Ripples
Rutherford's twelve-string guitar and Banks's piano, written with Collins's new voice in mind.
Genesis, from A Trick of the Tail (1976)
- Written by
- Mike Rutherford, Tony Banks
- Released
- 1976
- Length
- 8:07
- Album
- A Trick of the Tail
Ripples is built on Mike Rutherford's twelve-string guitar with a piano-led middle section by Tony Banks, and was written with Collins in mind as the singer; Steve Hackett's solo is played through a guitar synthesizer. Banks picked it out as one of the album's strong choruses, and Ultimate Classic Rock heard it as the point where Phil Collins started to become Phil Collins. Bruce Gowers filmed a promotional clip for it in 1976, one of the band's first; that film is the upload in the hypersongs web. It became a live favorite from 1978 and returned for the 2007 reunion tour.
Covers and versions
- Steve Hackett with Amanda Lehmann (2012) Genesis Revisited II
- Annie Haslam (1995)
More songs by Genesis
Firth of Fifth, The Lamia, Follow You Follow Me, Home by the Sea
Sources
- A Trick of the Tail, Wikipedia
- Genesis's best 1970s songs, Ultimate Classic Rock (2025-02-23)
- Ripples: song statistics, setlist.fm