Tony Banks Biography

Birth of Anthony George Banks, later Genesis keyboard player and founding member.

Gabriel founds Genesis while a pupil at Charterhouse School with bandmates Tony Banks, Anthony Phillips, Mike Rutherford, and drummer Chris Stewart

Co-founds Genesis and becomes the band's longest-serving keyboard player and composer.

Founder Member of Genesis

Plays keyboards on From Genesis to Revelation as Genesis issue their first studio album.

Plays keyboards on Foxtrot, one of Genesis's defining progressive rock albums.

Composes much of Firth of Fifth, featuring one of his best-known keyboard introductions.

Contributes keyboards and composition to the ambitious double album The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway.

Contributes keyboards and composition to A Trick of the Tail during the first Collins-fronted era.

Plays keyboards on Duke as Genesis balances progressive writing with shorter songs.

Uses streamlined keyboard textures on Abacab as Genesis moves away from dense progressive arrangements.

Contributes keyboard atmosphere to Mama, one of Genesis's darker 1980s singles.

Contributes keyboards and composition to Domino, the extended piece on Invisible Touch.

Plays keyboards on We Can't Dance, the last Genesis studio album with Phil Collins.

Continues Genesis with Mike Rutherford and Ray Wilson on Calling All Stations.

Returns to large-scale touring with Genesis during the Turn It On Again reunion.

Plays Genesis's final concert at the O2 Arena in London.