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Genesis published an advertisement in Melody Maker seeking a drummer and musicians “determined to break through stagnant musical forms”. Nineteen-year-old Phil Collins responded to the advertisement and eventually joined the group.
Related events
- Genesis performed at the Teatro Alcione in Genoa, Italy.
- Genesis were the headline act on the final day of the Reading Jazz, Blues, and Rock Festival. Tickets cost £2.20.
- Genesis performed at the Stadthalle concert hall in Vienna, Austria.
- Genesis released the single “Throwing It All Away”.
- Genesis returned to No. 1 on the British chart with their fourteenth studio album “We Can’t Dance”. The album also reached No. 1 in Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Norway and Switzerland and was the group's last album with Phil Collins.
- Genesis’s first album in six years was presented live in a special edition of the radio program Album Network and simultaneously broadcast via webcasting on www.atlantic-records.com.