What do you think about "Duchess"? 21
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GENESIS - Duchess
Year: 1980
Album: Duke [album review]
Working title: unknown
Credits: Banks, Collins, Rutherford
Lyrics: Yes
Length: 6:37
Musicians: Tony Banks, Phil Collins, Mike Rutherford
Played Live: 1981, 1982
mp3 downloads: iTunes
Cover versions: none
Notes: Duchess marks the time drum computers started to feature in Genesis jam sessions. With this song the band also returned to working together on song ideas. The lyrics foretell much of what would happen later in the band's history. When Tony Banks spoke about the third verse of this song in a TV special in the late 1990s he had some trouble keeping his voice even. Many thought the end of the band had come by that time. Duchess was written at the beginning of their commercial period - and stated right away that these times cannot stay forever...
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