Genesis will revisit one of their most beloved albums - and their final bow with original vocalist Peter Gabriel - in a new box set next year.

Announced almost 50 years to the day of its original release in 1974, a new deluxe version of The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway will be a multi-disc celebration - four CDs or five LPs, a Blu-ray Audio disc and a download card - of the group's acclaimed work. Inside the box will be a new remaster of the original mix of the album, done by Miles Showell with assistance from Nick Davis (who remixed the band's catalogue for stereo and surround in the '00s); a remastered and restored performance of the full album at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles from 1975 (for the first time featuring the album's closing track "It." and two encore songs); three unreleased demos included as a digital download; and a high-resolution presentation of the original album as well as a new Dolby Atmos mix by Bob Mackenzie at Gabriel's Real World Studios, working under the supervision of both Gabriel and keyboardist Tony Banks. A 60-page coffee table book rounds out the set, featuring new liner notes by Alexis Petridis (utilizing new interviews from every member of the band), rare images and replicas of tour programs, tickets and posters.

After a busy 1973 that saw the release of their first live album and fifth studio album Selling England by the Pound, Genesis - singer Gabriel, guitarist Steve Hackett, keyboardist Banks, bassist Mike Rutherford and drummer Phil Collins - felt they'd earn the public goodwill of issuing a double album, one with a strong enough conceptual bent to break them out of the easy comparisons to other British progressive bands of the era. Gabriel spun the tale of Rael, a Puerto Rican on a surreal journey of self-discovery in New York City. Inspired by everything from West Side Story and El Topo to the writings of Carl Jung, Gabriel insisted on breaking with band tradition by penning all the lyrics and story himself while his bandmates devised music for him to sing to. This dichotomy soon became unwieldy, and the presence of multiple distractions (from an offer to Gabriel to write a script with William Friedkin to the challenging birth of the singer's first child) threatened to upset the order of things. (A brief selection of unreleased material from the band's earliest album rehearsals at Headley Grange - before recording it properly with the assistance of the Island Records mobile studio in a Welsh manor - is featured in the box, albeit on a download card.)

Nonetheless, both fans and the band came to view The Lamb as the best work of their time as a quintet. The album soon became their third Top 10 album in the U.K. as well as their highest-charting to date in America, where it peaked at No. 41. An ensuing tour found the group performing the album in full, complete with theatrical effects and costume changes. (Only one of the shows - the Shrine Auditorium gig on January 24, 1975 - was ever recorded to multi-track tape, and some of Gabriel's attire, as well as Hackett's perfectionism, led both to add some overdubs to the show when it was released as part of a box set in 1998. It is unknown if those overdubs will be retained on this new presentation; it had been believed that the group ran out of tape before the show completed, but a concurrent recording for the King Biscuit Flower Hour later became a notable bootleg for the whole show.)

Gabriel, longing for time with his family and a reprieve from the stressors of the music business, would depart the group at the tour's conclusion; Collins suggested the band should become all-instrumental from then on, but was ironically tapped to replace his bandmate as vocalist. Hackett departed two years later, and the trio version of Genesis gradually added more pop elements among their prog bona fides, becoming one of the biggest bands of the '80s alongside Collins' behemoth solo career. But The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway never left their repertoire entirely: the title track and "In the Cage" were staples of later concert medleys of older material, and the quintet reconvened to re-record "The Carpet Crawlers" for a compilation album in 1999.

This new "musical box" approach to The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway will be available March 28, 2025 and can be pre-ordered below. As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases.

The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (Super Deluxe Edition) (Rhino, 2025)

4CD/Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
5LP/Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada

CD/LP 1-2: Original album mix remastered by Miles Showell (released as Charisma CGS 101 (U.K.)/ATCO SD 2-401 (U.S.), 1974)

1. The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
2. Fly on a Windshield
3. Broadway Melody of 1974
4. Cuckoo Cocoon
5. In the Cage
6. The Grand Parade of Lifeless Packaging
7. Back in N.Y.C.
8. Hairless Heart
9. Counting Out Time
10. Carpet Crawlers
11. The Chamber of 32 Doors

1. Lilywhite Lillith
2. The Waiting Room
3. Anyway
4. Here Comes the Supernatural Anaesthetist
5. The Lamia
6. Silent Sorrow in Empty Boats
7. The Colony of Slippermen: The Arrival/A Visit to the Doktor/The Raven
8. Ravine
9. The Light Dies Down on Broadway
10. Riding the Scree
11. In the Rapids
12. It.

CD 3-4/LP 3-5: The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway: Live from the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA (1/24/1975)

Same track list as above plus encores "Watcher of the Skies" and "The Musical Box." CD 3 and CD 4, Tracks 1-11 previously released on Genesis Archive 1967-1975 - Virgin CD BOX 6 (U.K.)/Atlantic 82858-2 (U.S.), 1998

Download Card: The Headley Grange Demos (previously unreleased)

1. The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway/Fly on a Windshield (Take 1)
2. The Chamber of 32 Doors/The Lamia (Takes 1-2)
3. In the Cage - Strange Vocals (Take 1)

Blu-ray Audio

• Dolby Atmos mix of original album by Bob Mackenzie at Real World Studios
• Stereo mix of original album - 24-bit/96kHz high-definition audio remastered by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios with assistance from Nick Davis