“It was like, ‘Are we going to work on Peter Gabriel’s stuff or our stuff?’ Everybody said, ‘Our stuff! We just like it better’”: The American band who decided to stick to their own course… and ran aground

Happy The Man.

They emerged from a Virginia university in 1973 with great acclaim, but Happy The Man never reached the heights of their UK and European counterparts, and disintegrated six years later. Behind them they left two underrated records – and the prospect of having become Peter Gabriel’s post-Genesis band.

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