Genesis

Over 28 years the genre giants released 15 albums, achieving over 100 million sales. It’s unfair to boil their work down to just a handful of key songs – but you did it anyway

The band believe it’s the moment they began to become significant – and the construction of the 23-minute anthem for 1972’s Foxtrot was itself an epic experience

Never mind the usual drink and drug offences… quirky, eccentric incidents seem to surround some of those who make music the same way

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Exploding the myth that progressive rock’s ‘dinosaurs’ were finished off by punk

Welsh metal band’s drummer Arya Goggin hails the Genesis icon and reveals some of his secrets

Keyboard icon looks back on his classical albums, recently assembled in a box set, recalls being knocked off the No. 1 spot by gardener Alan Titchmarsh – and remembers offering Peter Gabriel a new gig

He may not always have been life and soul of the party, but he’s been the heartbeat behind songs across a huge range of genres – to his lasting pride

1974’s ambitious double-album took a heavy toll on the people who worked on it – then its lukewarm reception and bewildering stage show made things even more tense

The band’s first phase features a charming, very English sense of melancholy and melodrama – matched with wilful prog complexity

"It's got some good stuff on it," says a typically understated Tony Banks, on Genesis's Seconds Out

The official sound of prog, made in Birmingham

Rick Wakeman, Roger Waters and Robert Fripp were among those listening when the BBC played the record in full in 1967 – and weren’t the only ones who experienced artistic epiphanies that night