100 Great Songs to Publish a Book to, #85: Genesis, Duchess

A song which, according to Tony Banks, comes from nothing and goes back to nothing.  Taken from the band’s best album, 1980’s Duke, this track tells of the rise and fall of a female singer and is one of the few Genesis tracks which I’m convinced hold an entire novel.  I wrote up one verse as a short story, The Chat Show Host, which I published in Stories of Genesis, Vol. 1, and the rest of Duchess’s story remains festering – er, ‘fermenting’ somewhere in the back of my head.  (Subs pls check: We shouldn’t allow such ham-fisted cross-promotion.  Pls delete.  Ed.)

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