Genesis to reunite after 15 years · 2007-03-09 12:09
Genesis is the latest band to announce a reunion tour, joining The Police, Smashing Pumpkins and others traipsing across the United States and abroad, Playfuls reported.
The band Genesis is tour for the first time in 15 years, but without former front man Peter Gabriel.
Phil Collins, Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford – The British band’s core in the late 1970s and early 1980s – will start a 13-city North American tour on September 7 in Toronto after a summer tour in Europe.
Peter Gabriel, a vocalist and flutist who helped found the band in 1966, will not participate, though Collins left open the possibility that Gabriel might participate in future projects.
As with The Police, Genesis will emphasize the band’s play list, rather than individual members’ solo hits. “There was too much Genesis material,” Banks said.
Genesis formed in the late 1960s when Banks, Gabriel and Rutherford were teenagers. Collins joined in 1970 and, after Gabriel left in 1975, took over as front man and lead singer.
Collins remained with Genesis until 1991, when he began performing as a solo artist.
Collins said the band members had stayed in touch, and a reunion tour was something they talked about “every time we met”.
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