“Turn It On Again” by Genesis

Genesis stitched "Turn It On Again" together for Duke in 1980 out of spare parts: a riff Mike Rutherford hadn't used on Smallcreep's Day and a passage Tony Banks had left off A Curious Feeling. Jammed side by side and roughed up until both halves rocked harder than either man first had in mind, the pieces snapped into a lean, driving single, and Phil Collins gave it a no-frills beat that neither of the others would have thought to reach for.

Rutherford wrote the words, about a man who does little but stare at the television and listen to the radio until the faces on screen start to feel like friends. Collins sings it, Banks plays keyboards, Rutherford covers guitar and bass, and David Hentschel produced it with the band. It climbed to number 8 in the UK, only their second top-10 hit.

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