to replace Phil Collins as lead singer was [[{{Marillion}} Fish]], who had previously done vocals for some of Tony Banks' solo material. "Generillion" might very well have been really awesome, especially since Fish's vocals have been compared to Gabriel's to begin with.
** Their 2007 ''Turn It On Again'' tour started as an attempt to reunite Banks, Collins, Rutherford, Gabriel and Hackett to perform ''TheLambLiesDownOnBroadway''; when Gabriel decided against it, the three-piece band reunited instead.
** Attempts were made to make a movie out of ''The Lamb'' since the late 1970s, but nothing came to fruition.
** ''Abacab'' was originally planned as a double-album. Most of the tracks ultimately removed (most notably the instrumentals "Naninanu & " Submarine") appeared as B-sides, and the song originally meant as the album's closer, "Paperlate", eventually appeared on ''3x3'' and ''Three Sides Live''.
* Several tracks on ''Duke'' were meant to be a ''SuppersReady''-like suite taking up one side, yet in the end the band decided to steer clear of anything too similar to the dying genre of ProgressiveRock, being as it was 1980. The band ''did'' perform the "suite" live in its original format and order during their ''Duke'' tour.

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** Among The ''Little Prince''-inspired tracks on ''Duke'' were meant to be a ''SuppersReady''-like suite taking up one side, yet in the people being considered end the band decided to replace Phil Collins steer clear of long pieces, as lead singer was [[{{Marillion}} Fish]], who ProgressiveRock had previously done vocals for some of Tony Banks' solo material. "Generillion" might very well have been really awesome, especially since Fish's vocals have been compared to Gabriel's to begin with.
** Their 2007 ''Turn It On Again'' tour started as an attempt to reunite Banks, Collins, Rutherford, Gabriel and Hackett to
become a withering genre in the early 80's. The band ''did'' perform ''TheLambLiesDownOnBroadway''; when Gabriel decided against it, the three-piece band reunited instead.
** Attempts were made to make a movie out of ''The Lamb'' since
"suite" live in its original format and order during the late 1970s, but nothing came to fruition.
subsequent tour for the album, documented on several bootlegs. Concidentally, Rutherford used another novel, ''Smallcreep's Day'', as the basis for his first solo record, which was released in 1980, the same year as ''Duke''.
** 1982's ''Abacab'' was originally planned as a double-album. Most of the tracks ultimately removed (most notably the instrumentals "Naninanu & " Submarine") appeared as B-sides, and the song originally meant as the album's closer, "Paperlate", eventually appeared on ''3x3'' and ''Three Sides Live''.
* Several tracks on ''Duke'' were meant to be a ''SuppersReady''-like suite taking up one side, yet in ** Celebrated indie songwriter/musician Kevin Gilbert, who had much respect and love for the end "classic" Genesis ([[MomentOfAwesome he performed the band entire "Lamb Lies Down" album live on stage]]), was invited to an audition to replace Phil Collins in 1996. Unfortunately, he (Gilbert, not Collins) had died just a few weeks earlier. There's not telling what a talent like Gilbert could've done to invigorate the band.
** Among the people also being considered to replace Phil Collins as lead singer was [[{{Marillion}} Fish]], who had previously done vocals for some of Tony Banks' solo material. "Generillion" might very well have been really awesome, especially since Fish's vocals have been compared to Gabriel's to begin with.
** Their 2007 ''Turn It On Again'' tour started as an attempt to reunite Banks, Collins, Rutherford, Gabriel and Hackett to perform ''TheLambLiesDownOnBroadway''; when Gabriel
decided to steer clear of anything too similar to against it, the dying genre of ProgressiveRock, being as it was 1980. The post-Hackett five-piece touring band ''did'' perform the "suite" live in its original format and order during their ''Duke'' tour.reunited instead.
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: A one-off reunion with Peter Gabriel, a concert on October 2nd, 1982 at the National Bowl in Milton Keynes, to benefit Gabriel's WOMAD arts festival, was never officially recorded or filmed. The only record that exists are bootleg recordings.

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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: A one-off reunion with Peter Gabriel, a concert on October 2nd, 1982 at the National Bowl in Milton Keynes, to benefit Gabriel's WOMAD arts festival, was never officially recorded or filmed. The only record that exists are bootleg [[http://www.genesis-movement.com/php/listtour.php?tourid=13 bootleg]] recordings.
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The one-off reunion with Peter Gabriel back in the early '80s was never officially recorded or filmed. The only record that exists are bootleg recordings.

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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The A one-off reunion with Peter Gabriel back in Gabriel, a concert on October 2nd, 1982 at the early '80s National Bowl in Milton Keynes, to benefit Gabriel's WOMAD arts festival, was never officially recorded or filmed. The only record that exists are bootleg recordings.
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** While Steve Hackett's leaving was amicable (both Collins and Rutherford contributed to his first solo album, ''Voyage Of The Acolyte'') the 2014 documentary ''Together And Apart'', a film supposedly meant to touch on both the band's long life and the noteworthy solo careers of all the band members, gives Hackett's solo career, which spans over ''twenty'' records, the barest of mentions. Hackett went on social media and to [[http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/genesis-guitarist-steve-hackett-blasts-biased-documentary-20141005 Rolling Stone]] to voice his displeasure. What makes the documentary even more tone-deaf is that Hackett at the time of the documentary's broadcast was currently in the middle of a nearly two-year tour behind his ''Genesis Revisited II'' record, that will continue into 2015, playing many classic Genesis songs which haven't been performed live in decades.

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** While Steve Hackett's leaving was amicable (both Collins and Rutherford contributed to his first solo album, ''Voyage Of The Acolyte'') the 2014 documentary ''Together And Apart'', Apart'' (broadcast as ''Sum Of The Parts'' in the US), a film supposedly meant to touch on both the band's long life and the noteworthy solo careers of all the band members, gives Hackett's solo career, which spans over ''twenty'' records, the barest of mentions. Hackett went on social media and to [[http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/genesis-guitarist-steve-hackett-blasts-biased-documentary-20141005 Rolling Stone]] to voice his displeasure. What makes the documentary even more tone-deaf is that Hackett at the time of the documentary's broadcast was currently in the middle of a nearly two-year tour behind his ''Genesis Revisited II'' record, that will continue into 2015, playing many classic Genesis songs which haven't been performed live in decades.
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** While Steve Hackett's leaving was amicable (both Collins and Rutherford contributed to his first solo album, ''Voyage Of The Acolyte'') the 2014 documentary ''Together And Apart'', a film supposedly meant to touch on both the band's long life and the noteworthy solo careers of all the band members, gives Hackett's solo career, which spans over ''twenty'' records, the barest of mentions. Hackett went on social media and to [[http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/genesis-guitarist-steve-hackett-blasts-biased-documentary-20141005 Rolling Stone]] to voice his displeasure. What makes the documentary even more tone-deaf is that Hackett at the time of the documentary's broadcast was currently in the middle of a nearly two-year tour behind his ''Genesis Revisited II'' record, that will continue into 2015, playing many classic Genesis songs which haven't been performed live in decades.
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** The evangelist charcter in the video for "Jesus He Knows Me" has a DeepSouth accent, at least until [[OohMeAccentsSlipping accent slips]].

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* Several tracks on ''Duke'' were meant to be a ''SuppersReady''-like suite taking up one side, yet in the end the band decided to steer clear of anything too similar to the dying genre of ProgressiveRock, being as it was 1980. The band ''did'' perform the "suite" live in its original format and order during their ''Duke'' tour.
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** Among the people being considered to replace Phil Collins as lead singer was [[{{Marillion}} Fish]], who had previously done vocals for some of Tony Banks' solo material. "Generillion" might very well have been really awesome.

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** Among the people being considered to replace Phil Collins as lead singer was [[{{Marillion}} Fish]], who had previously done vocals for some of Tony Banks' solo material. "Generillion" might very well have been really awesome.awesome, especially since Fish's vocals have been compared to Gabriel's to begin with.

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* FakeAmerican: Rael, the protagonist in ''TheLambLiesDownOnBroadway''. A half-Puerto Rican street kid from [[BigApplesauce New York City]] would be unlikely to refer to money as "notes and coins". But he does anyway. Also in the song "Back in NYC", Rael says "you progressive hypocrites". An American (of the time, anyway) would probably have called them "liberal hypocrites".
* FakeNationality: The group dresses up in fake mustaches and Mexican garb for the video for [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_61hzuGGJX0 "Illegal Alien"]].



* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The one-off reunion with Peter Gabriel back in the early '80s was never officially recorded or filmed. The only record that exists are bootleg recordings.



* ThePeteBest: Anthony Phillips, who was replaced by Steve Hackett, and all of the pre-Collins drummers.
** Ray Wilson also to an extent, as his career with Genesis was killed by fan indifference before it could begin. However at the same time, he has seemed to parlay that brief time into a substantial career, still performing songs from ''Calling All Stations'' live and appearing as a guest singer at Steve Hackett's 2013 ''Genesis Revisited II'' show at the Royal Albert Hall.



** Genesis were suggesting writing a concept album based on Antoine De Saint-Exupery's Literature/TheLittlePrince as a follow-up to ''Selling England''. Gabriel opted for an [[DarkerAndEdgier edgier]], more Americanized concept album instead (''The Lamb'').

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** Genesis were suggesting writing When the band was forming ideas for what would become ''The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway'', Mike Rutherford suggested composing a concept album song cycle loosely based on Antoine De Saint-Exupery's Literature/TheLittlePrince as a follow-up to ''Selling England''.de Saint-Exupéry's novella ''The Little Prince''. Gabriel opted for an [[DarkerAndEdgier edgier]], more Americanized concept album instead (''The Lamb''). While not used then, eventually these themes would lead to songs on 1978's ''...And Then There Were Three...'' and prominently in the song cycle that book-ends 1980's ''Duke''.



** Attempts were made to make a movie out of ''The Lamb'' since the late 1970s, but nothing came to fruition.

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** ''Abacab'' was originally planned as a double-album. Most of the tracks ultimately removed (most notably the instrumentals "Naninanu & " Submarine") appeared as B-sides, and the song originally meant as the album's closer, "Paperlate", eventually appeared on ''3x3'' and ''Three Sides Live''.

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** Which leads to a very interesting possibility of what "Me and Sarah Jane" is about...

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* ReferencedBy: In ''Webcomic/KnightsOfBuenaVista'', Adriana is singing one of the band's songs, and Ilene jokes that they are known as "[[SegaGenesis Mega Drive]]" in the rest of the world.
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** Attempts were made to make a movie out of ''The Lamb'' siince the late 1970s, but nothing came to fruition.

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* HeyItsThatPlace: The video for the Phil Collins solo hit "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRY1NG1P_kw Take Me Home]]" is the absolute embodiment of this trope.
** The video for "Tonight, Tonight, Tonight" from ''Invisible Touch'' was shot at the Bradbury Building.

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* HeyItsThatPlace: The video for the Phil Collins solo hit "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRY1NG1P_kw Take Me Home]]" is the absolute embodiment of this trope.
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The video for "Tonight, Tonight, Tonight" from ''Invisible Touch'' was shot at the Bradbury Building.
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* OneOfUs: Phil Collins is a self-confessed video game fan and even [[PromotedFanboy played himself]] in ''GrandTheftAutoViceCityStories'', Tony Banks is a fan of ''TheLordOfTheRings'', and Mike Rutherford referenced ''Series/DoctorWho'' in ''[[TheDocumentary Come Rain Or Shine]]''.

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* OneOfUs: Phil Collins is a self-confessed video game fan and even [[PromotedFanboy played himself]] in ''GrandTheftAutoViceCityStories'', Tony Banks is a fan of ''TheLordOfTheRings'', ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', and Mike Rutherford referenced ''Series/DoctorWho'' in ''[[TheDocumentary Come Rain Or Shine]]''.
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** Attepmts were made to make a movie out of ''The Lamb'' siince the late 1970s, but nothing came to fruition.

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** Among the people being considered to replace Phil Collins as lead singer was [[{{Marillion}} Fish]], who had previously done vocals for some of Tony Banks' solo material. "Generillion" might very well have been really awesome.

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** Among the people being considered to replace Phil Collins as lead singer was [[{{Marillion}} Fish]], who had previously done vocals for some of Tony Banks' solo material. "Generillion" might very well have been really awesome.awesome.
** Their 2007 ''Turn It On Again'' tour started as an attempt to reunite Banks, Collins, Rutherford, Gabriel and Hackett to perform ''TheLambLiesDownOnBroadway''; when Gabriel decided against it, the three-piece band reunited instead.
** Attepmts were made to make a movie out of ''The Lamb'' siince the late 1970s, but nothing came to fruition.
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** Genesis were suggesting writing a concept album based on Antoine De Saint-Exupery's TheLittlePrince as a follow-up to ''Selling England''. Gabriel opted for an [[DarkerAndEdgier edgier]], more Americanized concept album instead (''The Lamb'').

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** Genesis were suggesting writing a concept album based on Antoine De Saint-Exupery's TheLittlePrince Literature/TheLittlePrince as a follow-up to ''Selling England''. Gabriel opted for an [[DarkerAndEdgier edgier]], more Americanized concept album instead (''The Lamb'').

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* Creator/{{Hipgnosis}}: Designed several of their album covers.

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* HeyItsThatPlace: The video for the Phil Collins solo hit "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRY1NG1P_kw Take Me Home]]" is the absolute embodiment of this trope.
** The video for "Tonight, Tonight, Tonight" from ''Invisible Touch'' was shot at the Bradbury Building.
* Creator/{{Hipgnosis}}: Designed several of their album covers.covers.
* OneOfUs: Phil Collins is a self-confessed video game fan and even [[PromotedFanboy played himself]] in ''GrandTheftAutoViceCityStories'', Tony Banks is a fan of ''TheLordOfTheRings'', and Mike Rutherford referenced ''Series/DoctorWho'' in ''[[TheDocumentary Come Rain Or Shine]]''.
** Phil's [[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2297368/filmoseries#tt0056751 mother worked on]] ''Series/DoctorWho''.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Celebrated indie songwriter/musician Kevin Gilbert, who had much respect and love for the "classic" Genesis ([[MomentOfAwesome he performed the entire "Lamb Lies Down" album live on stage]]), was invited to an audition to replace Phil Collins in 1996. Unfortunately, he (Gilbert, not Collins) had died just a few weeks earlier. There's not telling what a talent like Gilbert could've done to invigorate the band.
** Genesis were suggesting writing a concept album based on Antoine De Saint-Exupery's TheLittlePrince as a follow-up to ''Selling England''. Gabriel opted for an [[DarkerAndEdgier edgier]], more Americanized concept album instead (''The Lamb'').
** Casual considerations to replace Steve Hackett as guitarist in 1978 were rumored to include Jeff Beck, [[KingCrimson Robert Fripp]] and Music/SteelyDan veteran Elliott Randall. It was later agreed to keep it a three-piece in the studio.
** Among the people being considered to replace Phil Collins as lead singer was [[{{Marillion}} Fish]], who had previously done vocals for some of Tony Banks' solo material. "Generillion" might very well have been really awesome.
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