Peter Gabriel: Peter Gabriel (Charisma)
Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 11 September 1982
SHORTLY BEFORE the release of the Genesis album The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway, the entire band was replaced by superior alien intelligences, physical duplicates with super brains. How else can we account for the abandoning, at that time, of the namboid sixth form artwork and the sudden improvement in musical quality?
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