Steve Hackett thought his goose was cooked in 1972. Foxtrot was the 22-year-old guitarist’s second album with Genesis but he harboured misgivings about Supper’s Ready, the 23-minute opus that scampered through seven movements on side two.

You can argue back and forth over whether Peter Gabriel or Phil Collins was the better Genesis singer, but you can’t deny that this Gabriel-led album is one of the band’s best.

When I was 12 years old, I discovered progressive rock. I had been a musician, and an all-around music geek all my life — I come from a long family tradition of salsa and cumbia musicians from my mother’s side.

Genesis were one of the leading lights of the ’70s British progressive rock movement that also spawned groups like Yes, ELP and Jethro Tull. But the group got off to a rather slow start — especially in America, where the band had a harder time breaking through than in their native England.