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Follow You, Follow Me is a 1978 single by Genesis. Originally released as the last track from their 1978 album ...And Then There Were Three..., the single was Genesis's first American Top 40 and UK Top 5. The song was also a harbinger of the more radio friendly direction Genesis would take over the next decade. Genesis is a Grammy Award winning English progressive rock band formed in 1967. ...
...And Then There Were Three. ...
Genesis continued to release progressive rock albums up until and including 1978's ...And Then There Were Three.... The slower, love-themed Follow You, Follow Me was a departure. Although previous albums, such as Wind & Wuthering's Your Own Special Way, contained love ballads, Follow You, Follow Me was the first trans-Atlantic success by the group and gained the band play on adult contempery and pop music stations. Progressive rock (sometimes shortened to prog rock or prog) is a subgenre of rock music which arose in the late 1960s, reached the peak of its popularity in the 1970s, and continues as a musical form to this day. ...
Wind & Wuthering is an album by British progressive rock band Genesis, officially released in the first week of 1977, though it was rush-released a week earlier in the US. Wind & Wuthering was released within a year of their previous studio effort, the popular A Trick of the Tail. ...
The song was written by Tony Banks, Phil Collins, and Mike Rutherford. 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 â and many say the driving musical force behind â Genesis, one of Englands most famous and successful progressive...
Philip David Charles Collins (born January 30, 1951 in Chiswick, London, England), better known as Phil Collins, is a British rock/pop musician. ...
Michael John Cleote Crawford Mike Rutherford (born October 2, 1950 in Guildford, Surrey) is a British musician. ...
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