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.
Come Rain Or Shine is actually “just” a bonus DVD for the When In Rome 2007 3DVD set. But 105 minutes’ worth of bonus were not only worth being shown in a number of cinemas, they were also worth an attentive review by Martin Klinkhardt.
Genesis’ (live) comeback in North America prompted a first: A CD release in Starbucks’s Greatest Hits series. It is called 14 From Our Past and contains 14 songs from Genesis studio albums released between 1970-1997. Bernd Zindler has taken a closer look.
As far as Genesis biographies are concerned, Armando Gallo’s book has always been the undisputed work of reference. It has the flaw, though, of covering only part of the puzzle. For the first time in years a book has come out that can challenge Gallo’s work and be called the “bible of Genesis bios”.