Genesis: Too Posh For Fame
Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, 25 March 1972
ASK GENESIS how their careers are progressing and they'll tell you they're superstars in Aylesbury and Belgium, but little known elsewhere. In fact their fame is beginning to spread and they are at last reaping the benefits of the hard slog up and down the motorways of Britain.
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