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Genesis: Chapter and Verse

Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 6 October 1973

GENESIS have lain dormant throughout the summer, at least as far as the public was concerned. Then came the sensational appearance at Reading Festival, when Peter Gabriel rose as a vision upon a hydraulic ramp, ensconced inside a white pyramid. Of its significance, only the wind knows. But there's no doubting that Gabriel had once again stunned his audience with another in his series of ingenious and baffling visuals

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