In 1982 the classic line-up of Genesis reunited for a one-off show at England’s Milton Keynes Bowl. They humorously billed it as Six Of The Best – a reference to the traditional punishment for naughty schoolboys in mid-20th century England, in which the teacher dispensed half a dozen strikes with a cane to the hands or bottom.
Their aim was to raise money for Peter Gabriel’s then debt-ridden WOMAD project, said to have personally cost the singer around £200,000. “Ambition got ahead of reality,” he later said of the world music festival he’d helped launch in 1980.
