GENESIS – NURSERY CRYME LP – Nr MINT A1 UK EARLY PRESS LARGE MAD HATTER  PROG

Genesis – Nursery Cryme
(Charisma Records  1972  CAS1052  Large Mad Hatter Labels with B&C credits)
Matrix No’s: A1/B2 – UK Pressing

EJ Day Gatefold Sleeve in Excellent condition
– some wear to edges/corners

Vinyl in Nr MINT condition
(there are some surface marks visible on the vinyl when held up to the light but they don’t affect the sound quality apart from the odd light pop/crackle)

Genesis are an English rock band formed at Charterhouse School, Godalming, Surrey in 1967. The most commercially successful and long-lasting line-up includes keyboardist Tony Banks, bassist/guitarist Mike Rutherford and drummer/singer Phil Collins. Other important members were the original lead singer Peter Gabriel and guitarist Steve Hackett.

Nursery Cryme is the third studio album by Genesis and was recorded and released in 1971, though initial copies in the US state 1972. It is the band’s first album with drummer Phil Collins and guitarist Steve Hackett, who respectively replaced John Mayhew and Anthony Phillips in 1970 and 1971. The five-member line-up of Peter Gabriel, Tony Banks, Mike Rutherford, Collins and Hackett would remain consistent until the band’s 1976 album A Trick of the Tail when Phil Collins replaced Peter Gabriel as lead vocalist, following Gabriel’s departure from the band. Nursery Cryme is also the band’s shortest studio album, the only to run under forty minutes.

Track listing

All tracks are credited to Banks/Collins/Gabriel/Hackett/Rutherford.

Personnel

• Tony Banks: organ, Mellotron, acoustic and electric pianos, 12 string acoustic guitar, backing vocals
• Phil Collins: drums, percussion, backing vocals, lead vocals (track 2)
• Peter Gabriel: lead vocals, flute, bass drum, tambourine, additional backing vocals (track 2)
• Steve Hackett: electric guitar, 12 string acoustic guitar
• Mike Rutherford: bass guitar, bass pedals, 12 string acoustic guitar, backing vocals