GENESIS

Auntie knows best: the prog titans get a career-spanning, if incomplete, box set drawn from the Beeb’s archives.

Sid Smith, Dave Everley

prog.reviews@futurenet.com For any serious band in the late 60s and 70s, securing a BBC Radio 1 session and having your songs fly through the nighttime airwaves into the ears of punters and record label executives alike was a crucial part of what was then known as ‘making it.’ BBC Broadcasts begins with sessions from 1970 to 1975, and continues via appearances at Knebworth in 1978 and 1992, 1980’s Lyceum gig, Wembley in 1987, and the Birmingham NEC in 1998. Across these five CDs (or three vinyl LPs), it’s possible to measure Genesis’ steady advance from cultish oddity to unlikely national treasure by the audience’s reaction as much as the music. During the previously unreleased performances of The Fountain Of Salmacis and The Musical Box at the BBC’s Paris Theatre from…

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