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==== Track listing ====
All songs written by [[wikipedia:Tony Banks (musician)|Tony Banks]], [[wikipedia:Peter Gabriel|Peter Gabriel]], [[wikipedia:Anthony Phillips|Anthony Phillips]], and [[wikipedia:Mike Rutherford|Mike Rutherford]].<ref name=1969LP>{{cite AV media notes|url=https://www.discogs.com/Genesis-From-Genesis-To-Revelation/release/2830296|title=From Genesis to Revelation|year=1969|id=SKL 4990|publisher=Decca Records|others=[[wikipedia:Genesis (band)|Genesis]]}}</ref>
 
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'''''The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway''''' is the sixth studio album by the English [[wikipedia:progressive rock|progressive rock]] band [[wikipedia:Genesis (band)|Genesis]]. It was released as a double album on 18 November 1974<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.needsomefun.net/november-18-1974-genesis-released-the-lamb-lies-down-on-broadway/ |website=NeedSomefun.net|title=Genesis released the Lamb lies down on Broadway}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.discogs.com/Genesis-The-Lamb-Lies-Down-On-Broadway/release/3858055/ |website=discogs.net|title=Genesis The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway}}</ref> by [[wikipedia:Charisma Records|Charisma Records]] and is their last to feature original frontman [[wikipedia:Peter Gabriel|Peter Gabriel]]. It peaked at No. 10 on the [[wikipedia:UK Albums Chart|UK Albums Chart]] and No. 41 on the [[wikipedia:Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]] in the US.
 
While the band worked on new material at [[wikipedia:Hedley Grange|Hedley Grange]] for three months, they decided to produce a [[wikipedia:concept album|concept album]] with a story devised by Gabriel about Rael, a Puerto Rican youth from New York City who is suddenly taken on a journey of self-discovery and encounters bizarre incidents and characters along the way. The album was marked by increased tensions within the band as Gabriel, who insisted on writing all of the lyrics, temporarily left to work with filmmaker [[wikipedia:William Friedkin|William Friedkin]] and needed time to be with his family. Most of the songs were developed by the rest of the band through [[wikipedia:jam sessions|jam sessions]] and were put down at Glaspant Manor in Wales using a mobile studio.