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Selling England by the Pound

Selling England by the Poundis the fifth studio album by the Englishprogressive rockbandGenesis,released on 28 September 1973 onCharisma Records.[3]It reachedNo. 3in the United Kingdom and No. 70 in the United States. A single from the album, "I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)",was released in February 1974 and became the band's first top 30 hit in the UK.

Selling England by the Pound
Cover painting byBetty Swanwick
Studio albumby
Genesis
Released28 September 1973
RecordedAugust 1973
StudioIsland(London)
Genre
Length53:48
Label
Producer
Genesischronology
Genesis Live
(1973) 		Selling England by the Pound
(1973) 		The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
(1974)
SinglesfromSelling England by the Pound
  1. "I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)"
    Released: February 1974[2]

The album was recorded in August 1973 following the tour supporting the previous album,Foxtrot(1972). The group set aside a short period of time to write new material, which covered a number of themes, including the loss of English folk culture and an increased American influence, which was reflected in the title. Following the album's release, the group set out on tour, where they drew an enthusiastic reception from fans.

Critics and the band members themselves have given mixed opinions of the album. Its reputation has improved over time, appearing on various critical and fan-voted rankings of the best progressive rock albums.[4][5]The album has continued to sell and has reachedGoldcertification by theBritish Phonographic Industryand theRecording Industry Association of America.It was remastered for CD in 1994 and 2007. Several of the album tracks became fan favourites and featured as a regular part of the band's live setlist into the 1980s.

Background

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In May 1973, the Genesis line-up of frontman and singerPeter Gabriel,keyboardistTony Banks,bassist and guitaristMike Rutherford,guitaristSteve Hackettand drummerPhil Collinscompleted their 1972–1973 tour supporting their previous albumFoxtrot(1972). The tour marked the band's first full-scale North American tour, which drew positive responses,[6]but journalists were still criticising the band and comparing them to otherprogressive rockbands of the time such asEmerson, Lake & Palmer,Jethro Tull,andPink Floyd.[7]Charisma pushed to release new Genesis material to capitalise on the band's newfound commercial success despite the band's wishes against it, and released a compilation of live recordings from early 1973, originally intended for broadcast on theKing Biscuit Flower Hourradio show in the US, as their first live albumGenesis Live(1973).[8][9]This budget-priced release also compensated for the cancellation of a proposed gig atWembley Arenain May 1973 due to the inability to print tickets in time, and to act as a bridging album in betweenFoxtrotand the next studio album.[10]It became their highest charting album in the UK at the time, peaking at No 9.[9]

The group were too busy touring to write new material, so after coming off the road they set aside time to create new songs. Due to the success ofFoxtrot,the group's record label,Charisma Records,allowed them two to three months to come up with a new studio album, which Rutherford considered to be "the kiss of death".[9][11]Early into the sessions Collins formed a pick-up band with formerYesguitaristPeter Banksfor a few gigs, and Rutherford revealed in an interview toSoundsin 1976 that "there had been worries that Phil might want to leave the group".[10][12]Despite this, Gabriel recalled this time as a "relatively happy and calm period".[13]

Writing and recording

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Rehearsal sessions for the album took place at a doctor's house inChessingtonand the Una Billings School of Dance inShepherd's Bush,the same two places whereFoxtrotwas rehearsed.[14]Banks recalled the group had some difficulty coming up with musical ideas.[15][16]The Chessington sessions took place in what reporter Jerry Gilbert described as "a rambling oldstately home".[10]The group practised in the living room, causing the neighbours to complain about the noise and impose a curfew.[17][18]Hackett said of the setting, "Because it was a house that belonged to a family, it gave the music a sense of happy amateurishness. It made it fun because you felt you shouldn't really be there doing that kind of thing. It was designed as a canteen or a cafeteria; there was even a machine that used to dispensebubble gumfor kids! "[14]The Chessington sessions were where most of the album was written.[14]Collins had been listening to the jazz fusion groupMahavishnu Orchestra,which influenced him to play more complicatedtime signatureson the drums for "Dancing With the Moonlit Knight" and other parts on the album.[19]

Rehearsals then moved to London in a space beneath the Una Billings School of Dance,[20]during which "I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)" was written.[21]Hackett had not contributed a great deal of material to the group during this time, since he found it hard to write due to the breakdown of his first marriage.[22]Rather than pitch whole songs he instead devised guitar licks, which he believed gave the album a jazz fusion feel.[23]

A simple guitar riff that Hackett had been playing on stage that the band liked and wanted to develop further became "I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)",[24]and three bits from Banks that he intended for different songs were pressed into a single work, "Firth of Fifth", by the other members of the band.[15]A riff developed early on became the opening of "The Battle of Epping Forest". The band repeatedly performed these three pieces daily for a short while which Banks thought resulted in "The Battle of Epping Forest" being too overworked.[15]

One of the ideas that Gabriel wanted to convey with the album was the idea of looking at "Englishness in a different way". This included his suggestion of the album's title,[25]itself a slogan adopted by theLabour Partymanifesto, to ensure that the British press would not accuse the band of "selling out" to America.[26]Rutherford later deemed the title to be among the band's best album titles.[27]It represented a decay of Englishfolk cultureand an increase in Americanisation.[26]Banks said the English theme across the album was not an intentional idea at first, but merely the way the songs naturally developed.[28]Gabriel later said he wrote all his lyrical contributions to the album in two days.[29]

Having rehearsed and written enough material for an album, the group enteredIsland Studiosin London in August 1973. The engineer ofFoxtrot,John Burns,became co-producer.[12]Burns' technical skills resulted in a good recorded sound and environment, and this motivated the group to play better and tackle more complex arrangements.[26]Gabriel was conscious of the greater use of lengthy instrumental sections on the album which he thought presented the risk of the material becoming boring.[30]Genesis had expanded their equipment with anEchoplexand anARP Pro Soloist,expanding the range of sounds available to them.[31]

Songs

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Side one

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Firth of Fifth
Tony Banks wrote most of "Firth of Fifth",which included a guitar solo fromSteve Hackett.[32]
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"Dancing with the Moonlit Knight"evolved from a number of short piano pieces composed by Gabriel, which was combined with some of Hackett's guitar figures.[12]Thea cappellaopening was influenced by Scottishplainsong.[33]The second section and outro section consist of improvisations from the whole band, with the exception of the12-string guitarmelody played by Rutherford in the outro, which was composed.[34]Gabriel added English-themed lyrics to counter the impression from the music press that Genesis were trying too hard to appeal to the American audience, including references toGreen Shield Stamps.[26]Banks had upgraded to a new model ofMellotronand used the choir sound on the track.[35]The track was originally supposed to segue into "The Cinema Show" to make a piece around 20 minutes in length, but this idea was dropped as the result was too comparable to the 23-minute "Supper's Ready"onFoxtrot.[26]Theworking titlefor the outro section was "Disney"[36]in reference to prominent American animation producerThe Walt Disney Company,because the members of Genesis thought it sounded like a cartoon.[34]Rutherford thought the song's opening provided a good start to the album, but felt less enthusiastic towards it overall, calling it "a bit busy".[37]

"I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)"came out of ajam sessionby the group around one of Hackett's guitar riffs. He and Collins often played it around the timeFoxtrotwas recorded; the other three members did not join initially because they said it sounded too much likethe Beatles,but became more invested in it by the time ofSelling England by the Pound.[38]Banks came up with the vocal melody for the chorus, and Gabriel wrote the lyrics, which were inspired by the paintingThe Dreamwhich was later adapted into the album's cover.[39]Gilbert described an early listening of the song as "Hints of quaint English romanticism" that, according to Gabriel, was initially intended to have more of a folk-oriented melody.[28]The percussion sounds heard at the beginning are Gabriel playing with atalking drumthat Burns had purchased fromNigeria.[40]It was released as a single from the album, which became the first of the group's to chart in the UK.[12]

Banks wrote a piece which included what became the solo piano introduction of "Firth of Fifth"on his own, and presented it to the group forFoxtrot,but it was rejected.[39]He reworked some sections of the song forSelling England by the Pound,where it drew a more positive reception.[12]Banks recalled the difficulty of removing the noise created by the piano pedal in the studio, so he played the passage without it, which he also found difficult.[41][42]Hackett took a theme which Banks had written for flute and piano and rearranged it as a guitar solo, which dominates the latter part of the track.[43][44]Banks later deemed the lyrics, which he contributed with assistance from Rutherford, as one of the worst he had worked on. He had aimed to follow "the idea of a river and then I got a bit caught up in the cosmos and I don't quite know where I ended up".[45][42]

"More Fool Me" is the second of two songs (the first being "For Absent Friends" fromNursery Cryme) to feature Collins on lead vocals before he became the band's lead singer in 1975. Uncharacteristically for the group's output at the time, the song is a tender, romantic ballad. Its music was written by Rutherford, with lyrics by both him and Collins, while sitting on the steps outside the recording studio.[46]It is performed on the album by just the song's two writers, Rutherford playing 12-string acoustic guitar withreverb effectapplied and Collins singing, frequently infalsettorange.[47]Gabriel considered the pair's contributions "quite a breakthrough".[28]

Side two

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"The Battle of Epping Forest" recounts gang wars that occurred inthe titular woods.

"The Battle of Epping Forest" was inspired by a news story that Gabriel had read several years previously about the territorial battles by two rival gangs in theEast End of Londonthat would fight inEpping Forest.[20]He placed an advertisement inThe Timesand looked through library archives in attempt to find more about the story, but was unable to find any further information, so he created his own fictional characters, including "Liquid Len","Harold Demure "and" TheBethnal GreenButcher ".[20][46]Upon hearing a rehearsal take of the song in July 1973, reporterChris Welchwrote: "'The 'Battle' has a catchy march theme with typical Genesis drum and bass lines, clean and precise".[20]As with "Get 'Em Out by Friday", Genesis wrote and recorded the entire musical composition as an instrumental before starting on the lyrics, and found that the song seemed overstuffed once the vocals were added. Collins commented, "... there were like 300 words a line. There was no space; it was like all the air had been sucked out of it. I'm not saying that [Peter Gabriel] was in the wrong or we were in the wrong; it's just that if we'd known we could have thinned it out a bit. In those days we didn't go back and re-record things."[48]The lyrics have since been praised for their humour and wit, but the band said they did not gel well with the music and made the piece complicated for the sake of being so.[46]Gabriel thought its ending, which had each gang settling the issue over the toss of a coin, tied up the story well but is too much of an anti-climax.[28]

Though Genesis fans have suggested with varying degrees of seriousness that "After the Ordeal" was titled to reflect its placement after the interminably long and wordy "The Battle of Epping Forest", according to Hackett the title was assigned well before the band decided where to place the song on the album, and was meant to reflect its role as a simple piece which would dispel the tension from the more complex works on the album.[48]The song originated as an electric piece written by Hackett but the band found they could not make it work. Then Banks wrote an additional part for the song which inspired them to change the entire piece to an acoustic arrangement.[49]This was the first Genesis track on which Hackett used a nylon guitar.[50]Rutherford wrote the section where the electric guitar enters.[49]Despite Banks's key role in crafting "After the Ordeal" into a piece most of the band were happy with, both he and Gabriel did not want to include the song on the album, while Hackett argued it should be kept; Banks expressed little interest in its "pseudo classical" style.[51][43]It was ultimately left on after Gabriel and Banks argued about the length of "The Cinema Show", which meant everything was included as a compromise.[16]Banks later said the compromise led to the album overrunning its desirable length on vinyl, resulting in a sound quality he thought came out as "pretty rough".[51]

Tony Banks performed the keyboard solo on "The Cinema Show" on anARP Pro Soloist.

"The Cinema Show" is divided into two sections. The first section is an acoustic piece composed by Rutherford, featuring an instrumental break with vocal harmonies between Gabriel and Collins, 12-string acoustic guitars played by Rutherford and Banks, 6-string electric guitar played by Hackett, flute and oboe played by Gabriel, and drums and wood blocks played by Collins.[52]The second is a four-and-a-half-minute instrumental section written by Banks, Collins, and Rutherford,[52]and consists of a lead on theARP Pro Soloist[a]and Rutherford and Collins playing a rhythm in a7
8time signature.[54][55]Rutherford came up with the main riff, then Banks and Collins improvised on it. The final melody on the synth was written by Collins.[56]For the first section, rather than the standard practice of tuning each pair of strings on the 12-string guitar to the same note, Rutherford had each pair tuned to harmony notes.[57]The lyrics, written by Banks and Rutherford, draw much of their inspiration from theT. S. EliotpoemThe Waste Land.[55][35]

The album closes with a segue from the end of "The Cinema Show" into "Aisle of Plenty", a reprise of "Dancing with the Moonlit Knight" which gives the album a bookend effect.[58]The track uses word play such as "Easy, love there's the safe way home" and "Thankful for her fine fare discount, Tess co-operates", referring to theBritish supermarketsFine Fare,Safeway,Tescoand theCo-op.[26]

Additional material

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During the album's sessions Gabriel and Hackett developed a track named "Déja Vu", but it remained unfinished and left off the album. Hackett prepared a finished version of the song for his albumGenesis Revisited(1996). He performed the song live on his 2019 tour which featuredSelling England by the Poundperformed in its entirety.[59]

Sleeve design

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The album cover is a painting byBetty SwanwicktitledThe Dream.[43]Swanwick had designed posters forLondon Transportbetween the 1930s and 1950s.[35]The original painting did not include alawn mower;the band had Swanwick add it later as an allusion to the track "I Know What I Like" because Swanwick told them she did not have enough time to paint a new picture for the cover.[43]

Release

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Selling England by the Poundwas released on 5 October 1973,[3]reaching No. 3 in the UK charts[60]and No. 70 on the U.S.BillboardPop Albumschart.[61]The album's success in the U.S. benefitted from a switch fromBuddah RecordstoAtlantic.[62]"I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)" was released as a single, with "Twilight Alehouse" on the B-side, in February 1974.[63]It was the band's first single to enter the UK chart, and peaked at No. 21.[2]It was successful enough for Genesis to be invited to perform the song on the British television showTop of the Pops,which the band declined.[64]In 2013, the album was certified Gold by theBritish Phonographic Industryfor selling 100,000 copies.[65]

The album was digitally remastered forcompact discin 1994[66]and again in 2007 byRhino Records.[67]

Critical reception and legacy

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Retrospective professional reviews
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[68]
Christgau's Record GuideB[69]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[70]
The Great Rock Discography10/10[71]
MusicHound Rock4/5[72]
Q[73]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[74]

Contemporary reviews for the album were mixed.Rolling Stone'sPaul Gambaccinipraised the band for attempting something utterly different amidst "a stagnant pop scene", but criticised the album's lyrics, feeling they overused British pop culture references, and complained about some musical passages. Despite this, Gambaccini thought the album "merits some recognition".[75]NME'sBarbara Charonesaid the album was "the band's best, most adventurous album to date".[76]The Guardian's Robin Denselow wrote that "much of the material is indistinctive and tedious".[46]Writing forThe Village Voicein June 1974,Robert Christgauassessed the record as "down-to-earth progressive, which means that it indulges in snooty satire about the vulgar futility of working class youth. Would T.S. Eliot be proud? I doubt it. But I have the feeling that they're saying right out what all their co-workers in the genre are thinking, and there's some pretty dense music here."[77]

Retrospective reviews have been more favourable.AllMusicandBBC Musicremarked that the album returned to the whimsical eccentricity ofNursery Crymewhile retaining the hard rock intensity and pessimism ofFoxtrot,combining the best of both elements to make Genesis's best album up to that point.[68][78]Christgau, later writing inChristgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies(1981), admitted that the songs "Firth of Fifth" and "The Battle of Epping Forest" have "a complexity of tone that's pretty rare in any kind of art", though he summarised the rest of the album by saying "it sounds as snooty as usual".[69]

In 2012, the album ranked seventh inRolling Stone's "Readers' Poll: Your Favorite Prog Rock Albums of All Time".[79]It was also included inIGN's list "10 Classic Prog Rock Albums" in 2008, which praised its "subtle elegance, sublime textures, and lyrical splendor".[80]Rock author Edward Macan had mixed feelings towards the album, praising "Firth of Fifth" ( "one of the finest nine and half minutes of music that Genesis ever put down" ) and "The Cinema Show" but questioning some of the other material.[81]Motoring journalist and broadcasterJeremy Clarksonis a fan of the album and wrote sleeve notes for it when it was included in the box setGenesis 1970–1975.[82][83]

Hackett has said the album is his favourite Genesis record,[26]and was happy with his extensive contributions to it. In 2017, he explained, "It was an important watershed album for the band, and it was at the beginning of us struggling to find gigs in the States. If we could get into a club somewhere, wherever it was, that was good news for us at that time. A young, struggling band, but with an album that was due to become a classic in time."[84]Banks and Rutherford have had mixed feelings, saying there are a lot of high points but also some lows.[26]Charisma ownerTony Stratton Smithwas disappointed with the album, which he thought contained too many instrumental sections.[63]Band friend and former roadieRichard Macphailthought the power of Genesis live had not been captured on record properly until Burns started to work with them and that by the time ofSelling England,the group had acquired better equipment.[85]Biographer Robin Platts wrote that "There were enough magic moments and inspired jam sessions to produce such enduring compositions".[9]

Selling England by the Poundhas been praised by other songwriters and musicians.RushdrummerNeil Pearthas said: "I thinkSelling England by the Poundis an enduring masterpiece of drumming. Beautiful drumming, lovely sound, and the arrangements, I think they really nailed the best of what that band as an entity could have done with that album. "[86]Fish,solo artist and former lead singer ofMarillion,has called it "the definitive Genesis album", praised its "emotive" quality, said the wordplay was "one of the things that became quite an influence on me – the games within the lyrics" and concluded it "took a whole jump forward and was the album that really got me into Genesis".[87]According to Hackett,John Lennonsaid he liked the album during a radio interview, which the band took great encouragement from.[88]Swedish guitaristYngwie Malmsteenalso cites the album as a major influence.[89]In an interview,Robert PollardofGuided by Voicessaid that "Selling England by the Poundis one of my top 10 records of all time "and that" Genesis with Peter Gabriel might be my biggest influence. "[90]

Tour

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Peter Gabriel during theSelling England by the Poundtour in 1974, dressed in costume
Main article:Selling England by the Pound Tour

Genesis supported the album with a concert tour of Europe and North America from September 1973 to May 1974. Initially they were to perform with a stage set that included inflatable objects that had images projected onto them, but a change in fire regulations following theSummerland disasterin August 1973 led to the idea being scrapped.[10][28][30]Instead, they used a new and more elaborate setup with the performers all dressed in white and white light illuminating the same, while white keyboards, drum kit, and curtains had slides projected onto them.[91]Gabriel devised new stories before songs, and wore a full costume with a helmet and shield representing the Britannia character for "Dancing With the Moonlit Knight" and sang "The Battle of Epping Forest" with a stocking over his head.[92]He also added elements to "The Musical Box", for the first time performing it wearing an old man mask, singing in a stereotypical grumpy old man voice, and repeatedly thrusting his hips at the audience during the ending section.[93]

The setlist was dominated by songs from the new album, with every song except "After the Ordeal" and "Aisle of Plenty" being played. In an unusual twist, "Horizons" fromFoxtrotwas also often part of the set, despite never having been played during theFoxtrottour. The rest of the show was usually filled out with the tried-and-true favourites "Watcher of the Skies", "The Musical Box", and "Supper's Ready".This was the first major Genesis tour in which their perennial show closer"The Knife"was not a regular part of the set, though it was on rare occasions used as anencore.[91]

The tour began with a sold-out tour of the UK,[46]but the promoters had to cancel the first date at theGreen's Playhouse,Glasgowdue to electrical safety issues minutes before its start,[94][92]with support actRon Geesinalready having finished his set.[95]Genesis realised they were substantially in debt and needed better management, so recruitedTony Smith(no relation to Charisma bossTony Stratton Smith).[94]In October 1973 a pair of dates in the tour were filmed by Charisma for a possible cinema release, but the plan was rejected by the band who felt the film was not up to standard.[96]Instead, the band performed a five-song set in front of an invited audience atShepperton Studiosthat was filmed and broadcast asTony Stratton Smith Presents Genesis in Concert.[64][97]The group returned to the U.S. in December 1973 that included six shows in three nights atThe RoxyinLos Angeles,[98]and a performance of "Watcher of the Skies" and "The Musical Box" on the late night television showThe Midnight Special.[92]However, most of their shows in the U.S. were on the college circuit.[99]

January 1974 saw the band perform five nights atTheatre Royal, Drury Lanewhich saw Gabriel lifted in the air by steel wires during "Supper's Ready".[100][99]They then played shows in Belgium, Germany, and Switzerland before doing a well-received tour of Italy, the country where they were then most popular, in February.[99]Following a two-week break, Genesis spent all of March and April touring the United States and Canada, including relatively remote areas like Iowa and Minnesota. During this last leg of the tour, the white colour scheme of their stage setup was replaced with a black scheme.[101]

Track listing

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All tracks written byTony Banks,Phil Collins,Peter Gabriel,Steve HackettandMike Rutherford.[102]

Side one
No.TitleLength
1."Dancing with the Moonlit Knight"8:05
2."I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)"4:08
3."Firth of Fifth"9:38
4."More Fool Me"3:12
Total length:25:03
Side two
No.TitleLength
1."The Battle of Epping Forest"11:49
2."After the Ordeal"4:17
3."The Cinema Show"11:06
4."Aisle of Plenty" ([b])1:33
Total length:28:45

Personnel

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Adapted from the album's 1973 sleeve notes.[102]

Genesis

Production

Charts

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Chart (1973–1974) Peak
position
Australian Albums (Kent Music Report)[103] 52
Finnish Albums (The Official Finnish Charts)[104] 19
Italian Albums (Musica e dischi)[105] 4
UK Albums(OCC)[106] 3
USBillboard200[107] 70
Chart (2014-2024) Peak
position
Hungarian Physical Albums (MAHASZ)[108] 8
UK Rock & Metal Albums(OCC)[109] 12

Certifications

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Region Certification Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada)[110] 2× Platinum 200,000^
France (SNEP)[111] Gold 100,000*
Italy (FIMI)[112]
2009 release 		Gold 25,000‡
United Kingdom (BPI)[113]
original release 		Gold 100,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[114]
2009 release 		Gold 100,000^
United States (RIAA)[115] Gold 500,000^

*Sales figures based on certification alone.
^Shipments figures based on certification alone.
‡Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Notes

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  1. ^Banks first obtained a Pro Soloist during the album's writing sessions. He had previously borrowed anEMS VCS 3synthesizer, but disliked it as it kept going out of tune. The Pro Soloist became a regular part of Banks' touring gear with Genesis throughout the 1970s.[53]
  2. ^The original vinyl release does not have a track marker between "The Cinema Show" and "Aisle of Plenty", and hence both are shown as a single track.[102]

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DVD Media

  • Banks, Tony; Collins, Phil; Gabriel, Peter; Hackett, Steve; Rutherford, Mike (10 November 2008).Genesis 1970–1975 [Selling England by the Pound](DVD). Virgin Records.UPC5099951968328.
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