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The Story Behind How Say Anything's Boombox Song Was Chosen (And John Cusack's Hilarious Pick That Wasn't)

How the iconic moment came to be.

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"A five-piece Genesis was never going to last, there were too many writing ideas": When Genesis reunited to make a film, it was the same old story

Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford look back on the controversial Genesis documentary Sum Of The Parts

Louder

"A perfect example of one great song overshadowing the rest of the record": Golden Earring sharpen their sound and score an MTV hit on Cut

Proof that there's more to Golden Earring than Radar Love

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"We had an artistic success, but not a financial one… but that’s another story.” Peter Gabriel's 1982 WOMAD set to be released this Friday

Peter Gabriel's live set from the very first WOMAD Festival in 1982, featuring material from the then-unreleased Peter Gabriel 4 album, is released digitally this Friday

Louder

Phil Collins explains why he’s in hospital and debunks hospice claims

Recent online rumors spread that the 74-year-old music legend was in hospice

The Independent UK

“We were still wearing our ‘More Me’ T-shirts, but we have both matured enough to (very) occasionally ask for ‘Less Me’”: 50 years after leaving Genesis, Peter Gabriel has reunited with Tony Banks for a Dolby Atmos remix of The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

“It brought back many good memories of being in a band,” says Gabriel

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“Great to have a chance to work with my old friend on something from our youth." Genesis confirm September release date for The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway 50th Anniversary box

Genesis's 50th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition of The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway will now be released on September 26

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‘Is Peter Gabriel in my vocal range? I don’t care. I’m singing it at karaoke’: Xzibit’s honest playlist

The rapper, actor and TV presenter wakes up to Run the Jewels and starts the party with Snoop Dogg, but which legendary hip hop anthem inspired him to be a musician?

The Guardian - UK

“Robert Fripp said he wanted to revolutionise rock’n’roll with us. I wasn’t sure, given what I’d just heard. But they were about to throw us out the squat”: The League Of Gentlemen led to Beat-era King Crimson

The band lasted only seven months, and felt like a bad movie for some of those involved – but the musical experiment inspired Fripp to reform King Crimson for their 80s brilliance

Louder

PP Arnold on her star-studded life in music: ‘Peter Gabriel and I used to hang upside down in gravity boots’

After singing with everyone from Tina Turner to the Small Faces, she takes your questions on her Glastonbury plans, life as an Ikette and getting a leg up from Mick Jagger

The Guardian - UK

“Perhaps the strangest recording session of the era”: Peter Gabriel, Robert Fripp, Sandy Denny, Phil Collins and the novelty single no one talks about

In 1975 some of the biggest names in prog became the backing band for comedian Charlie Drake to record the Gabriel-penned song You’ll Never Know. It was an utter flop

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“The band had already drifted from its original vision. The group broke up…Somehow we absorbed the fact and kept going”: The story of King Crimson’s remarkable Beat era

What happened when the eternally unpredictable prog machine returned in the 80s with an Anglo-American line-up and delivered Discipline, Beat and Three Of A Perfect Pair

Louder

Great new music you need to hear from Chimpan A, Whispers Of Granite, Leoni Jane Kennedy in Prog's new Tracks Of The Week!

Cool new proggy sounds from Psychonaut, Reubes, Quadvium and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week...

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“I didn’t really get the music, to be honest. It was a bit too prog for me”: The prog superstars who tried to steal drummer Roger Taylor from Queen

The history of two hugely successful bands could have been very different

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“It’s cheating, if you like, for somebody who can’t play an instrument to press a button and then the instrument plays”: Watch Peter Gabriel and futurist Ray Hammond debate the impact of the synthesizer back in 1983

“For me it’s something of a dream machine,” says Gabriel. “I always fantasised about something [with] which you could take any real world sound and manipulate it and put it in your music”

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“I’ve heard Robert Fripp say no to everybody. David Bowie, Peter Gabriel, you name it, he always has an excuse not to play… He’s a wonderful husband but professionally it’s done me no favours”: Toyah Willcox is more than just Mrs King Crimson

From post-punk icon and award-winning female solo artist to becoming regarded as just the prog mastermind’s wife, her rebellious creative energy is fired by Roxy Music, Devo, The Tubes and all things off the wall

MusicRadar

“The whole essence of why the sound was so interesting is because it is going from all to nothing in milliseconds”: The classic hit that defined the sound of the ’80s — and features the most famous drum break in rock

How Phil Collins created In The Air Tonight

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“The idea of Peter Gabriel scared the bejesus out of me!” Chimpan A premiere their cover of Here Comes The Flood

Robert Reed and Steve Balsamo of Chimpan A commence 4-EP series with a Peter Gabriel cover, leading up to new album Music Is Art Vol. 1

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“He was riding a bicycle on stage. I had my camera on a tripod and, gee, what a coincidence – almost every night he’d knock it over!” Tony Levin on the differences between Peter Gabriel and Robert Fripp

Veteran bassist Tony Levin, who met Peter Gabriel and Robert Fripp on the same day in 1976, compares and contrasts the two band leaders

The Guardian - UK

‘I wrote it while bored on a health farm’: how Mike and the Mechanics made All I Need Is a Miracle

‘The demo had my singing on it. When I played it to the band, the look on their faces said, “We’re in trouble, boys”’

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“I was thinking at the time, if anyone wants to try and copy this video, good luck to them!”: How ’60s soul music, African rhythms and a groundbreaking video fuelled Peter Gabriel’s biggest hit

Gabriel had to lie under glass for a total of 16 hours

Louder

“You only have to hear the opening sweep to reach for your lighter and wave it in the air”: Tony Banks' greatest Genesis moments

Just some of the co-founding keyboardist’s iconic contributions to an award-winning catalogue of groundbreaking muisic

Louder

“On a frenetic album about consumerism and masturbation, you need your moments of contrast to count": The 10 best Genesis songs, as chosen by Prog readers

Over 28 years the genre giants released 15 albums, achieving over 100 million sales. It’s unfair to boil their work down to just a handful of key songs – but you did it anyway

Louder

"We've managed to bring a little light to a time when we need it": This stunning father-daughter version of Supper's Ready may be the cutest, most wholesome performance of the year

Excellent parenting skills here

Louder

“Peter Gabriel started singing over my solos. I was pissed off – ‘You’re singing on my bit!’ But that half-minute is probably our peak”: How Genesis made Supper’s Ready, arguably their greatest song

The band believe it’s the moment they began to become significant – and the construction of the 23-minute anthem for 1972’s Foxtrot was itself an epic experience

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