Genesis released ‘Abacab’ as a single, from the album of the same name, on this day in 1981. Phil, explaining the song’s name: “Well “ABACAB” originally was a way of remembering the sequence of the song. “A” was the verse, “B” was the chorus, “A” was the verse [again], “C” was the bridge. So it went verse, chorus, verse, bridge, verse, chorus. We didn’t do the song like that in the end. But our way of remembering it was, “It goes A-B-A-C-A-B, all right?” The way we did it in the end was unpronou

‘No Reply at All’ was released as the lead single from Abacab in September 1981, in the US. The US single version excludes the second verse of the song as it appears on the Abacab album. This was not the lead single from the album in the UK, do you know what was?👇 Watch Now 📽️ https://youtu.be/yjpSoEOUgKE?si=jdfOortptfeEaYqR | Genesis

“Abacab”, Live in Birmingham on The Mama Tour, 1984 🇬🇧 | Genesis