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…And Then There Were Three… is the ninth studio album by the British band Genesis and was released in 1978. It is the bands first album without guitarist Steve Hackett, and the third with Phil Collins on lead vocals, having replaced Peter Gabriel after his departure in 1975.

A pivotal release in the bands history, the title …And Then There Were Three… is a wry reference to the recent departure of guitarist Steve Hackett, reducing Genesis to a trio (which would result in their longest unchanged line-up, which lasted until 1996). As a result, the roles of the remaining members of Genesis became more sharply defined. Additionally, …And Then There Were Three… heralded a move towards shorter radio-friendly songs and marked the bands move away from progressive rock at the height of punk rock, and included a song based on the fantastic adventures of comic strip character Little Nemo, (“Scenes From a Nights Dream”), notable for being the first Genesis song whose lyrics were written entirely by Phil Collins. The album also included a torch song (“Say Its Alright Joe”) about a drunk who goes into a drunken stupor. As a more direct and accessible release, this album saw Genesis’ fanbase increase considerably. The album reached #3 in the UK Albums Chart, and remained in the charts for 32 weeks having been bolstered by the Top 5 success of “Follow You Follow Me”, which also became Genesis’ first hit US single. As a result, …And Then There Were Three… reached #14 on the US chart, becoming their first Gold (eventually Platinum) album there (see RIAA certification).
For many fans of the bands earlier work, this album indicated a shift in the musical direction of the band. While many of the shorter songs were still clearly avant-garde in terms of instrumentation and lyrical material, few were longer than five minutes in length, and the arrangements went from the more classical, movement-style composition of previous albums to the more standard verse/chorus/bridge/chorus format of popular song-writing.

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The LP sleeve cover was designed by Hipgnosis, the design studio founded by Storm Thorgerson (best known for his work with Pink Floyd). In an interview, Thorgerson called the design a “failure”, and described the concept being conveyed:
We were trying to tell a story by the traces left by the light trails. It was a torch, a car, and a man with a cigarette. The band was losing members and there were only three of them left. The lyrics of the songs were about comings and goings and we tried to describe this in photographic terms by using time-lapse. So there’s a car going off to one side and then the guy gets out of the car, walks over to the front of it, and lights a cigarette. But as he walks he uses a torch and the car he was in leaves. There’s a trail left by the car, a trail left by him as he’s walking and then he lights a cigarette, which on the cover is where there’s a flash of his face.
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Follow You Follow Me” is a love song written and recorded by English rock band Genesis. It was released in March 1978 as the first single from their ninth studio album, …And Then There Were Three… (1978). The music was composed by the band, and the lyrics were written by bassist and guitarist Mike Rutherford. The single became Genesis’ first top 10 hit in the UK and first top 40 hit in the US, reaching No. 7 and No. 23 respectively.

Background
Like much of the rest of the album, the slower, sentimental “Follow You Follow Me” was a departure from most of their previous work as a progressive rock band, featuring a simple melody, romantic lyrics and a verse-chorus structure. Although previous albums contained love ballads, such as Selling England by the Pound’s “More Fool Me” and “Your Own Special Way” from Wind & Wuthering (1976), “Follow You Follow Me” was the first worldwide pop success by the group. The band felt that their music was attracting mainly male audiences, so this song was written specifically to address the imbalance.

Composition
The song started from a chord sequence by Rutherford, who also said he wrote the lyrics in about ten minutes. At the time, the band usually wrote songs individually. Keyboardist Tony Banks was quoted:
It was our only truly group-written number. Mike played the riff, then I started playing a chord sequence and melody line on it, which Phil then centralized around. It worked so well as a very simple thing; it was enough as it stood. I’d just written a simple love lyric for “Many Too Many”, and I think Mike was keen to try the same thing. Maybe “Follow You Follow Me” was almost too banal, but I got used to it. I think we find it much easier to write long stories than simple love songs.

Drummer and vocalist Phil Collins described it as “a great rhythm track” but said it “was not intended to be a hit single”.

Record World called it an “engaging song” that has a “light, flowing sound.”

Chart performance
At the time of release, “Follow You Follow Me” became the band’s most successful single, spending 4 weeks in the top 10 on the UK Singles chart, peaking at #7 for two weeks. The song also peaked at #23 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, #23 on the U.S. Cashbox Top 100 chart [8] and #21 on the Adult Contemporary chart, #16 on the Australian singles charts, and #22 on the NZ singles charts. The song is included in the 2005 book, Rock Song Index: The 7500 Most Important Songs for the Rock and Roll Era, which states “the formerly progressive Genesis begins to proceed without impediment toward the Top 10”.

Music video
The music video for the song was a mimed live performance of the band filmed at Shepperton Studios. It later appeared on their DVD The Video Show (2004). In the video Banks is wearing a Vancouver Canucks hockey team sweater. The main scene has Collins using a shaker-type instrument while singing, but he was also separately filmed playing the drums.

Live performances
“Follow You Follow Me” was played live during the …And Then There Were Three…, Duke, Three Sides Live Encore tour, Genesis, Invisible Touch (1986 set only), Calling All Stations (with Ray Wilson on vocals), and Turn It On Again tours. An excerpt of the song was also played on the We Can’t Dance Tour, as part of an “Old Medley” of Genesis songs. The band would include the song as the last song in their acoustic set for The Last Domino? Tour, following “That’s All” and “The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway”.

During the Turn It On Again Tour, Collins performed on the drums as well as the vocals (making it one of very few songs in which he performs both simultaneously), while animated line art of a selection of the band’s album art played in the background video screens. The first and last scenes in the animated sequence show the “father” character from the We Can’t Dance album cover, raising his hand. A bright white spotlight (on Collins) lights up at the beginning of the song, and turns itself off at the end.

The song was also performed live on Collins’ solo Not Dead Yet Tour,[24] as well as by Mike + the Mechanics (with Tim Howar on vocals) during their Out of the Blue tour and on Ray Wilson’s solo tours.

Personnel
Phil Collins – vocals, drums, percussion
Tony Banks – keyboards
Mike Rutherford – guitar, bass guitar

Certifications “Follow You Follow Me”
Region Certification Certified units/sales
United Kingdom Silver 250,000^

Label: Charisma ‎– CDS 4010
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mad Hatter Label
Country: UK
Released: 31 Mar 1978
Genre: Rock, Pop, Prog Rock, Classic Rock

Side one
“Down and Out” (Tony Banks/Phil Collins/Mike Rutherford) 5:26
“Undertow” (Tony Banks) 4:46
“Ballad of Big” (Tony Banks/Phil Collins/Mike Rutherford) 4:50
“Snowbound” (Mike Rutherford) 4:31
“Burning Rope” (Tony Banks) 7:10

Side two
“Deep in the Motherlode” (Mike Rutherford) 5:15
“Many Too Many” (Tony Banks) 3:31
“Scenes from a Nights Dream” (Tony Banks/Phil Collins) 3:30
“Say Its Alright Joe” (Mike Rutherford) 4:21
“The Lady Lies” (Tony Banks) 6:08
“Follow You Follow Me” (Tony Banks/Phil Collins/Mike Rutherford) 3:59

Singles:
Follow You Follow Me
Many Too Many

Personnel
Phil Collins – lead vocals, drums, percussion
Tony Banks – keyboards, piano, mellotron, synthesiser, backing vocals.
Mike Rutherford – basses, guitars, bass pedals, backing vocals.
with
Daryl Stuermer – Guitars, Bass guitar
Chester Thompson – Drums, percussion


Follow You Follow Me” is a love song written and recorded by English progressive rock band Genesis. It was released in February 1978 as the first single from their ninth studio album. The music was composed by the band, and the lyrics were written by bassist and guitarist Mike Rutherford At the time of release, “Follow You Follow Me” became the band’s most successful single, reaching number 7 on the UK Singles chart, peaking at number 23 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, and reaching number 21 on the Adult Contemporary chart. The song is included in the 2005 book, Rock Song Index: The 7500 Most Important Songs for the Rock and Roll Era, which states, “the formerly progressive Genesis begins to proceed without impediment toward the Top 10”.

Background

Like much of the rest of the album, the slower, sentimental “Follow You Follow Me” was a departure from most of their previous work as a progressive rock band, featuring a simple melody, romantic lyrics and a verse-chorus structure. Although previous albums contained love ballads, such as Selling England by the Pounds “More Fool Me” and “Your Own Special Way” from Wind & Wuthering (1976), “Follow You Follow Me” was the first worldwide pop success by the group. The band felt that their music was attracting mainly male audiences, so this song was written specifically to redress the balance. 

The song started from a chord sequence by guitarist Mike Rutherford, who also claimed he wrote the lyrics in about five minutes. At the time, the band usually wrote songs individually. Keyboardist Tony Banks was quoted:

It was our only truly group-written number. Mike played the riff, then I started playing a chord sequence and melody line on it, which Phil then centralized around. It worked so well as a very simple thing; it was enough as it stood. I’d just written a simple love lyric for “Many Too Many“, and I think Mike was keen to try the same thing. Maybe “Follow You Follow Me” was almost too banal, but I got used to it. I think we find it much easier to write long stories than simple love songs.

Drummer and vocalist Collins described it as “a great rhythm track” but claimed it “was not intended to be a hit single”

Follow You Follow Me lyrics:

Stay with me,
My love I hope you’ll always be
Right here by my side if ever I need you
Oh my love
In your arms,
I feel so safe and so secure
Everyday is such a perfect day to spend
Alone with you
I will follow you will you follow me
All the days and nights that we know will be
I will stay with you will you stay with me
Just one single tear in each passing year
With the dark,
Oh I see so very clearly now
All my fears are drifting by me so slowly now
Fading away
I can say
The night is long but you are here
Close at hand, oh I’m better for the smile you give
And while I live
I will follow you will you follow me
All the days and nights that we know will be
I will stay with you will you stay with me
Just one single tear in each passing year there will be
I will follow you will you follow me
All the days and nights that we know will be
I will stay with you will you stay with me
Just one single tear in each passing year…
Songwriters: Anthony George Banks / Mike Rutherford (gb) / Phil Collins
Follow You Follow Me lyrics © Imagem Music Inc

Lyrics: Many too many have stood where I stand Many more will stand here too, I think what I find strange is the way you built me up Then knocked me down again. The part was fun but now it’s over, Why can’t I just leave the stage? Maybe that’s because you securely locked me up Then threw away the key. Oh mama, Please would you find the key. Oh pretty mama, Please won’t you let me go free. I thought I was lucky I thought that I’d got it made. How could I be so blind? You said good-bye on a corner That I thought led to the straight. You set me on a firmly laid and simple course Then removed the road. Oh mama, Please help me find my way. Oh pretty mama, Please lead me through the next day. I thought I was lucky Oh I thought that I’d got it made. How could I be so blind? Oh no…

“Many Too Many” is a love song recorded by English rock band Genesis.

Background
It was released as a single from the album …And Then There Were Three… in 1978 and written by the band’s keyboardist, Tony Banks, who described it as “a simple love lyric”. The single reached No. 43 on the UK Singles Chart, following the band’s successful breakthrough into the Top Ten with “Follow You Follow Me”. Its B-side had two non-album songs, “Vancouver” and “The Day the Light Went Out”, both released on compact disc on the Genesis Archive 2: 1976–1992 box set. A music video was filmed for the song. Filming was done on-stage during the soundcheck prior to Genesis’ appearance at the Knebworth Festival, on 24 June 1978. The audio was a replay of the studio version of the track, rather than being recorded live. The band have never performed the song live, though it was reported that, prior to the Coronavirus lock-down in 2020, the band had been rehearsing the song in preparation for the Last Domino? tour of the UK and Ireland at the end of 2020.

The song includes the last use of a Mellotron on any Genesis studio recording, though Tony Banks did use one sparingly on his 1979 solo album A Curious Feeling.

Personnel
Phil Collins – vocals, drums
Tony Banks – electric grand piano, Mellotron, Roland RS-202
Mike Rutherford – electric guitar, bass guitar

Live
Although it was rehearsed for the …And Then There Were Three… Tour, the song was never performed by the band live. Tony Banks suggested it to be played on 2007’s Turn It On Again: The Tour, but that did not happen. Despite their not performing the song, Genesis mimed it on a near empty field in Knebworth in June 1978 (2 days before their show there) for the Nationwide documentary “Three Dates with Genesis”.

Chart performance
Chart (1978) Peak position
UK Charts 43

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