With the departure of guitarist Steve Hackett, Tony Banks reducing Genesis, Mike Rutherford and Phil Collins, 1978 marked a turning point in the career of the leaving group of progressive style to a pop rock format, through their ninth album And Then There Were Three germ which already solo career that Collins will outline three years later Locked in a short format, how to narrow hits can get on the radio, the songs bring to the fore the voice of Phil tumultuous interpreting melodies (Undertow, Ballad of Big) while Snowbound and Say It's Alright Joe already contain the spirit of the FM band in the 80s own slows water Sauvé, The Lady Lies remains the jewel of this long drive harbinger of how Genesis will pass to posterity, unfortunately making too quickly forget everything that came before.