Chapter 2
TRESPASS
T
he road to fame and stardom is a notoriously difficult one, which is probably just as well otherwise it would possibly be the most crowded thoroughfare on earth. A road that has tempted countless thousands to set out upon it, only a microscopically small number have ever emerged into the spotlight of success. The members of Genesis may well have had many advantages during their comfortable early years but the music business is a great leveller and things in their first three years of professional life had not been easy. Peter Gabriel later recalled his frustrations at this difficult juncture for Barbara Charone and NME: ‘By this time, we were a group, though still at school struggling with A Levels, but when we left to become professional, we managed to get a fair amount of financial help 19
