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And speaking of edits, some of the tracks have been edited removing some of the in between song radio chatter, announcers, Peter Gabriel's Musical Box story, and also in at least one case, Phil Collins doing a count in to start a song.

Any fans familiar with the, ahem, unofficial recordings (oft disguised as ‘Italian imports’) through the medium of bootleg albums, the tape-sharing circles and digital file-sharing/torrenting of the modern era, will know a different story. My copy is slightly different in that there is no second mix of "Harold the Barrel"but instead I have a rendition of "Dusk"added in as track 6, the final song from the 'Nightride'programme; I have no idea how that came about as I acquired this 2-CD set many years ago now. Nick Davis, who has worked frequently with Genesis as a producer, engineer and surround-sound mixer, first teased the BBC box set in late September. Somehow, their song selections reconcile the band’s disparate legacies in such a way that fresh listeners and longtime fans can finally bridge the stylistic chasm between them.However, they decided - unlike other artists - to cut the content heavily and shorten complete shows as well. However, the band has released only some of this material; their 2008 box set Genesis 1970-1975, for example, included three early songs ("Shepherd,""Pacidy" and "Let Us Now Make Love") tracked for the BBC Night Ride program in February 1970.

Excerpts of these concerts first appeared officially in 1988 on the VHS video cassette Invisible Touch Tour, then again in 2003 on the DVD Live at Wembley Stadium. Track 1 recorded at Studio T1 of the Kensington House in Shepherd's Bush, London on 25 September 1972 during the Foxtrot tour.

A box set makes sense in many ways: there are some early treasures included and complete live shows, even from the later years. The box set is rounded out with performances from the height of the band’s popularity—Wembley in 1987 and the 1992 edition of Knebworth (along with two songs from 1998 featuring Collins’ replacement Ray Wilson). While it was known that all four concerts had been recorded in sound and vision, it was unclear until now which excerpts from which of the four concerts were used for the video and DVD.

Genesis played the last European concerts of their Invisible Touch Tour on four consecutive nights at the sold-out Wembley Stadium in London (1-4 July 1987). A slightly stronger compression (also due to the quite loud mastering) and a slight lowering of the treble make the CD sound a bit less clear and fresh compared to the archive material. The differentiation or verification of the various versions was ultimately only possible with the help of audience tapes and the single-cam DVD bootleg from 7 May in a rather time-consuming process of elimination. Note: The Grand Parade of Lifeless Packaging (which was included on some Westwood One radio shows) does not exist in the BBC archive, also Watcher Of The Skies was an encore and not the opener of the concert, although this was arranged differently on the radio broadcast).

One that maybe allowed the fans who preferred their mprog of the more traditional persuasion to avoid the pop songs. On top of that, some radio broadcasts were also announced as "Live from Drury Lane", although - as in all cases - it was always the recording from the Lyceum (7 May). The music these five players made together instantly canonized the now-familiar hallmarks of prog: shifting time signatures, epic-length songs, impenetrable concept albums, classical influences, church organs, and a distinctly English taste for medieval instrumentation and folklore.