Peter Gabriel to Rush Limbaugh: Stop using my music...

[HopeHoops]

70. I still love "In the Beginning", and that predates Crimson. It's also how they got started.

They wrote the score for all of the songs that eventually appeared on the album and took it to a publisher to offer it for sale so a band could perform it. The publisher agreed, but only if they were the actual performers. They initially took the band name "Genesis", but there already was a band in the UK by that name so they changed their name to "Revelation". The other Genesis band dispersed and they switched back to "Genesis", so the album title in the UK was "From Genesis to Revelation". When it was released in the US it was given the title "In the Beginning". I guess they discovered drugs somewhere between then and creating "Trespass" because there are almost no similarities between it and their first album. And "In the Beginning" was DEFINITELY a "real" album, but I might put it in a different classification in the same way that I see a switch between "Trick of the Tail" and "And Then There Were Three, and another switch immediately afterward. It sort of went pop. Gabriel's line in "Sledgehammer" of "I have shed my skin" is a reference to his acceptance that art rock wasn't a viable option with the current generation.

Oh - I also like Camel.