Wind & Wuthering

Occupation

• Tony Banks - Keyboard
• Phil Collins - drums, percussion, vocals
• Steve Hackett - guitar, kalimba, autoharp
• Mike Rutherford - guitars, bass

Wind & Wuthering (English for example: " wind and roaring ") is the eighth studio album by British rock band Genesis. It first appeared in December 1976 in the UK and was the last studio album with guitarist Steve Hackett. It is considered the last work of the progressive rock phase of Genesis. According to Wind & Wuthering and the live album Seconds Out, the band changed its musical style through largely for rock and pop music.

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Background

Wind & Wuthering is the first Genesis album, which was not included in her native England. The Hilvaria ( Relight ) studios were instead booked for three weeks in Holland, where the follow-up album has been created. With the emergence of the songs, there were more and more inconsistencies, primarily between Tony Banks and Steve Hackett, which is why the latter eventually left the band in 1977.

The cover of the album shows a space surrounded by fog autumnal tree. The album's title is a reference to the novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. Unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in quiet earth did the last sentence of the novel and is the title of two instrumental songs on this album. The Ballad Afterglow became a live classic of the band.

Title list

DVD Extras (2007 Release)

Description of individual songs

• Eleventh Earl of Mar: The song is about 23 and 6, respectively (depending on the count) " Earl of Mar" by the name of John Erskine. More specifically it is about the first Jacobite rebellion, which had taken place in 1715 in the Scottish Highlands. The text is written from the perspective of a child whose father tells the story. In between pushing the child's father, the story finally to tell on. The first text line of the song ("The sun had been up for a couple of hours, covered the ground with a layer of gold" ) is also the beginning of the novel The Flight of the Heron by DK Broster.
• Wot Gorilla: This composed by Banks and Collins instrumental piece is influenced by Collins ' tendency to jazz rock, while Banks can incorporate its influence from classical music. Despite a certain " restlessness " of 4/4-time is special as those held constant here.
• Blood on the Rooftops: The value written by Hackett text can be interpreted as a comparison of the gray reality with the harmonious world of American cinema.
• Afterglow: The intuitively written by Tony Banks completion Afterglow piece was written, according to his testimony about as fast as it takes to play the title. The song was since then for 10 years in the setlist of a Genesis concert again present.

Tour

The group toured from January to July in 1977 and recorded during their second concert of its publication Seconds Out. With this tour, the long-standing collaboration with drummer Chester Thompson began.

Sample Setlist

Charts

Album: ( U.S. # 26, UK # 7, D # 19, NOR # 12, SWE # 21)

Single: Your Own Special Way ( U.S. # 62, UK # 43)

Trivia

Tony Banks stated in an interview that he would wind & Wuthering among the two best Genesis albums.

Spot the Pigeon

The EP Spot the Pigeon (UK # 14) was released on May 20, 1977, contains three resulting in the recording of Wind & Wuthering pieces that stand out (up to Inside & Out ) lyrically and musically by the atmosphere of the album. Thus Pigeons dealt with a pest pigeons at Trafalgar Square, and Match of the Day consists satirically deals with football.