After their first major successes Genesis produced an album in 1973 that is generally considered one of the best they ever recorded. Steve Hackett describes it as his favourite Genesis album, and some songs from it were still played on the 2007 tour.
In 1990 Phil Collins toured all over the world with his terrific Serious tour. Later that same year a live album hit the stores that had been recorded, mixed and produced on tour.
Our very first fanclub meeting took place in Aschaffenburg, Germany in 1993 and was a simple event.
Peter Gabriel toured at the same time as Genesis. Hamburg played host first to Genesis, then to Peter Gabriel. Sebastian Wilken was there.
1980 saw the release of Mike Rutherford's solo debut, an album that has reached cult status amongst fans. Christer Leidolph has given it a spin.
The Abacab tour of 1981 and 1982 was documented as another double live album. Three Sides Live actually does contain only three LP sides of live material
Disney releases a new soundtrack in 2003. Phil Collins was involved in both the songs and the score.
In the early 90s Genesis reached the commercial peak of their career. We Can't Dance produced no less than six singles. It also turned out to be the last one with Phil Collins.
The 1983-1998 boxset covers the band's most successful period plus the post-Collins album Calling All Stations. Unfortunately not all the bonus tracks were included from this period. Find out why.
September 2007 saw the re-release of the Genesis back catalogue in general and Genesis, also known as Shapes or the Mama album in a SACD-hybrid/DVD double disc set. All about the content and the music can be found here.