“The true owners are not the creators; it’s the listeners. They hear everything that’s working. Who needs to know the detail about how difficult it was?” Wind & Wuthering got Genesis through the punk era - but not without a struggle

Taking A Break. Genesis, L-R: Phil Collins, Mike Rutherford, Steve Hackett, Tony Banks.

Rumours suggest Genesis were shot down by the music press when they released Wind & Wuthering in the midst of the punk era. Like several stories in circulation about their eighth album, it’s not true. In 2007 Tony Banks, Steve Hackett, Mike Rutherford and co-producer David Hentschel looked back with Prog.

---