Three of the founding members of the British rock band Genesis — Peter Gabriel, Paul Rutherford, and Tony Banks — went to boarding school together.
“Gabriel later recalled his first night in a new dormitory: ‘The air was full of the sounds of other boys either crying or masturbating or both.’”
You’re not supposed to let that get out, are you? There’s some talk in a Mojo Magazine article about how “public school,” as they term it in Britain, with its cliques and bullies and aggressive teachers, yet also with its escapes of literature and drama, was the origin of the Genesis project, which mixed R&B and opera, Motown and psychedelia — and crying and masturbating? What could be more formative?
source:
“Alpha and Omega”
by Mark Blake
Mojo Magazine
n. 377, April 2025
