Genesis’s magnum opus, The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway, is getting the 50th anniversary deluxe boxset treatment and at a Soho listening party for the reissued album last Friday (September 19), the band spoke about the album’s difficult birth and even more inscrutable plot.
Four fifths of the band’s then-line up – Peter Gabriel, Steve Hackett, Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford – were there and early on Gabriel was confronted by the question many listeners then, as now, have asked about Lamb: just what the hell is it all about?
