In 2002 Ray Wilson brought his acoustic programme to German audiences for the first time. On June 15 he was headliner at the Park-Kult-Tour festival in Duisburg; the day after that he played his first real solo concert in Germany at Kaue, Gelsenkirchen. Christian Gerhardts was in the audience.
After his album Satisfy My Soul, Paul Carrack releases a recording of his last concert in London's Shepherd's Bush, called In Concert.
Ten years after the A History video from 1991 Genesis have published the more compact and up-to-date Genesis Songbook. Whether the new approach in this documentary lives up to the first attempt from 1991 is something Christian Gerhardts considers in this review.
After the album Beautiful World, Paul Carrack decided to work independently in the future and Satisfy My Soul is the first result.
Before Up came out in 2002, Peter Gabriel got sidetracked by a number of other projects.One of these is the "semi-solo album" Ovo.
In 1999 Phil's son Simon Collins published his first album All Of Who You Are. The first single, Pride, even became a minor hit.
In 1996 a comprehensive and authorized biography about Phil Collins was published. Its author Ray Coleman had, however, already passed away when the excellent book came out.
Virgin / EMI Records have finally got around to releasing Steve Hackett's early albums according to his ideas – to the delight of the musician and his fans alike, for the record company respected Hackett's wishes about the sound as well as extras and the package.
After the good experience and feedback of having a Question Time with Richard Macphail at the Early Years Event 2005 we wanted to do it with Armando Gallo. He accompanied the band in a way different from Richard and much longer, too, so he had much to tell…