I asked Steve if I could take some candid photographs of him at work in his studio, either recording or rehearsing. Steve kindly agreed despite having a really hectic schedule of writing his own music, recording and producing Genesis Revisited II, an excellent double album, as well as guesting on other musicians recordings and extra live gigs.

So just before Christmas I visited Steve and his wife Jo at Steve’s studio in Twickenham and took some photographs of Steve – here are some of them….

Steve Hackett – Studio 1

Steve Hackett – Studio 2

Steve Hackett – Studio 3

More of the photographs from this session will be added to www.GenesisPictures.co.uk website soon

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The exhibition of the Genesis Pictures I took in the 70s were on show at Trading Boundaries last week culminating in it coinciding with the Steve Hackett concert on the evening of Saturday 30th June.

Trading Boundaries was packed with Steve Hackett (and Genesis) fans who all enjoyed a brilliant evening of music. Steve had his nylon strung classical guitar for the evening, not his more usual famous Les Paul electric guitar.

Steve was accompanied by the hugely talented Rob Townsend on flute and saxophone as well as his brilliant jazz solo on a penny-whistle!

Roger King supplied great keyboards and the trio played a wide selection of music from Steve’s albums as well as some of the gorgeous melodic compositions he co-wrote with Genesis.

After almost two hours of music,Steve stayed afterwards and spent almost an hour talking to people from the audience, many of whom had travelled considerable distances to see the concert.

I met lots of people from the audience before and after the concert who were fascinated with the Genesis pictures that they’d never seen before and shared Genesis stories and my experience of taking the photographs of Steve Hackett and the other members of Genesis while they were rehearsing and recording The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway in July 1974      – a mere 38 years ago!
For lots more exclusive Genesis Pictures see www.GenesisPictures.co.uk 
For more information about Steve Hackett see www.HackettSongs.com

One of the areas of Trading Boundaries where the Genesis Pictures exhibition was held

All photographs on this post taken by Richard Haines

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In anticipation of the Steve Hackett gig on Saturday 30th June at Trading Boundaries, Sheffield Green, Near Fletching, East Sussex  TN22 3RB, there is an exhibition of a selection of the rare unpublished photographs I took of the early Genesis line up in 1973-1974. The exhibition will run from Saturday 23rd June to Sunday 1st July and the images will be available to purchase at a specially discounted rate during that period.

Steve Hackett
Steve is renowned as an immensely talented and innovative rock musician. He was lead guitarist with Genesis as part of their classic line up with Gabriel, Collins, Banks and Rutherford, that produced acclaimed albums such as Selling England by the Pound (a favourite of John Lennon). With Steve’s extraordinary versatility in both his electric guitar playing and his composing, he involves influences from many genres, including Jazz, World Music and Blues. He is equally adept in his classical albums that include renditions of pieces by composers from Bach to Satie, his own acoustic guitar compositions that have gained the admiration of many, including Yehudi Menuhin, and ambitious guitar/ orchestra albums such as A Midsummer Night’s Dream, recorded with the Royal Philharmonic. With Genesis, Steve’s guitar playing produced some of the most memorable moments, from the sensitivity of his acoustic sound on Horizons and Blood on the Rooftops the dramatic rock guitar solos of Firth of Fifth and Fountain of Salmacis. As he embarked on his solo career he developed his exceptional range, pushing musical boundaries into exciting areas, inventing new sounds and also techniques such as ‘tapping’. His solo career went from strength to strength and the mid eighties not only saw the hit single Cell 151, but also the Steve Hackett and Steve Howe super group GTR, highly successful in America.

I was commissioned to take photographs of Genesis in 1974 at Headley Grange in Hampshire where they were writing and rehearsing their album The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. These photographs have laid dormant in my collection until recently when I decided to post them onto my website www.GenesisPictures.co.uk so they could be shared.

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“We were 3/4  full on Friday and pretty much sold out on Saturday, resulting in an amazing atmosphere in the hall. The ‘unplugged’ set was superb with a really lively Q&A to follow with some great questions from the audience …

The auction was first class – culminating on Saturday when we sold the Platinum Award from Tony Banks for £740! Nearly £3k from the auction and best part of £1000 in the door collection. Our hope is that we finally give £8000+ to Shooting Star CHASE – we are still waiting for figures to come in and will let you know final figures.
If you’d like to donate, you can here>>

A few photo highlights below – courtesy of Richard Haines and his www.genesispictures.co.uk online biz – do take a look (Quote CHASE to give 20% of any purchase to the charity). Great response to his picture display at the gigs and he kindly donated the ‘flower’ to the auction (went for £280!!). Thanks Richard.”

PS – Don’t miss their forthcoming shows … Milton Keynes (standing room only) and Redhill coming up next. Book at www.g2online.co.uk

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Richard donated one of his Genesis Photographs (signed, mounted and framed) to the Shooting Star CHASE Childrens Charity Auction at the G2 – Definitive Genesis concert held at Charterhouse School on 14th April and it was sold for £280! Lots of interest shown in the exhibition of the  exclusive photographs of Genesis in the early 70s from the hundreds of Genesis/G2 fans.

Richard also took some photographs of G2 in concert – see the link below:

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I was commissioned to take photographs of Genesis in 1974 at Headley Grange in Hampshire where they were writing and rehearsing their album The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. These phoptographs have laid dormant in my collection until recently when I decided to post them onto my website www.GenesisPictures.co.uk so they could be shared.
This has led to me being invited to put on an exhibition of over twenty of these photographs at Charterhouse School, where Peter Gabriel, Mike Rutherford and Tony Banks went to school and formed the band Genesis originally.

Here are the details from the promoters of the concerts and auction being held this weekend 13th and 14th April in aid of Shooting Star CHASE Children’s Charity:

• Unpublished 1970s’ picture display … loads of interest in Richard Haines unique unpublished photo collection. 20% of the proceeds will be donated to our charity – check them out here: www.genesispictures.co.uk. These include pictures taken at Headley Grange during the making of ‘The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway’!. Richard is also donating one of the images to our Auction.

Our MEGA Auction …

Saturday night …
• STAR Lot 1 – Platinum Award
Platinum Sales award “We Can’t Dance” signed by Tony Banks
• Lot 2 – Peter Gabriel Collection
Selection of posters and DVDs donated by Peter Gabriel
• Lot 3 – Silverstone Classic
2 x tickets for the Silverstone Classic on 20th July, including the Mike & The Mechanics Show
• Lot 4 – Limited edition print
Framed, hand-finished print of choice from Richard Haines’ 1970s unpublished selection on display at Charterhouse
• Lot 5 – Elephant Café Bar tickets
Pair of tickets to Steve Hackett’s gig at ‘Elephant Café Bar’ at Trading Boundaries (seated)
• Lot 6 – Genesis selection 2
Genesis – Anatomy of a Tour – A book, with pop-up stage sets and details of how the tour was conceived PLUS Genesis – The Hits – 2CD -The Tour Edition (2007) PLUS Phil Collins – Going Back DVD (Live at Roseland Ballroom NYC)

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