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''The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway'' is the sixth studio album by the English
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band
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. It was released as a double album on 18 November 1974 by
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and is their last to feature original frontman
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. It peaked at No. 10 on the
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and No. 41 on the ''Billboard'' 200 in the US. It is currently their longest album to date. While the band worked on new material at
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for three months, they decided to produce a
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with a story devised by Gabriel about Rael, a Puerto Rican youth from New York City who is suddenly taken on a journey of self-discovery and encounters bizarre incidents and characters along the way. The album was marked by increased tensions within the band as Gabriel, who insisted on writing all of the lyrics, temporarily left to work with filmmaker William Friedkin and needed time to be with his family. Most of the songs were developed by the rest of the band through jam sessions and were put down at Glaspant Manor in Wales using a mobile studio. The album received a mixed critical reaction at first, but it gained acclaim in subsequent years and has a
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. The songs "Counting Out Time" and "
The Carpet Crawlers "The Carpet Crawlers" is a song by the English progressive rock band Genesis, recorded for their sixth studio album ''The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway''. Mike Rutherford and Tony Banks wrote most of the music, with the help of Peter Gabriel. Ly ...
" were released as singles in the UK in 1974 and 1975, respectively; both failed to chart. A single of "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway" was released in the US. Genesis promoted the album with their 1974–75 tour across North America and Europe, playing the album in its entirety. The album reached Gold certification in the UK and the US. The album was remastered in 1994 and 2007, the latter as part of the '' Genesis 1970–1975'' box set which contains a
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mix and bonus material.


Background

In May 1974, the Genesis line-up of frontman and singer
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, keyboardist Tony Banks, bassist
Mike Rutherford Michael John Cloete Crawford Rutherford (born 2 October 1950) is an English guitarist, bassist and songwriter, co-founder of the rock band Genesis. Rutherford and keyboardist Tony Banks are the group's two continuous members. Initially servin ...
, drummer
Phil Collins Philip David Charles Collins (born 30 January 1951) is an English singer, musician, songwriter, record producer and actor. He was the drummer and lead singer of the rock band Genesis and also has a career as a solo performer. Between 1982 and ...
and guitarist Steve Hackett finished their 1973–1974 tour of Europe and North America to support their fifth studio album, '' Selling England by the Pound'' (1973). That album was a critical and commercial success for the group, earning them their highest-charting release in the United Kingdom and the United States. That June they booked three months at
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, a large former poorhouse in
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,
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, in order to write and rehearse new material for their next studio album. Upon their arrival the building had been left in a very poor state by the previous band to use it, with excrement on the floor and rat infestations. By this time the personal lives of some members had begun to affect the mood in the band, causing complications for their work. Hackett explained: "Everybody had their own agenda. Some of us were married, some of us had children, some of us were getting divorced, and we were still trying to get it together in the country". Banks later deemed this period of time as his least favourite of all his time in Genesis.


Production


Writing

Before discussions were held regarding the album's contents, the band decided to record a
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, for the extended format would give them the opportunity to improvise and put down more of their musical ideas. A single album with songs telling "bits" of a story was an option that did not appeal to them. Banks thought Genesis had gained a strong enough following by this point to put out two albums' worth of material that their fans would be willing to listen to. They had wanted to produce a
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that told a story for some time, and Rutherford pitched an idea based on the fantasy novel ''
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'' by
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, but Gabriel disagreed as he thought it was "too twee" and believed "prancing around in fairyland was rapidly becoming obsolete". Gabriel presented the group with a more complicated and surreal story about Rael, a Puerto Rican youth in New York City, and his spiritual
journey of self-discovery A "journey of self-discovery" refers to a travel, pilgrimage, or series of events whereby a person attempts to determine how they feel, personally, about spiritual issues or priorities, It was more detailed and obscure in its initial form, until Gabriel refined it and made Rael the central character. Seeking a name that had "no traceable ethnic origins", he chose the name 'Rael', but later realised
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had previously used that on ''
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'' (1967); this annoyed him at first, but he stuck to the choice. As the band searched for a name they realised that "Ra" was common in male names in various nationalities. Gabriel was inspired by a variety of sources for the story, including the novel and musical ''
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'', "a kind of punk" twist to the Christian
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''
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'' (1678), the works of Swiss psychologist
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, and the surreal Western film ''
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'' (1971) by Alejandro Jodorowsky. In contrast to ''Selling England by the Pound'', which contained strong English themes, Gabriel made a conscious effort to avoid repetition by portraying American imagery, with references to
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,
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,
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,
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,
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and the
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. He also expressed some concern over the album's title, but noted that the lamb itself is purely symbolic and a catalyst for the peculiar events that occur. During the writing sessions at Headley Grange, Gabriel found himself separated from the rest of the band, which caused some friction. He insisted that having devised the concept he should write the lyrics, leaving the majority of the music in the charge of his bandmates. This was a departure from the band's usual method of songwriting; lyrical contributions on previous albums had always involved the other members. This situation left Gabriel often secluded in one room writing the lyrics, and the remaining four rehearsing in another. In one instance Gabriel was unable to meet a scheduled deadline to have the lyrics finished, leaving Rutherford and Banks to write words for "The Light Dies Down on Broadway". At other times, Banks and Hackett suggested lyrics they thought would fit their songs better, "The Lamia" and "Here Comes the Supernatural Anaesthetist" respectively, which Gabriel rebuffed. Further disagreements arose during the writing period when Gabriel accepted an invitation from film producer William Friedkin to write a screenplay; Friedkin had taken a liking to the surreal story by Gabriel that had been printed on the sleeve of ''
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'' (1973). Collins then pitched the idea of having the new studio album be purely instrumental, thinking it would favour the other members as Gabriel had made some of their earlier songs too lyrically dense, but the idea was rejected by the rest of the group. However, Gabriel's offer from Friedkin soon came to nothing and he resumed working on the album. Matters were complicated further when Gabriel spent additional time away in London when his first wife Jill underwent a risky and difficult birth of their first child in July 1974, leaving Gabriel often travelling back and forth. Rutherford later admitted that he and Banks were "horribly unsupportive" of Gabriel during this time, and Gabriel saw this as the beginning of his eventual departure from Genesis.


Recording

After their allocated time at Headley Grange came to an end, Genesis relocated to Glaspant Manor in Capel Iwan,
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,
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, to record using mobile recording equipment from London's
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. ''The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway'' is the band's last recording with
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as their co-producer, who had assumed the role since ''
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'' (1972). The band are credited as co-producers, and engineering duties were carried out by David Hutchins. The recording equipment used included two 3M
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recorders, a Helios Electronics 30-input mixing console, Altec monitors, and two A62 Studers for mastering. Burns and Gabriel experimented with different vocal effects, including recording inside a cowshed two miles away from their location, and within a bathroom. Rutherford thought the album's sound was an improvement on those of past Genesis albums, for it was not recorded in a professional studio, which benefited the sound of Collins' drums. Collins compared the sound of the album to that of
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's recordings made in his barn, "not studio, not soundproof, but a woody quality". Gabriel said one track was recorded onto a cassette, which was used on the album. The backing tracks for the entire album were put down in roughly two weeks. Gabriel was still working on the lyrics a month later, and, in one instance, asked the band to produce additional music to fit his words that had no designated section for them. This was the case for " Carpet Crawlers" and "The Grand Parade of Lifeless Packaging". Thinking the extra material was to be instrumental, the band later found that Gabriel had sung over their new parts, something that he also had done on tracks on ''Foxtrot'' (1972) and ''Selling England by the Pound'' (1973). Gabriel recorded his vocals at Island Studios, where the album was mixed over a series of shifts as the band struggled to complete the album in time for its November 1974 release date. Collins recalled: "I'd be mixing and dubbing all night and then Tony and Mike would come in and remix what I'd done because I'd lost all sense of normality by that point".


Story

The album tells the story of Rael, a half- Puerto Rican adolescent living in New York City, who experiences several bizarre situations and characters. Gabriel was influenced by the band's last American tour to set the story in New York City. He used the location as a tool to make Rael "more real, more extrovert and violent", choosing to develop a character that is the least likely person to "fall into all this pansy claptrap", and aiming for a story that contrasted between fantasy and character. Gabriel explained that as the story progresses Rael finds he is not as "butch" as he hoped, and his experiences eventually bring out a more romantic side to his personality. The end of the story is not directly clear; Gabriel deliberately left the conclusion ambiguous. When asked about it, Gabriel does not declare that Rael dies, though he compared the ending to the buildup of suspense and drama in a film in which "you never see what's so terrifying because they leave it up in the air without ... labelling it". Several of the story's occurrences and settings derived from Gabriel's dreams.Platts 2001, p. unknown. Collins remarked that the entire concept was about split personality. The individual songs also make satirical allusions to
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, the
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, advertising, and
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. Gabriel felt the songs alone were not enough to detail all of the action in his story, so he wrote the full plot on the album's sleeve.


Plot summary

One morning in New York City, Rael is holding a can of spray paint, hating everyone around him. He witnesses a lamb lying down on
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which has a profound effect on him (" The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway"). As he walks along the street, he sees a dark cloud take the shape of a movie screen and slowly move towards him, finally absorbing him ("Fly on a Windshield"), seeing an explosion of images of the current day ("Broadway Melody of 1974") before he wakes up in a cave and falls asleep once again ("Cuckoo Cocoon"). Rael wakes up and finds himself trapped in a cage of
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s and
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s which slowly close in towards him. As he tries to escape, he sees many other people in many other cages, before spotting his brother John outside. Rael calls to him, but John walks away and the cage suddenly disappears ("In the Cage"). Rael now finds himself on the floor of a factory and is given a tour of the area by a woman, where he watches people being processed like packages. He spots old members of his New York City gang, and also John with the number 9 stamped on his forehead. Fearing for his life, Rael escapes into a corridor ("The Grand Parade of Lifeless Packaging") and has an extended flashback of returning from a gang raid in New York City, ("Back in N.Y.C.") a dream where his hairy heart is removed and shaved with a razor, ("Hairless Heart") and his first sexual encounter ("Counting Out Time"). Rael's flashback ends, and he finds himself in a long, red-carpeted corridor of people crawling towards a wooden door. Rael runs past them and exits via a spiral staircase (" Carpet Crawlers"). At the top, he enters a chamber with 32 doors, surrounded by people and unable to concentrate ("The Chamber of 32 Doors"). Rael finds a blind woman who leads him out of the chamber ("Lilywhite Lilith") and into another cave ("The Waiting Room"), where he becomes trapped by falling rocks ("Anyway"). Rael encounters
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("Here Comes the Supernatural Anaesthetist") and escapes the cave. Rael ends up in a pool with three Lamia, beautiful snake-like creatures, and has sex with them, but they die after drinking some of his blood ("The Lamia"). He leaves the pool in a boat ("Silent Sorrow in Empty Boats"), and finds himself in a group of Slippermen, distorted, grotesque men who have all had the same experience with the Lamia, and finds that he has become one of them ("The Arrival"). Rael finds John among the Slippermen, who reveals that the only way to become human again is to visit Doktor Dyper and be
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("A Visit to the Doktor"). Both are castrated and keep their removed penises in containers around their necks. Rael's container is taken by a
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and he chases after it, leaving John behind ("The Raven"). The raven drops the container in a ravine and into a rushing underground river ("Ravine"). As Rael walks alongside it, he sees a window in the bank above his head which reveals his home amidst the streets ("The Light Dies Down on Broadway"). Faced with the option of returning home, he sees John in a river below him, struggling to stay afloat. Despite being deserted twice by John, Rael dives in to save him and the gateway to New York vanishes ("Riding the Scree"). Rael rescues John and drags his body to the bank of the river and turns him over to look at his face, only to see his own face instead ("In the Rapids"). His consciousness then drifts between both bodies, and he sees the surrounding scenery melting away into a haze. Both bodies dissolve, and Rael's spirit becomes one with everything around him ("''it.''").


Songs

Much of the music developed through band improvisations and jams, often after setting a single idea, which Banks found particularly enjoyable. Examples of this are what he described as a "Chinese jam" which ended up as part of "The Colony of Slippermen", one named "Victory at Sea" which was worked into "Silent Sorrow in Empty Boats", and another known as "Evil Jam" which became "The Waiting Room". Though the album is written to a story concept, Gabriel described its format as being split into "self-contained song units". He thought the album contained some of the group's best material and songs that he was most proud of during his time in Genesis. Banks recalled writing "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway" with Gabriel which turned out to be the last track they developed which was "a pretty good song to end on". At its conclusion, the song borrows music and lyrics from the 1963 single " On Broadway" by
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. "Fly on a Windshield" originally came about through a band improvisation sparked by an idea from Rutherford, who suggested the idea of "Pharaohs going down the
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" and proceeded to play two chords. Banks said: "Instantly the rest of us would conjure up that particular mood." Banks was particularly fond of the part when the drums and guitar come in, calling it one of the band's best ever moments. Hackett chose to play "Egyptian phrases", and noted that the group used a similar modulation to that of the end section of ''
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. "Back in N.Y.C." sees Genesis adopting a more aggressive sound than in past compositions, and includes Gabriel singing an expletive in the line "I'm not full of shit". A personal highlight for Collins is "Silent Sorrow in Empty Boats" and "The Waiting Room" which developed as a "basic good to bad soundscaping" jam while it was raining, before they stopped and a rainbow formed outside. Collins said that "Steve ackettplayed these dark chords, then Peter abrielblows into his oboe reeds, then there was a loud clap of thunder and we really thought we were entering another world or something. It was moments like that when we were still very much a unified five-piece". "Carpet Crawlers" developed at a time when Gabriel had written some lyrics, but no music had been written for them. The band put together a chord sequence "in D, E minor and F-sharp minor with a roll from the drums flowing through it". Gabriel spent "hours and hours" on an out-of-tune piano in the house of his then-wife Jill's parents in
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to develop it. Jill later spoke of Gabriel's particular fondness of the track. "Anyway" and "Lilywhite Lilith" developed from two early unreleased songs, "Frustration" and "The Light" respectively. Hackett's guitar solo on "Counting Out Time" features him playing an EMS Synthi Hi-Fli
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and Gabriel encourages him – "Take it away mr. Guitar". During the mixing sessions at Island Studios,
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was working on his album '' Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)'' (1974) in the adjacent studio. Gabriel asked him to add synthesized effects on his vocals on several tracks, including "The Grand Parade of Lifeless Packaging", which on the album's credits are dubbed "Enossification". As a repayment, Eno asked Collins to play drums on his track "Mother Whale Eyeless".


Sleeve design

Hipgnosis designed the album's artwork. In a departure from that company's previous album sleeves, which featured more colourful designs, the front cover of ''The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway'' makes use of black and white and no colour. The band's logo, originally designed by
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and used on ''
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'' (1971) and ''Foxtrot'' (1972), was replaced by a new one in an
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style by George Hardie. The left picture on the front depicts Rael in the area where "In the Rapids" and "Riding the Scree" are set.


Release

The band considered releasing the album as two single albums released six months apart. Gabriel later thought this idea would have been more suitable, for a double album contained too much new material, and the extra time would have given him more time to work on the lyrics. Nevertheless, ''The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway'' was released as a double album on 18 November 1974, days after the start of its supporting tour. It became the band's highest-charting album since their formation, peaking at No. 10 on the
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in December 1974 during its six-week stay on the chart, and No. 41 on the US ''Billboard'' 200 in 1975. Elsewhere, the album reached No. 15 in Canada and No. 34 in
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. Two singles were released; "Counting Out Time" with "Riding the Scree" as its
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, was released on 1 November 1974. The second, "The Carpet Crawlers" backed with a live performance of "The Waiting Room (Evil Jam)" at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, followed in April 1975. The album continued to sell, and reached Gold certification by the
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on 1 February 1975, and
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by the
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for sales in excess of 500,000 copies on 20 April 1990.


Critical reception

Members of the group expressed some concern about the album's critical reception, and expected to receive some negative responses over its concept and extended format. Banks hoped the album would end people's comparisons of Genesis to
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and
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, two other popular
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bands of the time. Gabriel knew the album's concept was ideal for critics "to get their teeth into". In giving an interview to ''
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'' in October 1974, shortly before the album's release, Gabriel played several tracks from ''The Lamb'' to reporter
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, including "In the Cage", "Hairless Heart", "Carpet Crawlers", and "Counting Out Time". Welch wrote, "It sounded superb. Beautiful songs, fascinating lyrics, and sensitive, subtle playing, mixed with humour and harmonies. What more could a Genesis fan desire?" He singled out Collins' playing as "outstanding". Welch's review for ''Melody Maker'' published a month later included his thoughts on such long concept albums–"A few golden miraculous notes and some choice pithy words are worth all the clutter and verbiage"–and he called the album a "
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". For ''
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'', Barbara Charone wrote highly of the collection. She summarised ''The Lamb'' as a combination of the "musical proficiency" on ''Selling England by the Pound'' (1973) with the "grandiose illusions" on ''Foxtrot'' (1972) and "a culmination of past elements injected with present abilities and future directions". Charone thought it had more high points than any previous Genesis album, apart from some "few awkward instrumental moments on side three". All members received praise for their performances, including Hackett coming across as a more dominant member of the group with his "frenetic, choppy style", Collins' backup harmony vocals and Rutherford's "thick, foreboding bass chords and gentle acoustics". Colin Irwin wrote a negative review of the "Counting Out Time" single, with its "weary, tepid approach" and a "woeful, dreary three and a half minutes". Since its release, the album has been met with critical acclaim. In 1978,
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wrote for ''New Musical Express'' that it "had a compelling appeal that often transcended the hoary weightiness of the mammoth concept that held the equally mammoth four sides of vinyl together". In a special edition of '' Q'' and ''
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'' magazines titled ''Pink Floyd & The Story of Prog Rock'', ''The Lamb'' ranked at No. 14 in its 40 Cosmic Rock Albums list. The album came third in a list of the ten best concept albums by '' Uncut'' magazine, where it was described as an "impressionistic, intense album" and "pure theatre (in a good way) and still Gabriel's best work".
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gave a retrospective rating of five stars out of five. He says that despite Gabriel's "lengthy
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" on the sleeve "the story never makes sense", though its music is "forceful, imaginative piece of work that showcases the original Genesis lineup at a peak ... it's a considerable, lasting achievement and it's little wonder that Peter Gabriel had to leave ... they had gone as far as they could go together". A ''
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'' poll to rank readers' favourite progressive rock albums of all time placed ''The Lamb'' fifth in the list. In 2014, readers of ''
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'' voted it the album with the fourth-greatest drumming in the history of progressive rock. In 2015, ''NME'' included the album in its "23 Maddest and Most Memorable Concept Albums" list for "taking in themes of split personalities, heaven and hell and truth and fantasy". It was one of two albums by Genesis included in the top ten of the ''Rolling Stone'' list of the 50 Greatest Prog Rock Albums of All Time. The magazine described it as "one of rock's more elaborate, beguiling and strangely rewarding concept albums". The album was also included in the book ''
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''. Banks later thought the album's concept the weakest thing about it, though the lyrics to some of the individual songs are "wonderful". Rutherford said that, while ''The Lamb'' is a fan favorite, it was a gruelling album to work on and had a lot of highs, but also a lot of lows. Hackett remarked how his guitar was underutilized in comparison to past albums, but thought the album had a lot of beautiful moments and has grown on him over time. In '' Genesis: Together and Apart'', Gabriel stated the album was one of his two high points with the band, along with "
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", Also in that documentary, Collins said the band created their best music on the album. He also cites it as his favourite Genesis album.


Reissues

''The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway'' was first remastered for CD in 1994, and released on
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in Europe and
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in North America. The included booklet features the lyrics and story printed on the original LP, though some of the inner sleeve artwork was not reproduced. A remastered edition for
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and DVD with new stereo and
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mixes by Nick Davis was released in 2008 as part of the '' Genesis 1970–1975'' box set.


Tour

Genesis supported the album with a 102-date concert tour across North America and Europe, playing the album in its entirety with one or two older songs (usually " Watcher of the Skies" and " The Musical Box") as encores. Such a format was not supported by the entire band, considering most of the audience were not yet familiar with the large amount of new material. It was to begin on 29 October 1974 with an 11-date tour of the UK that sold out within four hours of going on sale, but after Hackett crushed a wine glass in his left hand which severed a tendon, and needed time to recover, these dates were rescheduled for 1975. The group lost money, for they were unable to recoup deposits they had paid to the venues. The tour began on 20 November in Chicago, and ended on 22 May 1975 in
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,
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. The last two scheduled concerts on 24 and 27 May in
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and
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, respectively, were cancelled due to low ticket sales. Gabriel marked the occasion of his final show with the group by playing the " Last Post" on his
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. Hackett estimated the band's debts at £220,000 at the tour's end. The tour featured at the time some of the biggest instruments used by the band, including Rutherford's double-neck Rickenbacker and the largest drum kit ever used by Collins. The tour's stage show involved three backdrop screens that displayed 1,450 slides, designed by Geoffrey Shaw, from eight projectors and a laser lighting display. Banks recalled the slides only came close to working perfectly on four or five occasions. The tour was the high point of Gabriel's use of theatrics and costumes. He changed his appearance with a short haircut and styled facial hair and dressed as Rael in a leather jacket, T-shirt and jeans. During "The Lamia", he surrounded himself with a spinning cone-like structure decorated with images of snakes. In the last verse, the cone would collapse to reveal Gabriel wearing a body suit that glowed from lights placed under the stage. "The Colony of Slippermen" featured Gabriel as one of the Slippermen, covered in lumps with inflatable genitalia that emerged onto the stage by crawling out of a penis-shaped tube. Gabriel recalled the difficulty in placing his microphone near his mouth whilst he was in the costume. For "''it.''", an explosion set off twin strobe lights that reveal Gabriel and a dummy figure dressed identically on each side of the stage, leaving the audience clueless as to which was real. The performance ended with Gabriel vanishing from the stage in a flash of light and a puff of smoke. At the final concert, roadie Geoff Banks acted as the dummy on stage, wearing nothing but a leather jacket. In one concert review, the theatrics for "The Musical Box", the show's encore and once the band's stage highlight, was seen as "crude and elementary" compared to the "sublime grandeur" of ''The Lamb...'' set. Music critics often focused their reviews on Gabriel's theatrics and took the band's musical performance as secondary, which irritated the rest of the band. Collins later said, "People would steam straight past Tony, Mike, Steve and I, go straight up to Peter and say, "You're fantastic, we really enjoyed the show." It was becoming a one-man show to the audience."Genesis 2007, p. unknown. The
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called the tour "a spectacle on par with anything attempted in the world of rock to that point".


Gabriel's departure

During their stop in
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in November 1974, Gabriel told the band he would leave at the conclusion of the tour. The decision was kept a secret from outsiders and media all through the tour, and Gabriel promised the band to stay silent about it for a while after its end in June 1975, to give them some time to prepare for a future without him. By August, the news had leaked to the media anyway, and Gabriel wrote a personal statement to the English music press to explain his reasons and his view of his career up to this point; the piece, titled "Out, Angels Out", was printed in several of the major rock music magazines. In his open letter, he explained his disillusion with the music industry and his wish to spend extended time with his family. Banks later stated, "Pete was also getting too big for the group. He was being portrayed as if he was 'the man' and it really wasn't like that. It was a very difficult thing to accommodate. So it was actually a bit of a relief."


Recordings

No complete performance of the album has been officially released, except for the majority of the band's performance from 24 January 1975 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, which was released as part of the '' Genesis Archive 1967–75'' box set. Some tracks feature re-recorded vocals from Gabriel and guitar parts from Hackett; the box set contains a remixed studio version of "''it.''", also with re-recorded vocals. The album's 2007 reissue features the album with a visual reconstruction of the tour's stage show using the original backdrop slides, audience bootleg footage, and photographs.


Track listing

All tracks credited to Tony Banks,
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,
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, Steve Hackett and
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. Actual songwriters listed below. All lyrics written by Peter Gabriel except where noted.


Personnel

Genesis *
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 – lead vocals,
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, varied instruments, "experiments with foreign sounds" * Steve Hackett – acoustic and
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s *
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 –
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, 12-string guitar * Tony Banks – Hammond T-102 organ, RMI 368 Electra Piano and Harpsichord, Mellotron M-400,
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synthesizer, Elka Rhapsody string synthesizer, acoustic piano *
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 –
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,
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,
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,
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, second lead vocal on "Counting out Time", "The Supernatural Anaesthetist" and "The Colony of Slippermen" Additional musicians *
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 – "Enossification" on "In the Cage" and "The Grand Parade of Lifeless Packaging" Production *
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 – production *Genesis – production *David Hutchins –
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* Hipgnosis – sleeve design,
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*Graham Bell – choral contribution *"Omar" – Rael on the album's artwork *Richard Manning – retouching * George Hardie – graphics (George Hardie N.T.A.)


Charts


Certifications


Notes and references


Notes


Citations


Bibliography

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External links


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