Duke

Description

The Genesis reissue campaign soldiers on, this time with the bands studio output during the half-decade between 1976 and 1981 which includes A Trick of the Tail (1976), Wind & Wuthering (1971), And Then There Were Three (1978), Duke (1980) and Abacab (1981). The 1976-1981 era was a transitional period for Genesis on a couple of different levels, but the music that emerged within those years helped take a prog-heavy gang of musicians and turn them into proper pop/rock heroes.

While And Then There Was Three saw the band dipping their toes in pop waters, Duke found Genesis diving right in and establishing a new signature pop-sound in the process. Turn It On Again went Top-10 in the UK (#8) while Misunderstanding went Top-20 in the US (#14) and once Duke topped the album charts in the bands homeland (their first of four consecutive albums to do so) there was little question that this was the direction in which Genesis would be heading for the long haul.