Genesis released ‘Abacab’ as a single, from the album of the same name, on this day in 1981. Phil, explaining the song’s name: “Well “ABACAB” originally was a way of remembering the sequence of the song. “A” was the verse, “B” was the chorus, “A” was the verse [again], “C” was the bridge. So it went verse, chorus, verse, bridge, verse, chorus. We didn’t do the song like that in the end. But our way of remembering it was, “It goes A-B-A-C-A-B, all right?” The way we did it in the end was unpronou

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Genesis - Abacab (Live 1987) Re-edited and Remastered in HD En 1981 aparece Abacab, undécimo LP de estudio de la banda. Representa un cambio notable de estilo, ya no son los sonidos grandiosos y triunfales de los teclados la característica de la música, ahora sobresale la batería resonando en un amplio espacio sonoro ambiental, con intervalos por donde se cuela la voz de Phil Collins. A raíz de la gira por Japón, Genesis adoptó las computadoras y las cajas rítmicas en su proceso de composición.