And I'm answering that I, for one, gave it a chance neither because he used to be in Genesis, nor because it got a lot of attention from eMpTyVee. I got it because (a) I'd been following him since ... well, alright, I skipped 2, but I'd been following him on and off since Solsbury Hill (and got the album) and Games Without Frontiers (and got the album, and got all the albums after that), which they played on 'HFS once in a while, and (b) because my circle of friends and cousins in my college youth kept me apprised of these things.
And I think I'm representative -- not of the majority, but of a not insignificant fraction of those that got that album. A combination of word-of-mouth and radio.
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