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Legendary guitarist stakes claim to rock immortality
The clock turns back for TOM STONE as he’s reminded of the splendour of seminal Genesis album The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
Steve Hacket and band at the Royal Albert Hall
[Sam Holt]
RITA DI SANTO draws attention to a new film that features Ken Loach and Jeremy Corbyn, and their personal experience of media misrepresentation
JULIA TOPPIN recommends Patti Smith’s eloquent memoir that wrestles with the beauty and sorrow of a lifetime
MARJORIE MAYO welcomes an account of family life after Oscar Wilde, a cathartic exercise, written by his grandson
KEN COCKBURN guides us through a survey of Chekov’s early short fiction, and the groundwork it laid for his later masterpieces
ANDY HEDGECOCK revels in a hugely enjoyable but deadly serious examination of the 1930s, that is an indictment of our own era
The bard distills our hellish times into fiery words
Steve Hackett
Royal Albert Hall, London
IN DRAB early 1970s Britain as the left-wing optimism of the late ’60s slipped away, Genesis captured the zeitgeist as prog-rock pioneers, crafting intricate and sometimes sinister depictions of a land where faded Victorian grandeur lingered and yet a strange new world of brutal social realities was taking hold.
With Peter Gabriel as frontman — and tonight’s star at the Royal Albert Hall, Steve Hackett on lead guitar — the group produced an album a year from 1969 to 1974.
The work becoming progressively less whimsical and darker, culminating in the magnum opus to alienation The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway, Gabriel’s last album with the group, and the focus of Hackett’s current tour.
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