...And Then There Were Three...
Album by Genesis
Released	24 March 1978
Recorded	September - October 1977
Genre	Progressive Rock/Pop rock
Length	53:27
Label	Charisma/Virgin (UK) Atlantic (US)
Producer(s)	David Hentschel and Genesis
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link
Genesis chronology
Seconds Out (1977) ...And Then There Were Three... (1978) Duke (1980)

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A pivotal release in the band's history, the title is a wry reference to the recent departure of guitarist Steve Hackett, which reduced Genesis to a trio - and their longest unchanged line-up until 1996. As a result, the roles of the remaining members of Genesis became more sharply defined. Tony Banks handled all keyboards, Mike Rutherford all guitars, and Phil Collins vocals and all percussion. Additionally, ...And Then There Were Three... heralded a move towards shorter radio-friendly songs and marked the band's strategic move away from progressive rock at the height of punk rock, and included a song based on the fantastic adventures of comic strip character Little Nemo, ("Scenes From a Night's Dream"). As a more direct and accessible release, Genesis' fanbase increased considerably, with the album reaching #3 in the UK - having been bolstered by the Top 5 success of "Follow You Follow Me", which also became Genesis' first hit US single. As a result, ...And Then There Were Three... reached #14, becoming their first Gold(eventually Platinum) album there. Steve Hackett (born Stephen Richard Hackett on February 12, 1950, in Pimlico, England) is a writer and guitarist. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Anthony George Tony Banks (born March 27, 1950, in East Heathly, Sussex) is a classically-trained songwriter, pianist and keyboard player who is best known as one of the founding members of — and many say the driving musical force behind — Genesis, one of Englands most famous and successful progressive... Michael John Cleote Crawford Mike Rutherford (born October 2, 1950 in Guildford, Surrey) is a British musician. ... Philip David Charles Collins (born January 30, 1951 in London), better known as Phil Collins, is a British rock/pop musician. ... Progressive rock (shortened to prog, or prog rock when differentiating from other progressive genres) is an ambitious, eclectic, and often grandiose style of rock music which arose in the late 1960s, reached the peak of its popularity in the early 1970s, and continues as a musical form to this day. ... Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... This article is about the comic strip, the sequential art form as published in newspapers and on the Internet. ... Detail of a color Sunday page in which Little Nemo and Flip unexpectedly become passengers on a bed that walks, climbs and runs through streets and over rooftops. ...

For many fans of the band's earlier work, this album indicated a crisis in the musical direction in the band, and rumors abounded of Genesis' potential demise. While many of the shorter songs were still clearly avant-garde in terms of instrumentation and lyrical material, few were longer than five minutes in length, and the arrangements went from the more classical, movement-style composition of previous albums to the more standard verse/chorus/bridge/chorus format of popular songwriting.

While there are some songs which harken to earlier days - "Burning Rope" sounds like many of the more complex numbers of A Trick of the Tail, "Snowbound" is as pristine a ballad as anything on Wind and Wuthering, and the opening track "Down and Out" (with its 15/16 time signature) is as musically difficult and dramatic as "Dance on a Volcano," the rest of the album certainly cites the Genesis playbook, but in lackluster fashion, giving the impression of a band which, particularly after the birth of punk, sounded increasingly like it was going through the motions. A Trick of the Tail is the first studio album by progressive rock band Genesis following the mid-1975 departure of original vocalist Peter Gabriel, and was released in 1976. ...

Track listing

1. "Down And Out" (Tony Banks/Phil Collins/Mike Rutherford) – 5:25
2. "Undertow" (Tony Banks) – 4:46
3. "Ballad Of Big" (Tony Banks/Phil Collins/Mike Rutherford) – 4:49
4. "Snowbound" (Mike Rutherford) – 4:29
5. "Burning Rope" (Tony Banks) – 7:09
6. "Deep In The Motherlode" (Mike Rutherford) – 5:13
7. "Many Too Many" (Tony Banks) – 3:30
8. "Scenes From A Night's Dream" (Tony Banks/Phil Collins) – 3:29
9. "Say It's Alright Joe" (Mike Rutherford) – 4:19
10. "The Lady Lies" (Tony Banks) – 6:05
11. "Follow You Follow Me" (Tony Banks/Phil Collins/Mike Rutherford) – 3:59

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Personnel

• Phil Collins - percussion, drums, vocals
• Tony Banks - keyboards, vocals
• Mike Rutherford - basses, guitars. bass pedals

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