Tony Banks

Tony Banks is a founding member and the keyboardist of the rock band Genesis, and appears to be responsible in large part for some of their weirder post-Peter Gabriel tunes.

His main solo albums include:
 * "A Curious Feeling"- 1979
 * "The Fugitive"- 1983
 * "Bankstatement"- 1989
 * "Still"- 1991
 * "Strictly Inc."- 1995
 * "Seven: A Suite for Orchestra"- 2004
 * Six Pieces for Orchestra - 2012

Other albums include:
 * "The Wicked Lady Soundtrack"- 1983
 * "Soundtracks"- 1986

Tony Banks and his music provide examples of these tropes:
"I walk the backstreets
 * Concept Album: A Curious Feeling.
 * Born in The Wrong Century: The protagonist of the song "Throwback" from the album Bankstatement:

Of every dirty city, searching for the route

That leads me back to where I belong

I don't know how, but I'm trapped in the wrong time

If you know someplace I can go

Then I ask you, lead me to the door!"


 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Gentleman Snarker
 * Good Is Not Nice
 * Happily Married
 * He Also Did: Seven: A Suite For Orchestra, an album of original classical music performed by The London Philharmonic Orchestra.
 * His second classical album Six Pieces for Orchestra was released in 2012.
 * Hey Its That Guy: Performers on Banks's albums have included Derek "Fish" Dick (of Marillion), Jayney Klimek, and Jack Hues of Wang Chung.
 * Lonely Piano Piece: "In The Dark" from A Curious Feeling.
 * Loss of Identity: This happens to the protagonist of the Concept Album A Curious Feeling.
 * One of Us: Banks is a self-confessed fan of The Lord of the Rings.
 * Pop Star Composer: Banks scored the 1983 Faye Dunaway movie The Wicked Lady and the 1986 Kevin Bacon movie Quicksilver (no, not this Quicksilver, the one about the bike messengers), among others.
 * May be somewhat subverted, as Banks has not yet achieved the fame that his Genesis bandmates and fellow Pop Star Composers Peter Gabriel and Phil Collins have.
 * Rich Idiot With No Day Job: Though he came from a wealthy/upper class background and met his fellow Genesis founders at the prestigious public school they all attended, this is an averted trope.
 * Ripped From the Headlines: Word of God says that "Strictly Incognito" from the album Strictly Inc. is loosely based on an actual case Banks read about in the newspaper.
 * Sanity Slippage Album: A Curious Feeling.
 * The Stoic
 * What Could Have Been: Banks was hired to score  ~2010: The Year We Make Contact~  but was fired due to Creative Differences.