Genesis Revisited

Genesis Revisited
Studio album by Steve Hackett
Released	1996
Recorded	1995–96
Genre	Progressive rock
Length	76:43
Label	Camino Records Snapper Music Guardian Records (US)
Producer	Steve Hackett
Steve Hackett chronology
Blues with a Feeling (1995) Genesis Revisited (1996) A Midsummer Night's Dream (1997)

Genesis Revisited, called Watcher of the Skies: Genesis Revisited in the US, is the 12th studio album by Steve Hackett, paying tribute to his former band, Genesis. It mainly features songs originally released by Genesis during Hackett's tenure with the group (1971–77). The previously unreleased song "Déjà Vu" was started by Peter Gabriel in 1973 during the Selling England by the Pound sessions but not finished and Hackett completed the song for this album. There are also two new songs, "Valley of the Kings" and "Waiting Room Only"; the latter is named after and loosely inspired by "The Waiting Room", an instrumental from the 1974 Genesis album The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. The Japanese version of the album contains one extra song called "Riding the Colossus".

Track listing[]

1. "Watcher of the Skies" (Tony Banks, Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel, Steve Hackett, Mike Rutherford) – 8:40
2. "Dance on a Volcano" (Banks, Collins, Hackett, Rutherford) – 7:28
3. "Valley of the Kings" (Jerry Peal, Hackett) – 6:30
4. "Déjà Vu" (Gabriel, Hackett) – 5:55
5. "Firth of Fifth" (Banks, Collins, Gabriel, Hackett, Rutherford) – 9:40
6. "For Absent Friends" (Banks, Collins, Gabriel, Hackett, Rutherford) – 3:02
7. "Your Own Special Way" (Rutherford) – 4:19
8. "The Fountain of Salmacis" (Banks, Collins, Gabriel, Hackett, Rutherford) – 9:54
9. "Waiting Room Only" (Hackett, Roger King) – 6:53
10. "I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)" (Banks, Collins, Gabriel, Hackett, Rutherford) – 5:37
11. "Los Endos" (Banks, Collins, Hackett, Rutherford) – 8:51

Personnel[]

• Steve Hackett – guitar (1–11), vocals (2, 8, 10), harmonica (9), percussion (11), backing vocals (1, 5), orchestration (1, 4, 5, 6, 8)
• John Wetton – vocals (1, 5), bass (5)
• Paul Carrack – vocals (4, 7)
• Colin Blunstone – vocals (6)
• John Hackett – flute (8)
• Will Bates – saxophone (2, 9, 10)
• Ian McDonald – saxophone (11), flute (11)
• – vibes (10)
• Julian Colbeck – keyboards (1, 2, 8)
• – additional programming (1, 4, 5, 8), keyboards (4, 9, 10, 11), orchestration (4, 5), programming (9, 11)
• – additional programming (1, 4, 8), keyboards (5), orchestration (4, 5, 6), programming (5)
• Nick Magnus – keyboards (3), programming (3)
• – keyboards (3), programming (3)
• – orchestration (6, 7), keyboards (7, 10), programming (7), piano (10)
• Tony Levin – bass (1)
• Alphonso Johnson – bass (2, 8)
• Pino Palladino – bass (4, 11)
• Bill Bruford – drums (1, 5), percussion (5)
• Chester Thompson – drums (2, 8), additional drums (11)
• Hugo Degenhardt – drums (3, 4, 9, 11)
• – drums (10)
• Richard Macphail – backing vocals (7)
• Jeanne Downs – backing vocals (7)
• – backing vocals (7)
• (4, 9)
• Anton De Bruck : chorale director
• Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)

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