John Mayhew was our star guest at the Evolution Of A Rock Band event 2006. The former Genesis drummer and direct predecessor of Phil Collins kindly agreed to sit in the hot seat for an interview. It was conducted as an on-stage question time; most questions came directly from the audience.
The fanclub day in 2006 was a jubilee event with lots of highlights: One of Mike Rutherford’s guitars was auctioned off, there were exciting interviews with our star guests John Mayhew and Armando Gallo, a live act by John Morrell and lots of opportunities to talk to other guests and, of course, also the special guests.
During a break from the Invisible Touch tour with Genesis Phil Collins squeezed in some drumming for Eric Clapton. The video of the concert in Montreux, Switzerland, is now available on DVD.
The Disney film is followed by a Disney Broadway musical. Phil Collins has written further songs for Tarzan. In 2006 the musical premiered in New York City. Ulli Klemt was there.
Only 200 copies of Genesis – The Top 200 Worldwide Rarities were produced. Their author (and publisher) is Peter Vickers from Wales, who has previously released a more comprehensive work Genesis Collectibles in a similar fashion. Helmut Janisch has read it for you.
Phil Collins’ first Broadway musical is now available on CD. It features the performances of the Broadway show cast, but also has a bonus track. We have checked it out for you…
Musicals are an unfamiliar territory for us, so we decided to ask the editor of a musical magazine what he thinks of the Tarzan cast CD. Maik Frömmrich about Tarzan.
Anna Gabriel’s up-close documentary of the Growing Up tour 2002 in North America..
Reviews are frequently sober analyses that tend to work through the album as if through a list. There are, however, records that are far more stimulating to the brain than that, and Face Value is one of them. Christian Gerhardts tries to explain why this album probably left a deeper mark on the Genesis family than any other.