My greatest reward is knowing for certain, as I do with many other acts and artistes, that without Jonathan King being alive and involved, Genesis would not exist, and the guys would have had careers as intended - as accountants and lawyers!

I was sad Jon Ronson, who wrote in the Guardian and has made a TV show for Channel 4, took against me.

As for the tabloids the stories are so ludicrous that they are not worth rejecting.

Who authorised the spend of millions of pounds and thousands of man hours into a stale, historical situation from three decades ago - with virtually no complaints made?

We worked as a team... I was one of the band.

The l00 club and the Marquee for rock - that's where the idea for genesis started.

Sadly, since I took no over-ride royalty for discovering or naming or nurturing them, we make nothing from the subsequent Genesis years or product.

No, my profile has leaped over recent years, so has my life experience, and I look forward to the next 30 years being even more rewarding and satisfying than the previous 60!

Anthony Phillips was more volatile and outspoken.