Genesis Reunites For Tour With Phil Collins

Phil Collins, Mike Rutherford and Tony Banks will be reuniting for a tour as Genesis in Summer 2007. The Turn It On Again tour will be their first tour together in 15 years.

While this is good news for Genesis fans, many instead were hoping for a true reunion that would include the return of Peter Gabriel and Steve Hackett.

To coincide with the new tour, EMI Records will be reissuing 14 Genesis albums remixed in 5.1 surround sound and 2.0 stereo sound on SACD and DVD beginning in March with A Trick of the Tail, Wind and Wuthering, ...And Then There Were Three, Duke and Abacab.

The releases will then continue in June or July with Genesis, Invisible Touch, We Can't Dance and Calling All Stations. The final releases will be in sometime late 2007 or early 2008 with Trespass, Nursery Cryme, Foxtrot, Selling England By The Pound and The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway.

There is no news or talk of any new recordings from Collins, Banks and Rutherford.

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Update (11/22/06):
Here is an official statement released from former Genesis member Steve Hackett about the 2007 reunion of Genesis.

"First of all, I would like to congratulate Tony, Mike and Phil for flying the flag once again. Good luck to them and I really hope they have a very successful tour. I was originally approached to discuss the possibility of a five piece which would have included Peter Gabriel and yours truly but since Peter’s schedule precludes this, it makes sense for the other three to celebrate the band in their ‘own special way’ as it were ...."

Steve recently released Wild Orchids, a new album which has been described as his best album in years. Hackett is embarking on a Japanese tour later this month and is planning a series of UK shows early in 2007.

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