My reply to Marla Romesburg about Genesis:
MR> Don't leave yet! I am trying to think of the song that was written to a
MR> guy who killed one of the band members' friends. The guy was in the
MR> audience whenever this song was sung for the first time at a concert
MR> ....which song and who wrote it? Do you know anything else about this
MR> incident?
The song you are talking about is Phil Collins' "In The Ait Tonight", but  
the story behind it is not true - the lyrics in the song have nothing to  
do with a murder, they were improvised by Phil when he was writing the  
music.
I'll quote the following text from the Genesis Doscography:
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This entry is primarily to debunk the urban legend surrounding the
song. For some reason, In The Air Tonight has spawned an incredibly
convoluted story surrounding it that is completely untrue. The story
exists in many different variations. The basic kernel of the story is
that Phil witnessed a murder or a drowning, and wrote this
song. Variations and enhancements on it say he sang the song for the
first time ever live with the murderer in the audience, sometimes the
story even says the person was in the front row. All of this is
completely bogus.
In The Air Tonight was written when Phil got his home studio equipment
about the time of And Then There Were Three or Duke. All three Genesis
members got basically the same kind of equipment at the same
time. Phil was playing around with all the new things, and made the
song up as he went along. Since he usually keeps his demos and just
adds to them in the studio, he kept the strange but completely
improvised lyrics. There was no premeditated meaning to them at all.
If you listen to the original Face Value recording of the song, it
constantly switches vocal effects, sounds, and other filters and
processing.
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So that's all about it - quite disappointing, isn't it?
(Sorry it took me so long to reply - my box was down over the last week..)
Was, schon so spaet? Denn war's das wohl wieder...
  Henning
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