• Writer: Tony Banks, Phil Collins, and Mike Rutherford
• Producer: David Hentschel and Genesis
• Recorded: Late 1977/early 1978 at Relight Studios in Hilvarenbeek, Holland
• Released: March 1978
• Players:
  Phil Collins — vocals, drums, percussion
  Tony Banks — keyboards
  Mike Rutherford — guitar, bass
• Album: And Then There Were Three… (Atlantic, 1978)
• Also On:
  Three Sides Live (Atlantic, 1982)
  Turn It On Again: The Hits (Atlantic, 1999)
• “Follow You, Follow Me” was Genesis‘s first major hit in the U.S., peaking at Number 23 on the Billboard Hot 100.
• It was also the group’s first top 10 hit in the U.K., reaching Number Seven.
• “Follow You, Follow Me” is a group composition, which was rare for Genesis at that time.
• Keyboardist Tony Banks remembered, “We weren’t thinking in terms of a single at all, at the time. We were just jamming… and suddenly realized that it would make a really good single. We had thought that so many times in the past, but it had never proved to be the case. As it happened, our producer David Hentschel didn’t like the song at all, and it almost got shelved.”
• With punk rock raging around them and many of the punks targeting Genesis among the bands they were rebelling against, the group tried to keep the songs on And Then There Were Three… shorter and more direct, according to guitarist-bassist Mike Rutherford: “We were trying to prove ourselves… We’d said to ourselves, ‘Let’s keep some of the songs a bit shorter this time, so we can get slightly more variety.’ That made for a certain sort of album.”
• In fact, And Then There Were Three… is generally considered one of Genesis’s slightest albums. Even singer-drummer Phil Collins noted, “It’s not one of my favorite albums.”
• Nevertheless, it was successful, hitting Number 14 on the Billboard 200 and earning Genesis its first platinum album. In the U.K., it reached Number Three.
• As the title indicates, And Then There Were Three… was also Genesis’s first album as a trio. Guitarist Steve Hackett had left the band in the summer of 1977, as Genesis was mixing their live album Seconds Out.

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• After a second divorce and with his solo career booming, Collins announced his decision to leave Genesis in 1996. Banks and Rutherford carried on with new singer Ray Wilson, but the trio’s first album, 1997’s Calling All Stations, stiffed, forcing the group to cancel a North American tour.
• Collins won an Oscar for his work on Disney’s animated feature Tarzan.
• Collins’s music career almost came to an end in 2000 when he suddenly lost his hearing. During a business meeting, Collins was struck with Sudden Deafness, which is a stroke in the ears. “My hearing suddenly started fading over the course of an evening. It was a shock. I didn’t know what it was. It was just so weird. Then I couldn’t hear,” Collins told British newspaper The Mirror. The condition also affected his sense of balance, although his brain was able to compensate for the disturbance and he was able to walk after a while. His hearing has since returned, though he’s careful with it.
• Collins was inducted into the Songwriters Hall Of Fame in 2003.