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Whilst the setlist varied, this is a representation of the average setlist from this tour. in May 1987 grossed $5.4 million and were attended by a total of 273,414 people. The five shows in East Rutherford, New Jersey, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. The group earned as much as $300,000 a night in North America alone. London dates at Wembley Stadium were filmed for a video release entitled Genesis Live at Wembley Stadium. The tour began on 18 September 1986 in Detroit and ended on 4 July 1987 in London. The Invisible Touch Tour was a worldwide concert tour by the English rock band Genesis.

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You can feel the Invisible Touch at midnight tonight on Radio Nova.This article relies too much on references to primary sources. But while it’s the band’s most commercial album, there’s plenty to please Genesis’s traditional fans, including the 10 minute epic Domino. Now Invisible Touch stands as a time capsule of the pop sound of the mid-1980s. It did have its champions though, with Rolling Stone writing that “ every tune is carefully pruned so that each flourish delivers not an instrumental epiphany but a solid hook.” The album received mixed reviews from critics, many of whom compared it unfavourably to the solo work of Phil Collins. It was nominated by the music video channel as their Video of the Year but lost out to former Genesis member Peter Gabriel’s video for Sledgehammer. Land of Confusion’s video promo became an MTV staple. Invisible Touch, Throwing It All Away, Land of Confusion, In Too Deep and Tonight, Tonight, Tonight were all released as singles, with Invisible Touch reaching number one in the US, the only Genesis song to do so. All five of the album’s singles broke the Top Five in the US, making Genesis both the first band and foreign act to achieve five Top Five singles with one album. Selling over six million copies in the US, Invisible Touch became the band’s biggest-selling album. In the US it reached number three with 85 weeks on the Billboard album chart. The album spent three weeks at number one in the UK, spending a total of 96 weeks on the album chart. Invisible Touch was released on June 6th, 1986 in the US, with a UK release following three days later. Three other songs – Feeding the Fire, I’d Rather Be You and Do the Neurotic – were recorded during the sessions but were held off the album and released as b-sides to three of the album’s five singles. Side B consists of Anything She Does Domino Throwing It All Away and The Brazilian. On the original release of Invisible Touch, Side A features Invisible Touch Tonight, Tonight, Tonight Land of Confusion and In Too Deep.

Lyric writing was split with Collins penning four, Rutherford two and Banks two of the album’s eight tracks. Phil Collins described the band’s development of songs from jamming sessions as “ close to jazz just the three of us chopping away, fine-tuning and honing down all these ideas.” Rutherford and Banks would jam over a drum machine, with Collins replacing the drum machine when the bones of the song had been arranged. Genesis held their Invisible Touch sessions at their private recording studio “The Farm” in Surrey. When the band reconvened in October 1985 to begin work on Invisible Touch they had individually developed a more commercial ethos on their solo projects, which would manifest itself in Genesis’s most radio friendly album. In the time between 1983’s Genesis and 1986’s Invisible Touch, guitarist Mike Rutherford formed his own group Mike + The Mechanics, Phil Collins released his third solo album No Jacket Required, and keyboardist Tony Banks wrote film scores for the films Quicksilver and Lorca and the Outlaws. This success peaked with 1986’s Invisible Touch, which saw the band ride the wave of Phil Collins’ hugely popular solo career.Īfter their self-titled 1983 album, Genesis temporarily split up to pursue solo projects.

In the post-Gabriel era the band would turn to a more mainstream sound which led to considerable commercial success. Following the departure of original lead singer Peter Gabriel in 1975, drummer Phil Collins became the group’s lead vocalist.

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The album is presented in full with no commercials or interruptions, courtesy of The Record Hub.įormed in Surrey in the late 1960s, Genesis would find themselves at the forefront of Britain’s Prog Rock movement throughout the 1970s. Tonight (March 27th) on the world famous Classic Album At Midnight on Radio Nova we’re playing Genesis’s Invisible Touch.

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