14K views · 1K reactions | Genesis - Abacab Live | A world of music | Facebook

✨Avec "Abacab", le groupe britannique légendaire 🇬🇧 GENESIS amorce un tournant vers un son plus moderne et expérimental, mêlant rock progressif et new wave. Sur scène, la puissance du trio PHIL COLLINS, MIKE RUTHERFORD et TONY BANKS prend toute son ampleur, offrant une performance aussi précise qu’électrisante. ⚡🥁🎹 #genesis #abacab #philcollins #progressiverock #newwave #80smusic #britishrock #live1981 #sonetpixels | Laurent Deniéport

250K views · 9.5K reactions | “Abacab”, Live in Birmingham on The Mama Tour, 1984  | Genesis | Facebook

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