“After Supper’s Ready, I think we’d always had the idea of one long piece that could carry a whole album,” says Genesis keyboard player Tony Banks, referring to the epic, 23-minute centrepiece of 1972’s Foxtrot album. “You could call The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway a concept album, except that it’s such a dirty word these days.”
Along with The Who’s Tommy and Quadrophenia, David Bowie’s The Rise & Fall Of Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars, Jethro Tull’s Thick As A Brick and Pink Floyd’s The Wall, Genesis’s The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway is one of a handful of releases that defined the concept album genre.
