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Paul Sexton

"We certainly weren't strutting around like Deep Purple. My God, they had a lot of fun. We did not have fun." How the UK college rock scene shaped the genesis of Genesis

Genesis as they appeared on their debut album, From Genesis To Revelation.

The new book by Classic Rock and Prog writer Paul Sexton is Rock Goes to College: The Campus Music Scene That Shaped A Generation. It tells a story of British music in the late 1960s and early 1970s, with a focus on the live music presented at universities and polytechnics all over the UK, a lively if amateurish scene that hosted Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Fleetwood Mac, Black Sabbath, Queen, The Kinks, Elton John and many more. In the excerpt below, members of Genesis recall their earliest shows.

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