'Now Michael, you're the son of a naval officer, you must behave like a naval of
ficer at all times.' What Captain William Rutherford told his seven-year-old son
Michael was to stay with him all his life. Born in 1950, Michael was truly his
father's son, even serving in the naval section of the student cadet corps at on
e of England's top public schools, Charterhouse. Mike's future lay in the civil
service: it was a subject that he discussed with his father at Captain Crawford'
s gentlemen's club. But then something happened. Mike discovered rock music. As
one of the founder members of Genesis, Mike was to tour the world and achieve in
ternational fame. From unpromising beginnings, Mike would go on to crisscross th
e globe with bandmates Peter Gabriel and, later, Phil Collins, playing to packed
-out stadiums and achieving record sales of over 150 million.
