Genesis – Trespass (Side 2) 1970 Original First UK Issue `Pink Scroll` £350

Here is the original LP by Genesis called `Trespass`, it was first issued on the `Pink Scroll` style Charisma label in the UK, it came in a gatefold sleeve with a textured feel to it with B&C Records credit and ‘Printed and made by the EJ Day Group, London and Bedford’, it had no text on the spine. It also had a lyric sheet insert, there are a couple of label variations but the very first pressing has the small p next to the 1970 date in bold type (the later has a lighter type and larger P). Mint copies are now fetching around 350 British Pounds, the copy I have recorded grades as EX+ but sounds slightly distorted in places to my ears not sure if all the first issues suffer from this or not. Why not subscribe as I update regularly.

Side 2
1. Stagnation
2. Dusk
3. The Knife

After a year of Genesis playing shows almost nightly in 1969 and 1970 after the band left Decca, Tony Stratton-Smith approached Genesis and signed the band to Charisma. By mid-1970, Genesis had written and performed enough songs to fill over two full-length albums. Though most of Genesis’s songs were composed by the group as a whole, in a 1985 interview Mike Rutherford said that Trespass was the only Genesis album where every single song was composed by all the band members equally; every other album by Genesis had several songs which were written by one or two individuals, with only minor contributions at most from the rest of the band. The band was unhappy with John Mayhew’s drumming skills and replaced him with Phil Collins following Anthony Phillips’ departure
Trespass is their second studio album released in October 1970 on Charisma Records. Their last with guitarist Anthony Phillips and only record with drummer John Mayhew in the band’s line-up, Trespass displayed a folk-flavoured progressive rock sound of the group that was a marked a departure from pop tunes on their first album, From Genesis to Revelation (1969).
Trespass was not a commercial success and it received some mixed reviews upon release. Following the band’s growth in popularity in the 1980s, it peaked the UK chart at No. 98 for one week in 1984. The album is the first Genesis album released in the US. However the album reached No. 1 in Belgium, leading to the band’s first overseas concerts there in March 1971. “The Knife” was released as a single in May 1971.