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Phil Collins – You Ought To Know – EP review
To accompany the European tour, a compilation album was released in 1997 by the tour sponsor Toyota, featuring an interesting selection of songs.
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To accompany the European tour, a compilation album was released in 1997 by the tour sponsor Toyota, featuring an interesting selection of songs.
In the latter part of 1997 Phil Collins toured Europe for almost four months. We have compiled many impressions from shows all over Europe.
After his surprise album Genesis Revisited Steve Hackett played four shows in Japan with his band. These gigs were preserved as the live double album The Tokyo Tapes.
At the Hotel Adlon in Berlin in 1997, there was also an opportunity for a brief interview with the new Genesis singer Ray Wilson.
By chance, we also had the opportunity to interview Genesis' new drummer Nir Z at the Hotel Adlon in Berlin.
After the quiet Blue Views, Paul Carrack presented another lively album in 1997 with Beautiful World, which Andreas Lauer also liked better.
On 25 August 1997, Genesis presented their new album Calling All Stations to the European public at Alex in Berlin. The German Genesis Fan Club was there and also had the opportunity to speak with the two founding members of Genesis.
Since Phil Collins left Genesis in 1996, a lot of rumours were spread about the future of Genesis and a possible replcement. Even a comeback of Peter Gabriel was rumoured and names like Steve Hackett, Fish, Paul Carrack, Chester Thompson or Daryl Stuermer circulated, then Ray Wilson became the new singer.
Tickets for the European shows of Collins' 1997 tour went on sale a full year before the tour actually started. In spring 1997 Phil Collins first went on a tour through North America.
5 years of the German Genesis fan club it in retrospect by Helmut Janisch "Der Genesis Fan" Long before our club was founded, there were Genesis fan clubs in Germany. The oldest club known to us must have been founded around the mid-1970s. Since at least that time, there has always been a German Genesis… View Article