The new book on the Genesis cult album "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway". Ideal for all fans of Genesis, Peter Gabriel, Tony Banks, Mike Rutherford, Steve Hackett and Phil Collins who finally want to understand the mysterious masterpiece and its background. Perfect for preparing or as follow-up to the "The Lamb" Shows e.g. by Canadian Tribute Band "The Musical Box" in 2023 or by Steve Hackett in 2024. Summer 1974: After "Selling England by the Pound", Genesis are a widely respected band, but heavily in debt and gripped by severe inner tensions. The next album must absolutely bring the breakthrough! At the beginning of the fruitful work, no one suspects that they will soon face a crucial test. Peter Gabriel remembers everything becoming "sort of dark, tormented". Phil Collins speaks of a very strange phase. Steve Hackett meanwhile compares the making of the album with the maiden voyage of the Titanic, which everyone somehow tried to survive despite various iceberg collisions. Finally, Tony Banks even experiences it as downright "hell". With their last ounces of strength, the musicians wrestle an enigmatic masterpiece from themselves with "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway". However, this masterpiece was to cost them their charismatic frontman Peter Gabriel. In his new book, historian and cultural scientist Mark Bell not only reconstructs the highly exciting history of the album's creation, but also explains its mysterious content piece by piece in the core chapter on approx. 160 pages. Other chapters deal with, among other things, the revolutionary multimedia tour from November 1974 to May 1975, Peter Gabriel's departure and, finally, the afterlife and continuation of the enigmatic Lamb to the present day. Why does the most archetypal of all English bands suddenly write an album about New York? - Why does a Lamb lie down on Broadway? - What does the Lamb stand for? - Who is behind Rael? - Who is Rael's brother John? - Why do a sphinx and a monk crawl across a lamb's wool carpet in "The Carpet Crawlers"? - What is the "The Lamia" episode inspired by? - What do the strange Slippermen stand for? - What is the enigmatic "it"? - Why did Peter Gabriel "and Steve Hackett get into a heated argument over "it."? - What role did Brian Eno play in "The Lamb"? - Why did Phil Collins suddenly feel like a "prostitute" on one day of the studio recording of the album? - What significance does C. G. Jung have for the album? - What role do dreams play on the album? - What is the relationship between psychoanalysis and the story of "The Lamb"? - Why was the album often negatively reviewed in the music press in 1974? - What role does the Tibetan Book of the Dead (Bardo Thodol) play on the album? - Why does the US stuntman Evel Knievel appear in the lyrics? - Why was it a gamble to release a concept album and a double LP in 1974? - What makes "The Lamb" unique overall? - Why did Peter Gabriel drop out at the end? - Why did Peter Gabriel want to wire all the musicians on tour with bio-feedback sensors? - What caused Peter Gabriel's project to film "The Lamb" together with cult director Alejandro Jodorowsky to fail in the early 1980s? - Why are The Musical Box the only band worldwide to get the rights to authentically perform "The Lamb" live? - When and why did a revival of "The Lamb" by Genesis itself almost happen? All the answers (and much more) in Mark Bell's new book!