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- Supper’s Ready (Foxtrot, 1972) The Mona Lisa, the Guernica, the Ulysses, the veritable Mac Daddy of Gabriel-era Genesis epics. At 23 minutes, its seven sections with recurring motifs mash up classical symphony, rock restlessness and a breath-taking ambition to build the music to end all music: “a new Jerusalem”.
- I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe) (Selling England By The Pound, 1973) The only Gabriel-era hit single. An obvious commercial smash, in hindsight, given its everyday chart-friendly tale of a gardener who refuses to grow up because he’d rather push his lawnmower around forever.
- The Lamia (The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway, 1974) As protagonist Rael navigates his way through the trials and traumas of The Lamb Lies Down – stalactites, stalagmites, wanking, losing his virginity, having his heart removed and shaved – he now finds himself in a languid pool with three Lamias, seductive snake-like sirens who have their wicked way with him, drink his blood, then die, leaving him a distorted, grotesque Slipperman.
- The Cinema Show (Selling England By The Pound, 1973) Another jewel from Selling England By The Pound, that album title being another piece of incontrovertible evidence that fusty old posh boys Genesis were politically on point – prophetic, even - way before it was fashionable.
- Dave Swanson
- "Supper's Ready" From: 'Foxtrot' (1972) The signature song of the band's live set for several years, "Supper's Ready" is an epic tour de force, its power and beauty remaining in full bloom all these years later.
- "Back in N.Y.C." From: 'The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway' (1974) Released in the fall of 1974, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway is arguably the band's masterpiece.
- "The Musical Box" From: 'Nursery Cryme' (1971) "I think we wanted to expand the horizons of the musical world we were living in," Peter Gabriel said in a documentary about Nursery Cryme, their third album, and first album to feature guitarist Steve Hackett and drummer Phil Collins.
- "Dancing With the Moonlit Knight" From: 'Selling England by the Pound' (1973) As the needle hits the vinyl on the first track on Selling England by the Pound, we hear Peter Gabriel alone in the spotlight, almost as if he's delivering a sermon.
Mar 26, 2020 · Back in Genesis, Phil Collins took over as the group's front man, and then was never, ever heard from again ... until Genesis reunited. In 1975, Genesis lead singer Peter Gabriel quit the band. Here's why.
- Tom Meisfjord
Jan 14, 2007 · This would become a point of contention for Hackett after Gabriel's departure. Though the next two releases with Phil Collins on vocals would follow in a similar fashion with good results, the departure of Gabriel left a hollow feeling to Genesis' overall sound.
Jul 14, 2023 · Sledgehammer was a worldwide hit – No.1 in America – and the So album topped the UK charts and spent three weeks at No.2 in the US. Finally, Gabriel was a star and, having kept the music business at arm’s length for 20 years, suddenly he went high-profile, turning up at awards shows.
- Hugh Fielder
Those were key elements for his decision to leave Genesis, but the band managed to convince him to do another tour that lasted until 1975 when he finally left. He explained those stories in an interview for the “ Genesis Archive ” documentary released in 1998 (Transcribed by Rock and Roll Garage).
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“Sledgehammer” (from So, 1986) By the traditional mechanisms, “Sledgehammer” was Gabriel’s biggest hit, his only single to make it to #1 on the U.S. charts. (He had a couple on the Mainstream Rock chart.)
