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Quiz: Test your knowledge of Genesis's early progressive rock years

Fraser Lewry

12d ago· 3 min readenNews

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A quiz article testing readers' knowledge of Genesis's early progressive rock era, before their transformation into a mainstream pop act in the 1980s. It focuses on the classic five-piece lineup (Tony Banks, Mike Rutherford, Steve Hackett, Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel) and their dense, theatrical, pastoral English mythology-influenced music.

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Before they became the sleek, stadium-conquering pop juggernaut of the eighties, Genesis were a delightfully strange beast.

Long before I Can't Dance proved that at least two members of the band couldn't, indeed, dance, the prog pioneers were weaving dense, theatrical tapestries of pastoral English mythology, biblical allegory, and surrealist high art.

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How much do you know about that time in Genesis's history when no one argued about which version of the band was the best or how it all went wrong when so-and-so left?

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