Genesis - Wind & Wuthering

Wind & Wuthering is a studio album by British progressive rock band Genesis, originally released in 1977.
Wind & Wuthering was the second Genesis studio album featuring Phil Collins as lead vocalist. It was released within a year of A Trick of the Tail. it was also the last full studio album to include guitarist Steve Hackett. The album has a much more somber atmosphere than the previous album, particularly in its second half.


Tony Banks names Wind and Wuthering as one of his two most favorite Genesis albums. Steve Hackett has also stated that he is "very fond" of this album.

Wind & Wuthering reached #7 in the UK and #26 in the US. In the US, "Your Own Special Way" gained FM airplay.

The album's title derives itself from two pieces: The "Wind" comes from "The House of the Four Winds", the title given by Hackett to a piece that later became the quiet bridge for "Eleventh Earl of Mar"; the "Wuthering" alludes to the novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. The titles of tracks 7 and 8 are derived from the novel's closing sentence: "I lingered round them, under that benign sky: watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells, listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass, and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth."


"Eleventh Earl of Mar" (Tony Banks/Steve Hackett/Mike Rutherford) – 7:41
"One for the Vine" (Tony Banks) – 10:00
"Your Own Special Way" (Mike Rutherford) – 6:19
"Wot Gorilla?" (Phil Collins/Tony Banks) – 3:20
"All in a Mouse's Night" (Tony Banks) – 6:37
"Blood on the Rooftops" (Steve Hackett/Phil Collins) – 5:27
"Unquiet Slumbers for the Sleepers..." (Steve Hackett/Mike Rutherford) – 2:23
"...In That Quiet Earth" (Steve Hackett/Mike Rutherford/Tony Banks/Phil Collins) – 4:50
"Afterglow" (Tony Banks) – 4:12


Phil Collins – drums, percussion, vocals
Steve Hackett – guitars, kalimba, autoharp
Tony Banks – keyboards
Mike Rutherford – basses, guitars, bass pedals

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