The live music venue in Fletching Sussex regularly hosts live music events and I have taken photographs of Steve playing both acoustically and with his touring musicians brother John Hackett, Rob Townsend, Roger King and Amanda Lehmann.
See the full collection of photographs on the Steve Hackett Gallery.
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
For almost everyone who saw The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway tour, the show remains etched in their memory thanks to the combination of the clever music and the ground-breaking stage performance. This new book takes a very detailed look at this particular period in the history of Genesis. 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.
The exhibition of the Genesis Pictures I took in the 70s were on show at Trading Boundaries last week culminating in it coinciding with the Steve Hackett concert on the evening of Saturday 30th June.
Trading Boundaries was packed with Steve Hackett (and Genesis) fans who all enjoyed a brilliant evening of music. Steve had his nylon strung classical guitar for the evening, not his more usual famous Les Paul electric guitar.
Steve was accompanied by the hugely talented Rob Townsend on flute and saxophone as well as his brilliant jazz solo on a penny-whistle!
Roger King supplied great keyboards and the trio played a wide selection of music from Steve’s albums as well as some of the gorgeous melodic compositions he co-wrote with Genesis.
After almost two hours of music,Steve stayed afterwards and spent almost an hour talking to people from the audience, many of whom had travelled considerable distances to see the concert.
I met lots of people from the audience before and after the concert who were fascinated with the Genesis pictures that they’d never seen before and shared Genesis stories and my experience of taking the photographs of Steve Hackett and the other members of Genesis while they were rehearsing and recording The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway in July 1974 – a mere 38 years ago!
For lots more exclusive Genesis Pictures see www.GenesisPictures.co.uk
For more information about Steve Hackett see www.HackettSongs.com
One of the areas of Trading Boundaries where the Genesis Pictures exhibition was held
All photographs on this post taken by Richard Haines
Richard donated one of his Genesis Photographs (signed, mounted and framed) to the Shooting Star CHASE Childrens Charity Auction at the G2 – Definitive Genesis concert held at Charterhouse School on 14th April and it was sold for £280! Lots of interest shown in the exhibition of the exclusive photographs of Genesis in the early 70s from the hundreds of Genesis/G2 fans.