Wind & Wuthering

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Wind & Wuthering is a studio album by British progressive rock band Genesis, originally released on 27 December 1976 , though the release date is often incorrectly listed as 7 January 1977, which was the US release date. Wind & Wuthering was the second Genesis studio album featuring Phil Collins as lead vocalist. It was released within a year of A Trick of the Tail. It was also the last full studio album to include guitarist Steve Hackett. The album has a much more sombre atmosphere than the pr...

Wind & Wuthering is a studio album by British progressive rock band Genesis, originally released on 27 December 1976 , though the release date is often incorrectly listed as 7 January 1977, which was the US release date. Wind & Wuthering was the second Genesis studio album featuring Phil Collins as lead vocalist. It was released within a year of A Trick of the Tail. It was also the last full studio album to include guitarist Steve Hackett. The album has a much more sombre atmosphere than the previous one, particularly in its second half. Tony Banks has said Wind & Wuthering is one of his two favourite Genesis albums. Steve Hackett has also stated that he is "very fond" of this album. Wind & Wuthering reached number 7 in the UK and #26 in the US. In the US, "Your Own Special Way" gained FM airplay. The album's title derives from two pieces: The "Wind" comes from "The House of the Four Winds", the title given by Hackett to a piece that later became the quiet bridge for "Eleventh Earl of Mar"; the "Wuthering" alludes to the novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. The titles of tracks 7 and 8 are derived from the novel's closing sentence: "I lingered round them, under that benign sky: watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells, listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass, and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth." "Eleventh Earl of Mar" refers to the historical figure of John Erskine, 11th Earl of Mar by one reckoning. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.