On August 4th, 1970, Phil Collins joined Genesis, replacing John Mayhew on drums. Despite having been in Genesis for a decade, up until 1980’s Duke album, Phil Collins hadn’t written any songs for them. Marriage woes motivated Phil Collins to write his first song for Genesis to record. Keyboardist Tony Banks recalls how — and why — that changed.
“’Misunderstanding’ was the first song we recorded that Phil wrote. Phil didn’t used to write all that much of Genesis’ material in the early days, up to and including Duke, really. He just didn’t rate himself as a writer that much, I don’t think, and he’d never really tried it before. But after his problems with his marriage in that year, he started to write songs. And he played us a load of the songs he’d written and we picked out of them two songs. One of them was ‘Misunderstanding.’”
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