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Genesis released their breakthrough album Foxtrot. The album included “Watcher of the Skies” and “Supper's Ready” and featured the lineup of Peter Gabriel, Tony Banks, Mike Rutherford, Steve Hackett and Phil Collins.
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 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.
- Genesis performed at British Legion Hall in Princes Risborough, England.
- Genesis performed at the Stadthalle concert hall in Vienna, Austria.
- Peter Gabriel and Steve Hackett reunited with their former Genesis bandmates for a one-off benefit concert at the Bowl in Milton Keynes, England. The concert raised funds for Gabriel's financially troubled World of Music, Arts and Dance (WOMAD) project.
- 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.