Henry: Portraits from Tudor Times

This is a suite rather than a single, written by Phillips and Rutherford. Its seven sections are Fanfare, Lute's Chorus, Misty Battlements, Lute's Chorus (Reprise), Henry Goes to War, Death of a Knight and Triumphant Return. The reprise is missing from releases before 2007: the 1977 LP cut about two minutes, including it, because the piece ran a little too long, and it was found on the master tapes. Reviewers describe the suite as following motifs from the life of Henry VII; Phillips's own interviews do not explain the programme, and the explanations printed on the original dust jacket could not be found.

Phillips said most of it came steaming out after he left Genesis and was demoed in a very primitive way in 1970. Rutherford added bits in a hotel room in Ireland in the winter of 1973, and Misty Battlements was the last section worked out. Four parts were put down at Send Barns in late 1974; overdubs, including the recorders on Lute's Chorus, were done on Tom Newman's barge from July 1975. The timpani would not fit and were recorded on a larger neighboring barge. The Barge Rabble sang the chorus on Triumphant Return at an end-of-album party.

Phillips said in 1995 that parts of it, Misty Battlements best, were used under speeches in his Macbeth project, which became part of Private Parts & Pieces II. No live performance, official video, cover or sample was found.