{"id":653,"date":"2014-09-12T18:40:46","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T18:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2026.ikon2023.eu\/index.php\/1970-73-the-long-and-winding-road\/"},"modified":"2014-09-12T18:40:46","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T18:40:46","slug":"1970-73-the-long-and-winding-road","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/2026.ikon2023.eu\/index.php\/1970-73-the-long-and-winding-road\/","title":{"rendered":"1970-73 the long and winding road"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The albums gave birth to songs which would remain in the band’s repertoire for years, indeed, in some cases, until this day: their early anthem “The Knife”, the haunting “Fountain of Salmacis” and “Watcher of the Skies” and “I Know What I Like” (a number 17 single in the UK – a huge breakthrough). Above all, it was these albums which saw them develop their taste for huge epics – epics huge in length, scope and ambition, chief among them “Foxtrot’s” “Supper’s Ready” and “Selling’s” “Firth of Fifth”. These songs, as much as any by their contemporaries, defined “progressive rock”.<\/p>\n

The years 1970-1973 are known for the settling-down of the band’s line-up, for endless touring and for the development of an extraordinary stage show. But ultuimately, their legacy is a series of albums of gradually increasing self-confidence, extravagance and experimentation. That Tony Stratton-Smith stood by them through these years is a testament to his belief in a developing body of work heard in the albums “Trespass” (1970), “Nursery Cryme” (1971 – Collins’ and Hackett’s recording debut with the group), “Foxtrot” (1972), “Genesis Live” (1973) and “Selling England By The Pound” (1973).<\/p>\n

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The albums gave birth to songs which would remain in the band’s repertoire for years, indeed, in some cases, until this day: their early anthem “The Knife”, the haunting “Fountain of Salmacis” and “Watcher of the Skies” and “I Know What I Like” (a number 17 single in the UK – a huge breakthrough). Above […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":652,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-653","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2026.ikon2023.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2026.ikon2023.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2026.ikon2023.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2026.ikon2023.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2026.ikon2023.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2026.ikon2023.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2026.ikon2023.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2026.ikon2023.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}