The Knife...the last song on Genesis's first "proper" album, Trespass.
If you visit YouTube you will find a lot of clips of early Genesis.
When both Peter Gabriel and Phil Collins had hair!
My earliest memories of Genesis were my sister Joke talking about them with her friend, Anne Reid.
They were very theatrical, with Peter Gabriel prancing around wearing make-up and masks and gowns, and singing songs of mystical physical transformations and apocalypse and horrid deaths - everything to appeal to a 14 year old boy!
I remember I needed to spend some nights over at our neighbours' around this time (I think we had Marjan's family visiting from London).
Their adult son had a big stereo, with great headphones, and an LP of Genesis's "Nursery Cryme" - amongst other things this had some great narratives, including Harold the Barrel, featuring PG in absolute theatrical form, voicing all the characters in the sad tale of Harold.
Genesis were, obviously to me, an early influence on our very own Split Enz - progressive song structures, keyboard-dominated, "epic" songs, bizarre theatrics and eerie humour.
After purchasing a copy of Nursery Cryme, I won a copy of "Trick of the Tail" in a radio competition.
This was the first post-PG album, and, weirdly and almost inexplicably, it was at THIS time that the band began a rather quick progress towards megastardom!
PG went on to do "Solsbury Hill" and found Real World records and discover many wonderful musicians in all corners of the globe - and never look back.
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