- According to Tony Banks, one of the reasons Phil Collins got the job as Genesis drummer was because he told the best jokes.
- Their van once broke down four times on the way to a gig, when they finally arrived it was too late to play, so they went home and broke down three times on the way back.
- Members have included Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel, Mike Rutherford, Tony Banks, Steve Hackett, Chris Stewart, Jonathon Silver, John Mayhew, Mick Banard, Anthony Philips, Ray Wilson, Nick D'Virgilio and Nir Z. Tour Members include Bill Bruford, Chester Thonpson, Daryl Stuermer and Anthony Drennan.
- Steve Hackett's first gig was at the Maitlings in Farnham, where Phil decided to see how much alcohol he could drink and still play drums.
- There were three bits of music in Abacab, and they referred to them as 'section a', 'section b', and 'section c'... and at different times, they were in different order. They'd start with 'section a' and then have 'section c'... and at one point in time, it spelled Abacab. On the final version, it's not that at all, it's like 'Accaabbaac'.".
- One critic referred to them as "The Incredible Shrinking Band" in 1978 after losing two members in three years and not replacing them.
- Phil Collins played 'In The Air Tonight' without the drum pattern for inclusion on the 'Duke' album. Mike and Tony turned it down thinking it was nothing special.
- Invisible Touch was knocked off the #1 spot in the U.S By Sledgehammer by former band mate Peter Gabriel.
- Were the first band to use the Vari-Light, which is now one of the most widely used lights for concerts.
- Phil Collins has stated that he only became the lead singer because they couldn't find anybody else.
- Their first album "From Genesis To Revelation" was recorded during the summer of 1968, but not released until March 1969.
- On the 14th July 2007, they played to their largest ever audience of 500,000 people in Rome.
- They are mentioned in the lyrics of the song "Guest Informant" by The Fall.
- Would often put songs that were omitted from the albums as B-sides to their singles.
- Their biggest UK hit was Mama which got to Number 4 and number 71 in the US in 1983. Their Biggest US hit was Invisible Touch which got to Number 1 and number 15 in the UK in 1986, in 1992 a live version was released in the UK which got to number 7.
- First three albums failed to chart in The UK.
- The Album 'Selling England By The Pound' was the first time they had a writing period - of two months, during which time Mike Rutherford has said He, Phil and Tony got really depressed. Tony has said "We all thought about leaving the band, almost every week, in different ways. That was one of the worst times". and Phil has said "Maybe that was the beginning of my depression, wanting to start with Brand X. At that time before 'Lamb', I actually started feeling I wasn't able to play.".
- One song from the first ever demo they recorded made it onto the first album as 'The Serpent'.
- The owner of Charisma (their record label) Tony Stratton Smith produced their first live album 'Genesis Live'.
- First Drummer Chris Stewart moved to Spain and became an author.
- Ronnie Caryl Of Flaming Youth went to the auditions for the guitarists role with Phil Collins.
- Were dropped by Decca after their first album "From Genesis To Revelation" sold just 600 copies on its initial release.
- In 1981, invested in their own private recording studio called Fisher Lane Farm (or just "The Farm") in Surrey where their last five albums, and various solo albums were made. Also "August" by Eric Clapton which Phil Collins served as producer and drummer.
- Have sold more than 150 million albums worldwide putting them in the top 30 highest selling recording artists of all time.
- A name thought for the band was Gabriel's Angels, which Peter liked very much but none of the others were that keen.
- Released 15 studio albums and 6 live albums.
- "Tonight Tonight Tonight" was originally called Monkey Zulu. The First Part was Monkey, the second part was Zulu.
- Reunited with Peter Gabriel on stage at the National Bowl in Milton Keynes on 2nd October 1982.
- Bill Bruford joined them on their first tour without Peter so Phil could be out front, he was later replaced with Chester Thompson.
- Candidates considered for Collins' replacement included Paul Carrack (who had performed with Mike Rutherford in Mike + The Mechanics) and Fish (former lead singer of the neo-progressive rock band Marillion, who had often been compared to Genesis by critics, and who had performed as a vocalist on Tony Banks' solo albums).
- Had a consecutive 10 Top 3 albums in the UK.
- Were initially 2 bands 'The Anon' featuring Ant Philips and Mike Rutherford, and 'The garden Wall with Peter Gabriel and Tony Banks.
- 'Abacab' was their first and only album they fully produced by themselves, later deciding to use their engineer for that album (and Phil Collins' producer) Hugh Padgham for 'Genesis and 'Invisible Touch'.
- The song 'Since I Lost You' on 'We Can't Dance' was written with Connor Clapton in mind. Phil took it to Eric and played it to him first because he didn't want to include it on the album without his permission.
- Phil Collins only wrote 3 out of the 122 Genesis songs he played on by himself: 'Misunderstanding', 'Please Dont Ask' and 'Man On The Corner'.
- Their manager Tony Smith has commented that if Genesis was ever going to be one person it would be Tony Banks.
- Had enough songs for Abacab written and recorded for a double album.
- Phil Collins' contribution to the bands early work was mainly in the arrangement sections. The first time he wrote a lyric by himself was for 'scenes from a nights dream from their 1978 album 'And Then There Were Three' which he wrote with Tony Banks.
- Steve Hackett left the band because not enough of his ideas were making it onto the albums. Out of the 17 songs on 'A Trick Of The Tail' and 'Wind 'N' Wuthering, he had a part in writing only 7, all with the entire band or one or two of them. where as Tony Banks wrote on 14 of them including all of the songs from 'A Trick Of The Tail'. He also had the experience of making his first solo album in between and felt that he couldn't go back to the confines of the group.
- In 1987 (July 1 - 4) became the first band to sell out 4 consecutive nights at Wembley Stadium, playing to 288,000 people.
- At the time of the release of their first album there was already another band called Genesis so in the US they called themselves 'Revelation', hence the title of their first album 'From Genesis To Revelation'.
- Released 3X3 (EP) only in the UK on May 10th 1982. For the American release they put it on the 4th side of their next live album, Three Sides Live released June 1st 1982. While in the UK they put on three more live songs - One for the Vine and Return of the Salamics from the 'Duke' tour and It/Watcher Of The Skies from the 'Trick of the Tail' Tour. They released the remastered UK Version of the album in America in 1994.
- Daryl Stuermer and Chester Thompson knew each other before becoming tour members of Genesis.
- Founding member Anthony Philips left due to stage fright.
- The reason for their being one album with Ray Wilson in 1997 was because they thought that the only way forward was to establish themselves as a entirely new outfit and to do an album then tour, album then tour, album then tour in quick succession which was too much work that they wanted to put into it.
- In 1988 won a Grammy Award for best concept music video for Land Of Confusion, which featured spitting image puppets of the band and various other people.
- Released an EP in 1977 featuring 3 holdover's from Wind 'n' Wuthering. Match of the Day, Pigeons and Inside Out, which the band felt did not fit the feel of the album.
- As a group that influenced the growth of the progressive rock genre, Genesis has been cited by a number of progressive rock groups, including Dream Theater, Camel and Kansas.
- One of the drummers who replaced Phil Collins was Nick D'Virgilio from Spock's Beard, who like Phil, replaced the lead singer when he left in 2002.
- Third singer Ray Wilson has stated that although he enjoyed his time with Genesis, he has since come to regret accepting the job, mainly in the way his dismissal was handled. He was contracted for two albums and could have sued them but didn't want want "sued Genesis" on his resume.
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