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News has reached TWR that Richard Macphail died on 26th August, aged 73. He played a pivotal role in the Genesis story, first as singer in Anon and later when that band merged with Garden Wall to create Genesis he became tour manager and one-man road crew to the band in their formative Charisma years. Wikipedia has as page dedicated to Richard so I don't feel the need to put his life story here. I had the pleasure of meeting Richard on several occasions. The first time was in 2015 for a TWR interview at Ant Phillips house. He was very chatty and gave Alan and I a lot of insight into Genesis and his time on the road as Peter Gabriel's tour manager in he 1970's. The resulting interview can be found in TWR #93. As you will see by the tag line for the article, and also by the length of his replies to questions, 'very chatty' is an understatement. I was also fortunate enough to be invited to the launch of his book, My Book of Genesis at Daunt bookstore in Notting Hill, London. My lingering memory of that evening was seeing Richard bobbing around the crowded room with a huge smile on his face. In the heat of the moment and with camera in hand I turned around to see Peter Gabriel and Hugh Padgham chatting with Richard standing between the two of them, facing me. He looked and me, smiled and as I got my camera raised, he gave two thumbs up. His hands moved to quick for the camera to focus properly but you can clearly see what he was doing. That one photo summed him up to me.
Richard Macphail
17 September 1950 - 26 August 2024
Stuart Barnes
London
September 2024
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