History Trivia / TheLambLiesDownOnBroadway

--> '''[[{{MST}} Mike]]:''' [[https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20110430234934/http://www.solsburyhill.org/pre2010files/Lamb1.html Notes and coins? So how long have you lived in New York City, Rael?]]

*** [[WordOfGod Hackett mentioned in an article]] for ''Prog'' magazine (made by the publishers of ''Classic Rock'') that what triggered the wineglass accident was what someone said at a backstage party Hackett went to after a Sensational Alex Harvey Band concert. They said, "The band is good, [[HarsherInHindsight but they'd be nothing without Alex Harvey]]". The remark frustrated Steve as that's what critics were beginning to say about Genesis with the news of Peter Gabriel's impending departure.

*** [[WordOfGod Hackett mentioned in an article]] for ''Prog'' magazine (made by the publishers of ''Classic Rock'') that what triggered the wineglass accident was what someone said at a backstage party Hackett went to after a Sensational Alex Harvey Band concert. They said, "[[TheFaceOfTheBand The band is good]], [[HarsherInHindsight but they'd be nothing without Alex Harvey]]". The remark frustrated Steve as that's what critics were beginning to say about Genesis with the news of Peter Gabriel's impending departure.

* ChannelHop: In the US, this marked Genesis' first release on Creator/AtcoRecords, after several albums that were distributed by Creator/CharismaRecords on both sides of the Pond. The Atco deal would last for the remainder of Steve Hackett's tenure with the band.

** The location of the recording, [[Music/TheRollingStonesBand Mick Jagger's]] Stargroves mansion, which was often a favorite recording location for Music/LedZeppelin, turned out be be rundown, infested by rats and was believed by band members to be haunted. The group had very little sleep, and what was supposed to be a way of solidifying group unity actually led to stress and strain for the band.
** Arguments over included songs and lyrics. The other members of the band would occasionally tweak Gabriel's lyrics to better fit their music, and Gabriel wrote several songs on his own (to bridge already-written sections) without the rest of the band's input (one of them, "The Carpet Crawlers", would be a live staple for the post-Gabriel band). Gabriel also ran into writer's block with "The Light Lies Down On Broadway", leaving Music/TonyBanks and [[Music/MikeAndTheMechanics Michael Rutherford]] to write both music and lyrics.

** In the end, the album tanked on the charts, was savaged by critics and fans alike, and the band lost their ass on the tour, as well as their lead singer, nearly causing a break-up. For obvious reasons, almost all the members of the band treated it as an OldShame for many years, only beginning to warm up to it much later when they could put the stress of creating it behind them. (As a sort of belated consolation, [[VindicatedByHistory the album did eventually go gold]].)

** Mike Rutherford reportedly suggested the idea of writing a ConceptAlbum based on Antoine de Saint-Exupery's novel ''Literature/TheLittlePrince'', but Music/PeterGabriel wanted to use a grittier, less fantasy-tinged, more ''American'' concept. The bookend song-cycles of Genesis' 1980 album ''Music/{{Duke}}'' touch on some concepts similar to ''The Little Prince''. The album artwork also resembles the illustrations for the book.

* SequelFirst: Due to a late injury to Music/SteveHackett during rehearsals and the necessary switching of venue dates that followed, the American leg of the ''The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway'' tour was scheduled to happen before the album itself had even been released in the US. The band ended up playing the entirety of the album to audiences who hadn't heard it yet and certainly weren't expecting [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible anything like that]].

* AccentDepundent: The lines "it is real/it is Rael" in "''it.''" is built around the heavily Anglicized pronunciation of Rael's name that Music/PeterGabriel uses throughout the album (ɹeɪl, identically to "rail"; the proper Spanish pronunciation is räe̞l).

* AccentDepundent: The lines "it is real/it is Rael" in "''it.''" is built around the heavily Anglicized pronunciation of Rael's name that Music/PeterGabriel uses throughout the album ("rail"; the proper Spanish pronunciation is "rah-el").

** The location of the recording, [[Music/TheRollingStones Mick Jagger's]] Stargroves mansion, which was often a favorite recording location for Music/LedZeppelin, turned out be be rundown, infested by rats and was believed by band members to be haunted. The group had very little sleep, and what was supposed to be a way of solidifying group unity actually led to stress and strain for the band.

** Due to stress from being creatively sidelined on the album and his own failing marriage, Steve Hackett [[{{Fingore}} snapped a wine glass in his hand]] during rehearsals, injuring tendons in his thumb and delaying the start of the tour. After some juggling of venue dates, this meant the first leg of the tour was to be in America, where the album hadn't been released yet. Ticket sales went "meh." Hackett would record his first solo album (''Voyage Of The Acolyte'') shortly after the tour, and would leave the band three years later, in 1977.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Mike Rutherford reportedly suggested the idea of writing a ConceptAlbum based on Antoine de Saint-Exupery's novel ''Literature/TheLittlePrince'', but Music/PeterGabriel wanted to use a grittier, less fantasy-tinged, more ''American'' concept. The bookend song-cycles of Genesis' 1980 album ''Music/{{Duke}}'' touch on some concepts similar to ''The Little Prince''. The album artwork also resembles the illustrations for the book.

* MarketBasedTitle: The US release of the album respectively retitles "Carpet Crawlers" and "Here Comes the Supernatural Anesthetist" to "The Carpet Crawlers" (which was also the title it got on its single release) and "The Supernatural Anesthetist".

* SequelFirst: Due to a late injury to Steve Hackett during rehearsals and the necessary switching of venue dates that followed, the American leg of the ''The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway'' tour was scheduled to happen before the album itself had even been released in the US. The band ended up playing the entirety of the album to audiences who hadn't heard it yet and certainly weren't expecting [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible anything like that]].

** Arguments over included songs and lyrics. The other members of the band would occasionally tweak Gabriel's lyrics to better fit their music, and Gabriel wrote several songs on his own (to bridge already-written sections) without the rest of the band's input (one of them, "The Carpet Crawlers", would be a live staple for the post-Gabriel band). Gabriel also ran into writer's block with "The Light Lies Down On Broadway", leaving Banks and Rutherford to write both music and lyrics.

* Music/BrianEno: Provides "Enossification", which apparently refers to sound treatments he did on some songs like "In The Cage" and "The Grand Parade of Lifeless Packaging". He may also have let the band borrow some equipment.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Mike Rutherford reportedly suggested the idea of writing a ConceptAlbum based on Antoine de Saint-Exupery's novel ''Literature/TheLittlePrince'', but Music/PeterGabriel wanted to use a grittier, less fantasy-tinged, more ''American'' concept. The bookend song-cycles of Genesis' 1980 album ''Duke'' touch on some concepts similar to ''The Little Prince''. The album artwork also resembles the illustrations for the book.