• Writers: Tony Banks, Phil Collins, and Mike Rutherford
• Producers: Genesis and Hugh Padgham
• Recorded: Summer 1985 through early 1986 at The Farm in Surrey, England
• Released: March 1986
• Players:
  Phil Collins — vocals, drums
  Tony Banks — keyboards
  Mike Rutherford — guitar, bass
• Album: Invisible Touch (Atlantic, 1986)
• Also on:
  Live/The Way We Walk — Volume One: The Shorts (Atlantic, 1992)
  Turn It On Again: The Hits (Atlantic, 1999)
  A Hot Night In Paris (Atlantic, 1999) (Phil Collins)
  Genesis Archives, Vol. 2: 1976-1992 (Atlantic, 2000)
• “Invisible Touch” was Genesis‘s first and only Number One hit on the Billboard Hot 100, spending one week at the top of that chart.
• In the U.K., “Invisible Touch” reached Number 15 on the singles chart.
• Describing the song’s beginnings, singer-drummer Phil Collins said, “We were working on another song, and (guitarist-bassist) Mike (Rutherford) started playing that guitar riff… As soon as he started playing that, I started singing, ‘She seems to have an invisible touch.’ At that moment, we just knew we had a great hook, and then we just sort of wrote a song around it.”
• Keyboardist Tony Banks recalled that the other song “Invisible Touch” came out of was “The Last Domino,” another track on the Invisible Touch album. “We started playing this riff which… seemed to be good on its own and had a different character from what we were going for on the rest of it… At one point (we were) thinking of incorporating the two, but I’m glad we didn’t because ‘Invisible Touch’ makes a nice, concise piece.”
• Although Genesis had several hit singles before “Invisible Touch,” Banks noted that there was a marked difference in having a hit of that magnitude. “That was the advantage of a hit like ‘Invisible Touch’ — it attracted more people to hear all of our music. Every week hundreds of albums come out, and you can’t expect people to listen to all of them. But we felt very strongly about this album, and everything from the cover art to the designs was bold and striking. We were confident we had done something really good.”
• The Invisible Touch album peaked at Number Three on the Billboard 200 and sold more than five million copies.
• The album debuted at Number One on the British chart.
• A 12-inch dance club remix of “Invisible Touch” appears on the boxed set Genesis Archive #2.

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• After a second divorce and with his solo career booming, Collins announced his decision to leave Genesis in 1996. He later remarried and moved to Switzerland, though that union has also come apart, and he’s now living primarily in New York City. Banks and guitarist-bassist Rutherford carried on with new singer Ray Wilson, but the trio’s first album, 1997’s Calling All Stations, bombed, forcing the group to cancel a North American tour.
• Collins won an Oscar for his work on Disney’s animated feature Tarzan.