Genesis – Prog that learned to smile
Genesis began at Charterhouse with Peter Gabriel out front; after he left in 1975, Phil Collins stepped to the mic and the band later scaled to Invisible Touch.
Genesis – Mama
In August 1983 Genesis opened their self-titled album with Mama. Mike Rutherford used a distorted Linn LM-1. Phil Collins took the laugh from Grandmaster Flash. The single reached UK number four, their highest home peak.
Genesis – No Son Of Mine
In October 1991 Genesis released No Son Of Mine as the lead single from We Can't Dance. It runs past six minutes, cut at The Farm, with Collins still on studio vocals.
Yamaha DX7 – FM digital synthesizer, 1983
Yamaha launched the DX7 in 1983 as an affordable digital synthesizer based on frequency-modulation (FM) synthesis researched at Stanford University (John Chowning) and engineered for mass production in Japan. It offered 16-voice polyphony, a five-octave keyboard and MIDI, which helped it sit in expanding digital