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The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway is an album that surely stands as a testament to the power of Progressive Rock, to the music of Genesis, and to the persuasive power of Peter Gabriel’s writing that seems to straddle an unearthly brilliance that not only recognised the zeitgeist that the genre and America were witnessing, but inhabiting it, prising open the cracks on a generation of New Yorkers that were finding the time they were born into devoid of the promises guaranteed by failures of politicians, of the scourge of unemployment, drugs, abuse, gender and social politics that were not designed to liberate but confine, to jail, to imprison the freedoms won after World War Two.