Ten years after the A History video from 1991 Genesis have published the more compact and up-to-date Genesis Songbook. Whether the new approach in this documentary lives up to the first attempt from 1991 is something Christian Gerhardts considers in this review.
On December 15, 2000, musical companions of Paul Young, amongst them Mike + The Mechanics, met at the Apollo in Manchester to honour their late friend and colleague.
In 2000 the Canadian cover band The Musical Box were the first band who obtained the license to perform the stage show for The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway in Canada. Michael Spuck was there for GNC.
Daryl Stuermer has been playing in the Genesis live band since 1978. In 2000 he released a kind of tribute album with Genesis covers. Steffen Gerlach has listened carefully
The successful first Archive set was followed by a second archive covering the years from 1976 to 1992. Tom Morgenstern and Helmut Janisch discuss whether the new box is a worty successor to the first.
After Genesis things went quiet around Ray Wilson. In 2000 he wrote genesis-news.com this e-mail.
Before Up came out in 2002, Peter Gabriel got sidetracked by a number of other projects.One of these is the “semi-solo album” Ovo. It came out in 2000 and it is actually the soundtrack for the show at the Millennium Dome.
In 1993 Peter Gabriel embarked on his ambitious Secret World tour and presented a rock event on two stages. Read our report from the whole tour here.
Nachdem 1999 der Soundtrack zum Disney Film Tarzan im englischen Original erschien, legte Phil 2000 nach und veröffentlichte das ALbum unter anderem auch in deutscher Sprache.
Alan Hewitt’s book offers a rapid introduction to the world of Genesis. He introduces the major events as well as all members of the band, providing a relatively comprehensive biography. A special feature of this book is a table of tour dates as they were known at the time the book was prepared for printing.