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For the first time in their career, Genesis filmed promotional videos for their songs. The first to be filmed was the title track, which features the band playing to the song together around a piano, including composite shots of a miniature Collins hopping around on a piano and a guitar. [ 17 ]
"A Trick of the Tail" was the third Genesis song to be accompanied by a promotional video, and the first single featuring Phil Collins as the band's lead vocalist. Previously their drummer, frequently singing backing vocals, Collins was now the band's lead singer, while continuing to play drums and percussion.
Banks, who worked on the lyrics with Mike Rutherford, later dismissed them, saying they were "one of the worst sets of lyrics [I have] been involved with". [citation needed] The song has three distinct musical parts. It starts out with a classical-style grand piano introduction played by Banks in the key of B flat. [5]
Entangled may refer to: Entangled state, in physics, a state arising from quantum entanglement; Entangled, a 1993 film starring Judd Nelson and Pierce Brosnan; Entangled, a 2004 abstract sculpture created by Brose Partington "Entangled" (song), a song by Genesis from the 1976 album A Trick of the Tail
Released by Charisma in the UK in February 1974, "I Know What I Like" was the band's only pop hit of their early years. At a time when progressive rock bands largely avoided the singles market, Genesis were openly fond of the pop song format, and even wrote two songs ("Happy the Man" and the unreleased "Wooden Mask") specifically with the intent of their being non-album singles.
Before the lyrics were added, the song's title was "Do The New Thing", possibly referencing Tony Banks' opening keyboard notes, which are heard again in the bridge. According to the behind-the-scenes documentary Genesis: No Admittance , the first lyric Phil Collins wrote out of improvisation was the chorus line "Jesus, he knows me, and he knows ...
Trespass is the second studio album by the English rock band Genesis.It was released on 23 October 1970 by Charisma Records, and is their last album with original guitarist Anthony Phillips and their only album with drummer John Mayhew.
The original demo without lyrics was later included on the 2016 reissue of that album. According to Collins, the song was modelled after the Beach Boys' "Sail On, Sailor", Sly and the Family Stone's "Hot Fun in the Summertime" and Toto's "Hold the Line". Tony Banks said of the song: "All three of us were fans of the Beach Boys, so when Phil ...