Fact #193309
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Short story:
Genesis release a new single, Invisible Touch, on Charisma Records in the UK. It will peak at No1 in the Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart in the USA.
Full article:
Phil Collins (Genesis) : It was initially written for our album of the same name and was the first time that we'd had no other material from other sources. The three of us just sat around in the studio, someone would start a riff, somebody else would start chord sequences and take it from there.
I set up a drum pattern because it makes ideas easier to sing to and found myself repeating the main hook line, 'She seems to have an invisible touch, oh, oh, oh'. From then on we started to work out the bones of the song.
A lot of the lines were spontaneous while we were forming it and of course then you sit down and re-write the wild lines and make everything fit.
When it came to recording we we sat down and apportioned who had what. I got that song because I'd been singing the hook on it. Basically it's about a girl, someone who has that indefinable thing, she's able to get right under your skin and do what she wants with you. We've all had that feeling before. You know, when you keep bouncing back to someone who's not good for you but you can't stop yourself.
It was our first number one in America, both the album and the single. I thought it would be our big hit in England, but it wasn't. The video was great fun - I think it still stands up now.
We were all influenced by the early Police videos and we tried the same approach. Just ourselves capturing the moment without any high tech stuff.
We filmed it in a huge grain store with a little stage in the middle. The crew gave us hand-held cameras and we just mucked about. I think it was one of our best, a non-concept video but great fun.
The reason I liked the song then, and still do, is because it reminded me of a Shiela E song that I really liked. That was fine by me - any excuse to try and steer Genesis into a hipper area.
(Source : Inspirations by Michael Randolfi, Mike Read and David Stark, published by Sanctuary)
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I set up a drum pattern because it makes ideas easier to sing to and found myself repeating the main hook line, 'She seems to have an invisible touch, oh, oh, oh'. From then on we started to work out the bones of the song.
A lot of the lines were spontaneous while we were forming it and of course then you sit down and re-write the wild lines and make everything fit.
When it came to recording we we sat down and apportioned who had what. I got that song because I'd been singing the hook on it. Basically it's about a girl, someone who has that indefinable thing, she's able to get right under your skin and do what she wants with you. We've all had that feeling before. You know, when you keep bouncing back to someone who's not good for you but you can't stop yourself.
It was our first number one in America, both the album and the single. I thought it would be our big hit in England, but it wasn't. The video was great fun - I think it still stands up now.
We were all influenced by the early Police videos and we tried the same approach. Just ourselves capturing the moment without any high tech stuff.
We filmed it in a huge grain store with a little stage in the middle. The crew gave us hand-held cameras and we just mucked about. I think it was one of our best, a non-concept video but great fun.
The reason I liked the song then, and still do, is because it reminded me of a Shiela E song that I really liked. That was fine by me - any excuse to try and steer Genesis into a hipper area.
(Source : Inspirations by Michael Randolfi, Mike Read and David Stark, published by Sanctuary)