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If you’re reading this and you only know Genesis as a pop band, here’s a revelation. Before the Eighties, they were a progressive rock band. Founding member and lead singer Peter Gabriel left in 1975. A Trick Of The Tail, released in February 1976, was the first Genesis album with drummer Phil Collins on lead vocals.
Do you like Phil Collins?
Well, a lot of people do because A Trick Of The Tail was a commercial success. It is often hailed not only as one of the band’s best efforts, but also as proof that the band could carry on without Peter Gabriel. While Phil Collins gets most of the attention, keyboardist Tony Banks deserves just as much if not more. Banks wrote all of the songs on the album, either with his bandmates or by himself. Heck, he wrote the title track by himself, although he did admit to taking “influence” from Getting Better by The Beatles. Also, while it was not a single, the song Squonk was a minor hit on the AOR stations.
Fans of Eighties Genesis may not find anything comparable to the hits from, say, Invisible Touch, but fans of progressive rock probably don’t need me to tell them whether A Trick Of The Tail is any good.