TONY: The big advantage to this album was that we hadn't included 'Supper's Ready' on 'Genesis Live' and we were playing it so much better now. That's such a strong song from our past on 'Foxtrot', the final parts sound great but the early parts are a bit rough. 'Seconds Out' was a chance to do the whole thing with some flow to it, which it didn't have before. 'Carpet Crawlers', for example, is much better on the live album.

MIKE: Phil's singing made the earlier songs sound very different.

PHIL: We were at Trident Studios mixing Seconds Out and I saw Steve on the street where I was parked and I said, 'Do you want a lift into town' because we were supposed to be mixing that day and he said, 'No, it's alright, I'll ring you later' - right? So I went into town and Mike said, 'Did Steve speak to you' and I said, 'No I just saw him' and he said, 'Well, you had better give him a ring because he wants to talk to you, he's leaving'. So I mean, I was in the studio, Tony and Mike and Dave Hentschel were there and they were like watching my face to see what I did, because they already knew. It was quite peculiar, when I first came in and said, 'I saw Steve, he should be down in a minute' and they said, 'I'm sorry, he's left' you know. So I rang him up and it was in front of everybody, they were all sitting there and I said, 'Well, it's OK mate, if that's what you want to do'. It's weird, but that was it, I just closed the door, you know. It was so emotionless. It's always worried me that his leaving like that could not bother me at all.

MIKE: I remember I felt a bit of relief. You feel strange when someone isn't as into it as you are.

TONY: It felt like it was time for him to move on.

PHIL: We had lots of discussions around the time of the show recorded in Paris. That stuck in my mind, that there were problems and suddenly there was no problem.