In the June 2015 edition of Prog Rock magazine there is a very interesting 6 page article on the story of Genesis and The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, their last album together as the successful 5-piece band they had become. The article features six of the photographs I took on that memorable occasion at Headley Grange in 1974. Continue reading
Together and Apart documentary, broadcast last Saturday night on BBC2, has created quite a stir among the original Genesis fans, mainly because of the gross oversight of the Steve Hackett contribution to the band and also completely ignoring his solo work. You can see some of the great support Steve is getting on his Facebook page.
Anyway I have proof that Steve was the foundation for the other members in a couple of my Headley Grange photographs, he’s actually holding up the tree. Although it looks as though he’s thinking about letting go!
See all the photographs I took on the GALLERIES page
Four of my photographs of Headley Grange are being featured as new and original archive material in the new Together and Apart Genesis documentary being screened on BBC2 on 4th October.
These are the photographs featured.
Headley Grange
Phil Collins, Mike Rutherford, Tony Banks and Steve Hackett in the garden at Headley Grange
Phil Collins, Mike Rutherford, Tony Banks, Peter Gabriel and Steve Hackett in the garden at Headley Grange
Peter Gabriel in the kitchen at Headley Grange
Spanning an incredible 42 years, ‘R-Kive’ is a new 3-CD, 37-track set that documents the band’s history in the most comprehensive way yet. Compiled by the band themselves via a process of collaboration and elimination, ‘R-Kive’ takes an in-depth, chronological journey through the catalogue and – for the first time ever for a Genesis collection – includes three personally chosen selections from the solo careers of Tony Banks, Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel, Steve Hackett, and Mike Rutherford / Mike + The Mechanics.
Earlier this year, Genesis have “reunited” for a brand new documentary about the history of the band. The result ist called Together And Apart (for the BBC broadcast) or Sum Of The Parts (for the North American Broadcast and the DVD / Blu-ray release. The documentary is 90 minutes long, spanning the whole career of the band.
The new documentary will be premiered in London on 2nd October and broadcast schedules on TV will follow after that. In the UK, the BBC will show Together And Apart on 4th October at 9.15pm. Meanwhile, the North American broadcast with the title Sum of The Parts will happen on 10th October on Showtime at 8pm E.T. The documentary will be broadcast shortly after the release of the new career spanning 3CD-set R-Kive, which will be released on 29th September.
Sum Of The Parts will also be released on Blu-ray and DVD in November.
Many schoolboys get together to form a band, but few of them go on to become multi-million-selling recording artists – but that’s what happened to Genesis. Its core members – Peter Gabriel, Mike Rutherford and Tony Banks – met at Charterhouse, a public school in Surrey, and began playing together with two other students in 1967. A few years and personnel changes later (including the addition of drummer Phil Collins) and the classic line-up was in place. But relationships within the band were fraught; Gabriel left for a solo career in 1975, and Rutherford, Collins, Banks and Steve Hackett carried on without him. Here, they’re back together again to discuss their careers. Rare archive footage helps tell the story.