ALPHA & OMEGA

Eccentric, theatrical, abstruse, GENESIS battled industry indifference, audience bafflement and internal rivalry to "a blancmange". As their final collaboration-1974’s The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway-enjoys a 50th anniversary reboot. the classic line-up of gabriel, Hackett, Banks, Collins and rutherford reconvene to reveal what really what really went on beneath the testicular costumes and public school reserve."Secretly, we wanted to have hits," they tell MARK BLAKE.

THE FIELD HAS CHANGED, BUT the battle remains the same. A conflict dating back to when Harold Wilson first became Prime Minister and The Beatles’ She Loves You was ringing out of transistor radios, has continued up to the modern day. Given the chance, Genesis’s former vocalist, Peter Gabriel, and his old schoolfriend and keyboard player, Tony Banks, will try and thrash the living daylights out of each other at table tennis. “We both still care very much about winning,” says Banks, cosy at home in rural Surrey on a January morning as wintry as the cover of Genesis’s Wind & Wuthering LP. “Neither of us are very good at ping pong, but it’s just part of our relationship. Every time Peter and I meet, we slot back into our…

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