An archive for all things Genesis and Solo

This is a press photo of the group – Flaming Youth, featuring Phil Collins and Ronnie Caryl (Ronnie would go on to work with Phil from 1996/7 onwards) Ronnie also …

A Buddah Records (Charisma Records North American distributor) Press kit for the Genesis album Nursery Cryme. This rare item is brought to the Genesis Archive by Mino Profumo thank you …

  Genesis in NYC 1972

  These are few Genesis press photos from 1973

Genesis – Selling England By The Pound press kit. This is a press kit for the 1973 Genesis album – Selling England by the Pound. Designed to promote the album …

Genesis – Selling England By The Pound – USA tour press kit (second leg) This is a press kit issued by Atlantic Records on the 7th March 1974 to anyone …

This Lamb era press kit features an array of photographs of the band in performance and a wide shot of the group by a tree.  

This is a promo photo of David Hentschel used to promote the album Startling Music (which is David’s album) and which Phil Collins played drums on! Further more it is …

The Voyage Of The Acolyte press kit on Chrysalis Records! (there fore we assume its an overseas press kit and not a UK one because Steve was signed to Charisma …

Genesis press photos from 1976…. One with Tony,Steve,Mike and Phil around A Trick Of The Tail One with Phil Collins and Bill Bruford ( A Trick of the tail’s touring …

  This is a Bill Bruford promo photo taken around 1976/1977 he was the Genesis touring drummer on the 1976 A Trick Of The Tail Tour.

A Trick Of The Tail – Press kit – Atco (Atlantic Records). This is a press kit for the 1976 Genesis album, A Trick Of The Tail. Sent out to …

Press photo of Genesis around the time of Wind and Wuthering, taken at The Rainbow Theatre in Finsbury, London. This image was taken around the time that the news broke …

A press kit for the Genesis album Wind and Wuthering – this is the North American record label ( Atlantic Records / ATCO ) press kit. Comprising of a Folder …

An Atlantic Records press kit for the debut Peter Gabriel album (1) or (Car). An interesting biography taken from a 1976 interview with Barbara Charone. (Many thanks to Mark Kenyon)

Anthony Phillips debut solo album, The Geese and The Ghost. This is a press kit from American distributor/record company Passport Records. Includes forward letting about promotion for the album in …

A Peter Gabriel press photo from 1977 – similar to the one used on Solsbury Hill single!

    a Brand X press photo used to promote Moroccan Roll (April 1977)

  Brand X line up from 1977 in this photo are as follows left to right! Kenwood Dennard, John Goodsall, Morris Pert, Robin Lumley, Percy Jones

Here you will find single photos of each of the band members of Brand X 1977, the only missing photo from the collection is that of Guitarist John Goodsall.

Whilst Phil Collins isn’t in the promo photo he is mentioned within the press release and he drums on some tracks whilst Kenwood Denard drums on others.

An Atlantic Records press kit for the Genesis live album Seconds Out. Includes an invite to the listening party of the live album and the screening of the In Concert …

A Press kit for the Genesis album ” And Then There Were Three ” this was put together and distributed by Atlantic Records to promote the brand new album ” …

A Press kit for the Steve Hackett album “Please Don’t Touch” on Chrysalis Records (USA). Included is an 8 x 10 inch photo of Steve and a four page press …

A Steve Hackett promo photo from 1978, this one has the Charisma Record company logo on it. (Many thanks to Mark Kenyon for this item)

Two Peter Gabriel press photos from 1978… one of which includes Producer Robert Fripp of King Crimson.

These are three Press photos from 1978 includes Phil,Mike,Tony stood at Knebworth Park on the run up to the only UK gig of 24th June 1978 amongst two other photos …

  The press kit for the 1978 Brand X album Masques!  

A Japanese related press kit to notify the worlds press that Genesis had just toured Japan and whilst there they were awarded a Gold Album award for sales of “And …

  This is a press photo of Tony Banks used for promotion of the Album “A Curious Feeling”.

This is a Charisma Records press kit for the Steve Hackett album Spectral Mornings and the single Clocks. This press kit also announces the Autumn leg of the tour (UK …

This is the press kit for the 1979 Tony Banks album, A Curious Feeling. This is the Canadian press kit hence the Charisma / Polydor Record Labels. Includes: A 8 …

A Collection of Smallcreeps Day promotional photos featuring Mike Rutherford.

This is the press kit for the 1980 Genesis album DUKE album. This particular press kit was complied and issued by Atlantic Records (USA record label). With an 8 x …

These photos were taken during the DUKE tour or rehearsals? one was used in the press kit for Duke the other entered a photo archive. © Michael Putland.

A Peter Gabriel press photo from 1980!

  The Polygram version of the Defector press kit.

A Press Kit for the Phil Collins Album “Face Value” Press kit compiled by Atlantic Records to promote the album amongst DJ’s and Music wholesalers/retailers. (Many thanks to Mark Kenyon …

An incomplete Abacab press kit on Atlantic Records (therefore American press kit) This kit contains press photos and band biography but we assume a sheet or more about the new …

This is an Abacab album era Charisma Records press photo.

An American “Epic” Records press kit for the Steve Hackett 1981 album “Cured”

  Here are two promo photos for the Genesis live album “Three Sides Live”.

An Atlantic Records press kit (therefore American) for the album Acting Very Strange.

Is There Anything About? – 1982 Album from Brand X This album was mostly made up of the Ascot, Berkshire, England, sessions from 1979. In this promo photo you can …

a Peter Gabriel press photo from September 1982.

  a Chester Thompson touring drummer with Genesis/Phil Collins and who has appeared on albums by Tony Banks etc taken around 1982.

Atlantic Records (therefore American) press kit for the 1982 Phil Collins album. Hello I Must Be Going.

Featuring interviews from Peter Gabriel about the making of Security. Remastered and audio denoised as best as possible without creating distracting artifacts.

  These were taken around the time of Hello I Must Be Going, one of them is from the set of “Thru these walls” music video.

  I believe this Promo photo to be of around the time of The Fugitive album from June 1983.

A Phonogram press kit (German record label / distributor) for the Peter Gabriel Live album “Plays Live”. The press kit has July 1983 as a release date. Three pages (in …

  Two press photos from the Mama or Genesis album “Genesis” from 1983 here.

The Mama tour – 1984 This is a collection of five press photos used to promote the Mama tour. Sadly Daryl and Chester are not in this collection. (Many thanks …

This is a press kit released by Atlantic Records on the 12th January 1984. Information enclosed: Genesis album Genesis (MAMA), Genesis USA/NA tour of 1984, Genesis signed to Atlantic 10 …

  Phil Bailey of Earth Wind & Fire is announced here as working with Phil Collins in terms of production and how they got together, this would result in Phil …

A Atlantic Records (therefore American) press kit for the 1985 Phil Collins album No Jacket Required.

Chester Thompson – Pearl Drums promotional photo – 1985 This is a promotional photo of Chester Thompson, taken early in 1985. Note: The rack in the image is to support …

  Some Phil Collins promo photos from around 1985!

This is the press kit for the debut self titled album by Mike and The Mechanics, this press kit is dated September 1985. Record label is WEA International, which leads …

  Press photo for the very first Mike and The Mechanics album in 1985.

Separate Lives press kit, this is a press photo (a still from the music video) and two press sheets from the single – Separate Lives. The song is taken from …

  These are two GTR press photos from April/May 1986.

a SO Press photo

This is the press kit for the 1986 Genesis album Invisible Touch released in June 1986, this press kit was sent out on the 2nd June to anyone who needed …

Here is the Press kit for the Steve Hackett and Steve Howe joint monster group GTR!

These are a collection of promotional photos for the 1986 Genesis album Invisible Touch.

This is from 1987 when Genesis visited Japan. Robert Ellis is the photographer.

A Genesis press photo (taken in April) but used in May 1987 to announce some gigs Genesis were going to be doing.

The Paul Carrack 1987 album “One Good Reason” press kit on Chrysalis Records!

Mike and The Mechanics – The Living Years – Atlantic Records (therefore American) press kit.

This is a trio of photos featruing group members of Mike and the Mechanics from around 1988 which would have been the era of The Living Years album..

This is a promo photo perhaps part of a press kit used to promote the 1988 Daryl Stuermer debut solo album Steppin out. (Many thanks to Mark Kenyon for this …

  This is the American Geffen Records press kit for the Soundtrack to Passion of the Christ, the album titled Passion is represented here with a Peter Gabriel press photo …

An Atlantic Records (therefore an American) press kit for the Tony Banks album/project Bankstatement.

A few promo photos of Phil Collins around the time of the 1989 album But Seriously!.

  Press kit for “Groove Approved” – Paul Carrack (of Mike and the Mechanics from 1985 to 2004)

  Peter Gabriel and others – Passion Sources soundtrack.

An Atlantic Records (therefore American) press kit for the 1989 Phil Collins album But Seriously!

Phil Collins – 1990 promo photo Here is a collection of Phil Collins promo photos from 1990.

The press kit for the 1990 album Serious Hits Live – Phil Collins which is taken from various shows on his 1990 But Seriously World tour!

An Atlantic Records (therefore American) press kit for the 1991 Mike and the Mechanics album “Word Of Mouth”.

Two press photos from Virgin Records in 1991 One of Tony Banks and Nik Kershaw and another with the whole line up of “Still”

a few Mike and The Mechanics promo photos taken around the time of “The Word Of Mouth” album!

The end of a party photo (used on the inside of the album art work) is from the Chiddingfold Working Men’s Club, down the road from The Genesis recording studios …

An Atlantic Records (therefore American) press kit for the 1991 GENESIS album “We Can’t Dance”

A Reprise Records (therefore an American) press kit for the 1991 Tony Banks album – Still.

This is the American record label press kit for the 1992 Steve Hackett album Time Lapse which is a live album featuring parts of two live shows from 1981 and …

A Peter Gabriel press photo around the time of US (1992)

Virgin Records/Real World Records Press kit for the 1993 peter Gabriel album US.

  Here in full is the Geffen Records press kit for the Peter Gabriel album US.

An Atlantic Records (therefore American) press kit for the 1992 Genesis live album – “The Way We Walk – Shorts”

These are a selection of Promotional photos of Genesis from 1992 including Live photos (three from the 1992 Uk tour rehearsals in Southampton) and posed photos of Genesis doing the …

An Atlantic Records (therefore American) press kit for the 1992 Genesis live album – “The Way We Walk – Longs” – released in early 1993.

An American record label ( Viceroy ) press kit for the 1993 Steve Hackett album – Guitar Noir. Includes information about the hidden bonus track on the USA version. (Many …

This is a selection of Press photos from the 1993 Phil Collins album Both Sides of the Story

An Atlantic Records (therefore American) press kit for the 1993 Phil Collins album “Both Sides Of The Story”.

    Peter Gabriel part way through the song “Steam” on his US tour hazard a guess 1994. (most likely used to promote the Live album from the tour)

  This is the American record company press kit for the 1994 Live album Secret World which was recorded on the 1993 US tour.

  This is the press kit for the Steve Hackett album “Blues With A Feeling”.

An Atlantic Records (therefore American Record Company) press kit for the Mike and Mechanics 1995 album A Beggar On A Beach Of Gold, featuring the vocal talents of Paul Young …

  These were used to promote the March 1995 tour of Australia

A Virgin Records press kit (UK) for Strictly Inc, Strictly Incognito was a further attempt by Tony Banks to create a group project for an album. In the end it …

  This press photo is from 1995 for the Blue views album.   He is valid on here for being a former member of Mike and The Mechanics)

  Here are a selection of press photos from the 1996 album Hits…. In these photos are Mike Rutherford (band leader)… Paul Young (from Sad Cafe) and Paul Carrack (from …

A few press photos from Dance Into The Light! Note, the photo with Phil on a Rickenbacker gituar was taken on the set of the promotional video to “It’s In …

An Atlantic Records (therefor an American) press kit for the album Dance Into The Light

This is the Angel Records (therefore an american) press kit for the 1997 Steve Hackett album A Midsummer Nights Dream.

  Two press photos from A Midsummer nights dream.

The announcement of Calling All Stations, Ray Wilson and the tour – 1997 This is a press kit containing the following: 1 x press sheet – Virgin records 2 x …

An Atlantic Records (therefore American) press kit for the 1997 Genesis album “Calling All Stations” – featuring brand new lead singer Ray Wilson.

A Calling All Stations promo photo taken during the video shoot for Congo in Malta, Photograph taken by Armando Gallo.

Calling Stations era press photos. Featuring Ray Wilson, Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford. (Many thanks to Mark Kenyon for these)

A Ten photo press kit of the new Genesis line up for the album Calling All Stations, includes two press sheets discussing the first 30 years of Genesis. A Virgin …

Calling All Stations – Album Launch – Press kit. This is an Italian Press kit, but some of the materials are in English and German. Comprising the following. 1 Folder …

  In this press photo taken at Heathrow airport May 1998 are as follows Tony Banks,Steve Hackett, Peter Gabriel, Anthony Philips, Mike Rutherford, John Silver, Phil Collins

An Atlantic Records (therefore American) press kit for the 1998 box set, Archive One 1967 to 1975. Featuring a reproduced press photo of the band from 1973.

An Atlantic Records (therefore American) press kit for the 1998 Phil Collins compilation album Hits.

A Phil Collins press photo for the 1998 Hits album…. Virgin Records

This is the UK press kit (Camino Records) for Steve Hackett’s 1999 album Dark town!

A Phil Collins press photo around the time of the Disney movie Tarzan.

These two promo photos are from the 1999 album M6 sadly it would be the last for Paul Young.

An Atlantic Records (therefore American) press kit from the 1999 Phil Collins album – A Hot Night In Paris. The American release of the album was later than the UK …

The Atlantic Records (therefore American) press kit for the 1999 compilation album Turn It On Again (Hits).

Virgin Records (therefore UK and European) press kit for the 1999 Genesis compilation album – Turn It On Again (Hits)!

An Atlantic Records (therefore American) press kit for the Genesis box set Archive 2 “1976 to 1992” years! Atlantic Records reproduced a press photo from either 1986 or 1987 in …

A press kit for the Genesis box set – Archive 2, covering the years 1976 to 1992. This is a French press kit with no press photo or press sheets …

A EPK issued for the release of Peter Gabriel’s 2002 album Up. Promotional material produced by Real World for Peter’s 2002 album Up. Peter discusses each track and the production and …

A 2002 Peter Gabriel press kit for the 2002 album ” UP “. Contains a lot of information about the album and some interesting press photos all housed in a …

An Atlantic Records (therefore American) press kit for the 2002 Phil Collins album “Testify”.

Genesis – When In Rome, Live DVD of the last concert of the European, Turn It On Again tour of 2007 This is the press kit for the Genesis Live …

This is the press kit complete with Surround sound sampler for the 1970 to 1975 Peter Gabriel era Surround sound albums Green box set. (Many thanks to Lamia for this …

GENESIS REVISITED SOLD OUT HAMMERSMITH SHOW TO BE RELEASED ON CD & DVD TO COINCIDE WITH OCTOBER UK TOUR It takes a legend to bring a myth back to life. …

Mike makes an appearance for a 10 minutes interview with Simon Mayo about his latest book and other projects, as well as some discussion about Mike’s recording process. http://thegenesisarchive.co.uk/thearchive/radiointerviews/Mike%20on%20Simon%20Mayo%2022nd%20january%202014.mp3 Program: …

As part of the promotional efforts for R-Kive, Three Sides Live Blu Ray and most importantly the Sum of the Parts/Together and Apart documentary, Eagle Rock hosted a screening premiere …

A German Atlantic Records / WEA records press folder for the 2015 Phil Collins reissues/remasters campaign titled “Take A Look At Me Now”. Originally pencilled in for the 6th November …

The Singles Collection. This is a German press kit for the forth coming releases of the Phil Collins singles collection. Details are all in German and the different formats are …