“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

Peter Gabriel with Genesis.

Of all the ambitious and boundary-pushing work Genesis delivered since their formation in 1967, Supper’s Ready arguably stands head and shoulders above the rest. In fact, Prog readers voted it the greatest prog anthem of all time in 2017. Five years earlier, we looked into the construction of the 23-minute track from 1972’s Foxtrot.

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