[10] The tour featured at the time some of the biggest instruments used by the band, including Rutherford's double-neck Rickenbacker guitar / Microfrets six-stringed bass and the largest drum kit ever used by Collins.

[8] He changed his appearance with a short haircut and styled facial hair[6] and dressed as Rael in a leather jacket, T-shirt and jeans.

In the last verse, the cone would collapse to reveal Gabriel wearing a body suit that glowed from lights placed under the stage.

", an explosion set off twin strobe lights that reveal Gabriel and a dummy figure dressed identically on each side of the stage, leaving the audience clueless as to which was real.

[8] During the final concert of the tour, roadie Geoff Banks acted as the dummy on stage, wearing nothing but a leather jacket.

[15] In one concert review, the theatrics for "The Musical Box", the show's finale and once the band's stage highlight, was seen as "crude and elementary" compared to the "sublime grandeur" of The Lamb...

[4] The decision was kept a secret from outsiders and media all through the tour, and Gabriel promised the band to stay silent about it for a while after its end in June 1975, to give them some time to prepare for a future without him.

By August, the news had leaked to the media anyway, and Gabriel wrote a personal statement to the English music press titled "Out, Angels Out" to explain his reasons and his view of his career up to this point; the piece was printed in several of the major rock music magazines.

", and the encore ("Watcher of the Skies" and "The Musical Box"), has been distributed unofficially via bootleg recordings and the grey market.

The 2007 reissue of The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway features the album with a visual reconstruction of the tour's stage show using the original backdrop slides, audience bootleg footage, and photographs.