ANTHONY PHILLIPS - Only your love (recorded in 1973) (feat. Phil Collins and Mike Rutherford)

Anthony Phillips was the first captain of that ship called Genesis. His solo career always seems to be forgotten. I will be sharing some songs and pieces from the early days. This tune "Only your love" was recorded during the same session of "Silver song". Enjoy!!!

Here's a little story about this song and "Silver song":

In the summer of 1973 there was a short lull in Genesis activity whilst the band were writing Selling England By The Pound. During this time Phil Collins took the opportunity to take part in some musical projects outside Genesis, which included playing in the band Zox and the Radar Boys. Having already met Ant on several occasions, Phil was invited down to Ant's parents house in Surrey with a number of other friends to take part in the original demo recording of Take This Heart. Following on from this, the idea came up that Ant and Mike might record a couple of songs with Phil drumming and singing as a potential extra project. The three of them recorded a demo version of Silver Song which Charisma Records liked and they gave their approval for the track to be recorded properly.

In October 1973 it was arranged for the recording to take place at Island Studios in London on one free day in the busy Genesis touring schedule. Ant, Mike and Phil recorded Silver Song and another track Only Your Love during this session, with a view to Charisma releasing the two tracks as a single. Genesis then carried on with their touring schedule until the summer of 1974 when it was anticipated that the Silver Song single would be released. To tie in with this, Phil gave an interview on BBC Radio One in June 1974 where he talked about the background to the single being recorded and a tape of the completed version of Silver Song was played at the end of the interview. Incidentally, Phil didn't record a session version of the track for Radio One as has been suggested nor did he sing along to a backing track live in the studio for this broadcast.

For reasons that remain unknown to this day the Silver Song single release never appeared. It is reasonable to suggest that Charisma Records may have felt it was too early in their career for Genesis to have breakaway projects but there was no one definite reason that Ant is aware of as to why the single was not released.

Phil Collins and Mike Rutherford kindly gave their permission for the 1973 recording of Silver Song to be released as one of the extra tracks on the double CD re-issue of The Geese & The Ghost which was released in July 2007 in Japan and in other territories in April 2008. In addition, both of them gave their permission for Only Your Love to be released on the Definitive Edition of The Geese & The Ghost which was released by Esoteric Records in March 2015.

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