GenesisQueen Trivia Quiz

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Genesis began life when two pairs of schoolboys from Charterhouse School, Tony Banks & Peter Gabriel, and Anthony Phillips & Mike Rutherford, decided to form a band. Having created a demo tape, they were able to gain the interest of Jonathan King, a Charterhouse old boy who had achieved success as a music producer, who agreed to produce an album by the group. The result was "From Genesis to Revelation" in 1969. Although the album was a flop, the group decided to continue in music; severing ties with King, they instead joined a new label, Charisma Records, and the following year released "Trespass".

Although Anthony Phillips subsequently left, the three remaining members recruited two new musicians, guitarist Steve Hackett and drummer Phil Collins, which formed the first classic line-up of the group. As a five-piece, Genesis then released another four, increasingly successful albums - "Nursery Cryme", "Foxtrot", "Selling England by the Pound" and finally the concept album "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway". Following the release of the latter, lead vocalist Peter Gabriel left, with Phil Collins taking over as the band's singer.

Following two albums as a four-piece ("A Trick of the Tail" and "Wind and Wuthering"), Steve Hackett also left, leaving Genesis with its second classic line-up of Banks, Collins and Rutherford. The trio went on to release six successive hit albums ("And Then There Were Three", "Duke", "Abacab", "Genesis", "Invisible Touch", "We Can't Dance"), with five in succession reaching Number One in the UK. Following Phil Collins' departure in 1995, Banks and Rutherford recruited singer Ray Wilson, and produced "Calling All Stations" in 1997, which ultimately proved to be the final studio album produced by Genesis.

Queen came about when, in 1970, guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor disbanded their band, Smile. A student named Farroukh Bulsara, who was a fan of the band, encouraged them to continue with music, and joined them as a vocalist, changing his name to Freddie Mercury. In 1971, bassist John Deacon also joined, and Mercury encouraged a change of name for the group, at which point they became Queen.

The group then began a period of intense production, releasing five albums ("Queen", "Queen II", "Sheer Heart Attack", "A Night at the Opera", "A Day at the Races") in three and a half years between 1973 and 1976. The success of the latter two saw Queen become one of the most successful bands in music at the time. But, this did not put a brake on the output of the group, with a further four albums ("News of the World", "Jazz", "The Game" and "Flash Gordon") released between late 1977 and late 1980.

Following the release of "Flash Gordon", which was their ninth album in six years, Queen began to slow down, with new albums only coming out in 1982 ("Hot Space"), 1984 ("The Works") and 1986 ("A Kind of Magic"). Although the band had suffered a downturn in the early 1980s, "The Works", followed by their appearance at Live Aid, saw a new generation of fans recruited, with three successive albums ("A Kind of Magic", "The Miracle" and "Innuendo") all reaching Number One in the UK.

However, Freddie Mercury's failing health meant that "Innuendo" was the final complete album he was able to work on. Following its completion, he got the other three band members to continue to write material for him to record, allowing him to leave a body of work that they could then use after his death. Following his death in 1991, the other three members reconvened in 1993 to use what Mercury had left them - this ultimately resulted in the final studio album produced by Queen, "Made in Heaven", in 1995.