The European and North American tour will feature vocalist and drummer Phil Collins, keyboard player Tony Banks and guitarist Mike Rutherford, the lineup that was most successful in the 1980s. "It's not like it's a party that we're holding that Peter didn't come to," Collins told a news conference, as quoted by Reuters. Genesis will tour Europe this summer and will hold a free concert at the Circus Maximus in Rome.
The band might also participate on July 7 in Oscar-winner Al Gore's "Live Earth" event, which is occurring in cities around the world. The North American leg of the "Turn it on Again" tour will start September 7 in Toronto and finish at Hollywood Bowl on October 12. Tickets go on sale Saturday for Montreal and Philadelphia, and on March 12 for Boston, Chicago, East Rutherford, N.
J., Hartford, Conn., and Toronto.
Britain was overly enthusiastic about the reunion; tickets for the two July shows were sold out in just 90 minutes in November 2006. The dates in early July in London and Manchester sold out all 100,000 tickets; advance sales of shows on the European continent were also reported heavy. Genesis formed in the late 1960s by the then-adolescent Banks, Gabriel and Rutherford.
Collins joined in 1970 and, after Gabriel left in 1975, took over as front man and lead singer. Genesis went on to worldwide fame and totaled more than 130 million albums sales prior to the band's final dissolution in 1998. Collins remained with Genesis until 1991, when he began performing as a solo artist.
In 1997, the remaining members of Genesis released "Calling All Stations.
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