Not that the band's profile was left to suffer, far from it. The band released the by now compulsory live video record of the tour early in 1989, titled "Genesis - The Invisible Touch Tour". The video captured the band on stunning form at their four shows at Wembley Stadium at the end of their ten month world tour. Initial copies of this video (5000 in all) were accompanied by a live CD single featuring Domino and, this is now a highly sought after package!

Fans had to content themselves with the various solo efforts by Tony, Mike and Phil before the band reconvened early in 1991 to begin work on what was to be, in early November, their fourteenth studio album, "We Can't Dance". The album was preceded by a single, "No Son Of Mine" which reached the number six position in the UK charts late in October. The song was accompanied by a very dramatic video including an appearance by Martino Lazzeri whom some of our older readers may remember from the BBC children's series "Grange Hill".

"We Can't Dance" was released on November 21, and immediately entered the UK charts at the number one position, a success it soon repeated elsewhere. The album saw a welcome return to form by the band and a selection of songs including several more traditional Genesis opi, which seemed to many, to be a reaction against the more overtly commercial atmosphere of the band's previous album, a view that Mike agreed with to a point... "A lot of people thought that we had 'gone American' with the last album, but the fact is that in America, a hit single and video can be so high profile that they can dwarf an album, and people tend to forget everything that has gone before and it can overshadow an album. I certainly felt that it was time for a change..."

The album certainly had a wider mix of music and styles including the gorgeous final track "Fading Lights", and the highly amusing swipe at TV Evangelists, "Jesus He Knows Me" which caused unprecedented controversy for a Genesis track, when released as a single in 1992, even prompting the dear old BBC to ban the video - naughty, Genesis!

With their third single from the new album, the band ran into serious trouble with the style critics, who had for years branded the band as "unhip". "Hold On My Heart" was to see the band make their third consecutive appearance on the BBC's Top Of The Pops programme, a feat previously unheard of in the annals of the band! Like its predecessors, this release also contained two more live tracks spread over two CDs including the live version of "Your Own Special Way" from the band's live shows in Australia in 1986, which included a string section.

By now, the band were preparing to embark on the tour to promote the new album, and with a massive new stage set which included the first three Sony "Jumbotron" video screens , it certainly took everyone by surprise, and involved lots of work by the band themselves, as Tony remarked... "Once we had decided that we were going to use the screens... we also decided that we wanted to use them as a special effect, like we had tried to do with "The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway" but now we had the technology to do it..."

Using the screens certainly brought an added dimension to certain tracks, and highlights from the new set included a magnificent medley of old tracks, opening with Mike's guitar chords to "Dance On A Volcano", accompanied by an equally fiery explosion on the video screens. The band began their tour at the Dallas Reunion Centre on May 8, after three weeks' intensive pre-production rehearsal in Houston.

During the summer tour the band usually played the following songs in the live set...

Land Of Confusion / No Son Of Mine / Driving The Last Spike / Dance On A Volcano - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway - Musical Box - Firth Of Fifth - I Know What I Like - Illegal Alien - That's All - Your Own Special Way / Throwing It All Away / Fading Lights / Jesus He Knows Me / Home By The Sea - Second Home By The Sea / Hold On My Heart / Domino / Drum Duet / I Can't Dance / Tonight, Tonight, Tonight - Invisible Touch / Turn It On Again

There were some alterations, however, at the first couple of Stateside gigs, "Mama" was played before Phil's vocal problems led to its omission from later sets. In Europe, "Dreaming While You Sleep" was played until the band heard of the death in a car crash of a fan, and dropped it from the set as a mark of respect.

No such respect was shown to the band's fourth and final single from the album, "Jesus he Knows Me", elicited howls of delight from the fans who saw its delightfully funny send up of unscrupulous TV Evangelists in the video. The authorities here in the UK however, did not share the fans' delight and the BBC banned the video. The single once again included a non-album track in the form of the upbeat "Hearts On Fire", as well as coming with a box in which you could place all of the other CD singles in the "Invisible Series".

After the band's final show at Knebworth on August 2, they took a well-deserved break from group activities, and fans could easily be forgiven for thinking that the group were about to go on extended hiatus again. Nothing could have been further from the truth as the band lined up a series of shows at the cavernous Earl's Court Arena in London and, in an amazing gesture to their British fans, a series of shows in the more intimate setting of some of Britain's most well known theatres, which had not been graced by Genesis since the heady days of the Duke album and tour almost twelve years earlier!

The shows at Earls Court were also filmed for the obligatory live video of the tour which was issued in April 1993. "The Mama Tour" and "Invisible Touch Tour Live" videos had, in the interim, been re-packaged to coincide with the tour, and had been issued as a double pack on November 16, before both videos were subsequently deleted.

Prior to the release of the video, part two of the live album had been released on January 11, 1993, and titled, strangely enough "The Way We Walk Volume Two: The Longs", containing as it did, the longer tracks from the band's recent live set. The final recorded item to emerge from the "We Can't Dance" album, was the "Tell Me Why?" single which was released on February 9, including live material on both CD issues. The proceeds from sales of this single were donated to two charities connected to the relief of war victims in Bosnia.

Another massive success left Genesis riding high, both at home and abroad, and the band went their own separate ways, being briefly reunited as part of the so-called "Ruins Band" for a special charity gig at Cowdrey Ruins on September 18, 1993, in the company of such alumni as Pink Floyd and the surviving members of Queen.