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“One day Mike played a riff on the guitar, with an echo, and I suddenly sang, ‘She seems to have an invisible touch – yeah!’ It came into my head fully formed”: How Genesis created their biggest hit – with a writing process “like jazz”
No band has navigated the path from esoteric ’70s progressive rock to massively successful ’80s pop-rock with quite such conviction and aplomb as Genesis.
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