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CAN you tell us about your first meeting with Peter?July 1976 in Toronto, at the studio where Peter was to do his first solo album. I didn’t know of Genesis’s music, so it was a revelation hearing the unusual style he has of writing, and great singing, and great guy on top of that. And he had a

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