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Like Phil Collins of the band that made "Selling England by the Pound".

Edit: What's with the thing where I get downvoted and my comment shows as downvoted for other people (or at least for me when I'm not logged in), but not for me? It's like a kind of half-arsed shadowban or something. Bug?

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I wish someone would have answered my question.

I did like learning the music trivia, though. I like them.

Peter Gabriel was the lead singer at the time that album was made. Phil didn't join until much later.

Collins was already in the band (IIRC he may even have been a founding member). The difference is he wasn't yet the frontman – he was the drummer. Pre-Collins-fronted Genesis is way better though, IMO (I do like me some progressive rock, though).

The things I learn visiting here amaze me. I liked their music but never placed a group/faces to songs I saw one on MTV with PC as lead. I thought they formed the group with that format.

Phil was the drummer on that album

Though he did sing the lead vocal on "More Fool Me", on that album.

Phil joined Genesis as the drummer in 1971 at the same time as guitarist Steve Hackett, and both play on the band's third album, "Nursery Cryme". Phil even sings a song on that album, "For Absent Friends" [1]. The band records "Foxtrot" which includes the epic 23-minute long "Supper's Ready" [2] and then the album "Selling England by The Pound", which contains two of early Genesis's best songs "The Cinema Show" [3], which has an extended keyboard solo, and "Firth of Fifth" [4], which has the Hackett's most famous guitar solo. After the next album, a double concept called "The Lamb Lies down on Broadway" (consistently rated as one of the best prog rock albums) Peter Gabriel leaves and has a successful solo career. The band continues with Phil as the singer and, after Hackett leaves a few years later, they become more pop focussed, and have a load of hit singles in the 80s and 90s.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHWJ-7BUCNg [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M58wE8GTGp4 [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G501Ii0X0NE [4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD5engyVXe0

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