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3 unusual facts about Tony Banks


Apollo Pavilion

In 1998, English Heritage recommended the structure be given listed status but this was declined by Tony Banks in deference to the local political issue.

Greater London Council election, 1970

Among those who were first elected to the GLC in 1970 were Tony Banks (Labour, Hammersmith, later Minister for Sport) and Sir George Young (Conservative, Ealing, later a cabinet minister under John Major).

Tony Banks

Tony Banks, Baron Stratford (1942–2006), British Labour Party politician, Member of Parliament for West Ham


Chris Denari

Then he announced with Jeremy Leman and Tony Banks the Louisiana Tech at Illinois game in Champaign Illinois.

Dancing with the Moonlit Knight

This song is one of several tracks where Tony Banks used his newly acquired Mellotron M400; toward the middle of the song the 8 Voice choir is featured prominently, and in the closing section the strings are used.

Gilbert Hotel

#"The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway" – 4:56 (Peter Gabriel, Steve Hackett, Tony Banks, Mike Rutherford, Phil Collins)

Korg Wavestation

A few notable mainstream artists that used Wavestations in the early 1990s were Joe Zawinul Jan Hammer, Phil Collins, Gary Numan and Tony Banks of Genesis (who also used them on the band's 2007 European Tour) Depeche Mode, Michael Jackson, and Alan Clark and Guy Fletcher of Dire Straits.

Rupa Huq

Huq has been a researcher for Tony Banks and Patricia Hewitt In 2004, Huq stood as a parliamentary candidate for Labour in the European Parliament election in the North West.

Six of the Best

The classic quintet featuring Peter Gabriel, Mike Rutherford (whose birthday was on the day of the concert), Tony Banks, Steve Hackett and Phil Collins became a quartet during the period 1975-1977, helped by an invited drummer on tours (Bill Bruford (ex-Yes and ex-King Crimson) and then Chester Thompson, who became the touring drummer for the band until 1992 and in 2007).


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Seconds Out

Tony Banks stopped playing the piano introduction in concert during the Selling England by the Pound tour, as electric pianos of the time were not sensitive enough to recreate the "classical" feel of the introduction.