Hey, I'm Brian Hyatt, and this is Rolling Stone Music Now. I have with me Andy Green.

So Genesis are going on their first reunion tour since 2007.

It's also one of the first, if not the first,

sort of big post-Covid tours to be announced.

And it's on sale now for America it starts November 15th in Chicago and

it's selling out everywhere the tickets are super expensive and people are

snashing them up they're also playing in Europe those are rescheduled dates

supposedly from like September 15th through

October but it's an interesting test case of a post-Covid tour and it seems like people are ready and it's also an opportunity to

talk about one of the strangest stories in the history of rock and then maybe look

later at the broader picture of Classic Rock Reunion Tours post-COVID after these older acts all lost a year.

But Andy, you are perhaps one of the leading experts in Genesis in the behind the music when they

talk about certain planned reunions they actually show your article on your byline you

are the man on this so I'm glad to have you here.

Explain what's going on with Genesis now.

Why are they reuniting in 2021 after not reuniting since 2007 and not releasing an album since like 1997

and that wasn't even with Phil was it?

No.

Yeah, so what what's going on here? I think that what's happening is that Phil Collins wants to do it. It's as simple as that the band has always been at his discretion at least for the past 40 years basically and he thought he was retiring in like

2010 and he decided to unretire about five or six years ago and he toured solo for a few years.

He went to every major market in the whole world and then that was done.

It was the next logical step to do Genesis and I think

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