Biography
Michael John Cleote Crawford Rutherford is an English musician. He is a founding member of Genesis and one of the band’s only two original members.
Initially serving as Genesis’ bass guitarist and backing vocalist, Rutherford also performed most of the band’s rhythm guitar parts – frequently on twelve-string guitar – in collaboration with successive Genesis lead guitarists Anthony Phillips and Steve Hackett. Following Hackett’s departure from Genesis in 1977, Rutherford assumed the additional role of lead guitarist on the band’s studio albums (beginning with …And Then There Were Three…). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Rutherford#Solo_albums
Album & Cover
Smallcreep’s Day is the debut solo studio album by English progressive rock guitarist-songwriter Mike Rutherford, released in February 1980 on Charisma Records. It was recorded in 1979 during a period of inactivity from his rock band Genesis, during which Rutherford and Genesis keyboardist Tony Banks recorded their first solo albums at Polar Studios in Stockholm, Sweden. The title track is based on the 1965 novel Smallcreep’s Day by Peter Currell Brown, adapted to have a happy ending. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallcreep%27s_Day_(album)
Richard Manning explains the procedure: This is a sepia toned black and white photograph. The paper has been exposed to the negative but instead of putting the print into a developer tray, developer has been splashed and flicked onto the paper with the consequence of only developing where the developer has landed. I then hand tinted the spots and blobs with Photo dye using a Sable brush.
Aubrey Powell discovered by accident if developing Bromides were deliberately splashed, a random pattern would occur…hence the design for this cover.
Cover Location: Original Photograph taken in Abbey Mills pumping station, East London, UK.
Who Did What: Photography A. Powell/S. Thorgerson
Label: Passport PB9843(US), Charisma CAS1149(UK)
Source: Vinyl. Album. Cover. Art – The Complete Hipgnosis Catalogue By Aubrey Powell
Hipgnosis | Portraits By Aubrey Powell
Tracklist
| Side One Smallcreep’s Day -Between The Tick And The Tock -Working In Line -After Hours -Cats And Rats (In The Neighbourhood) -Smallcreep Alone -Out Into The Daylight -At The End Of The Day |
Side Two Moonshine Time And Time Again Romani Every Road Overnight Job |
Credits
Drums – Simon Phillips
Guitar, Bass – Mike Rutherford
Keyboards – Ant Phillips
Percussion – Morris Pert
Producer, Engineer – David Hentschel
Vocals – Noel McCalla
