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| name = Phil Collins |
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| alt = Collins during a concert in London in 2022 |
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| caption = Collins at [[The O2 Arena|the O<sub>2</sub> Arena]] in London, 2022 |
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| birth_name = Philip David Charles Collins |
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1951|1|30}} |
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| birth_place = [[Wandsworth]], [[London]], England |
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*{{marriage|Andrea Bertorelli<br>|1975|1980|end=div}} |
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* Musician |
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*{{marriage|Jill Tavelman<br>|1984|1996|end=div}} |
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* singer |
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*{{marriage|Orianne Cevey<br>|1999|2008|end=div}} |
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* songwriter |
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* record producer |
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* 1963–2011 |
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* {{marriage|Andrea Bertorelli|1975|1980|end=div}} |
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* {{marriage|Jill Tavelman|1984|1996|end=div}} |
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* {{marriage|Orianne Cevey|1999|2006|end=div}} |
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| genre = {{hlist|[[Pop music|Pop]]<ref name="Phil Collins AllMusic">{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/phil-collins-mn0000337119/biography|title=Phil Collins Biography|publisher=AllMusic|first=William|last=Ruhlmann|accessdate=16 April 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2015/10/29/entertainment/phil-collins-ends-retirement-feat/|title=Phil Collins' fans rejoice: Artist announces end of retirement|first=Ed|last=Payne|publisher=CNN|date=29 October 2015}}</ref>|[[soft rock]]<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/5293764/Ozzy-Osbourne-I-love-Phil-Collins.html|title=Ozzy Osbourne: 'I love Phil Collins'|work=The Daily Telegraph|first=Murray|last=Wardrop|date=8 May 2009| accessdate=23 December 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://80music.about.com/od/genresmovements/tp/softrockartists.htm|title='80s Soft Rock/Adult Contemporary Artists – Top 10 Soft Rock/Adult Contemporary Artists of the '80s|publisher=80music.about.com|accessdate=12 March 2014}}</ref>|[[progressive rock]]<ref name="Genesis AllMusic">{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/genesis-mn0000199995/biography|title=Genesis Biography|first=Bruce|last=Eder|publisher=AllMusic|accessdate=16 April 2014}}</ref>|[[art rock]]<ref name="Phil Collins AllMusic"/>|[[jazz fusion]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/brand-x-mn0000614982/biography|title=Brand X Biography|first=Steve|last=Huey|publisher=AllMusic|accessdate=16 April 2014}}</ref>}} |
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| children = 5, including [[Joely Collins|Joely]], [[Simon Collins|Simon]], [[Lily Collins|Lily]], and [[Nic Collins (drummer)|Nic]] |
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| relatives = [[Clive Collins]] (brother) |
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| label = {{hlist|[[Virgin Records|Virgin]]|[[Atlantic Records|Atlantic]]|[[Warner Music Group|WEA]]|[[Walt Disney Records|Walt Disney]]|[[Rhino Entertainment|Rhino]]}} |
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| associated_acts = {{hlist|[[Genesis (band)|Genesis]]|[[Brand X]]|[[Flaming Youth (band)|Flaming Youth]]|[[Lily Collins]]|[[Eric Clapton]]|[[Earth, Wind & Fire]]|[[Brian Eno]]|[[Robert Plant]]|[[The Phil Collins Big Band]]}}<!--Please do not add to this list without first discussing your proposal on the talk page. --> |
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* [[Pop music|Pop]]<ref name="Phil Collins AllMusic">{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/phil-collins-mn0000337119/biography|title=Phil Collins Biography|website=AllMusic|first=William|last=Ruhlmann|access-date=16 April 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://edition.cnn.com/2015/10/29/entertainment/phil-collins-ends-retirement-feat/|title=Phil Collins' fans rejoice: Artist announces end of retirement|first=Ed|last=Payne|publisher=CNN|date=29 October 2015}}</ref> |
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'''Philip David Charles''' "'''Phil'''" '''Collins''' {{post-nominals|LVO}} (born 30 January 1951)<ref name="Phil Collins Allmusic">{{cite web | url= http://www.allmusic.com/artist/phil-collins-mn0000337119/biography | title= Phil Collins Biography | publisher=Allmusic | accessdate=16 April 2014}}</ref><ref>GRO Register of Births MAR 1951 5e 137 EALING – Philip D. C. Collins, mmn=Strange</ref> is an English singer, songwriter, instrumentalist, record producer and actor. He is best known as the drummer and lead singer in the rock band [[Genesis (band)|Genesis]] and as a solo artist. Between 1983 and 1990, Collins scored three UK and seven US number-one singles in his solo career. When his work with Genesis, his work with other artists, as well as his solo career is totalled, Collins had more US Top 40 singles than any other artist during the 1980s.<ref name="Top">{{cite news|first=John|last=Anderson|title=Pop Notes|work=Newsday|location=New York|date=7 January 1990}}</ref> His most successful singles from the period include "[[In the Air Tonight]]", "[[Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)]]", "[[One More Night (Phil Collins song)|One More Night]]", "[[Sussudio]]" and "[[Another Day in Paradise]]". |
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* [[soft rock]]<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/5293764/Ozzy-Osbourne-I-love-Phil-Collins.html|title=Ozzy Osbourne: 'I love Phil Collins'|work=The Daily Telegraph|first=Murray|last=Wardrop|date=8 May 2009| access-date=23 December 2015}}</ref> |
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* [[progressive rock]]<ref name="Genesis AllMusic">{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/genesis-mn0000199995/biography|title=Genesis Biography|first=Bruce|last=Eder|website=AllMusic|access-date=16 April 2014}}</ref> |
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* [[art rock]]<ref name="Phil Collins AllMusic" /> |
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* [[jazz fusion]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/brand-x-mn0000614982/biography|title=Brand X Biography|first=Steve|last=Huey|website=AllMusic|access-date=16 April 2014}}</ref> |
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* [[blue-eyed soul]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://consequence.net/2016/10/phil-collins-has-serious-disdain-for-paul-mccartney/|title=Phil Collins has serious disdain for Paul McCartney|website=Consequence|first=Alex|last=Galbraith|date=19 October 2016|access-date=20 November 2018}}</ref> |
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* Vocals |
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* drums |
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* keyboards |
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* [[Virgin Records|Virgin]] |
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* [[Atlantic Records|Atlantic]] |
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* [[Warner Music Group|WEA]] |
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* [[Walt Disney Records|Walt Disney]] |
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* [[Rhino Entertainment|Rhino]] |
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* [[Brand X]] |
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* [[Flaming Youth (band)|Flaming Youth]] |
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* [[Genesis (band)|Genesis]] |
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| website = {{URL|https://philcollins.com/}} |
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'''Philip David Charles Collins''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|LVO}} (born 30 January 1951) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, record producer and actor. He was the drummer and later became the lead singer of the rock band [[Genesis (band)|Genesis]] and had a successful solo career, achieving three UK number-one singles and seven US number-one singles as a solo artist. In total, his work with Genesis, other artists, and solo resulted in more US top-40 singles than any other artist throughout the 1980s.<ref name="Top">{{cite news|first=John|last=Anderson|title=Pop Notes|work=Newsday|location=New York|date=7 January 1990}}</ref> His most successful singles from the period include "[[In the Air Tonight]]", "[[Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)]]", "[[One More Night (Phil Collins song)|One More Night]]", "[[Sussudio]]", "[[Another Day in Paradise]]" and "[[I Wish It Would Rain Down]]". |
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Born and raised in west London, Collins began playing drums at age five. During the same period he attended drama school which secured him various roles as a child actor. His first major role was the [[Artful Dodger]] in the [[West End theatre|West End]] production of the musical ''[[Oliver!]]''. As an accomplished professional actor by his early teens, he pivoted to pursue a music career, becoming the drummer for Genesis in 1970, at age 19. He took over the role of lead singer in 1975 following the departure of [[Peter Gabriel]]. During the second half of the 1970s, in-between Genesis albums and tours, Collins was also the drummer of jazz rock band [[Brand X]]. Collins began a successful solo career in the 1980s, initially inspired by his marital breakdown and love of [[soul music]], releasing the albums ''[[Face Value (album)|Face Value]]'' (1981), ''[[Hello, I Must Be Going! (album)|Hello, I Must Be Going]]'' (1982), ''[[No Jacket Required]]'' (1985) and ''[[...But Seriously]]'' (1989). Collins became, in the words of [[AllMusic]], "one of the most successful pop and [[Adult contemporary music|adult contemporary]] singers of the '80s and beyond".<ref name="Phil Collins Allmusic">{{cite web | url= https://www.allmusic.com/artist/phil-collins-mn0000337119/biography | title= Phil Collins Biography | website=Allmusic | access-date=16 April 2014}}</ref> He also became known for a distinctive [[gated reverb]] drum sound on many of his recordings.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/mar05/articles/qa0305_3.htm|title=Q. How do I set up a gated reverb?|work=Sound On Sound|first=Steve|last=Howell|date=March 2005|access-date=31 January 2016}}</ref> He played drums on the 1984 charity single "[[Do They Know It's Christmas?]]", and in July 1985, he was the only artist to perform at both [[Live Aid]] concerts. He also resumed his acting career, appearing in ''[[Miami Vice]]'' and subsequently starring in the film ''[[Buster (film)|Buster]]'' (1988). |
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Collins left Genesis in 1996 to focus on solo work; this included writing songs for [[Walt Disney Animation Studios|Disney's]] animated film ''[[Tarzan (1999 film)|Tarzan]]'' (1999). He wrote and performed the songs, "[[Two Worlds (song)|Two Worlds]]", "[[Son of Man (song)|Son of Man]]", "[[Strangers Like Me]]" and "[[You'll Be in My Heart]]", the latter of which earned him the [[Academy Award for Best Original Song]]. He rejoined Genesis for their [[Turn It On Again: The Tour|Turn It On Again Tour]] in 2007. Following a five-year retirement to focus on his family life, Collins released his memoir in 2016 and completed his [[Not Dead Yet Tour]] in 2019. He then rejoined Genesis in 2020 for a [[The Last Domino? Tour|second reunion tour]], ending in March 2022. |
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[[Phil Collins discography|Collins' discography]] includes eight studio albums that have sold 33.5 million certified units in the US and an estimated 150 million worldwide, making him one of the [[List of best-selling music artists|world's best-selling artists]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2011/SHOWBIZ/Music/03/10/phil.collins.retirement/index.html|title=Phil Collins leaves music industry to be full-time dad|last=Walker|first=Brian|date=10 March 2011|publisher=CNN|accessdate=14 October 2013}}</ref> He is one of only two recording artists, along with [[Paul McCartney]], who have sold over 100 million records worldwide both as solo artists and separately as principal members of a band.<ref>See [[List of best-selling music artists]] for information and references of sales figures.</ref> He has won seven [[Grammy Award]]s, six [[Brit Awards]], two [[Golden Globe Award]]s, an [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]], and a [[Disney Legends#2002|Disney Legend]] Award.<ref>{{cite web|title=Disney Legends|url=http://d23.disney.go.com/archives/disney-legends/|publisher=[[Disney D23]]|accessdate=24 February 2013}}</ref> In 1999, he received a star on the [[List of stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame#C|Hollywood Walk of Fame]] and was inducted into the [[List of Songwriters Hall of Fame inductees|Songwriters Hall of Fame]] in 2003, the [[List of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees#Performers|Rock and Roll Hall of Fame]] as a member of Genesis in 2010, the ''[[Modern Drummer]]'' Hall of Fame in 2012, and the ''Classic Drummer'' Hall of Fame in 2013.<ref>{{cite web|title=Songwriters Hall of Fame announces 2003 inductees: Phil Collins, Queen, Van Morrison and Little Richard|url=http://www.songwritershalloffame.org/ceremony/C3124|publisher=[[Songwriters Hall of Fame]]|accessdate=24 February 2013}}</ref><ref name="RockHallofFame">{{cite web|url=http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/breaking-news/entertainment/genesis-inducted-into-hall-of-fame-14722724.html?r=RSS|title=Genesis inducted into hall of fame|work=[[The Belfast Telegraph]]|date=16 March 2010|accessdate=23 February 2013}}</ref><ref name="Modern Drummer">{{cite web|url=http://www.moderndrummer.com/modern-drummers-readers-poll-archive/#_|title=Modern Drummer’s Readers Poll Archive, 1979–2014|work=[[Modern Drummer]]|accessdate=8 August 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.classicdrummerhalloffame.com/phil-collins|title=Phil Collins Hall of Fame Induction|last=|first=|date=|website=|publisher=[[Classic Drummer]]|access-date=18 January 2017}}</ref> Despite his commercial success and his status as a respected and influential drummer, music critics are divided in their opinion of his work and he has publicly received both [[#Criticism and praise|criticism and praise]] from other prominent music artists. |
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[[Phil Collins discography|Collins's discography]] includes eight studio albums that have sold 33.5 million certified units in the US and an estimated 150 million records sold worldwide, making him one of the [[List of best-selling music artists|world's best-selling artists]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2011/SHOWBIZ/Music/03/10/phil.collins.retirement/index.html|title=Phil Collins leaves music industry to be full-time dad|last=Walker|first=Brian|date=10 March 2011|publisher=CNN|access-date=14 October 2013}}</ref> He is one of only three recording artists, along with [[Paul McCartney]] and [[Michael Jackson]], who have sold over 100 million records both as solo artists and separately as principal members of a band.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/book-excerpt-phil-collins-not-dead-yet/|title=Book excerpt: Phil Collins' "Not Dead Yet"|publisher=[[CBS News]]|date=22 October 2016|access-date=25 August 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2015/10/29/entertainment/phil-collins-ends-retirement-feat/|title=Phil Collins' fans rejoice: Artist announces end of retirement|last=Payne|first=Ed|date=29 October 2015|publisher=CNN|access-date=25 August 2017}}</ref> He has won eight [[Grammy Awards|Grammy Award]]s, six [[Brit Awards]] (winning [[Brit Award for British Male Solo Artist|Best British Male Artist]] three times), two [[Golden Globe Award]]s, one [[Academy Award]], and a [[Disney Legends#2002|Disney Legend]] Award.<ref>{{cite news|title=Phil Collins 'no longer retired'|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-34659811|agency=BBC|date=2 January 2018}}</ref> He was awarded six [[Ivor Novello Awards]] from the [[British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors]], including the International Achievement Award. He received a star on the [[List of stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame#C|Hollywood Walk of Fame]] in 1999, and was inducted into the [[List of Songwriters Hall of Fame inductees|Songwriters Hall of Fame]] in 2003 and the [[List of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees#Performers|Rock and Roll Hall of Fame]] as a member of Genesis in 2010. He has also been recognised by music publications with induction into the ''[[Modern Drummer]]'' Hall of Fame in 2012, and the ''Classic Drummer'' Hall of Fame in 2013.<ref name="Modern Drummer">{{cite web|url=http://www.moderndrummer.com/modern-drummers-readers-poll-archive/#_|title=Modern Drummer's Readers Poll Archive, 1979–2014|work=[[Modern Drummer]]|access-date=8 August 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.classicdrummerhalloffame.com/phil-collins|title=Phil Collins Hall of Fame Induction |publisher=Classic Drummer |access-date=18 January 2017}}</ref> |
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==Early life== |
==Early life== |
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Philip David Charles Collins was born on 30 January 1951 at [[Putney Hospital]] in [[London Borough of Wandsworth|Wandsworth]], south-west London.{{sfn|Collins|2016|p=}}{{sfn|Coleman|1997|p=27}} His father, Greville Philip Austin Collins (1907–1972), was an insurance agent for [[Sun Alliance (company)|London Assurance]] and his mother, Winifred June Collins (née Strange, 1913–2011), worked in a toy shop and later as a booking agent at the [[Barbara Speake Stage School]], an independent performing arts school in [[East Acton]].{{sfn|Coleman|1997|p=31}}<ref name=PB86>{{cite web|url=http://www.philcollins.co.uk/playboy1086.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020901095400/http://www.philcollins.co.uk/playboy1086.htm|archive-date=1 September 2002|title=Phil Collins Interviews – Playboy, October 1986|date=October 1986|first=David|last=Sheff|access-date=23 January 2022}}</ref> Collins is the youngest of three children: his sister Carole competed as a professional ice skater and followed her mother's footsteps as a theatrical agent, and his brother [[Clive Collins|Clive]] was a noted cartoonist.<ref name=PB86/><ref name=DE94>{{cite web|url=http://www.philcollins.co.uk/express94.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051220063958/http://www.philcollins.co.uk/express94.htm|archive-date=20 December 2005|title=A case of mothers' pride|first=Victoria|last=Hinton|date=1994|work=The Daily Express|access-date=25 November 2019}}</ref> The family moved twice by the time Collins had reached two; they settled at 453 Hanworth Road in [[Hounslow]], [[Middlesex]].{{sfn|Coleman|1997|p=28}} |
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Philip David Charles Collins was born on 30 January 1951 in [[Chiswick]], west London, England,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1317163/Phil-Collins-becomes-a-father-again-at-age-of-50.html|title=Phil Collins becomes a father again at age of 50|work=The Daily Telegraph|first=Hugh|last=Davies|date=25 April 2001|accessdate=16 August 2014}}</ref> the son of Winifred M. "June" (née Strange), a theatrical agent, and Greville Philip Austin Collins, an insurance agent.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/49/Phil-Collins.html|title=Phil Collins Biography (1951–)|publisher=Filmreference.com|accessdate=9 July 2011}}</ref><ref>GRO Register of Marriages SEP 1934 3a 706 BRENTFORD – Grevelle Collins to Winifred M. Strange</ref> He was given a toy drum kit for Christmas when he was five. Later, his uncle made him a makeshift set that he used regularly. As Collins grew older, these were followed by more complete sets bought by his parents.<ref>Coleman, Ray. ''Phil Collins: The Definitive Biography'', Simon & Schuster. London. 1997. pp. 29–30. ISBN 0-684-81784-5</ref> He practiced by playing with music on the television and radio.<ref name=":0">''Classic Albums: Face Value'' DVD, Eagle Home Entertainment, 2001.</ref> According to Barbara Speake, founder of the [[Barbara Speake Stage School|eponymous stage school]] Collins later attended, "Phil was always special; aged five he entered a [[Butlins]] talent contest singing [[The Ballad of Davy Crockett|Davy Crockett]], but he stopped the orchestra halfway through to tell them they were in the wrong key."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2009/jan/10/children-growing-talent-show |title=Think your child has a future in showbiz? Read on …|work=The Guardian|first=Gill|last=Sutherland|date=10 January 2009|accessdate=29 June 2014}}</ref> His professional acting training began at age 14, at the [[Barbara Speake Stage School]], a fee-paying but non-selective independent school in [[East Acton]], west London, whose talent agency had been established by his mother.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thestage.co.uk/features/2005/02/speake-up-for-drama-barbara-speake/|title=Speake up for drama–Barbara Speake|last=Elkin|first=Susan|date=7 February 2005|work=The Stage|accessdate=29 June 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.barbaraspeake.com/agency.htm|title=The Barbara Speake Agency|work=The Barbara Speake Stage School|accessdate=16 August 2014}}</ref> |
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Collins was given a toy drum kit for Christmas when he was five, and later his two uncles made him a makeshift set with triangles and tambourines that fitted into a suitcase.{{sfn|Coleman|1997|p=29}} As Collins grew older, these were followed by more complete sets bought by his parents.{{sfn|Coleman|1997|pp=29–30}} He practised by playing along to music on the television and radio.<ref name=":0">''Classic Albums: Face Value'' DVD, Eagle Home Entertainment, 2001.</ref> During a family holiday at [[Butlin's]], a seven-year-old Collins entered a talent contest singing "[[The Ballad of Davy Crockett]]", but stopped the orchestra halfway through to tell them they were in the wrong key.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2009/jan/10/children-growing-talent-show |title=Think your child has a future in showbiz? Read on ... |work=The Guardian|first=Gill|last=Sutherland|date=10 January 2009|access-date=29 June 2014}}</ref>{{sfn|Coleman|1997|p=31}} [[The Beatles]] were a major early influence on Collins, including their drummer [[Ringo Starr]].<ref name="Hodgkinson 2002">{{cite news|last=Hodgkinson|first=Will|title=Home entertainment: Phil Collins|url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2002/nov/15/artsfeatures6|access-date=30 September 2013|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|date=14 November 2002}}</ref><ref name=battistoni>{{cite web|last=Battistoni|first=Marielle|title=Ringo Starr guards Beatles' legacy with new album 'Liverpool 8'|url=http://thedartmouth.com/2008/01/30/arts/ringo-starr-guards-beatles-legacy-with-new-album-liverpool-8|work=The Dartmouth|access-date=9 August 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140808045416/http://thedartmouth.com/2008/01/30/arts/ringo-starr-guards-beatles-legacy-with-new-album-liverpool-8|archive-date=8 August 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.philcollins.co.uk/hitmen86b.htm |title=Phil Collins Interviews – Hitmen, 1986 – Part Two|work=Hitmen|access-date=22 September 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080801174547/http://www.philcollins.co.uk/hitmen86b.htm|archive-date=1 August 2008}}</ref> He followed the lesser-known London band [[the Action]], whose drummer he would copy and whose work introduced him to the soul music of [[Motown]] and [[Stax Records]].<ref name="Hodgkinson 2002" /> Collins was also influenced by jazz and big band drummer [[Buddy Rich]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allaboutjazz.com/a-salute-to-buddy-rich-by-john-kelman.php|title=A Salute To Buddy Rich|work=All About Jazz|first=John|last=Kelman|date=14 July 2004|access-date=28 July 2015}}</ref> whose opinion on the importance of the [[hi-hat]] prompted him to stop using two bass drums and start using the hi-hat.<ref name=MD79/> |
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Collins studied [[drum rudiment]]s as a teenager, first learning basic rudiments under [[Lloyd Ryan]] and later studying further under Frank King. Collins recalled: "Rudiments I found very, very helpful – much more helpful than anything else because they're used all the time. In any kind of funk or jazz drumming, the rudiments are always there."<ref name="Modern Drummer 1979">Alexander, Susan. "Phil Collins On the Move". ''[[Modern Drummer]]''. March|April 1979. Pages 10-12+54</ref> He never learned to read and write conventional [[musical notation]] and instead used a system he devised himself.<ref name=":0" /> He later regretted this, saying: "I never really came to grips with the music. I should have stuck with it. I've always felt that if I could hum it, I could play it. For me, that was good enough, but that attitude is bad."<ref name="Modern Drummer 1979"/> Ryan recalled: "Phil always had a problem with reading. That was always a big problem for him. That’s a shame because reading drum music isn't that difficult."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mikedolbear.com/story.asp?StoryID=806&Source=Archive&txtSearch=|title=Catch up interview with Lloyd Ryan|publisher=mikedolbear.com|first=Mark|last=Pusey|accessdate=10 August 2014}}</ref> |
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Around twelve, Collins received basic piano and music tuition from his father's aunt.{{sfn|Coleman|1997|p=30}} He studied [[drum rudiment]]s under [[Lloyd Ryan]] and later under Frank King, and considered this training "more helpful than anything else because they're used all the time. In any kind of funk or jazz drumming, the rudiments are always there."<ref name=MD79>{{cite magazine|url=https://thegenesisarchive.co.uk/modern-drummer-phil-collins-1979/|title=Phil Collins: On the Move|first=Susan|last=Alexander|date=March 1979|pages=10–12, 54|magazine=Modern Drummer|access-date=20 January 2022}}</ref> Collins never learned to read or write [[musical notation]] and devised his own system, which he regretted in later life. "I've always felt that if I could hum it, I could play it. For me, that was good enough, but that attitude is bad."<ref name=MD79/> |
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[[The Beatles]] were a major early influence on Collins, including their drummer [[Ringo Starr]].<ref name="Hodgkinson 2002">{{cite news|last=Hodgkinson|first=Will|title=Home entertainment: Phil Collins|url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2002/nov/15/artsfeatures6|accessdate=30 September 2013|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|date=14 November 2002}}</ref><ref name=battistoni>{{cite web|last=Battistoni|first=Marielle|title=Ringo Starr guards Beatles' legacy with new album 'Liverpool 8'|url=http://thedartmouth.com/2008/01/30/arts/ringo-starr-guards-beatles-legacy-with-new-album-liverpool-8|work=The Dartmouth|accessdate=9 August 2014}}</ref><ref name="Hitmen 1986">{{cite web|url=http://www.philcollins.co.uk/hitmen86b.htm |title=Hitmen, 1986 Part Two |publisher=Replay.waybackmachine.org |accessdate=22 September 2014 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080801174547/http://www.philcollins.co.uk/hitmen86b.htm |archivedate=1 August 2008 }}</ref> He also followed the lesser-known London band [[the Action]], whose drummer he would copy and whose work introduced him to the soul music of [[Motown]] and [[Stax Records]].<ref name="Hodgkinson 2002"/> Collins was also influenced by the [[jazz]] and [[big band]] drummer [[Buddy Rich]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allaboutjazz.com/a-salute-to-buddy-rich-by-john-kelman.php|title=A Salute To Buddy Rich|work=All About Jazz|first=John|last=Kelman|date=14 July 2004|accessdate=28 July 2015}}</ref> whose opinion on the importance of the [[hi-hat]] prompted him to stop using two bass drums and start using the hi-hat.<ref name="Modern Drummer 1979"/> While attending [[Chiswick School|Chiswick County School for Boys]], Collins formed a band called the Real Thing, and later joined the Freehold, with whom he wrote his first song, "Lying Crying Dying".<ref name="Hewitt official UK site bio">Hewitt, Alan. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090414205916/http://www.philcollins.co.uk/biog1.htm |date=14 April 2009 |title=Biography at Collins's official website }} (UK). Retrieved 2 August 2014.</ref> |
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Collins attended Nelson Primary School until he was eleven.{{sfn|Coleman|1997|p=29}} He was accepted into [[Chiswick School|Chiswick County Grammar School]], where he took to football and formed the Real Thing, a school band that had Andrea Bertorelli, his future wife, and friend Lavinia Lang, as backup singers. Both women would have an impact on Collins' [[#Family and relationships|personal life]] in later years.{{sfn|Coleman|1997|pp=29, 47}} Collins' next group was the Freehold, with whom he wrote his first song, "Lying, Crying, Dying",{{sfn|Collins|2016|p=55}} and played in a group named the Charge.{{sfn|Gallo|1978|p=120}} He was childhood friends with [[Jack Wild]], who would become famous for playing Dodger in the film ''[[Oliver! (film)|Oliver!]]'' (1968); the pair attended the same stage school after Collins's mother June spotted Wild as the two played football in the park.<ref>{{cite news |title=Jack Wild obituary |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/jack-wild-6107855.html |access-date=9 November 2023 |work=The Independent}}</ref> |
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==Career== |
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===1963–1970: Early acting roles and Flaming Youth=== |
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===1963–1970: Early acting roles and bands=== |
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Collins began a career as a child actor while at the Barbara Speake Stage School and won his first major role as the [[Artful Dodger]] in the London stage production of ''[[Oliver!]]'', the musical adaptation of the [[Charles Dickens]] novel ''[[Oliver Twist]]''.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Napolitano|first1=Marc|title=Oliver!: A Dickensian Musical|date=2014|publisher=Oxford University Press, Incorporated|page=258}}</ref> He was an extra in [[the Beatles]]' film ''[[A Hard Day's Night (film)|A Hard Day's Night]]'' (1964) among the screaming teenagers during the television concert sequence.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://nypost.com/2014/06/11/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-a-hard-days-night/| title=10 things you didn’t know about ‘A Hard Day's Night’|work=[[New York Post]]|date=11 June 2014|accessdate=30 June 2014|first=Lou|last=Lumenick}}</ref> This was followed by a role in ''[[Calamity the Cow]]'' (1967), produced by the [[Children's Film Foundation]], and ''[[Chitty Chitty Bang Bang]]'' (1968) as one of the children who storm the castle, but the scene was cut.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chittybangbang.com/chittybangbang-film.html|title=Film details|publisher=Chittybangbang.com|accessdate=22 September 2014}}</ref> Collins auditioned for the role of Romeo in ''[[Romeo and Juliet (1968 film)|Romeo and Juliet]]'' (1968)<ref>Coleman, p. 51.</ref> but the role went to [[Leonard Whiting]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.guidetomusicaltheatre.com/shows_o/oliver.htm|title=The Guide to Musical Theatre|publisher=The Guide to Musical Theatre|accessdate=26 March 2010}}</ref> |
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[[File:Barbara-speake-school-close-up.jpeg|thumb|right|Collins attended the Barbara Speake stage school in [[East Acton]], west London]] |
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Collins quit school at fourteen to become a full-time pupil at Barbara Speake. He had an uncredited part as an extra in the Beatles' film ''[[A Hard Day's Night (film)|A Hard Day's Night]]'' (1964), where he is amongst the screaming teenagers during the television concert sequence.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Making Beatlemania: A Hard Day's Night at 50 |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2014/07/a-hard-days-night-making-of |access-date=15 March 2024 |magazine=Vanity Fair}}</ref> Later in 1964, Collins was cast as the [[Artful Dodger]] in two [[West End theatre|West End]] runs of the musical ''[[Oliver!]]''<ref name=TT10>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandpopmusic/7975594/Rocks-outsider-Phil-Collins-interview.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandpopmusic/7975594/Rocks-outsider-Phil-Collins-interview.html |archive-date=10 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Rock's outsider: Phil Collins interview|date=4 September 2010|work=The Telegraph|first=Craig|last=McLean|access-date=25 November 2019}}{{cbignore}}</ref> He was paid £15 a week, and called the role "the best part for a kid in all London".<ref>{{cite book|title=Not Dead Yet|first=Phil|last=Collins|author-link=Phil Collins|publisher=Century Books|page=[https://archive.org/details/notdeadyetautobi0000coll/page/34 34]|date=2016|isbn=978-1780895123|url=https://archive.org/details/notdeadyetautobi0000coll/page/34|ref=none}}</ref><ref name=PB86/> His days as the Dodger were numbered when his voice broke during a performance and had to speak his lines for the rest of the show.<ref name=DE94/> Collins starred in ''[[Calamity the Cow]]'' (1967), a film produced by the [[Children's Film Foundation]]. After a falling out with the director, Collins decided to quit acting to pursue music.<ref name=NME88>{{cite web|url=https://www.rocksbackpages.com/Library/Article/well-chuffed|title=Well Chuffed|first=Len|last=Brown|date=17 November 1988|work=New Musical Express|via=[[Rock's Backpages]]|access-date=14 April 2020}}</ref> He was to appear in ''[[Chitty Chitty Bang Bang]]'' (1968) as one of the children who storm the castle, but his scene was cut.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chittybangbang.com/chittybangbang-film.html|title=Film details|publisher=Chittybangbang.com|access-date=22 September 2014}}</ref> Collins auditioned for the role of Romeo in ''[[Romeo and Juliet (1968 film)|Romeo and Juliet]]'' (1968), but the role went to [[Leonard Whiting]].{{sfn|Coleman|1997|p=51}} He also travelled the UK teaching people the "crunch" dance made popular by a [[The Smith's Snackfood Company|Smith's crisps]] advertising campaign.{{sfn|Gallo|1978|p=120}} |
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Collins's enthusiasm for music grew during his acting years.<ref name=TT10/> He frequented the [[Marquee Club]] on Wardour Street so often that eventually the managers asked him to set out the chairs, sweep the floors, and assist in the cloakroom. It was here where Collins saw The Action and newcomers [[Yes (band)|Yes]] perform, which greatly influenced him.{{sfn|Coleman|1997|pp=43–44, 46}} When auditions for [[Vinegar Joe (band)|Vinegar Joe]] and [[Manfred Mann Chapter Three]] were unsuccessful,<ref name=Q93>{{cite web|url=http://www.philcollins.co.uk/q1293.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021020025233/http://www.philcollins.co.uk/q1293.htm|archive-date=20 October 2002|title=Phil Collins Interviews – Q – December 1993|work=Q|date=December 1993|via=PhilCollins.co.uk|access-date=17 July 2019}}</ref> Collins secured a position in the Cliff Charles Blues Band and toured the country. This was followed by a stint in The Gladiators, a backing band for a black vocal quartet, which also featured Collins's schoolmate [[Ronnie Caryl]] on guitar.{{sfn|Coleman|1997|p=53}} Around this time, Collins learned that Yes were looking for a new drummer and spoke to frontman [[Jon Anderson]], who invited him to an audition the following week. Collins failed to turn up, and later wondered what his life would have been like had he gone ahead with it.{{sfn|Coleman|1997|p=59}} |
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Despite the beginnings of an acting career, Collins gravitated towards music. His first record deal came as the drummer for Hickory with guitarists [[Ronnie Caryl]] and Gordon Smith and keyboardist Brian Chatton. After changing their name to [[Flaming Youth (band)|Flaming Youth]] they recorded an album, ''[[Ark 2]]'', released in October 1969 on [[Uni Records]], which premiered with a performance at the [[London Planetarium]].<ref>[http://alextsu.narod.ru/borderlinebooks/uk6070s/tapestry.html?http://alextsu.narod.ru/borderlinebooks/uk6070s/f5z.html#Flaming%20Youth ]{{dead link|date=February 2017}}</ref> A [[concept album]] inspired by the media attention surrounding the [[moon landing|1969 moon landing]], ''Ark 2'' featured each member sharing lead vocals. Though a commercial failure, it received some positive reviews; ''[[Melody Maker]]'' named it "Pop Album of the Month", describing it as "adult music beautifully played with nice tight harmonies".<ref>Coleman, p. 55.</ref> After a year of touring, the group disbanded in 1970. Collins went on to play percussion on "[[Art of Dying (song)|Art of Dying]]" by Beatles guitarist [[George Harrison]] for his album ''[[All Things Must Pass]]''. Harrison acknowledged Collins's contribution in the remastered edition released in 2000.<ref name="Hodgkinson 2002"/> |
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In 1969, Collins and Caryl joined [[John Walker (musician)|John Walker]]'s backing band for a European tour, which also consisted of guitarist Gordon Smith and keyboardist [[Brian Chatton]].{{sfn|Coleman|1997|p=53}} The tour finished, and the quartet formed a rock band, Hickory, which recorded one single ("Green Light"/"The Key"). Still in 1969, they were later renamed [[Flaming Youth (band)|Flaming Youth]]. They signed to [[Fontana Records]] and recorded ''[[Ark 2 (Album)|Ark 2]]'' (1969), a [[concept album]] written and produced by [[Ken Howard (composer)|Ken Howard]] and [[Alan Blaikley]] that tells the story of man's evacuation from a burning Earth and its voyage into space. Each member sings a lead vocal.<ref>[http://alextsu.narod.ru/borderlinebooks/uk6070s/tapestry.html?http://alextsu.narod.ru/borderlinebooks/uk6070s/f5z.html#Flaming%20Youth] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131113192449/http://alextsu.narod.ru/borderlinebooks/uk6070s/tapestry.html?http%3A%2F%2Falextsu.narod.ru%2Fborderlinebooks%2Fuk6070s%2Ff5z.html|date=13 November 2013}}</ref>{{sfn|Coleman|1997|p=55}} |
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===1970–1978: Joining Genesis=== |
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In mid-1970, the rock band [[Genesis (band)|Genesis]] advertised for "a drummer sensitive to [[acoustic music]]" and a "[[Twelve-string guitar|12-string]] acoustic guitarist" following the departure of drummer [[John Mayhew (musician)|John Mayhew]] and guitarist [[Anthony Phillips]].<ref>Coleman, p. 61.</ref><ref name="billbio">[{{BillboardURLbyName|artist=genesis|bio=true}} "Genesis" Biography], ''Billboard''. Retrieved 16 January 2006.</ref> Collins recognised [[Charisma Records]] owner [[Tony Stratton-Smith]]'s name in the advert; he and Caryl decided to audition for the roles. The audition took place at the home of the parents of singer [[Peter Gabriel]] in [[Chobham]], [[Surrey]]. As they arrived early, Collins took a swim in the pool and memorised the pieces before his audition.<ref>Coleman, p. 63.</ref> He recalled: "They put on '[[Trespass (album)|Trespass]]', and my initial impression was of a very soft and round music, not edgy, with vocal harmonies, and I came away thinking [[Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young|Crosby, Stills and Nash]]."{{Citation needed|date=October 2016}} In August 1970, Collins became Genesis's new drummer. Caryl's audition was unsuccessful; bassist/guitarist [[Mike Rutherford]] thought he was not a good fit for the group (they selected [[Steve Hackett]] in January 1971 as their new lead guitarist following a stint with [[Mick Barnard]]).{{Citation needed|date=October 2016}} |
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In May 1970, after Flaming Youth split, Collins played congas on [[George Harrison]]'s song "[[Art of Dying (song)|Art of Dying]]", but his contribution was omitted.<ref name="Hodgkinson 2002" /> Years later, Collins asked Harrison about the omission. Harrison sent Collins a recording allegedly containing Collins's performance; Collins was embarrassed to hear that the performance was poor. When Collins apologised, Harrison confessed that the recording was a prank, which Collins accepted in good humour.<ref>{{cite web|last=Taysom|first=Joe|title=The hilarious prank George Harrison pulled on Phil Collins|url=https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/george-harrison-prank-phil-collins/|work=Far Out|date=10 February 2021|access-date=22 April 2021}}</ref> |
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From 1970 to 1975, Collins played the drums, percussion, and sang backing vocals on Genesis albums and live shows. His first album recorded with the band, ''[[Nursery Cryme]]'', was recorded and released in 1971. "For Absent Friends", an acoustic track written by Collins and Hackett, is the first Genesis song with Collins on lead vocals.<ref name="Will Romano">Will Romano ''Mountains Come Out of the Sky: The Illustrated History of Prog Rock'', Backbeat Books, 2010.</ref> He sang "More Fool Me" on their 1973 album ''[[Selling England by the Pound]]''.<ref name="Selling England by the Pound">{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/selling-england-by-the-pound-mw0000189986|title=Selling England by the Pound|publisher=AllMusic|first=Stephen Thomas|last=Erlewine|accessdate=27 July 2015}}</ref> In 1974, during the recording of ''[[The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway]]'', Collins played drums on [[Brian Eno]]'s second album ''[[Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)|Taking Tiger Mountain]]'' after Eno had contributed electronic effects known as "Enossification" on "In the Cage" and "Grand Parade of Lifeless Packaging".<ref name="Thompson117">Thompson, 2004. p. 117</ref> |
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===1970–1978: Genesis, later role as lead singer, and Brand X=== |
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In July 1970, the rock band [[Genesis (band)|Genesis]] had signed with [[Charisma Records]] and recorded their second album ''[[Trespass (album)|Trespass]]'' (1970), but suffered a setback following the departures of drummer [[John Mayhew (musician)|John Mayhew]] and guitarist [[Anthony Phillips]]. They decided to continue, and placed an advert in the ''[[Melody Maker]]'' for a drummer "sensitive to acoustic music" and a 12-string acoustic guitarist.{{sfn|Coleman|1997|p=61}}<ref name="billbio">[{{BillboardURLbyName|artist=genesis|bio=true}} "Genesis" Biography], ''Billboard''. Retrieved 16 January 2006.</ref> Collins recognised Charisma owner [[Tony Stratton Smith]]'s name on it, and he and Caryl went for the auditions. The group, who had been a full-time working band for less than a year, consisted of school friends from [[Charterhouse School]], a private boarding school: singer [[Peter Gabriel]], keyboardist [[Tony Banks (musician)|Tony Banks]], and bassist/guitarist [[Mike Rutherford]]. Collins and Caryl arrived early, so Collins took a swim in the pool at Gabriel's parents' house and memorised the pieces the drummers before him were playing.{{sfn|Coleman|1997|p=63}} He recalled: "They put on 'Trespass', and my initial impression was of a very soft and round music, not edgy, with vocal harmonies, and I came away thinking [[Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young|Crosby, Stills and Nash]]."{{sfn|Genesis|2007|p=94}} On 8 August 1970, Collins became their fourth drummer. Genesis then took a two-week holiday, during which Collins earned money as an exterior decorator.{{sfn|Collins|2016|p=84}} Rutherford thought Caryl was not a good fit; in 1971, the band enlisted [[Steve Hackett]]. |
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In August 1975, following the [[The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway Tour|''The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway'' tour]], Gabriel left Genesis. The band placed an advert for a replacement in ''Melody Maker'' and received around 400 replies. After a lengthy auditioning process, during which Collins sang backup vocals for applicants, Collins became the band's lead vocalist during the recording of Genesis's album ''[[A Trick of the Tail]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/artists/phil-collins/|title=Bio: Phil Collins|publisher=MTV Artists|accessdate=30 September 2013}}</ref> ''A Trick of the Tail'' was a commercial and critical success, reaching number 3 in the UK charts and 31 in the U.S;<ref name="Charts"/> ''Rolling Stone'' wrote that Genesis had managed to turn the possible catastrophe of Gabriel's departure into their first broad-based American success."<ref>Nicholson, Kris. [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/genesis/albums/album/215190/rid/5941181/] ''A Trick of the Tail'' review. ''Rolling Stone''. 20 May 1976. Retrieved 10 February 2006.</ref> For the album's 1976 tour, Collins accepted an offer from former [[Yes (band)|Yes]] and [[King Crimson]] drummer [[Bill Bruford]] to play drums while Collins sang vocals. Collins played percussion on the album ''[[Johnny the Fox]]'' by [[Thin Lizzy]].<ref name="brooks">Ken Brooks, "Phil Lynott & Thin Lizzy: Rockin' Vagabond", Agenda, 2000, pp. 64–68</ref> |
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''[[Wind & Wuthering]]'' was the last album recorded with Hackett before his 1977 departure. Bruford was replaced by [[Chester Thompson]], who has since been a mainstay of Genesis' live lineup, as well as Collins's solo backing band. In 1977, Collins, Banks, and Rutherford decided to continue Genesis as a trio. As the decade closed, Genesis began to shift from their [[progressive rock]] roots to a more radio-friendly pop-rock sound. The 1978 album ''[[...And Then There Were Three...]]'' featured their first UK Top 10 and U.S. Top 40 single, "[[Follow You Follow Me]]".<ref name="UKCharts"/><ref name="USCharts"/> |
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From 1970 to 1975, Collins played drums, percussion, and largely sang backing vocals on Genesis albums and concerts. His first album as a member, ''[[Nursery Cryme]]'', features the acoustic song "For Absent Friends" that has Collins singing lead vocal. He sang "More Fool Me" on their 1973 album ''[[Selling England by the Pound]]''.{{sfn|Thompson|2004|p=129}} In 1974, during the recording of ''[[The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway]]'', Collins played drums on [[Brian Eno]]'s second album ''[[Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)]]'' after Eno had contributed electronic effects to two songs on the album.{{sfn|Thompson|2004|p=117}} |
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In August 1975, Gabriel's departure from the band was publicly announced. Genesis advertised for a replacement in ''Melody Maker'' and received around 400 replies. After a lengthy auditioning process, during which he sang backup vocals for applicants, Collins became the band's lead vocalist during the recording of their album ''[[A Trick of the Tail]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/artists/phil-collins/|title=Bio: Phil Collins|publisher=MTV Artists|access-date=30 September 2013}}</ref> The album was a commercial and critical success, reaching number 3 in the UK charts and 31 in the US.<ref name="Charts" /> ''Rolling Stone'' wrote that Genesis "has managed to turn the possible catastrophe of Gabriel's departure into their first broad-based American success."<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/genesis/albums/album/215190/rid/5941181/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20070312042713/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/genesis/albums/album/215190/rid/5941181/|title=Genesis – Album Reviews – A Trick of the Tail|first=Kris|last=Nicholson|date=20 May 1976|archive-date=12 March 2007|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=10 February 2006}}</ref> For the tour, Collins accepted former Yes and [[King Crimson]] drummer [[Bill Bruford]] to play drums while Collins sang. ''[[Wind & Wuthering]]'' was the last Genesis album recorded with Hackett before he left the group. In 1976, Collins brought in American drummer [[Chester Thompson]], formerly of [[Frank Zappa]] and [[Weather Report]] who became a mainstay of Genesis' and Collins' backing bands until 2010. When Collins, Banks, and Rutherford decided to continue Genesis as a trio in 1977, they recorded ''[[...And Then There Were Three...]]''. This marked a shift from their [[progressive rock]] roots to a more radio-friendly, pop rock sound, and included the band's first UK Top 10 and US Top 40 single, "[[Follow You Follow Me]]".<ref name="UKCharts" />{{sfn|Whitburn|2000|pp=143–144}} The level of commercial success that Genesis had reached by this time allowed Collins and his wife to move into Old Croft, a home in [[Shalford, Surrey]], in the spring of 1978.{{sfn|Coleman|1997|p=4}} |
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In 1975 Collins played drums, vibraphone, percussion and sang on Hackett's first solo album, ''[[Voyage of the Acolyte]]''<ref name=booklet>(1975). "Voyage of the Acolyte liner notes". In ''Voyage of the Acolyte'' [Album cover]. Charisma.</ref>; performed on Eno's albums ''[[Another Green World]]'', ''[[Before and After Science]]'', and ''[[Music for Films]]'';<ref name="McGee">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2009/jan/13/phil-collins-non-ironic-revival|title=The non-ironic revival of Phil Collins|work=The Guardian|location=London|first=Alan|last=McGee|date=13 January 2009|accessdate=27 July 2015}}</ref> and replaced drummer Phil Spinelli of the [[jazz fusion]] group [[Brand X]] before recording their 1976 debut album, ''[[Unorthodox Behaviour]]''. His time with Brand X gave Collins his first opportunity to use a [[drum machine]] and a home [[8-track tape]] machine.<ref>[http://www.philcollins.co.uk/brandxgigs.htm] Official Brand X biography {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090330131152/http://www.philcollins.co.uk/brandxgigs.htm |date=30 March 2009 }}</ref> He sang on Phillips's solo album, ''[[The Geese and the Ghost]]'', and the second Brand X album, ''[[Moroccan Roll]]''.{{Citation needed|date=October 2016}} |
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Collins pursued various guest spots and solo projects from his time as Genesis's drummer. In 1973, he and Hackett were among the musicians who performed on the solo debut of ex-[[Yes (band)|Yes]] guitarist [[Peter Banks]]. In 1975, Collins sang and played drums, [[vibraphone]], and percussion on Hackett's first solo album, ''[[Voyage of the Acolyte]]'';{{sfn|Coleman|1997|p=84}} performed on Eno's albums ''[[Another Green World]]'', ''[[Before and After Science]]'', and ''[[Music for Films]]'';{{sfn|Collins|2016|p=114}} and replaced drummer Phil Spinelli of the [[jazz fusion]] group [[Brand X]] before recording their first two albums, ''[[Unorthodox Behaviour]]'' and ''[[Moroccan Roll]]''. Collins played percussion on ''[[Johnny the Fox]]'' by [[Thin Lizzy]],<ref name="brooks">Ken Brooks, "Phil Lynott & Thin Lizzy: Rockin' Vagabond", Agenda, 2000, pp. 64–68</ref> and sang on [[Anthony Phillips]]' debut solo album, ''[[The Geese & the Ghost]]''.<ref>[https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-geese-the-ghost-mw0000195691 "The Geese and the Ghost"]. Allmusic. Retrieved 22 December 2017</ref> |
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===1978–1983: Solo debut with ''Face Value'' and ''Hello, I Must Be Going!''=== |
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In December 1978, Genesis went on hiatus while Collins went to Vancouver, Canada, to focus on his family; his marriage had become strained after his extensive touring.<ref name=sounds1979>{{Cite magazine|title=The return of... Getting it together in the Country|magazine=Sounds|date=27 October 1979|first=Hugh|last=Fielder|accessdate=11 October 2014|url=http://thegenesisarchive.co.uk/sounds-27th-oct-getting-it-together-in-the-country/}}</ref> Having failed to save the relationship, Collins returned to the UK in April 1979, by which time Banks and Rutherford were recording their solo albums. With time to spare before recording a new Genesis album, Collins played on the Brand X album ''[[Product (Brand X album)|Product]]'' and its accompanying tour, played on [[John Martyn]]'s album ''[[Grace and Danger]]'', and started writing his first solo album, ''[[Face Value (album)|Face Value]]'', at his home in [[Shalford, Surrey]].<ref name=sounds1979/> After Banks and Rutherford rejoined Collins, work began on Genesis's album ''[[Duke (album)|Duke]]'', released in 1980. |
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===1978–1984: Solo debut with ''Face Value'' and ''Hello, I Must Be Going!''=== |
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After Genesis finished touring in December 1978, the group went on hiatus after Collins went to Vancouver, Canada to try to save his failing marriage.<ref name=sounds1979>{{Cite magazine|title=The return of... Getting it together in the Country|magazine=Sounds|date=27 October 1979|first=Hugh|last=Fielder|access-date=11 October 2014|url=http://thegenesisarchive.co.uk/sounds-27th-oct-getting-it-together-in-the-country/}}</ref> The attempt failed, leaving his wife to return to England with their children while living apart. Collins returned to Old Croft, their home in Shalford, Surrey, and their divorce was finalised in 1981. Banks and Rutherford were recording their first solo albums during this time, so Collins rejoined Brand X for their album ''[[Product (Brand X album)|Product]]'' and its accompanying tour, played on [[John Martyn]]'s album ''[[Grace and Danger]]'', and started writing demos of his own at home.<ref name=sounds1979 /> This was followed by Genesis resuming activity and recording and touring through 1980 with their album ''[[Duke (album)|Duke]]'' (1980). The three members contributed two tracks each; Collins put forward "Please Don't Ask" and "[[Misunderstanding (Genesis song)|Misunderstanding]]".<ref>Starr, Red. "Genesis: Duke". Smash Hits (17–30 April 1980): 30.</ref> |
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''Face Value'' was released in February 1981. It features a rework of "Behind the Lines" from ''Duke'' with a more funk and dance-oriented style. Collins sang and performed keyboards and drums.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/face-value-mw0000189462|title=AllMusic Review by Tim Sendra|last=Sendra|first=Tim|work=AllMusic|accessdate=14 March 2016}}</ref> He cited his divorce as the main influence on the album's lyrics and themes,<ref>Bronson, F. ''The Billboard Book of Number One Hits''. Billboard Books, New York. 2003. p. 604. ISBN 0-8230-7641-5</ref> and said: "I had a wife, two children, two dogs, and the next day I didn't have anything. So a lot of these songs were written because I was going through these emotional changes."<ref>Thompson, D. ''Turn It On Again: Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins and Genesis'', Back Beat Books. San Francisco. 2004. p. 181. ISBN 0-87930-810-9</ref> Collins produced the album in collaboration with [[Hugh Padgham]], with whom he had worked on Peter Gabriel's [[Peter Gabriel (1980 album)|self-titled 1980 album]].<ref name="classic drum sounds">{{cite web | url= http://www.musicradar.com/news/drums/classic-drum-sounds-in-the-air-tonight-590970 | title= Classic Drum Sounds: 'In The Air Tonight' | work=MusicRadar | first=David | last=West | accessdate=14 March 2016}}</ref> |
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[[File:Phil Collins 1981.jpg|thumb|left|Collins performing in 1981]] |
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''Face Value'' was an international success, reaching number one in seven countries worldwide and number seven in the U.S, where it went on to sell 5 million copies.<ref name="Charts"/><ref name="RIAA">{{cite web|url=http://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?artist=%22So%22|title=American album certifications – Phil Collins|work=www.riaa.com|accessdate=17 December 2014}}</ref> "[[In the Air Tonight]]", the album's lead single, became a hit and reached number two in the UK charts. The song is known for the [[gated reverb]] effect used on Collins's drums, a technique developed by Padgham when he worked as an engineer on Gabriel's song "[[Intruder (song)|Intruder]]", which Collins played drums on.<ref name="classic drum sounds"/> Following an invitation by record producer [[Martin Lewis (humorist)|Martin Lewis]], Collins made his debut live performance as a solo artist at an [[Amnesty International]] benefit show [[The Secret Policeman's Other Ball]] at the [[Theatre Royal, Drury Lane]] in London, in September 1981, performing "In the Air Tonight" and "The Roof Is Leaking" accompanied by Troy Street United.{{Citation needed|date=October 2016}} Collins also worked again with John Martyn in this year, producing his album ''[[Glorious Fool]]''.<ref>{{cite news | url= https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/apr/27/john-martyn-final-recordings | title= John Martyn's final recordings to be released | work=The Guardian | location=London | first=Sean | last=Michaels | date=27 April 2011 | accessdate=21 December 2016}}</ref> |
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In February 1981, Collins released his debut solo album ''[[Face Value (album)|Face Value]]''. He signed with [[Virgin Records]] and WEA for American distribution in order to distance himself from the Charisma label, and oversaw every step of its production; he wrote the liner notes himself and by hand.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/face-value-mw0000189462|title=AllMusic Review by Tim Sendra|last=Sendra|first=Tim|website=AllMusic|access-date=14 March 2016}}</ref> His divorce was the focus of its lyrical themes and song titles: "I had a wife, two children, two dogs, and the next day I didn't have anything. So a lot of these songs were written because I was going through these emotional changes."{{sfn|Thompson|2004|p=181}} Collins produced the album in collaboration with [[Hugh Padgham]], with whom he had worked on Peter Gabriel's [[Peter Gabriel (1980 album)|self-titled 1980 album]].<ref name="classic drum sounds">{{cite web | url= http://www.musicradar.com/news/drums/classic-drum-sounds-in-the-air-tonight-590970 | title= Classic Drum Sounds: 'In The Air Tonight' | publisher=MusicRadar | first=David | last=West | date= 5 February 2014 | access-date=14 March 2016}}</ref> ''Face Value'' reached number one on the [[UK Albums Chart]].<ref name="Charts" /> It was also an international success, reaching number one in six other countries and number seven in the US where it went on to sell 5 million copies.<ref name="RIAA">{{cite web|url=https://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?artist=%22So%22 |title=American album certifications – Phil Collins |publisher=RIAA |access-date=17 December 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016210253/http://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?artist=%22So%22 |archive-date=16 October 2015 }}</ref> "[[In the Air Tonight]]", the album's lead single, became a hit and reached number two in the UK charts. The song is known for the [[gated reverb]] effect used on Collins's drums, a technique developed by Padgham when he worked as an engineer on Gabriel's song "[[Intruder (song)|Intruder]]", on which Collins played drums.<ref name="classic drum sounds" /> |
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Following an invitation by record producer Martin Lewis, Collins performed live as a solo artist at an [[Amnesty International]] benefit show [[The Secret Policeman's Other Ball]] at the [[Theatre Royal, Drury Lane]] in London in September 1981, performing "In the Air Tonight" and "The Roof Is Leaking".<ref>McCall, Douglas (2013). Monty Python: A Chronology, 1969–2012, 2d ed. p. 82. McFarland</ref> Collins also worked again with John Martyn in this year, producing his album ''[[Glorious Fool]]''.<ref>{{cite news | url= https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/apr/27/john-martyn-final-recordings | title= John Martyn's final recordings to be released | work=The Guardian | location=London | first=Sean | last=Michaels | date=27 April 2011 | access-date=21 December 2016}}</ref> In September 1981, Genesis released ''[[Abacab]]''. This was followed by its 1981 supporting tour and a two-month tour in 1982 promoting the Genesis live album ''[[Three Sides Live (album)|Three Sides Live]]''. In early 1982, Collins produced and played on ''[[Something's Going On]]'', the third solo album by [[Anni-Frid Lyngstad]] of [[ABBA]],<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/1482932/anni-frid-lyngstad/biography|title=Anni-Frid Lyngstad|magazine=Billboard|access-date=27 March 2015}}</ref> and performed most of the drum parts on ''[[Pictures at Eleven]]'', the first solo album by [[Led Zeppelin]] singer [[Robert Plant]].<ref name="Robert Plant Music Times">{{cite web|url=http://www.musictimes.com/articles/23372/20150106/robert-plant-praises-phil-collins-encouraging-solo-career-led-zeppelin-split.htm|title=Robert Plant Praises Phil Collins For Encouraging His Solo Career After Led Zeppelin's Split|work=Music Times|first=Shawn|last=Christ|date=6 January 2015|access-date=27 March 2015}}</ref> In October 1982, Collins took part in the one-off Genesis reunion concert [[Six of the Best]] held at the [[National Bowl|Milton Keynes Bowl]] in Buckinghamshire, which marked the return of Gabriel on lead vocals and Hackett on guitar.<ref>{{cite journal |title=The lamp wakes up|journal=Melody Maker|first=Paul|last=Strange|date=9 October 1982|access-date=23 September 2015|url=http://thegenesisarchive.co.uk/melody-maker-9th-oct-the-lamb-wakes-up/}}</ref> |
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[[File:Phil Collins 1981.jpg|thumb|left|Collins performing in 1981.]] |
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In September 1981, Genesis released ''[[Abacab]]''. This was followed by its 1981 supporting tour and a two-month tour in 1982 promoting the Genesis live album ''[[Three Sides Live (album)|Three Sides Live]]''. In early 1982, Collins produced and played on ''[[Something's Going On]]'', the third solo album by [[Anni-Frid Lyngstad]] of [[ABBA]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.billboard.com/artist/1482932/anni-frid-lyngstad/biography|title=Anni-Frid Lyngstad|work=Billboard|accessdate=27 March 2015}}</ref> and performed most of the drum parts on ''[[Pictures at Eleven]],'' the first solo album by [[Led Zeppelin]] singer [[Robert Plant]].<ref name="Robert Plant Music Times">{{cite web|url=http://www.musictimes.com/articles/23372/20150106/robert-plant-praises-phil-collins-encouraging-solo-career-led-zeppelin-split.htm|title=Robert Plant Praises Phil Collins For Encouraging His Solo Career After Led Zeppelin's Split|work=Music Times|first=Shawn|last=Christ|date=6 January 2015|accessdate=27 March 2015}}</ref> In October 1982, Collins took part in the one-off Genesis reunion concert [[Six of the Best]], which marked the return Gabriel on lead vocals and Hackett on guitar.{{Citation needed|date=October 2016}} |
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Collins's second solo album, ''[[Hello, I Must Be Going! (album)|Hello, I Must Be Going!]]'', was released in November 1982. His marital problems continued to provide inspiration for his songs, including "[[I Don't Care Anymore]]" and "Do You Know, Do You Care". The album reached number 2 in the UK and number 8 in the |
Collins's second solo album, ''[[Hello, I Must Be Going! (album)|Hello, I Must Be Going!]]'', was released in November 1982. His marital problems continued to provide inspiration for his songs, including "[[I Don't Care Anymore]]" and "Do You Know, Do You Care". The album reached number 2 in the UK and number 8 in the US, where it sold 3 million copies.<ref name="UKCharts">Roberts, David (2006). [[British Hit Singles & Albums]]. London: Guinness World Records Ltd.</ref><ref name="RIAA" /> Its second single, a cover of "[[You Can't Hurry Love (Phil Collins Song)|You Can't Hurry Love]]" by [[the Supremes]], became Collins's first UK number one single and went to number 10 in the US.<ref name="Charts">{{cite web|url=http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/_/phil%20collins/ |title=Phil Collins | full Official Chart History |publisher=Official Charts Company |access-date=23 February 2017}}</ref> Collins supported the album with the ''Hello, I Must Be Going!'' tour of Europe and North America from November 1982 to February 1983. Following the tour, Collins played drums on Plant's second solo album, ''[[The Principle of Moments]]'',<ref name="Robert Plant Music Times" /> and produced and played on two tracks for [[Adam Ant]]'s album [[Strip (Adam Ant album)|''Strip'']], "Puss 'n Boots" and the title track.<ref>{{cite web|first=William|last=Ruhlmann|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/strip-mw0000188959|title=Strip – Adam Ant | Songs, Reviews, Credits|website=AllMusic|access-date=29 October 2015}}</ref> In May 1983, Collins, Banks and Rutherford recorded [[Genesis (Genesis album)|a self-titled Genesis album]]; its tour ended with five shows in [[Birmingham]], England in February 1984. The latter shows were filmed and released as ''[[The Mama Tour|Genesis Live – The Mama Tour]]''.{{sfn|Bowler|Dray|1992|pp=191, 251}} |
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Collins wrote and performed on "[[Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)|Against All Odds]]", the main theme for the [[Against All Odds (1984 film)|romantic film of the same name]], which demonstrated a more pop-orientated and commercially accessible sound than his previous work. Released in February 1984, it was the first single of his solo career to reach number one on the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]] chart; it peaked at number two in the UK. Collins won a [[27th Annual Grammy Awards#Award winners|Grammy Award]] for [[Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance#Recipients|Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male]].{{sfn|Whitburn|2000|pp=143–144}} The song also earned him an [[Academy Award]] nomination for [[Academy Award for Best Original Song#1980s|Best Original Song]], and he arranged his 1985 tour to accommodate the possibility of performing it at the awards ceremony. However, a note to Atlantic Records from show producer [[Larry Gelbart]] explaining a lack of invitation stated: "Thank you for your note regarding Phil Cooper [sic]. I'm afraid the spots have already been filled", and Collins watched actress and dancer [[Ann Reinking]] perform it.{{sfn|Bronson|1998|p=586}} The ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' said: "Reinking did an incredible job of totally destroying a beautiful song."<ref>{{cite news| url=https://articles.latimes.com/1985-03-31/entertainment/ca-18761_1_oscar-academy-awards-phil-collins|title=Down The Academy|work=Los Angeles Times|location=Los Angeles|date=31 March 1985|access-date=13 August 2015}}</ref> Collins would introduce it at subsequent concerts by saying: "I'm sorry Miss Ann Reinking couldn't be here tonight; I guess I just have to sing my own song."<ref name="Wolmuth">{{cite web|url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20091234,00.html|title=Short, Pudgy and Bald, All Phil Collins Produces Is Hits|work=People|first=Roger|last=Wolmuth|date=8 July 1985|access-date=13 August 2015|archive-date=24 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924081636/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20091234,00.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> |
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In 1984, Collins contributed to the production on ''[[Chinese Wall (album)|Chinese Wall]]'' by [[Earth, Wind & Fire]] vocalist [[Philip Bailey]], which included a duet from the two, "[[Easy Lover (Philip Bailey and Phil Collins song)|Easy Lover]]". The song was number one in the UK for four weeks, and peaked at number 2 in the US.<ref name="Charts" /><ref>{{cite web|first=William |last=Ruhlmann |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/chinese-wall-mw0000189127|title=Chinese Wall – Philip Bailey | Songs, Reviews, Credits|website=AllMusic|access-date=29 October 2015}}</ref> He also produced and played drums on several tracks on ''[[Behind the Sun (Eric Clapton album)|Behind the Sun]]'' by [[Eric Clapton]]. In November, Collins was part of the charity supergroup [[Band Aid (band)|Band Aid]] in aid of Ethiopian famine relief and played drums on its single, "[[Do They Know It's Christmas?]]".<ref>{{cite web|author=mtv |url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1643506/looking-back-at-live-aid-25-years-later.jhtml |title=Looking Back At Live Aid, 25 Years Later |publisher=MTV |date=12 July 2010 |access-date=23 February 2017}}</ref> |
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In 1984, Collins released "[[Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)|Against All Odds]]", the main theme for the [[Against All Odds (film)|1984 film of the same title]]. The song was produced by [[Arif Mardin]],<ref>{{cite web|last=Hogan|first=Ed |title=Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)|url=http://www.allmusic.com/song/against-all-odds-take-a-look-at-me-now-t2760660|work=Allmusic|publisher=Rovi Corporation|accessdate=3 September 2011}}</ref> and is one of the few songs released by Collins that he did not produce himself. The single, more pop-oriented and commercially accessible than Collins's previous work, became his first solo single to top the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]]<ref name="USCharts"/> and earnt him his first [[27th Annual Grammy Awards|Grammy Award]] for [[Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance#1980s|Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male]]. Collins had arranged his tour to accommodate the possibility of appearing on the telecast in the event his song was nominated for an [[Academy Awards|Oscar]]. It is believed that the producers of that year's Academy Awards show were not aware of his prominence as a musical performer. A note to Collins's label from telecast co-producer [[Larry Gelbart]] explaining the lack of invitation stated: "Thank you for your note regarding Phil Cooper [sic]. I'm afraid the spots have already been filled." Collins instead watched actress and dancer [[Ann Reinking]] perform his song.<ref>Bronson, p. 586.</ref> Reinking's performance was described by one critic as an "absurdly inept rendition" of the song.<ref name="Wolmuth">{{cite web|url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20091234,00.html|title=Short, Pudgy and Bald, All Phil Collins Produces Is Hits|work=People|first=Roger|last=Wolmuth|date=8 July 1985|accessdate=13 August 2015}}</ref> The ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' said: "Reinking did an incredible job of totally destroying a beautiful song. The best that can be said about her performance is that the stage set was nice."<ref>{{cite news| url=http://articles.latimes.com/1985-03-31/entertainment/ca-18761_1_oscar-academy-awards-phil-collins|title=Down The Academy|work=Los Angeles Times|location=Los Angeles|date=31 March 1985|accessdate=13 August 2015}}</ref> Collins would introduce it at subsequent concerts by saying: "I'm sorry Miss Ann Reinking couldn't be here tonight; I guess I just have to sing my own song."<ref name="Wolmuth"/> |
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Collins's third album, ''[[No Jacket Required]]'', was recorded in 1984 and marked a turning point in his output. He departed from lyrics about his personal life and wrote more upbeat and dance-orientated songs with strong hooks and melodies, such as "[[Sussudio]]", "[[One More Night (Phil Collins song)|One More Night]]", and "[[Take Me Home (Phil Collins song)|Take Me Home]]". The album also featured guest backing vocals from [[Sting (musician)|Sting]], [[Peter Gabriel]], and [[Helen Terry]]. ''No Jacket Required'' was released in February 1985 and became a huge worldwide success, reaching number one in several countries.<ref name="Charts" /> "Sussudio" and "One More Night" topped the US singles chart, and "[[Don't Lose My Number]]" and "Take Me Home" made the US top ten. The album remains the most successful of his career, selling over 12 million copies in the US where it was certified [[Diamond album|diamond]], and 1.9 million in the UK where it was the [[1985 in British music#Best-selling albums|second-best-selling album of 1985]].<ref>{{cite web | title =RIAA: Gold and Platinum | publisher =[[Recording Industry Association of America]] | url = https://www.riaa.com/gold-platinum/?tab_active=default-award&ar=PHIL+COLLINS&ti=NO+JACKET+REQUIRED |access-date=18 November 2023}}</ref> |
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1984 also saw Collins contribute to the production on ''[[Chinese Wall (album)|Chinese Wall]]'', the third solo album from [[Earth, Wind & Fire]] vocalist [[Philip Bailey]], which included a duet from the two musicians, "[[Easy Lover]]". The song went to No. 1 in the UK.<ref name="Charts"/><ref>{{cite web|author=William Ruhlmann |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/chinese-wall-mw0000189127|title=Chinese Wall - Philip Bailey | Songs, Reviews, Credits|publisher=AllMusic|accessdate=29 October 2015}}</ref> Collins produced and played drums on several tracks on ''[[Behind the Sun (Eric Clapton album)|Behind the Sun]]'' by [[Eric Clapton]]. In November 1984 Collins joined [[Band Aid (band)|Band Aid]], a charity supergroup primarily made up of the biggest British and Irish musicians of the era, and played drums on "[[Do They Know It's Christmas?]]" which was recorded at [[Sarm West Studios]] in Notting Hill, London.<ref>{{cite web|author=mtv |url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1643506/looking-back-at-live-aid-25-years-later.jhtml |title=Looking Back At Live Aid, 25 Years Later |publisher=MTV |date=2010-07-12 |accessdate=2017-02-23}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title=Band Aid sales top 3m – proceeds set to reach Ethiopia by summer|periodical=[[Music Week]]|publisher=Spotlight Publications|location=London|page=3|date=12 January 1985}}</ref> |
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Referring to the album's success, [[David Fricke]] of ''Rolling Stone'' wrote: "After years on the [[art rock|art-rock]] fringe, Collins has established himself firmly in the [[middle of the road (music)|middle of the road]]. Perhaps he should consider testing himself and his new fans' expectations next time around."<ref>{{cite magazine|author=Fricke, David|author-link=David Fricke|date=9 May 1985|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/no-jacket-required-19850509|title=''No Jacket Required'' Album Review|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|access-date=30 September 2013}}</ref> "Sussudio" attracted negative attention for sounding too similar to [[Prince (musician)|Prince]]'s "[[1999 (Prince song)|1999]]", a charge that Collins did not deny,{{sfn|Bronson|1998|p=611}} and its hook line has been named as the most widely disliked element of his career.<ref name="courtney" /> ''No Jacket Required'' earned Collins the first two of his six [[Brit Awards]], winning [[Brit Award for British Male Solo Artist|Best British Male]] and Best British Album.<ref name="brits">{{cite web|url=http://www.brits.co.uk/artist/phil-collins|title=Brit Awards: Phil Collins|publisher=Brit Awards|access-date=22 September 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141109161354/http://www.brits.co.uk/artist/phil-collins|archive-date=9 November 2014}}</ref> Collins had three US number one songs in 1985, the most by any artist that year.{{sfn|Whitburn|2000|pp=143–144}} ''No Jacket Required'' won three [[28th Annual Grammy Awards#Award winners|Grammy Awards]] including [[Grammy Award for Album of the Year#Recipients|Album of the Year]].<ref name="grammys">{{cite web|url=http://www.grammy.com/nominees/search?artist=phil+collins&title=&year=All&genre=All|title=Past Winners: Phil Collins|publisher=The GRAMMYs|access-date=22 September 2014}}</ref> |
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[[File:Wembley Stadium Twin Towers.jpg|thumb|left|On 13 July 1985 Collins played at [[Live Aid]] at the old [[Wembley Stadium (1923)|Wembley Stadium]] (''exterior pictured'') in London, before taking a transatlantic [[Concorde]] flight to perform at the Philadelphia leg of the event later that day]] |
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''No Jacket Required'' was criticised for being "too commercial", despite favourable reviews from many music critics. A positive review by [[David Fricke]] of ''Rolling Stone'' ended, "After years on the [[art rock|art-rock]] fringe, Collins has established himself firmly in the [[middle of the road (music)|middle of the road]]. Perhaps he should consider testing himself and his new fans's expectations next time around."<ref>{{cite web|author=Fricke, David|authorlink=David Fricke|date=9 May 1985|url=http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/no-jacket-required-19850509|title=''No Jacket Required'' Album Review|work=[[Rolling Stone]]|accessdate=30 September 2013}}</ref> "Sussudio" attracted negative attention for sounding too similar to [[Prince (musician)|Prince]]'s "[[1999 (song)|1999]]", a charge that Collins did not deny,<ref>Bronson, p. 611.</ref> and its [[Hook (music)|hook]] line has been named as the most widely disliked element of his career.<ref name="courtney"/> In 1986, ''No Jacket Required'' earned Collins the first two of his six [[Brit Awards]] for Best British Male and Best British Album.<ref name="brits">{{cite web|url=http://www.brits.co.uk/artist/phil-collins|title=Brit Awards: Phil Collins|publisher=Brit Awards|accessdate=22 September 2014}}</ref> |
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[[The No Jacket Required World Tour]] saw Collins perform 85 shows between February and July 1985. On 13 July, Collins took part in the [[Live Aid]] concerts, a continuation of the fundraising effort started by Band Aid. Collins was the only performer to appear at the London concert at [[Wembley Stadium (1923)|Wembley Stadium]] and the US concert at [[John F. Kennedy Stadium (Philadelphia)|JFK Stadium]] in Philadelphia on the same day.<ref name="Transcontinental">{{cite news |title=How Phil Collins Became Live Aid's Transcontinental MVP |url=https://ultimateclassicrock.com/phil-collins-live-aid/ |access-date=8 June 2020 |magazine=Ultimate Classic Rock}}</ref> After performing what ''[[Ultimate Classic Rock]]'' called "an especially crowd-pleasing selection of songs" in London, including "Against All Odds", "In the Air Tonight", and playing alongside [[Sting (musician)|Sting]], Collins flew to Philadelphia on a [[Concorde]] to perform his solo material, play drums for Clapton, and drum with Plant and [[Jimmy Page]] for a [[Led Zeppelin]] reunion.<ref name="Transcontinental"/> The latter performance was poorly received and later disowned by the band.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/3534576.stm|title=Zeppelin defend Live Aid opt out|date=4 August 2004|work=BBC News|access-date=23 July 2014}}</ref> Page later said that Collins had not learned his parts for the set.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.contactmusic.com/news/page-collins-was-a-disastrous-drummer_1052288|title=Page: 'Collins Was A Disastrous Drummer'|magazine=[[Contactmusic.com]]|date=4 December 2007|access-date=23 July 2014}}</ref> Collins responded that the band "weren't very good", that a "dribbling" Page had made him feel uncomfortable, and he only continued with the set rather than leave the stage in order to avoid negative attention.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.spin.com/2010/08/tough-questions-phil-collins/|title=Tough Questions for Phil Collins|last=Sellers|first=John|date=19 August 2010|work=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]|access-date=23 July 2014}}</ref> In November 1985, the song "[[Separate Lives]]", a duet featuring Collins and [[Marilyn Martin]] for the musical drama film ''[[White Nights (1985 film)|White Nights]]'', was released and became a US number one hit.{{sfn|Whitburn|2000|pp=143–144}} |
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In July 1985, Collins took part in the [[Live Aid]] concert charity event, a continuation of the fundraising effort started by Band Aid. Collins had the distinction of being the only performer to appear at the London concert at [[Wembley Stadium (1923)|Wembley Stadium]] and the U.S. concert at [[John F. Kennedy Stadium (Philadelphia)|JFK Stadium]] in Philadelphia on the same day. After he performed "Against All Odds" and "In the Air Tonight" and sang alongside [[Sting (musician)|Sting]], Collins travelled to Philadelphia via [[Concorde]] to perform his solo material, play drums for Clapton, and drum with Plant and [[Jimmy Page]] for a [[Led Zeppelin]] reunion. The latter performance was poorly received and later disowned by the band;<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/3534576.stm|title=Zeppelin defend Live Aid opt out|date=4 August 2004|publisher=BBC News|accessdate=23 July 2014}}</ref> Page claimed Collins had not learned his parts for the set.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.contactmusic.com/news/page-collins-was-a-disastrous-drummer_1052288|title=Page: 'Collins Was A Disastrous Drummer'|publisher=[[Contactmusic.com]]|date=4 December 2007|accessdate=23 July 2014}}</ref> Collins responded that the band "weren't very good", felt uncomfortable by a "dribbling" Page, and continued with the set rather than leave the stage to avoid negative attention.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.spin.com/articles/tough-questions-phil-collins/|title=Tough Questions for Phil Collins|last=Sellers|first=John|date=19 August 2010|website=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]|accessdate=23 July 2014}}</ref> |
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By the end of 1985, the music press noted that Collins's astronomical success as a solo artist had made him more popular than Genesis.<ref name=odds /> Before the release of ''No Jacket Required'', Collins insisted that he would not leave the band and that he felt "happier with what we're doing now, because I feel it's closer to me."<ref name=odds>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/phil-collins-beats-the-odds-19850523|title=Phil Collins Beats the Odds|last=Hoerburger|first=Rob|date=23 May 1985|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=6 July 2015|archive-date=18 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171118222636/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/phil-collins-beats-the-odds-19850523|url-status=dead}}</ref> In October 1985, he reunited with Banks and Rutherford to record Genesis's thirteenth album, ''[[Invisible Touch]]''. Released in 1986, it became the group's biggest selling album with 6 million copies sold in the US, and 1.2 million sold in the UK. [[Invisible Touch (song)|Its title track]] was released as a single and reached No. 1 in the US, the only Genesis song to do so. The group received a Grammy Award (their only one) and a nomination for the [[MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year]] in 1987 for "[[Land of Confusion]]", which features puppet caricatures from the British satirical program ''[[Spitting Image]]''.<ref>{{cite web|title=MTV Video Music Awards|url=http://www.mtv.com/ontv/vma/1987/|publisher=MTV|access-date=30 September 2013|year=1987}}</ref> Several music critics drew comparisons between the album and Collins's solo work, but ''Rolling Stone'''s [[J. D. Considine]] praised the album's commercial appeal, stating, "every tune is carefully pruned so that each flourish delivers not an instrumental epiphany but a solid hook".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/genesis/albums/album/218476/rid/5945410/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20070312042723/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/genesis/albums/album/218476/rid/5945410/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=12 March 2007 |title=Rolling Stone : Genesis: Invisible Touch : Music Reviews |publisher=Archive.is |access-date=21 January 2019}}</ref> March 1986 saw the release of "[[No One Is to Blame]]", a hit single by [[Howard Jones (British musician)|Howard Jones]] which included Collins on drums, backing vocals, and co-production alongside Padgham.{{sfn|Dean|2003|pp=180, 453}} Collins provided backing vocals, produced and played drums on most of Eric Clapton's 1986 album ''[[August (Eric Clapton album)|August]]''.<ref>{{cite web|first=AWilliam|last=Ruhlmann|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/august-r4047/review|title=August – Eric Clapton | Songs, Reviews, Credits|website=AllMusic|access-date=29 October 2015}}</ref> He also toured parts of Europe with Clapton in support of the album as the drummer, of which two concert videos were released; [[Live at Montreux 1986 (Eric Clapton film)]] and [[Live 1986|Eric Clapton and Friends Live 1986]]. In each of those videos, Collins is featured as the drummer and also performs "In the Air Tonight" with Clapton, bassist [[Nathan East]] and keyboardist [[Greg Phillinganes]] backing him. |
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After touring with Genesis in 1987, Collins was aware that his music had gained too much exposure and took a year off from writing and recording. He took on his first acting role since the late 1960s, starring as [[Buster Edwards]] opposite [[Julie Walters]] (who played his wife, June) in the romantic comedy drama-crime film ''[[Buster (film)|Buster]]'' which centred around the [[Great Train Robbery (1963)|Great Train Robbery]] from 1963 in [[Ledburn]], Buckinghamshire. Reviews for the film were mixed and controversy ensued over its subject matter; [[Charles, Prince of Wales|Prince Charles]] and [[Diana, Princess of Wales|Princess Diana]] declined an invitation to the première after it was accused of glorifying crime.<ref name="Prince Charles cancels royal film date">(9 September 1988). "Prince Charles cancels royal film date". ''[[Manila Standard]]'' (Manila).</ref> Collins contributed four songs to the film's soundtrack; his ballad rendition of "[[A Groovy Kind of Love#Phil Collins version|A Groovy Kind of Love]]", originally by [[the Mindbenders]], became his only single to reach No. 1 in the UK and the US. The film also spawned the US #1 single "[[Two Hearts (Phil Collins song)|Two Hearts]]", which he co-wrote with [[Lamont Dozier]] and won the pair a [[Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song#1980s|Golden Globe for Best Original Song]] and an [[Academy Award for Best Original Song#1980s|Oscar]] nomination in the same category. Film critic [[Roger Ebert]] said Collins "played [the role of Buster] with surprising effectiveness".<ref>{{cite news|author=Ebert, Roger|author-link=Roger Ebert|date=25 November 1988|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/buster-1988|title=''Buster'' Movie Review|work=[[Chicago Sun-Times]]|access-date=30 September 2013}}</ref> In 1988, Collins was the subject of an episode of the British TV series ''[[This Is Your Life (British TV series)|This Is Your Life]]''.{{sfn|Röttgers|2015|pages=82–83}} In 1989, Collins was among the musicians who donated their own clothes to [[Rock Circus|Madame Tussaud's Rock Circus]], an exhibition held at the [[London Pavilion]] celebrating the history of rock and pop music featuring its major figures recreated in wax.<ref>{{Cite news|title = Waxing Enthusiastic Over Tussaud's Rock 'n' Roll Circus : Nostalgia: Opened less than a year ago in London, the rock museum features robotic figures of rock stars sculpted in wax. Each exhibit is accompanied by music and comment.|url = http://articles.latimes.com/1990-08-04/entertainment/ca-1181_1_rock-circus|newspaper = Los Angeles Times|date = 4 August 1990|access-date = 13 July 2023}}</ref> |
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The music press noted Collins's astronomical success as a solo artist had made him more popular than Genesis.<ref name=odds/> Before the release of ''No Jacket Required'', Collins insisted that he would not leave the band. "The next one to leave the band will finish it," Collins told ''Rolling Stone'' magazine in May 1985. "I feel happier with what we're doing now, because I feel it's closer to me. I won't be the one." Collins added, "Poor old Genesis does get in the way sometimes. I still won't leave the group, but I imagine it will end by mutual consent."<ref name=odds>{{cite web|url=http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/phil-collins-beats-the-odds-19850523|title=Phil Collins Beats the Odds|last=Hoerburger|first=Rob|date=23 May 1985|work=Rolling Stone|accessdate=6 July 2015}}</ref> |
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===1989–1996: ''...But Seriously'', ''Both Sides'', and leaving Genesis=== |
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In October 1985, Collins reunited with Banks and Rutherford to record the next Genesis album, ''[[Invisible Touch]]''. Its [[Invisible Touch (song)|title track]] was released as a single and reached No. 1 in the US, the only Genesis song to do so. The group received a Grammy Award (their only one) and a nomination for the [[MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year]] in 1987 for the single "[[Land of Confusion]]" which featured puppet caricatures created by the British satirical team ''[[Spitting Image]]''.<ref>{{cite web|title=MTV Video Music Awards|url=http://www.mtv.com/ontv/vma/1987/|publisher=MTV|accessdate=30 September 2013|year=1987}}</ref> The video was directed by Jim Yukich and John Lloyd. Reviews of ''Invisible Touch'' were mixed and many comparisons were made with Collins's solo work, but ''Rolling Stone'''s [[J. D. Considine]] praised the album's commercial appeal, stating, "every tune is carefully pruned so that each flourish delivers not an instrumental epiphany but a solid hook".<ref>[https://archive.is/20070312042723/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/genesis/albums/album/218476/rid/5945410/ ]</ref> |
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In August 1989, Collins appeared as a special guest for [[the Who]] on their [[The Who Tour 1989|1989 tour]] for two shows, performing "Fiddle About" as Uncle Ernie and "Tommy's Holiday Camp" from their rock opera ''[[Tommy (The Who album)|Tommy]]'' (1969).<ref name="`Tommy` Comes Home">{{cite web|url=http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1989-08-24/features/8901070234_1_comic-book-uncle-ernie-rock-n-roll-comics|last=Silverman|first=David|work=Chicago Tribune|title='Tommy' Comes Home|date=24 August 1989|access-date=23 July 2014}}</ref> |
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From April to October 1989, Collins recorded his fourth album ''[[...But Seriously]]'' in England and Los Angeles, which saw him address social and political themes in his lyrics. The album was released in November 1989 to worldwide commercial success, spending fifteen weeks at No. 1 in the UK charts and in the US for three.<ref name="UKCharts" /> It became the UK's [[1990 in British music#Best-selling artist albums of 1990|best-selling album of 1990]] and is among the [[List of best-selling albums in the United Kingdom|best-selling albums]] in UK chart history.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/the-uks-60-official-biggest-selling-albums-of-all-time-revealed__15551/|title=The UK's 60 official biggest selling albums of all time revealed|last=Copsey|first=Rob|date=4 July 2016|publisher=[[Official Charts Company]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160709012251/http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/the-uks-60-official-biggest-selling-albums-of-all-time-revealed__15551/|archive-date=9 July 2016|url-status=live|access-date=11 May 2018}}</ref> It is [[List of best-selling albums in Germany#By Units|one of the best-selling albums in Germany]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.musikindustrie.de/fileadmin/piclib/presse/Dokumente_zum_Download/Gold_Platin_Hoechstverleihungen_Stand_100621.pdf|title=Highest Gold Platinum certifications as of 2008|access-date=3 July 2020|publisher=International Federation of the Phonographic Industry|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110104050205/http://www.musikindustrie.de/fileadmin/piclib/presse/Dokumente_zum_Download/Gold_Platin_Hoechstverleihungen_Stand_100621.pdf|archive-date=4 January 2011}}</ref> Its lead single "[[Another Day in Paradise]]" is an anti-homelessness song and features [[David Crosby]] singing backing vocals. Upon its release in October 1989, it went to No. 1 in the US to become the final number one single there of the 1980s. Despite its success, the song was also heavily criticised and became linked to allegations of hypocrisy made against Collins.{{sfn|Larkin|2007|p=263}}<ref name="wilson" /> Responding to criticism of the song, Collins stated: "When I drive down the street, I see the same things everyone else sees. It's a misconception that if you have a lot of money you're somehow out of touch with reality."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/12/06/arts/the-pop-life-365789.html|title=The Pop Life|last=Holden|first=Stephen|date=6 December 1989|author-link=Stephen Holden|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=21 August 2014}}</ref> In 1991, "Another Day in Paradise" won the [[33rd Annual Grammy Awards#Award winners|Grammy Award]] for [[Grammy Award for Record of the Year#Recipients|Record of the Year]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.brits.co.uk/history/shows/1990|title=1990 Brit Awards|publisher=Brit Awards|access-date=22 September 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rockonthenet.com/artists-c/philcollins.htm|title=Phil Collins|publisher=Rockonthenet.com|access-date=22 September 2014}}</ref> Other songs from ''...But Seriously'' also reached the top-five in the US: "[[Something Happened on the Way to Heaven]]", "[[Do You Remember? (Phil Collins song)|Do You Remember?]]", and "[[I Wish It Would Rain Down]]" featuring [[Eric Clapton]] on guitar.<ref name="UKCharts" />{{sfn|Whitburn|2000|pp=143–144}} |
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March 1986 saw the release of "[[No One Is to Blame]]", a hit single by [[Howard Jones (musician)|Howard Jones]] which included Collins on drums, backing vocals, and co-production alongside Padgham.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.discogs.com/Howard-Jones-One-To-One/release/823169 |title=Howard Jones - One To One (CD, Album) at Discogs |website=Discogs.com |date= |accessdate=2017-02-23}}</ref> Collins was one of the drummers, backing vocalists, and producers on Eric Clapton's 1987 album ''[[August (Eric Clapton album)|August]]''.<ref>{{cite web|author=AWilliam Ruhlmann|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/august-r4047/review|title=August - Eric Clapton | Songs, Reviews, Credits|publisher=AllMusic|accessdate=29 October 2015}}</ref> |
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''...But Seriously'' was supported with the Seriously, Live! World Tour which ran between February and October 1990 and covered 121 dates. The tour spawned the live album ''[[Serious Hits... Live!]]'', which sold 1.2 million copies in the UK and over 4 million in the US. In February 1990, Collins performed "Another Day in Paradise" at the [[1990 Brit Awards]] which won [[Brit Award for British Single of the Year|British Single of the Year]], and in September he performed "Sussudio" at the [[1990 MTV Video Music Awards]] in Los Angeles.<ref>{{cite web|title=MTV Video Music Awards|url=http://www.mtv.com/ontv/vma/1990/|publisher=MTV|access-date=30 September 2013|year=1990}}</ref> He also played drums on the 1989 [[Tears for Fears]] single, "[[Woman in Chains]]".<ref>{{cite web |last=Ellen, Mark |author-link=Mark Ellen |url=https://www.loudersound.com/features/does-everybody-still-hate-phil-collins |title=Does Everybody Still Hate Phil Collins?* |magazine=[[Classic Rock (magazine)|Classic Rock]] |date=30 October 2015 |access-date=18 October 2018 }}</ref> |
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Collins's first film role since embarking on his music career came in 1988 with the British romantic comedy drama-crime film ''[[Buster (film)|Buster]]''. He starred as [[Buster Edwards]], a criminal convicted for his role in the [[Great Train Robbery (1963)|Great Train Robbery]]. Reviews for the film were mixed and controversy ensued over its subject matter; [[Charles, Prince of Wales|Prince Charles]] and [[Diana, Princess of Wales|Princess Diana]] declined an invitation to the film's première after it was accused of glorifying crime.<ref name="Prince Charles cancels royal film date">(9 September 1988). "Prince Charles cancels royal film date". ''[[Manila Standard Today|Manila Standard]]'' (Manila).</ref> However, Collins's performance opposite [[Julie Walters]] received good reviews and he contributed four songs to the film's soundtrack. His slow [[ballad]] rendition of "[[A Groovy Kind of Love]]", originally by [[The Mindbenders]], became his only single to reach No. 1 in the UK and the U.S. The film also spawned the hit single "[[Two Hearts (Phil Collins song)|Two Hearts]]", which he co-wrote with [[Lamont Dozier]]; the two artists won a [[Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song|Golden Globe for Best Original Song]] and receive an [[Academy Awards|Oscar]] nomination in the same category. "Big Noise" and "[[Loco in Acapulco]]" were also by Collins and Dozier, the vocals for the latter were performed by [[The Four Tops]]. Film critic [[Roger Ebert]] said the role of Buster was "played with surprising effectiveness" by Collins, although the film's soundtrack proved more successful than the film.<ref>{{cite news|author=Ebert, Roger|authorlink=Roger Ebert|date=25 November 1988|url=http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/buster-1988|title=''Buster'' Movie Review|work=[[Chicago Sun-Times]]|accessdate=30 September 2013}}</ref> |
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In 1991, Collins reconvened with Banks and Rutherford to write and record a new Genesis album, ''[[We Can't Dance]]''. It became the band's fifth consecutive No. 1 album in the UK and reached No. 4 in the US, where it sold over 4 million copies. It features the singles "[[Jesus He Knows Me]]", "[[I Can't Dance]]", "[[No Son of Mine]]", and "[[Hold on My Heart]]". Collins performed on their 1992 tour. At the [[American Music Awards of 1993|1993 American Music Awards]], Genesis won the award for [[American Music Award for Favorite Pop/Rock Band/Duo/Group#1990s|Favorite Pop/Rock Band, Duo, or Group]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rockonthenet.com/archive/1993/amas.htm|title=20th American Music Awards|publisher=Rockonthenet.com|access-date=22 September 2014}}</ref> Collins co-wrote, sang and played on the 1993 single "[[Hero (David Crosby song)|Hero]]" by [[David Crosby]].<ref>{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r169565|first=William|last=Ruhlmann}}</ref> |
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In 1989, Collins worked on his fourth studio album ''[[...But Seriously]]'', and appeared on [[The Who Tour 1989]], performing the role of young Tommy's wicked [[Fiddle About|Uncle Ernie]] in a reprisal of the rock opera ''[[Tommy (album)|Tommy]]'' (a part originally played by their late drummer, [[Keith Moon]]).<ref name="`Tommy` Comes Home">{{cite web|url=http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1989-08-24/features/8901070234_1_comic-book-uncle-ernie-rock-n-roll-comics|last=Silverman|first=David|work=Chicago Tribune|title='Tommy' Comes Home|date=24 August 1989|accessdate=23 July 2014}}</ref> In November, Collins released ''...But Seriously'', which became another huge success, featuring as its lead single the anti-homelessness anthem "[[Another Day in Paradise]]", with [[David Crosby]] singing backing vocals. "Another Day in Paradise" reached No. 1 on the [[Billboard charts|''Billboard'' charts]] at the end of 1989, won Collins Best British Single at the [[Brit Awards]] in 1990, and the [[33rd Annual Grammy Awards|Grammy Award]] for [[Grammy Award for Record of the Year#Recipients|Record of the Year]] in 1991; it was also one of Germany's most successful singles of all time.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.brits.co.uk/history/shows/1990|title=1990 Brit Awards|publisher=Brit Awards|accessdate=22 September 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rockonthenet.com/artists-c/philcollins.htm|title=Phil Collins|publisher=Rockonthenet.com|accessdate=22 September 2014}}</ref> It became the final U.S. number-one single of the 1980s. Despite its success, the song was also heavily criticised.<ref>{{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|authorlink=Colin Larkin (writer)|date=14 September 2007|title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music: Concise (5th ed.)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_NNmFiUnSmUC&pg=PA2006-IA1345&lpg=PA2006-IA1345&dq=%22the+widely+criticised+another+day+in+paradise%22&source=bl&ots=JbkVzlVh0q&sig=RQ-2rIR4x34EBnSdP0QgVlMVLmc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=2Nz1U-fnOvLb7Abf0IFA&ved=0CCAQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22the%20widely%20criticised%20another%20day%20in%20paradise%22&f=false|publisher=[[Music Sales Group|Omnibus Press]]|isbn=1-84609-856-4|accessdate=21 August 2014}}</ref> It also became linked to allegations of hypocrisy made against Collins.<ref name="wilson"/> Responding to criticism of the song, Collins stated: "When I drive down the street, I see the same things everyone else sees. It's a misconception that if you have a lot of money you're somehow out of touch with reality."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/12/06/arts/the-pop-life-365789.html|title=The Pop Life|last=Holden|first=Stephen|date=6 December 1989|authorlink=Stephen Holden|website=The New York Times|accessdate=21 August 2014}}</ref> |
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Collins worked on his fifth studio album, ''[[Both Sides]]'', in 1992 and 1993. It marked a departure from his more polished and up-tempo songs on recent albums to material more experimental in nature, with Collins performing all the instruments and producing the record himself, because the songs written "were becoming so personal, so private, I didn't want anyone else's input". The decline of his second marriage was a focal point of the album.{{sfn|Coleman|1997|p=181}} Released in November 1993, ''Both Sides'' reached No. 1 in eight countries, including the UK, and No. 13 in the US. It marked a drop in sales in the latter when compared to his previous records, only reaching a single platinum certification by the end of the year. Its two biggest singles were "[[Both Sides of the Story]]" and "[[Everyday (Phil Collins song)|Everyday]]". The Both Sides of the World Tour saw Collins perform 165 shows across four legs between April 1994 and May 1995. Collins turned down the chance to contribute to ''[[Tower of Song]]'', an album of covers of [[Leonard Cohen]] songs, due to his touring commitments.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2004/sep/17/2|title=Who held a gun to Leonard Cohen's head?|last=de Lisle|first=Tim|date=17 September 2004|newspaper=The Guardian|access-date=7 April 2016}}</ref> On 29 March 1996, Collins's decision to leave Genesis to concentrate on his solo career was publicly announced.{{sfn|Coleman|1997|p=216}} |
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''...But Seriously'' became the first number-one U.S. album of the 1990s and the best-selling album of 1990 in the UK.<ref name="UKCharts"/> Other songs included "[[Something Happened on the Way to Heaven]]" (#4 U.S., #15 UK), "[[Do You Remember? (Phil Collins song)|Do You Remember?]]" (not released in the UK, but #4 in the U.S.), and "[[I Wish It Would Rain Down]]" (the latter featuring [[Eric Clapton]] on guitar; #3 U.S., #7 UK).<ref name="UKCharts"/><ref name="USCharts"/> Songs about [[apartheid]] and homelessness demonstrated Collins's turn to political themes. A live album, ''[[Serious Hits... Live!]]'', followed, which reached the top ten around the world. In September 1990 Collins performed "Sussudio" at the [[1990 MTV Video Music Awards]] in Los Angeles.<ref>{{cite web|title=MTV Video Music Awards|url=http://www.mtv.com/ontv/vma/1990/|publisher=MTV|accessdate=30 September 2013|year=1990}}</ref> Collins also played drums on the 1989 [[Tears for Fears]] hit single, "[[Woman in Chains]]".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.last.fm/music/Tears+for+Fears/_/Woman+In+Chains|title=Woman in Chains|publisher=last.fm|accessdate=27 August 2013}}</ref> |
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===1996–2006: Phil Collins Big Band, ''Dance into the Light'', Disney work, and ''Testify''=== |
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After a hiatus of five years, Genesis reconvened for the 1991 album release ''[[We Can't Dance]]'', Collins's last studio album with the group to date. It features the singles "[[Jesus He Knows Me]]", "[[I Can't Dance]]", "[[No Son of Mine]]", and "[[Hold on My Heart]]". Collins performed on their 1992 tour. At the [[American Music Awards of 1993|1993 American Music Awards]], Genesis won the award for [[American Music Award for Favorite Pop/Rock Band/Duo/Group#1990s|Favorite Pop/Rock Band, Duo, or Group]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rockonthenet.com/archive/1993/amas.htm|title=20th American Music Awards|publisher=Rockonthenet.com|accessdate=22 September 2014}}</ref> |
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[[File:Phil Collins.jpg|thumb|left|Collins performing with his big band in 1996]] |
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In the months surrounding his departure from Genesis, Collins formed the [[Phil Collins Big Band]], seating himself on the drums. He had wanted to undertake the project for some time and felt inspired from the ''[[Burning for Buddy: A Tribute to the Music of Buddy Rich|Burning for Buddy]]'' project that drummer [[Neil Peart]] had put together. Having moved to Switzerland, an invitation to perform at the [[Montreux Jazz Festival]] led to the band to come together, which featured [[Quincy Jones]] as conductor and [[Tony Bennett]] on vocals.<ref name=R97>{{cite magazine|url=https://thegenesisarchive.co.uk/rhythm-september-1997-phil-collins-feature/|title=All the World's a Stage|first=Heinz|last=Kronberger|date=September 1997|magazine=Rhythm|access-date=21 April 2020}}</ref> The group toured summer jazz festivals in July 1996 with a set of jazz renditions of Genesis and Collins' solo material. Their first date was at the [[Royal Albert Hall]] for a [[Prince's Trust]] concert with Queen Elizabeth II and [[Nelson Mandela]] in attendance. To learn his parts, Collins devised his own notation on sheets.<ref name=R97/> The band then went on hiatus until a US and European tour in the summer of 1998, which spawned the live album ''[[A Hot Night in Paris]]''. |
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In October 1996, Collins released his sixth solo album, ''[[Dance into the Light]]''. It reached No. 4 in the UK and No. 23 in the US. The album was received negatively by the music press and sold less than his previous albums. ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' reviewed by saying that "even Phil Collins must know that we all grew weary of Phil Collins".<ref>{{cite magazine|author=Browne, David|date=1 November 1996|url=https://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,294844,00.html|title=''Dance into the Light'' Review|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|access-date=30 September 2013|archive-date=3 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131003052544/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,294844,00.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Singles from the album included "[[Dance into the Light (song)|Dance into the Light]]", which reached No. 9 in the UK, and the Beatles-inspired "[[It's in Your Eyes]]".<ref name="Charts" /> The album was [[RIAA certification|certified Gold]] in the US. Collins toured the album throughout 1997 with his Trip into the Light World Tour, covering 82 dates. He performed "In the Air Tonight" and "Take Me Home" at the [[Music for Montserrat]] benefit concert in London alongside [[Paul McCartney]], [[Elton John]], Eric Clapton, [[Mark Knopfler]], and Sting.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=BwoEAAAAMBAJ&dq=Music+for+Montserrat+-+concert&pg=PA59 "Billboard 6 September 1997"]. p.59. ''Billboard''. Retrieved 20 June 2022</ref> |
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Collins co-wrote, sang and played on "Hero" on ''[[Thousand Roads]]'' by [[David Crosby]].<ref>{{Allmusic|class=album|id=r169565|first=William|last=Ruhlmann}}</ref> Collins's record sales began to drop with the 1993 release of ''[[Both Sides]]'', a largely experimental album that, according to Collins, included songs that "were becoming so personal, so private, I didn't want anyone else's input".<ref>Coleman, p. 181.</ref> Featuring a less polished sound and fewer up-tempo songs than his previous albums, ''Both Sides'' was a significant departure. Collins used no backing musicians and he performed all the vocal and instrumental parts at his home studio, using rough vocal takes for the final product. The album was not as well received by radio. Its two biggest hits were "[[Both Sides of the Story]]" and "[[Everyday (Phil Collins song)|Everyday]]". In 1995, Collins turned down the chance to contribute to ''[[Tower of Song]]'', an album of covers of [[Leonard Cohen]] songs, due to his touring commitments.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2004/sep/17/2|title=Who held a gun to Leonard Cohen's head?|last=de Lisle|first=Tim|date=17 September 2004|website=The Guardian|accessdate=7 April 2016}}</ref> |
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In October 1998, Collins released his first compilation album ''[[Hits (Phil Collins album)|...Hits]]'' which contains a new track, a cover of "[[True Colors (Cyndi Lauper song)|True Colors]]" by [[Cyndi Lauper]] that was produced by [[Babyface (musician)|Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/Phil-Collins-True-Colors/release/2941123 |title=Phil Collins – True Colors (CD) |year=1998 |publisher=Discogs |access-date=23 February 2017}}</ref> The album was a commercial success worldwide, reaching No. 1 in the UK charts and selling 3.4 million copies in the US by 2012.<ref name="billchart">''Billboard'' magazine, [{{BillboardURLbyName|artist=phil collins|chart=all}} Phil Collins Chart History]. Retrieved 13 January 2006.</ref> |
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===1996–2006: Leaving Genesis, ''Dance into the Light'', Big Band and Disney work, and ''Testify''=== |
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Collins left Genesis in March 1996 to focus on his solo career.<ref name="Hewitt official UK site bio"/> He formed [[The Phil Collins Big Band]] with himself on drums. The band performed [[jazz]] renditions of songs from Genesis and his solo career. His sixth solo album, ''[[Dance into the Light]]'', was released in October 1996. The album was received negatively by the music press and sold less than his previous albums. ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' reviewed by saying that "even Phil Collins must know that we all grew weary of Phil Collins".<ref>{{cite news|author=Browne, David|date=1 November 1996|url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,294844,00.html |title=''Dance into the Light'' Review |work=Entertainment Weekly |accessdate=30 September 2013}}</ref> Singles from the album included the [[Dance into the Light (song)|title track]], which reached No. 9 in the UK, and [[The Beatles]]-inspired "[[It's in Your Eyes]]".<ref name="Charts"/> The album achieved [[RIAA certification|Gold certification]] in the US. On 15 September 1997, Collins appeared at the [[Music for Montserrat]] concert at the [[Royal Albert Hall]] in London.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BwoEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA59|title=Billboard 6 September 1997|publisher=Books.google.com|accessdate=22 September 2014}}</ref> |
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[[File:Phil Collins Duesseldorf.jpg|thumb|upright|Collins on his First Farewell Tour in 2005]] |
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In the mid-1990s Collins was recruited to write and perform songs for Disney's adventure film ''[[Tarzan (1999 film)|Tarzan]]'' (1999), integrated with a score by [[Mark Mancina]]. Collins also sang his songs in French, Italian, German, and Spanish for the dubbed versions of the [[Tarzan (1999 soundtrack)|film's soundtrack]]. His song "[[You'll Be in My Heart]]" was released in June 1999 and spent 19 weeks at No. 1 on the ''Billboard'' [[Adult Contemporary (chart)|Adult Contemporary]] chart, the longest time ever up to that point. In 2000, the song won Collins an [[72nd Academy Awards#Awards|Academy Award]] and a [[57th Golden Globe Awards#Winners and nominees|Golden Globe Award]], both for Best Original Song. He performed "[[Two Worlds (song)|Two Worlds]]" at that year's ceremony and the Disney-themed [[List of Super Bowl halftime shows#2000s|Super Bowl halftime show]]. |
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The Phil Collins Big Band completed a world tour in 1998 that included a performance at the [[Montreux Jazz Festival]]. In 1999 they released the [[Compact disc|CD]] ''[[A Hot Night in Paris]]'' including big band versions of "Invisible Touch", "Sussudio", and "The Los Endos Suite" from ''[[A Trick of the Tail]]''. |
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In June 1999, Collins was awarded a star on the [[List of stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame#C|Hollywood Walk of Fame]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hwof.com/star/recording/phil-collins/333|title=Phil Collins|publisher=Hwof.com|access-date=22 September 2014|archive-date=7 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190707044719/http://hwof.com/star/recording/phil-collins/333|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2000, he became partially deaf in one ear due to a viral infection.<ref name=PC>{{cite news|first=Dorian |last=Lynskey |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/feb/11/phil-collins-interview-take-a-look-at-me-now-remastered-albums-rerelease-2016?subid=9600366&CMP=ema_565 |title=Phil Collins returns: 'I got letters from nurses saying, "That's it, I'm not buying your records"' | Life and style |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=23 February 2017}}</ref> In June 2002, Collins accepted an invitation to drum for the [[house band]] at the [[Party at the Palace]] concert held on the grounds of [[Buckingham Palace]], an event which celebrated [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Queen Elizabeth II]]'s [[Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II|Golden Jubilee]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2024042.stm|title=Partying at the palace|work=BBC News|date=4 June 2002|access-date=17 December 2014}}</ref> In 2002, he received the [[Disney Legend]] award.<ref>{{cite web|title=Disney Legends|url=http://d23.disney.go.com/archives/disney-legends/|publisher=[[D23 (Disney)|Disney D23]]|access-date=24 February 2013}}</ref> |
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His first compilation album ''[[Hits (Phil Collins album)|...Hits]]'' was released in 1998 and sold well, returning Collins to multi-platinum status in the US. The album's one new track, a cover of the [[Cyndi Lauper]] hit "[[True Colors (Cyndi Lauper song)|True Colors]]", was produced by [[Babyface (musician)|Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/Phil-Collins-True-Colors/release/2941123 |title=Phil Collins - True Colors (CD) at Discogs |website=Discogs.com |date= |accessdate=2017-02-23}}</ref> and received considerable airplay on U.S. Adult Contemporary stations while peaking at No. 2.<ref name="billchart">''Billboard'' magazine, [{{BillboardURLbyName|artist=phil collins|chart=all}} Phil Collins Chart History]. Retrieved 13 January 2006.</ref> |
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On 11 November 2002, Collins released his seventh solo album, ''[[Testify (Phil Collins album)|Testify]]''. [[Metacritic]]'s roundup of album reviews found this record to be the worst-reviewed album at the time of its release, though it has since been surpassed by three more recent releases.<ref name="metacritic">{{cite web|url=https://www.metacritic.com/music/bests/ |title=Best Music and Albums |website=[[Metacritic]] |access-date=23 February 2017}}</ref> The album's single "[[Can't Stop Loving You]]" (a [[Leo Sayer]] cover) was a number-one Adult Contemporary hit. ''Testify'' sold 140,000 copies in the US by year's end.{{sfn|Thompson|2004|p=260}} |
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In 1999, Collins saw a small renaissance with his career. He reunited with Genesis to re-record "[[The Carpet Crawlers]]" for the compilation album ''[[Turn It On Again: The Hits]]''.The Album was a modest success, reaching number 4 on the UK Album Charts and 65 on the US Billboard 200. Later that same year, Collins performed the soundtrack to the animated adventure film ''[[Tarzan (1999 film)|Tarzan]]'' (1999) for [[The Walt Disney Company]]. The film's lead song, "[[You'll Be in My Heart]]", spent 19 weeks at No. 1 on the ''Billboard'' [[Adult Contemporary (chart)|Adult Contemporary]] chart—the longest time ever up to that point. Collins also sang German, Italian, Spanish and French versions of the ''Tarzan'' soundtrack for the respective film versions. The song won Collins an [[72nd Academy Awards|Academy Award]] and a [[57th Golden Globe Awards|Golden Globe Award]] both for Best Original Song, and was performed at that year's ceremony and a Disney-themed [[Super Bowl]] halftime show. Collins was awarded a star on the [[List of stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame#C|Hollywood Walk of Fame]], on 16 June 1999.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hwof.com/star/recording/phil-collins/333|title=Phil Collins|publisher=Hwof.com|accessdate=22 September 2014}}</ref> |
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Disney hired Collins to compose and perform on the soundtrack to its 2003 animated feature ''[[Brother Bear]]'', which included the song "[[Look Through My Eyes]]".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2003-11-01/news/0310310483_1_phil-collins-brother-bear-groove|title=A Genesis For Phil Collins|last=Moore|first=Roger|newspaper=Orlando Sentinel|date=1 November 2003|access-date=6 July 2015}}</ref> In the same year he was inducted into the [[List of Songwriters Hall of Fame inductees|Songwriters Hall of Fame]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Songwriters Hall of Fame announces 2003 inductees: Phil Collins, Queen, Van Morrison and Little Richard|url=http://www.songwritershalloffame.org/ceremony/C3124|publisher=[[Songwriters Hall of Fame]]|access-date=24 February 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130308041322/http://www.songwritershalloffame.org/ceremony/C3124|archive-date=8 March 2013}}</ref> In 2004, Collins released two compilation albums, ''[[The Platinum Collection (Phil Collins album)|The Platinum Collection]]'' and ''[[Love Songs: A Compilation... Old and New|Love Songs]]''. From June 2004 to November 2005, Collins performed his First Final Farewell Tour, a reference to the multiple farewell tours of other popular artists.<ref>{{cite web|last=Touchette|first=Deborah|title=Famous Baby Boomers with Significant Hearing Loss and/or Tinnitus|url=http://todaysseniormagazine.homestead.com/famousbabyboomers.html|work=Today's Senior Magazine |access-date=30 September 2013}}</ref> In 2006, he worked with Disney on a [[Tarzan (musical)|musical production of ''Tarzan'']].<ref>{{cite web|first=William|last=Ruhlmann|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/tarzan-the-broadway-musical-original-broadway-cast-recording-mw0000417742|title=Tarzan: The Broadway Musical [Original Broadway Cast Recording] – Original Broadway Cast | Songs, Reviews, Credits|website=AllMusic|date=27 June 2006|access-date=29 October 2015}}</ref> |
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In 2000, Collins became partially deaf in one ear due to a viral infection.<ref name=PC>{{cite news|author=Dorian Lynskey |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/feb/11/phil-collins-interview-take-a-look-at-me-now-remastered-albums-rerelease-2016?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+USA+-+Version+CB+header&utm_term=158329&subid=9600366&CMP=ema_565 |title=Phil Collins returns: ‘I got letters from nurses saying, "That’s it, I’m not buying your records"’ | Life and style |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |date= |accessdate=2017-02-23}}</ref> In June 2002, he accepted an invitation to drum for the [[house band]] at the [[Party at the Palace]] concert which celebrated [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Queen Elizabeth II]]'s [[Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II|Golden Jubilee]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2024042.stm|title=Partying at the palace|work=BBC News|date=4 June 2002|accessdate=17 December 2014}}</ref> |
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===2006–2015: First Genesis reunion, ''Going Back'', and retirement=== |
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On 11 November 2002, Collins released his seventh solo album, ''[[Testify (Phil Collins album)|Testify]]''. [[Metacritic]]'s roundup of album reviews found this record to be the worst-reviewed album at the time of its release, though it has since been surpassed by three more recent releases.<ref name="metacritic">{{cite web|url=http://www.metacritic.com/music/bests/ |title=Best Music and Albums |publisher=[[Metacritic]] |date= |accessdate=2017-02-23}}</ref> The album's single "[[Can't Stop Loving You]]" (a [[Leo Sayer]] cover) was a number-one Adult Contemporary hit. ''Testify'' sold 140,000 copies in the U.S. by year's end, making it his worst selling album in the U.S.<ref>Thompson, p. 260.</ref> |
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[[File:2369 - Philadelphia - Wachovia Center - Genesis - I Can't Dance.JPG|thumb|Collins (right) performing with Genesis in 2007]] |
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Collins reunited with Banks and Rutherford and announced [[Turn It On Again: The Tour]] on 7 November 2006, nearly 40 years after the band first formed. The tour took place during summer 2007, and played in twelve countries across Europe, followed by a second leg in North America. During the tour Genesis performed at the [[Live Earth (2007 concert)|Live Earth]] concert at [[Wembley Stadium]], London.<ref name="liveearth">{{cite web|url=http://liveearth.msn.com/|title=Genesis to participate in Live Earth|publisher=MSN|access-date=22 September 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090819021745/http://liveearth.msn.com/|archive-date=19 August 2009}}</ref> In 2007 they were honoured at the second annual [[VH1 Rock Honors]], performing "[[Turn It On Again]]", "[[No Son of Mine]]" and "[[A Trick of the Tail|Los Endos]]" at the ceremony in Las Vegas.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.genesis-news.com/live-2007-blog/2007/05/13/genesis-in-las-vegas-last-night-vh-1-rock-honors|title=Genesis in Las Vegas last night (VH-1 Rock Honors)|publisher=Genesis-news.com|access-date=29 October 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120904170900/http://www.genesis-news.com/live-2007-blog/2007/05/13/genesis-in-las-vegas-last-night-vh-1-rock-honors|archive-date=4 September 2012}}</ref> On 22 May 2008, Collins received his sixth [[Ivor Novello Award]] from the [[British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors]] when he was presented the International Achievement Award at a ceremony held at the [[Grosvenor House Hotel]], London.<ref>[http://theivors.com/archive/2000-2009/the-ivors-2008/ "The 53rd Ivor Novello Awards"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160803231717/http://theivors.com/archive/2000-2009/the-ivors-2008/ |date=3 August 2016 }}. The Ivors. Retrieved 31 December 2017</ref> |
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In October 2009, it was reported that Collins was to record a [[Motown]] covers album. He told a German newspaper, "I want the songs to sound exactly like the originals", and that the album would feature up to 30 songs.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.undercover.com.au/News-Story.aspx?id=9314_Phil_Collins_To_Record_Motown_Covers_Album|title=Phil Collins To Record Motown Covers Album|publisher=Undercover.com.au|date=24 October 2009|access-date=26 March 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091121074422/http://www.undercover.com.au/News-Story.aspx?id=9314_Phil_Collins_To_Record_Motown_Covers_Album|archive-date=21 November 2009}}</ref> In January 2010, Chester Thompson said that the album had been completed and would be released some time soon. He also revealed that Collins managed to play the drums on the album despite a spinal operation.<ref>{{cite AV media |url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FC_gwdMTgM|title=Broadcast Yourself|publisher=YouTube|date=17 November 2009|access-date=26 March 2010}}</ref> The resulting album, ''[[Going Back (album)|Going Back]]'', was released on 13 September 2010. It reached number one on the [[UK Albums Chart]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11416660|title=Phil Collins tops album chart after 12 years|date=27 September 2010|work=BBC News}}</ref> In summer 2010, Collins played six concerts with the music from ''Going Back''. These included a special programme, ''Phil Collins: One Night Only'', aired on [[ITV1]] on 18 September 2010. Collins also promoted ''Going Back'' with his first and only appearance on the BBC's music series ''[[Later... with Jools Holland]]'', broadcast on 17 September 2010.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00b3h0r|title=Later with Jools Holland|publisher=BBC|date=17 September 2010|access-date=29 July 2015}}</ref> |
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Disney hired Collins and [[Tina Turner]] to perform on the soundtrack to its 2003 animated feature ''[[Brother Bear]]'', which included the song "[[Look Through My Eyes]]".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2003-11-01/news/0310310483_1_phil-collins-brother-bear-groove|title=A Genesis For Phil Collins|last=Moore|first=Roger|newspaper=Orlando Sentinel|date=1 November 2003|accessdate=6 July 2015}}</ref> From June 2004 to November 2005, Collins performed his First Final Farewell Tour, a reference to the multiple farewell tours of other popular artists.<ref>{{cite web|last=Touchette|first=Deborah|title=Famous Baby Boomers with Significant Hearing Loss and/or Tinnitus|url=http://todaysseniormagazine.homestead.com/famousbabyboomers.html|work=Today's Senior Magazine |accessdate=30 September 2013}}</ref> In 2006, he worked with Disney on a musical production of ''[[Tarzan (musical)|Tarzan]]''.<ref>{{cite web|author=William Ruhlmann|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/tarzan-the-broadway-musical-original-broadway-cast-recording-mw0000417742|title=Tarzan: The Broadway Musical [Original Broadway Cast Recording] - Original Broadway Cast | Songs, Reviews, Credits|publisher=AllMusic|date=27 June 2006|accessdate=29 October 2015}}</ref> |
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In March 2010, Collins was inducted into the [[Rock and Roll Hall of Fame]] as a member of Genesis at a ceremony in New York City.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/breaking-news/entertainment/genesis-inducted-into-hall-of-fame-14722724.html?r=RSS|title=Genesis inducted into hall of fame|work=[[Belfast Telegraph]]|date=16 March 2010|access-date=23 February 2013}}</ref> As of January 2011, Collins has spent 1,730 weeks in the German music charts—766 weeks of them with Genesis albums and singles and 964 weeks with solo releases.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gfk-entertainment.com/news/phil-collins-1730-wochen-in-den-charts.html|title=Phil Collins: 1.730 Wochen in den Charts|publisher=Media-control.de|date=24 January 2011|access-date=9 July 2011}}</ref> On 4 March 2011, citing health problems and other concerns, Collins announced that he was taking time off from his career, prompting widespread reports of his retirement.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandpopmusic/8360584/Phil-Collins-calls-time-on-music-career.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandpopmusic/8360584/Phil-Collins-calls-time-on-music-career.html |archive-date=10 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Phil Collins calls time on music career|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=3 March 2011|access-date=4 March 2011|location=London|first=Murray|last=Wardrop}}{{cbignore}}</ref> On 7 March his UK representative told the press, "He is not, has no intention of, retiring."<ref>{{cite web|first=Joey |last=Bartolomeo |url=http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20471616,00.html |title=Phil Collins Is Not Retiring |work=People |date=7 March 2011 |access-date=23 February 2017}}</ref> Later that day, Collins posted a message to his fans on his own website, confirming his intention to retire to focus on his family life.<ref name="BBC Collins Retirement">{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12686726|title=Phil Collins confirms retirement|work=BBC News|access-date=9 March 2011|date=9 March 2011}}</ref><ref name="A Message From Phil">{{cite web|url=http://www.philcollins.co.uk/news/breaking-news-message-phil |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131113191947/http://www.philcollins.co.uk/news/breaking-news-message-phil |url-status=dead |archive-date=13 November 2013 |title=A Message From Phil |access-date=21 January 2019}}</ref> In July 2012, Collins's greatest hits collection ''[[Hits (Phil Collins album)|...Hits]]'' re-entered the US charts, reaching No. 6 on the [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.capitalfm.com/artists/adele/news/nas-billboard-200-number-one/|title=Adele Claims 74th Week in Billboard 200 Top Ten As Nas Takes #1 Spot|date=25 July 2012|work=Capital|access-date=22 September 2014}}</ref> |
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[[File:2369 - Philadelphia - Wachovia Center - Genesis - I Can't Dance.JPG|thumb|right|203px|Collins performing with Genesis at the [[Wells Fargo Center (Philadelphia)|Wachovia Center]], [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]], U.S., 2007]] |
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Collins reunited with Banks and Rutherford and announced [[Turn It On Again: The Tour]] on 7 November 2006, nearly 40 years after the band first formed. The tour took place during summer 2007, and played in twelve countries across Europe, followed by a second leg in North America. During the tour Genesis performed at the [[Live Earth (2007 concert)|Live Earth]] concert at [[Wembley Stadium]], London.<ref name="liveearth">{{cite web|url=http://liveearth.msn.com/|title=Genesis to participate in Live Earth|publisher=MSN|accessdate=22 September 2014}}</ref> In 2007 they were honoured at the second annual [[VH1 Rock Honors]], performing "[[Turn It On Again]]", "[[No Son of Mine]]" and "[[A Trick of the Tail|Los Endos]]" at the ceremony in Las Vegas.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.genesis-news.com/live-2007-blog/2007/05/13/genesis-in-las-vegas-last-night-vh-1-rock-honors|title=Genesis in Las Vegas last night (VH-1 Rock Honors)|publisher=Genesis-news.com|accessdate=29 October 2015}}</ref> |
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In November 2013, Collins told German media that he was considering a return to music and speculated that this could mean further live shows with Genesis, stating: "Everything is possible. We could tour in Australia and South America. We haven't been there yet."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/nov/28/phil-collins-making-return-to-music-genesis|title=Phil Collins considering a return to music? |work=The Guardian|location=London|first=Sean|last=Michaels|date=28 November 2013|access-date=4 December 2013}}</ref> Speaking to reporters in Miami, Florida in December 2013 at an event promoting his charity work, Collins indicated that he was writing music once again and might tour again.<ref name="Rolling Stone 2013">{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/phil-collins-mulling-a-musical-comeback-20131203|title=Phil Collins Mulling a Musical Comeback|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=3 December 2013|access-date=22 September 2014}}</ref> |
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In October 2009, it was reported that Collins was to record a [[Motown]] covers album. He told a German newspaper, "I want the songs to sound exactly like the originals", and that the album would feature up to 30 songs.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.undercover.com.au/News-Story.aspx?id=9314_Phil_Collins_To_Record_Motown_Covers_Album|title=Phil Collins To Record Motown Covers Album|publisher=Undercover.com.au|date=24 October 2009|accessdate=26 March 2010}}</ref> In January 2010, Chester Thompson said that the album had been completed and would be released some time soon. He also revealed that Collins managed to play the drums on the album despite a spinal operation.<ref>{{cite web|url=//www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FC_gwdMTgM|title=Broadcast Yourself|publisher=YouTube|date=17 November 2009|accessdate=26 March 2010}}</ref> |
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On 24 January 2014, Collins announced in an interview with ''Inside South Florida'' that he was writing new compositions with fellow English singer [[Adele]].<ref name=Rollingstone>{{cite magazine|last=Greene|first=Andy|title=Phil Collins: 'I've Just Started to Work With Adele'|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/phil-collins-ive-just-started-to-work-with-adele-20140124|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=25 January 2014|date=24 January 2014|archive-date=27 January 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140127011946/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/phil-collins-ive-just-started-to-work-with-adele-20140124|url-status=dead}}</ref> Collins said he had no idea who Adele was when he learned she wanted to collaborate with him.<ref name=UTV>{{cite web|title=Adele working with Phil Collins|url=http://www.u.tv/entertainment/Adele-working-with-Phil-Collins/4e3ae77c-c6a4-401e-b18f-ffeddb90f1bb|publisher=[[UTV (TV channel)|UTV]]|access-date=25 January 2014|date=24 January 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202224625/http://www.u.tv/entertainment/Adele-working-with-Phil-Collins/4e3ae77c-c6a4-401e-b18f-ffeddb90f1bb|archive-date=2 February 2014}}</ref> He said "I wasn't actually too aware [of her]. I live in a cave."<ref name=Rollingstone /><ref name=Vibemag>{{cite web|last=Augustin|first=Camille|title=Adele To Hit The Studio With Phil Collins?|url=http://www.vibe.com/article/adele-hit-studio-phil-collins|work=Vibe|access-date=25 January 2014|date=24 January 2014}}</ref> Collins agreed to join her in the studio after hearing her voice.<ref name=UTV /> He said, "[She] achieved an incredible amount. I really love her voice. I love some of this stuff she's done, too."<ref name=Billboardmag>{{cite magazine|last=Rutherford|first=Kevin|title=Adele, Phil Collins Working on New Music Together|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/5885285/adele-phil-collins-working-on-new-music-together|magazine=Billboard|access-date=25 January 2014|date=24 January 2014}}</ref> In September 2014, Collins revealed that the collaboration had ended and he said it had been "a bit of a non-starter".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.3news.co.nz/entertainment/adele-chose-motherhood-over-phil-collins-collaboration-2014093009|title=Adele chose motherhood over Phil Collins collaboration|publisher=[[Newshub|3 News]]|date=30 September 2014|access-date=1 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006115141/http://www.3news.co.nz/entertainment/adele-chose-motherhood-over-phil-collins-collaboration-2014093009|archive-date=6 October 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> In May 2014, Collins gave a live performance of "[[In the Air Tonight]]" and "[[Land of Confusion]]" with young student musicians at the [[Miami Country Day School]] in Miami, Florida.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/videos/watch-phil-collins-sing-in-the-air-tonight-for-first-time-in-years-20140523|title=Watch Phil Collins Sing 'In the Air Tonight' for First Time in Years|last=Reed|first=Ryan|date=23 May 2014|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=24 May 2014}}</ref> Collins was asked to perform there by his sons, who are students at the school.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-27632228|title=Phil Collins performs at school concert|work=BBC News|date=30 May 2014|access-date=30 May 2014}}</ref> In August 2014, Collins was reported to have accepted an invitation to perform in December at a benefit concert in Miami in aid of his Little Dreams Foundation charity. He ultimately missed the concert due to illness.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://ultimateclassicrock.com/phil-collins-benefit-concert/|title=Phil Collins to perform benefit concert|newspaper=Ultimate Classic Rock|date=7 August 2014|access-date=9 August 2014}}</ref> |
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The resulting album, ''[[Going Back (album)|Going Back]]'', was released on 13 September 2010. It entered the UK charts at No. 4, rising to No. 1 the following week.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11416660|title=Phil Collins tops album chart after 12 years|date=27 September 2010|publisher=BBC News}}</ref> In summer 2010, Collins played six concerts with the music from ''Going Back''. These included a special programme, ''Phil Collins: One Night Only'', aired on [[ITV1]] on 18 September 2010. Collins also promoted ''Going Back'' with his first and only appearance on the BBC's music series ''[[Later... with Jools Holland]]'', broadcast on 17 September 2010.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00b3h0r|title=Later with Jools Holland|work=BBC|date=17 September 2010|accessdate=29 July 2015}}</ref> |
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===2015–present: Out of retirement, Not Dead Yet Tour, and second Genesis reunion=== |
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[[File:Phil Collins star.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Collins' star on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]]]] |
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[[File:Phil Collins - Royal Albert Hall - Wednesday 7th June 2017 PhilCollinsRAH070617-7 (35215802066).jpg|thumb|Collins on stage at the [[Royal Albert Hall]], London on 7 June 2017]] |
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In March 2010, Collins was inducted into the [[Rock and Roll Hall of Fame]] as a member of Genesis at a ceremony in New York City.<ref name=RockHallofFame/> As of January 2011, Collins has spent 1,730 weeks in the German music charts—766 weeks of them with Genesis albums and singles and 964 weeks with solo releases.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gfk-entertainment.com/news/phil-collins-1730-wochen-in-den-charts.html|title=Phil Collins: 1.730 Wochen in den Charts|publisher=Media-control.de|date=24 January 2011|accessdate=9 July 2011}}</ref> |
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In May 2015, Collins signed a deal with [[Warner Music Group]] to have his solo albums remastered and reissued with previously unreleased material.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/phil-collins-readies-deluxe-reissues-of-solo-catalog-20150512|title=Phil Collins Readies Deluxe Reissues of Solo Catalog|last=Blistein|first=Jon|date=12 May 2015|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=13 May 2015}}</ref> In October of that year, he announced that he was no longer retired and had started plans to tour and make a new album.<ref>{{cite news|title=Phil Collins 'no longer retired'|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-34659811|access-date=28 October 2015|date=28 October 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Greene|first=Andy|title=Phil Collins Plotting Comeback: 'I Am No Longer Retired'|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/phil-collins-plotting-comeback-i-am-no-longer-retired-20151028|access-date=28 October 2015|date=28 October 2015}}</ref> By mid-2016, all eight of his albums were reissued with the artwork updated to display Collins as his older self, the exception being ''Going Back'', which had a new cover.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://petapixel.com/2016/04/08/phil-collins-remastered-6-albums-reshot-covers/|title=Phil Collins Reshot All His Original Album Covers for the 2016 Reissues|date=8 April 2016|work=PetaPixel|access-date=14 May 2018|language=en-US}}</ref> In 2019, the additional digital only releases ''Other Sides'' and ''Remixed Sides'' followed.<ref>{{cite news |title=Phil Collins goes digital with demos, B-sides and remixes |url=http://abcnewsradioonline.com/music-news/2019/5/10/phil-collins-goes-digital-with-demos-b-sides-and-remixes-1.html |access-date=21 May 2019 |agency=ABC News |archive-date=24 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190524225837/http://abcnewsradioonline.com/music-news/2019/5/10/phil-collins-goes-digital-with-demos-b-sides-and-remixes-1.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> |
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In October 2016, Collins's autobiography ''Not Dead Yet'' was published.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/phil-collins-warts-and-all-autobiography-arriving-in-2016-20151012|title=Phil Collins' 'Warts and All' Autobiography Arriving in 2016|date=12 October 2015|first=Daniel|last=Kreps|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=28 October 2015}}</ref> At a press conference held at the [[Royal Albert Hall]] in the same month, Collins announced his [[Not Dead Yet Tour]] which initially took form as a short European trek from June 2017.<ref name="2017 tour">{{cite news|title=Phil Collins marks comeback with European tour|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-37676505|work=BBC News |access-date=17 October 2016}}</ref> The tour included five nights at the Royal Albert Hall which sold out in fifteen seconds, prompting the announcement of Collins's headline spot at the 2017 [[British Summer Time (concerts)|BST Hyde Park]] festival which became his largest solo concert.<ref name="Hyde Park">{{cite news|title=Phil Collins to play his biggest-ever solo show in Hyde Park|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/nov/08/phil-collins-to-play-biggest-ever-solo-show-in-hyde-park|newspaper=The Guardian|date=3 November 2016}}</ref> His band included his son [[Nic Collins (drummer)|Nicolas]] on the drums. A review in ''The Telegraph'' stated: "Unlike the body, the voice is largely unravaged by time. It's still soulful, sometimes silky, occasionally bruised."<ref name="Hall">{{cite news|title=Against all odds, Phil Collins carries the crowd – review|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/what-to-listen-to/against-odds-phil-collins-carries-nottingham-motorpoint-arena/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/what-to-listen-to/against-odds-phil-collins-carries-nottingham-motorpoint-arena/ |archive-date=10 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|agency=The Telegraph|first=James|last=Hall|date=23 November 2017}}{{cbignore}}</ref> In 2017, the tour was extended worldwide and ran until October 2019 for a total of 97 shows.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://consequence.net/2017/11/phil-collins-announces-mexico-south-america-tour-dates-for-2018/|title=Phil Collins announces Mexico, South America tour dates for 2018|date=27 November 2017|work=Consequence|access-date=16 May 2018|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://consequence.net/2018/05/phil-collins-2018-north-american-tour/|title=Phil Collins announces first North American tour in 12 years|date=7 May 2018|work=Consequence|access-date=16 May 2018|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://concertfix.com/tours/phil-collins|title=Phil Collins Tour Dates & Concert Tickets 2019|last=ConcertFix|website=ConcertFix|language=en|access-date=26 March 2019}}</ref> |
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On 4 March 2011, citing health problems and other concerns, Collins announced that he was taking time off from his career, prompting widespread reports of his retirement.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandpopmusic/8360584/Phil-Collins-calls-time-on-music-career.html|title=Phil Collins calls time on music career|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=3 March 2011|accessdate=4 March 2011|location=London|first=Murray|last=Wardrop}}</ref> On 7 March his UK representative told the press, "He is not, has no intention of, retiring."<ref>{{cite web|author=Joey Bartolomeo |url=http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20471616,00.html |title=Phil Collins Is Not Retiring |website=People.com |date=2011-03-07 |accessdate=2017-02-23}}</ref> However, later that day, Collins posted a message to his fans on his own website, confirming his intention to retire to focus on his family life.<ref name="BBC Collins Retirement">{{cite news|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12686726|title=Phil Collins confirms retirement|publisher=BBC News|accessdate=9 March 2011|date=9 March 2011}}</ref><ref name="A Message From Phil">[https://web.archive.org/web/20131113191947/http://www.philcollins.co.uk/news/breaking-news-message-phil ]</ref> |
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In March 2020, Collins, Banks, and Rutherford announced they had reformed Genesis once more to undertake [[The Last Domino? Tour]]. This time the band were joined by Collins's son Nic on the drums, leaving his father to handle lead vocals. After the tour was rescheduled twice due to the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], it began in September 2021 and finished in London on 26 March 2022.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/genesis-tour-reunion-961479/|title=Genesis to Launch 'The Last Domino?' Reunion Tour in April 2021|date=4 March 2020|magazine=Rolling Stone|first=Andy|last=Greene|access-date=4 March 2020}}</ref> At the last show, at [[The O2 Arena]] in London, Collins said on stage: "It's the last show for Genesis".<ref>{{cite web |last=Sicily |first=Angeline |date=27 March 2022 |title=Phil Collins Retiring? Drummer Worries Fans During Last Performance With Genesis |url=https://www.musictimes.com/articles/84304/20220327/phil-collins-retiring-drummer-worries-fans-during-last-performance-genesis.htm |access-date=28 March 2022 |website=Music Times}}</ref> |
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In July 2012, Collins's greatest hits collection ''[[Hits (Phil Collins album)|...Hits]]'' re-entered the U.S. charts, reaching No. 6 on the [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.capitalfm.com/artists/adele/news/nas-billboard-200-number-one/|title=Adele Claims 74th Week in Billboard 200 Top Ten As Nas Takes #1 Spot|date=25 July 2012|work=Capital|accessdate=22 September 2014}}</ref> |
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==Drumming and influence== |
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In November 2013, Collins told German media that he was considering a return to music and speculated that this could mean further live shows with Genesis, stating: "Everything is possible. We could tour in Australia and South America. We haven't been there yet."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/nov/28/phil-collins-making-return-to-music-genesis|title=Phil Collins considering a return to music? |work=The Guardian|location=London|first=Sean|last=Michaels|date=28 November 2013|accessdate=4 December 2013}}</ref> Speaking to reporters in [[Miami, Florida]] in December 2013 at an event promoting his charity work, Collins indicated that he was writing music once again and might tour again.<ref name="Rolling Stone 2013">{{cite web|url=http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/phil-collins-mulling-a-musical-comeback-20131203|title=Phil Collins Mulling a Musical Comeback|work=Rolling Stone|accessdate=22 September 2014}}</ref> |
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In his book on the "legends" who defined progressive rock drumming, American drummer Rich Lackowski wrote: "Phil Collins's grooves in early Genesis recordings paved the way for many talented drummers to come. His ability to make the drums bark with musicality and to communicate so convincingly in odd time signatures left many a drummer tossing on the headphones and playing along to Phil's lead."{{sfn|Lackowski|2009|p=11}} In 2014, readers of ''[[Rhythm (music magazine)|Rhythm]]'' voted Collins the fourth most influential progressive rock drummer for his work on the 1974 Genesis album ''[[The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.loudersound.com/news/rush-neil-peart-influential-prog-drummer| title=Peart named most influential prog drummer|first=Eric|last=Mackinnon|publisher=Louder|date=3 October 2014|access-date=21 August 2015}}</ref> In 2015, [[MusicRadar]] named Collins one of the six pioneers of progressive rock drumming.<ref name="6 pioneers of prog rock drumming">{{cite web|url=http://www.musicradar.com/news/drums/6-pioneers-of-prog-rock-drumming-622031|title=6 pioneers of prog rock drumming|publisher=MusicRadar|date=2 June 2015|access-date=22 August 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170213051635/http://www.musicradar.com/news/drums/6-pioneers-of-prog-rock-drumming-622031|archive-date=13 February 2017}}</ref> In 2005, [[Planet Rock (radio station)|Planet Rock]] listeners voted Collins the fifth greatest rock drummer in history.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/4669597.stm|title= Zeppelin voted 'ideal supergroup'|work=BBC News|date=10 July 2005|access-date=27 August 2015}}</ref> Collins was ranked tenth in "The Greatest Drummers of All Time" list by ''[[Gigwise]]'' and number nine in a list of "The 20 greatest drummers of the last 25 years" by MusicRadar in 2010.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.gigwise.com/photos/43499/41/the-greatest-drummers-of-all-time#gallery|title=The Greatest Drummers of All Time!|work=Gigwise|date=29 May 2008|access-date=4 June 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.musicradar.com/rhythm/the-20-greatest-drummers-of-the-last-25-years-270334|title=The 20 greatest drummers of the last 25 years|publisher=MusicRadar|date=10 August 2010|access-date=4 June 2014}}</ref> In 1987, Collins looked back at his fast playing in Brand X and early Genesis: "I actually can't play like that anymore".<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://thegenesisarchive.co.uk/drums-and-drumming-phil-and-chester/|magazine=Drums and Drumming|date=Summer 1987|page=42|title=Phil Collins & Chester Thompson: The Drums of Genesis|first=Robin|last=Tolleson|access-date=11 June 2018}}</ref> |
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[[Foo Fighters]] drummer [[Taylor Hawkins]] cited Collins as one of his drumming heroes.<ref name="Hawkins">{{cite web|first= Chris|last=Barnes|url=http://www.musicradar.com/rhythm/drum-icon-interviews-taylor-hawkins-271862|title=Drum Icon Interviews: Taylor Hawkins|publisher=MusicRadar|date=31 August 2010|access-date=21 August 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140812083949/http://www.musicradar.com/rhythm/drum-icon-interviews-taylor-hawkins-271862|archive-date=12 August 2014}}</ref> He said, "Collins is an incredible drummer. Anyone who wants to be good on the drums should check him out – the man is a master."<ref>{{cite web|first=Malcolm|last=Dome|author-link=Malcolm Dome|url=https://www.teamrock.com/features/2014-04-07/taylor-hawkins-my-prog-heroes|title=Taylor Hawkins: My Prog Heroes|publisher=TeamRock|date=7 April 2014|access-date=21 August 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20161121183318/http://teamrock.com/feature/2014-04-07/taylor-hawkins-my-prog-heroes|archive-date=21 November 2016}}</ref> In the April 2001 issue of ''[[Modern Drummer]]'', [[Dream Theater]] drummer [[Mike Portnoy]] named Collins in an interview when asked about drummers he was influenced by and had respect for.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mikeportnoy.com/aboutmike/faq/answers/20.aspx|title=Mike Portnoy.com The Official Website|publisher=Mike Portnoy|access-date=21 August 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090717181412/http://www.mikeportnoy.com/aboutmike/faq/answers/20.aspx|archive-date=17 July 2009}}</ref> In another conversation in 2014, Portnoy lauded his "amazing progressive drumming" back in the early and mid-1970s.<ref>{{cite news|title=Mike Portnoy Interviewed On Drum Talk TV (Video)|url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/mike-portnoy-interviewed-on-drum-talk-tv-video/|work=Blabbermouth.net|date=7 February 2014|access-date=16 November 2015}}</ref> [[Rush (band)|Rush]] drummer [[Neil Peart]] praised his "beautiful drumming" and "lovely sound" on the 1973 Genesis album ''[[Selling England by the Pound]]'', which he called "an enduring masterpiece of drumming".<ref name="6 pioneers of prog rock drumming" /> [[Marco Minnemann]], drummer for artists including [[Joe Satriani]] and [[Steven Wilson]], described Collins as "brilliant" for the way "he composes his parts, and the sounds he gets". He said, "Phil is almost like [[John Bonham]] to me. I hear his personality, his perspective." He singled out the drumming on "[[In the Air Tonight]]" as an example of "ten notes that everybody knows" and concluded "Phil is [an] insanely talented drummer."<ref>{{cite web|title=Marco Minnemann picks 13 essential drum albums|url=http://www.musicradar.com/news/drums/marco-minnemann-picks-13-essential-drum-albums-575589|publisher=MusicRadar|access-date=12 November 2015|first=Joe|last=Bosso|date=31 May 2013|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170213051727/http://www.musicradar.com/news/drums/marco-minnemann-picks-13-essential-drum-albums-575589|archive-date=13 February 2017}}</ref> |
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On 24 January 2014, Collins announced in an interview with ''Inside South Florida'' that he was writing new compositions with fellow English singer [[Adele]].<ref name=Rollingstone>{{cite web|last=Greene|first=Andy|title=Phil Collins: 'I've Just Started to Work With Adele'|url=http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/phil-collins-ive-just-started-to-work-with-adele-20140124|work=Rolling Stone|accessdate=25 January 2014|date=24 January 2014}}</ref> Collins said he had no idea who Adele was when he learned she wanted to collaborate with him.<ref name=UTV>{{cite web|title=Adele working with Phil Collins|url=http://www.u.tv/entertainment/Adele-working-with-Phil-Collins/4e3ae77c-c6a4-401e-b18f-ffeddb90f1bb|publisher=[[UTV (TV channel)|UTV]]|accessdate=25 January 2014|date=24 January 2014}}</ref> He said "I wasn't actually too aware [of her]. I live in a cave."<ref name=Rollingstone/><ref name=Vibemag>{{cite web|last=Augustin|first=Camille|title=Adele To Hit The Studio With Phil Collins?|url=http://www.vibe.com/article/adele-hit-studio-phil-collins|work=Vibe|accessdate=25 January 2014|date=24 January 2014}}</ref> Collins agreed to join her in the studio after hearing her voice.<ref name=UTV/> He said, "[She] achieved an incredible amount. I really love her voice. I love some of this stuff she's done, too."<ref name=Billboardmag>{{cite web|last=Rutherford|first=Kevin|title=Adele, Phil Collins Working on New Music Together|url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/5885285/adele-phil-collins-working-on-new-music-together|work=Billboard|accessdate=25 January 2014|date=24 January 2014}}</ref> However, in September 2014, Collins revealed that the collaboration had ended and he said it had been "a bit of a non-starter".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.3news.co.nz/entertainment/adele-chose-motherhood-over-phil-collins-collaboration-2014093009|title=Adele chose motherhood over Phil Collins collaboration|work=[[3 News]]|date=30 September 2014|accessdate=1 October 2014}}</ref> |
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Other drummers who have cited him as an influence or expressed admiration for his drumming work are [[Brann Dailor]] of [[Mastodon (band)|Mastodon]],<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.moderndrummer.com/2004/05/brann-dailor/ | magazine = Modern Drummer| date = 12 May 2004 | title = Brann Dailor of Mastodon | first = Kevin | last = Kearns | access-date = 24 March 2017 | url-status=live | archive-date = 6 March 2017 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170306035457/https://www.moderndrummer.com/2004/05/brann-dailor/ }}</ref> [[Nick D'Virgilio]] of [[Spock's Beard]] and [[Big Big Train]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Nick D'Virgilio exclusive interview From Dusk # 68 – September 2011|url=http://www.dusk.it/bigbigtrain/interview.htm|publisher=www.dusk.it|access-date=31 March 2017|first=Mario |last=Giammetti |date= September 2011|url-status=live |archive-date=7 November 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141107192935/http://www.dusk.it/bigbigtrain/interview.htm}}</ref> [[Jimmy Keegan]] of Spock's Beard,<ref>{{cite web | access-date = 24 March 2017 | url = https://www.moderndrummer.com/2014/10/essence-progressive-drumming/ | title = The Essence of Progressive Drumming | work = Modern Drummer | date = 14 October 2014 | first = Mike | last = Haid }}</ref> Matt Mingus of [[Dance Gavin Dance]],<ref>{{ cite interview | access-date = 12 May 2017 | time = 4:47 | format = video | url = https://chorus.fm/interviews/dance-gavin-dance-video/ | first = Jackie | last = Cular | title = Dance Gavin Dance (Video) | date = 12 October 2016 | publication-date = 18 October 2016 | publisher = chorus.fm }}</ref> John Merryman of [[Cephalic Carnage]],<ref>{{cite web|access-date=12 July 2017|url=http://sickdrummermagazine.com/the-drummers/sick-drummer-hall-of-fame/john-merryman/|title=John Merryman|date=9 September 2007|work=Sick Drummer Magazine|url-status=live|archive-date=9 July 2017|archive-url=https://archive.today/20170709081630/http://sickdrummermagazine.com/the-drummers/sick-drummer-hall-of-fame/john-merryman/}}</ref> Craig Blundell of Steven Wilson and [[Frost*]],<ref>{{cite web|first=Chris|last=Barnes|access-date=15 August 2017|url=http://www.musicradar.com/news/steven-wilsons-craig-blundell-10-drumming-albums-that-changed-my-life|title=Steven Wilson's Craig Blundell: 10 drumming albums that changed my life|date=10 August 2017|publisher=MusicRadar}}</ref> and [[Charlie Benante]] of [[Anthrax (American band)|Anthrax]].<ref>{{cite web|first=Mitch|last=Lafon|access-date=28 August 2022|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IuLTa1HRZU|title=Nic Collins talks Drums, Genesis tour and his band Better Strangers/Interview 2022|date=9 March 2022|publisher=Youtube.com}}</ref> According to [[Jason Bonham]], his father "respected Phil Collins' drumming very much" and one of his favourite songs was Genesis' "[[Turn It On Again]]", which he used to love playing with him.<ref>{{cite web|first=Scott|last=Fish|access-date=18 April 2018|url=https://scottkfish.com/2015/01/02/jason-bonham-the-last-time-i-remember-my-father-showing-me-anything/|title=Jason Bonham: The Last Time I Remember My Father Showing Me Anything|date=18 April 2018|publisher=ScottKFish.com}}</ref> |
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In May 2014, Collins gave a live performance of "[[In the Air Tonight]]" and "[[Land of Confusion]]" with young student musicians at the [[Miami Country Day School]] in Miami, Florida.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rollingstone.com/music/videos/watch-phil-collins-sing-in-the-air-tonight-for-first-time-in-years-20140523|title=Watch Phil Collins Sing 'In the Air Tonight' for First Time in Years|last=Reed|first=Ryan|date=23 May 2014|website=Rolling Stone|accessdate=24 May 2014}}</ref> Collins was asked to perform there by his sons, who are students at the school.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-27632228|title=Phil Collins performs at school concert|publisher=BBC News|date=30 May 2014|accessdate=30 May 2014}}</ref> In August 2014, Collins was reported to have accepted an invitation to perform in December at a benefit concert in Miami in aid of his Little Dreams Foundation charity. He ultimately missed the concert due to illness.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ultimateclassicrock.com/phil-collins-benefit-concert/|title=Phil Collins to perform benefit concert|publisher=Ultimate Classic Rock|date=7 August 2014|accessdate=9 August 2014}}</ref> |
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''Modern Drummer'' readers voted for Collins every year between 1987 and 1991 as Pop/Mainstream Rock drummer of the year. In 2000, he was voted as [[Big band|Big Band]] drummer of the year. In 2012, he was inducted into the Hall of Fame.<ref name="Modern Drummer" /> |
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===2015–present: Out of retirement and return to touring=== |
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In May 2015 Collins signed a deal with [[Warner Music Group]] to remaster his eight solo albums with previously unreleased material.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/phil-collins-readies-deluxe-reissues-of-solo-catalog-20150512|title=Phil Collins Readies Deluxe Reissues of Solo Catalog|last=Blistein|first=Jon|date=12 May 2015|website=Rolling Stone|accessdate=13 May 2015}}</ref> In October, he announced that he was no longer officially retired and is planning to tour and write a new album.<ref>{{cite news|title=Phil Collins 'no longer retired'|url=http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-34659811|accessdate=28 October 2015|date=28 October 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Greene|first=Andy|title=Phil Collins Plotting Comeback: 'I Am No Longer Retired'|url=http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/phil-collins-plotting-comeback-i-am-no-longer-retired-20151028|accessdate=28 October 2015|date=28 October 2015}}</ref> By mid-2016, all eight of his studio albums were remastered and reissued as deluxe editions with a bonus disc with demos and live versions of some of his songs. Collins redid the artwork on his albums, except for his most recent, ''Going Back'', which featured a new cover. His autobiography, ''Not Dead Yet'', was released on 25 October 2016,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/phil-collins-warts-and-all-autobiography-arriving-in-2016-20151012|title=Phil Collins' 'Warts and All' Autobiography Arriving in 2016|date=12 October 2015|first=Daniel|last=Kreps|work=Rolling Stone|accessdate=28 October 2015}}</ref> and at a press conference held at the [[Royal Albert Hall]] in London on 17 October 2016, Collins announced the [[Not Dead Yet Tour]], a mini European tour (named after his autobiography) due to occur in June 2017 with five concerts at the Royal Albert Hall in London, and five each at the [[Lanxess Arena]] in Cologne and at the [[AccorHotels Arena]] in Paris.<ref name="2017 tour">{{cite web|title=Phil Collins marks comeback with European tour|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-37676505|website=BBC|publisher=BBC|accessdate=17 Oct 2016}}</ref> After tickets for his five Royal Albert Hall shows sold out in 15 seconds, Collins announced his biggest-ever solo show in [[Hyde Park, London]] on 30 June.<ref name="Hyde Park">{{cite news|title=Phil Collins to play his biggest-ever solo show in Hyde Park|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/nov/08/phil-collins-to-play-biggest-ever-solo-show-in-hyde-park|publisher=The Guardian|date=3 November 2016}}</ref> |
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==Drumming and impact== |
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In his book on the "legends" who defined progressive rock drumming, American drummer Rich Lackowski wrote: "Phil Collins's grooves in early Genesis recordings paved the way for many talented drummers to come. His ability to make the drums bark with musicality and to communicate so convincingly in odd time signatures left many a drummer tossing on the headphones and playing along to Phil's lead."<ref>{{cite book|first=Rich|last=Lackowski|title=On the Beaten Path, Progressive Rock: The Drummer's Guide to the Genre and the Legends Who Defined It|year=2009|page=11|publisher=Alfred Publishing|isbn=978-0739056714}}</ref> In 2014, readers of ''[[Rhythm (music magazine)|Rhythm]]'' voted Collins the fourth most influential progressive rock drummer for his work on the 1974 Genesis album ''[[The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.teamrock.com/news/2014-10-03/rush-neil-peart-influential-prog-drummer| title=Peart named most influential prog drummer|publisher=TeamRock|date=3 October 2014|accessdate=21 August 2015}}</ref> [[MusicRadar]] named Collins one of the six pioneers of progressive rock drumming.<ref name="6 pioneers of prog rock drumming">{{cite web|url=http://www.musicradar.com/news/drums/6-pioneers-of-prog-rock-drumming-622031|title=6 pioneers of prog rock drumming|publisher=MusicRadar|date=2 June 2015|accessdate=22 August 2015}}</ref> In 2005, [[Planet Rock (radio station)|Planet Rock]] listeners voted Collins the fifth greatest rock drummer in history.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/4669597.stm|title= Zeppelin voted 'ideal supergroup'|publisher=BBC News|date=10 July 2005|accessdate=27 August 2015}}</ref> Collins was ranked tenth in "The Greatest Drummers of All Time" list by [[Gigwise]] and number nine in a list of "The 20 greatest drummers of the last 25 years" by MusicRadar in 2010.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gigwise.com/photos/43499/41/the-greatest-drummers-of-all-time#gallery|title=The Greatest Drummers of All Time!|publisher=Gigwise|date=29 May 2008|accessdate=4 June 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.musicradar.com/rhythm/the-20-greatest-drummers-of-the-last-25-years-270334|title=The 20 greatest drummers of the last 25 years|publisher=MusicRadar|date=10 August 2010|accessdate=4 June 2014}}</ref> |
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[[Foo Fighters]] drummer [[Taylor Hawkins]] cites Collins as one of his drumming heroes.<ref name="Hawkins">{{cite web|url=http://www.musicradar.com/rhythm/drum-icon-interviews-taylor-hawkins-271862|title=Drum Icon Interviews: Taylor Hawkins|publisher=MusicRadar|date=31 August 2010|accessdate=21 August 2015}}</ref> He said, "Collins is an incredible drummer. Anyone who wants to be good on the drums should check him out – the man is a master."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.teamrock.com/features/2014-04-07/taylor-hawkins-my-prog-heroes|title=Taylor Hawkins: My Prog Heroes|publisher=TeamRock|date=7 April 2014|accessdate=21 August 2015}}</ref> In the April 2001 issue of ''[[Modern Drummer]]'', [[Dream Theater]] drummer [[Mike Portnoy]] named Collins in an interview when asked about drummers he was influenced by and had respect for.<ref>{{cite web|url=www.mikeportnoy.com/aboutmike/faq/answers/20.aspx|title=Mike Portnoy.com The Official Website|publisher=Mike Portnoy|accessdate=21 August 2015}}</ref> In another conversation in 2014, Portnoy lauded his "amazing progressive drumming" back in the early and mid-1970s.<ref>{{cite web|title=Mike Portnoy Interviewed On Drum Talk TV (Video)|url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/mike-portnoy-interviewed-on-drum-talk-tv-video/|website=Blabbermouth.net|date=7 February 2014|accessdate=16 November 2015}}</ref> [[Rush (band)|Rush]] drummer [[Neil Peart]] praised his "beautiful drumming" and "lovely sound" on the 1973 Genesis album ''[[Selling England by the Pound]]'', which he called "an enduring masterpiece of drumming".<ref name="6 pioneers of prog rock drumming"/> [[Marco Minnemann]], drummer for artists including [[Joe Satriani]] and [[Steven Wilson]], described Collins as "brilliant" for the way "he composes his parts, and the sounds he gets". He said, "Phil is almost like [[John Bonham]] to me. I hear his personality, his perspective." He singled out the drumming on "[[In the Air Tonight]]" as an example of "ten notes that everybody knows" and concluded "Phil is a insanely talented drummer."<ref>{{cite web|title=Marco Minnemann picks 13 essential drum albums|url=http://www.musicradar.com/news/drums/marco-minnemann-picks-13-essential-drum-albums-575589|website=MusicRadar|accessdate=12 November 2015||first=Joe |last=Bosso |page=3|date=31 May 2013}}</ref> [[Spock's Beard]] and [[Big Big Train]] drummer [[Nick D'Virgilio]] says: "He is still my favourite drummer of all time. (...) He made progressive rock music groovy. Nobody else did that and that is what drew me to his playing so much. Like John Bonham made rock so groovy, Phil made prog swing."<ref>{{cite web|title=Nick D’Virgilio exclusive interview From Dusk # 68 – September 2011|url=http://www.dusk.it/bigbigtrain/interview.htm|website=Dusk|accessdate=31 March 2017||first=Mario |last=Giammetti |date= September 2011}}</ref> Other drummers who have cited him as an influence or expressed admiration for his drumming work are [[Brann Dailor]] of [[Mastodon (band)|Mastodon]],<ref> {{ cite web | url = https://www.moderndrummer.com/2004/05/brann-dailor/ | magazine = Modern Drummer | quote = ''Q'': You must have a big list of drummer influences.<br />''Brann Dailor'': [...] for prog, definitely Phil Collins [... ] Phil Collins is probably my favorite drummer. I never heard beats like his before, and he moved really nicely around the kit, like water. He did these little hi-hat things that were very tasty. I don’t think he gets enough credit as a drummer, and he seems to be blamed for ruining Genesis. | publicationdate = 12 May 2004 | title = Brann Dailor of Mastodon | first = Kevin | last = Kearns | accessdate = 24 March 2017 }} </ref> [[Jimmy Keegan]] of Spock's Beard,<ref> {{ cite web | accessdate = 24 March 2017 | url = https://www.moderndrummer.com/2014/10/essence-progressive-drumming/ | title = The Essence of Progressive Drumming | website = Modern Drummer | publicationdate = 14 October 2014 | first = Mike | last = Haid }} </ref> and Matt Mingus of [[Dance Gavin Dance]].<ref> {{ cite interview | accessdate = 12 May 2017 | time = 4:47 | format = video | url = https://chorus.fm/interviews/dance-gavin-dance-video/ | first = Jackie | last = Cular | title = Dance Gavin Dance (Video) | date = 12 October 2016 | publication-date = 18 October 2016 | website = chorus.fm }} </ref> |
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''Modern Drummer'' readers voted for Collins every year between 1987 and 1991 as Pop/Mainstream Rock drummer of the year. In 2000, he was voted as [[Big band|Big Band]] drummer of the year. In 2012, he was inducted into the Hall of Fame.<ref name="Modern Drummer"/> |
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===Equipment=== |
===Equipment=== |
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[[File:Gretsch drums.jpg|thumb|right|Collins has used [[Gretsch drums]] since 1983.<ref name="Collins kit"/>]] |
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Collins is a left-handed drummer, and uses [[Gretsch]] drums, Remo heads, [[Sabian]] cymbals and he uses his signature [[Promark]] sticks. Past kits he used were made by Pearl and [[Premier drums|Premier]].{{Citation needed|date=September 2016}} |
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Collins is a left-handed drummer, and uses [[Gretsch]] drums, Noble & Cooley solid snare drums, Remo heads, [[Sabian Cymbals|Sabian]] cymbals and he uses his signature Promark sticks. Past kits he used were made by Pearl and [[Premier drums|Premier]].<ref name="Collins kit">{{cite news|title=Vintage drum gear: Phil Collins' Pearl DLX kit|url=http://www.musicradar.com/news/drums/vintage-drum-gear-phil-collins-pearl-dlx-kit-507107|agency=Music radar|date=22 December 2017}}</ref> |
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Other instruments associated with Collins's sound (particularly in his post-1978 Genesis and |
Other instruments associated with Collins's sound (particularly in his post-1978 Genesis and solo career) include the [[Roland TR-808]], [[Roland TR-909]], the [[Simmons SDS-V]] electronic drum set, and the [[LinnDrum]] drum machines.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/8-ways-the-808-drum-machine-changed-pop-music-w453714|title=8 ways the 808 drum machine changed pop music|last=Leight|first=Elias|date=6 December 2016|newspaper=Rolling Stone|access-date=16 January 2016|archive-date=7 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161207154255/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/8-ways-the-808-drum-machine-changed-pop-music-w453714|url-status=dead}}</ref> Collins also used a [[Roland CR-78]], [[Sequential Circuits Prophet-5]] synthesizer, the [[Fender Rhodes]] and [[Yamaha CP-70]] electric pianos, and a [[vocoder]] for his voice.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mixonline.com/mag/audio_phil_collins_air/ |title=Classic Tracks: Phil Collins's "In the Air Tonight" |author=Flans, Robyn |date=1 May 2005 |work=Mix |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110303210034/http://mixonline.com/mag/audio_phil_collins_air/ |archive-date=3 March 2011 }}</ref> Other Korg instruments include the [[Korg Wavestation|Wavestation]], the [[Korg KARMA|Karma]] and the [[Korg Trinity|Trinity]].<ref>[http://www.korg.com/Artist.aspx?artist=125 "Hear what Phil Collins has to say about his collection of Korg keyboards"]. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140111235315/http://www.korg.com/Artist.aspx?artist=125|date=11 January 2014}}</ref> |
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==Cameo film and television appearances== |
==Cameo film and television appearances== |
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Collins had cameo appearances in [[Steven Spielberg]]'s ''[[Hook (film)|Hook]]'' (1991) and the [[HIV/AIDS|AIDS]] [[docudrama]] ''[[And the Band Played On (film)|And the Band Played On]]'' (1993). He starred in ''[[Frauds (film)|Frauds]]'', which competed for the [[Palme d'Or]] at the [[1993 Cannes Film Festival]].<ref name="festival-cannes.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/2570/year/1993.html|title=Festival de Cannes: Frauds| |
Collins had cameo appearances in [[Steven Spielberg]]'s ''[[Hook (film)|Hook]]'' (1991) and the [[HIV/AIDS|AIDS]] [[docudrama]] ''[[And the Band Played On (film)|And the Band Played On]]'' (1993). He starred in ''[[Frauds (film)|Frauds]]'', which competed for the [[Palme d'Or]] at the [[1993 Cannes Film Festival]].<ref name="festival-cannes.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/2570/year/1993.html|title=Festival de Cannes: Frauds|access-date=18 August 2009|publisher=festival-cannes.com}}</ref> He supplied voices to two animated features: Amblin's ''[[Balto (film)|Balto]]'' (1995) and Disney's ''[[The Jungle Book 2]]'' (2003). A long-discussed but never completed project was a film titled ''[[The Three Bears]]''; originally meant to star Collins, [[Danny DeVito]], and [[Bob Hoskins]]. He often mentioned the film, though an appropriate script never materialised.<ref>{{cite web|author=Baker, Glenn A.|year=1993|url=http://www.philcollins.co.uk/penthouse93.htm|title=Phil Collins Interview|work=[[Penthouse (magazine)|Penthouse]]|access-date=30 September 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051220080230/http://www.philcollins.co.uk/penthouse93.htm|archive-date=20 December 2005}}</ref> Collins's music is featured in the [[Satire|satirical]] [[black comedy]] film ''[[American Psycho (film)|American Psycho]]'', with psychotic lead character [[Patrick Bateman]] (played by [[Christian Bale]]) portrayed as an obsessive fan who reads deep meaning into his work, especially with Genesis, while describing his solo music as "...more commercial and therefore more satisfying, in a narrower way." Bateman delivers a monologue praising Collins and Genesis during a sequence in which he engages the services of two prostitutes while playing "[[In Too Deep (Genesis song)|In Too Deep]]" and "[[Sussudio]]". Collins told ''The New Musical Express'': "I don't think him being a psychopath and liking my music is linked – my music was just omnipresent in that era."<ref>[https://www.nme.com/news/phil-collins-shares-thoughts-musics-role-american-psycho-1652940 "Phil Collins shares thoughts on his music's role in 'American Psycho' "]. ''NME''. Retrieved 6 October 2019</ref> |
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During the 1980s, Collins was among the celebrities caricatured on the satirical television puppet show ''[[Spitting Image]]''—the show's creators were then commissioned by Genesis to create puppets of the entire band to appear in their 1986 [[Land of Confusion#Music video|music video "Land of Confusion]]".{{sfn|Röttgers|2015|p=74}} Collins twice hosted the [[Billboard Music Award]]s on television, which were produced and directed by his longtime music video and TV special collaborators, Paul Flattery and Jim Yukich of FYI (Flattery Yukich Inc). He also appeared in an episode of the series ''[[Miami Vice]]'', entitled "[[List of Miami Vice episodes|Phil the Shill]]", in which he plays a cheating [[Confidence trick|con-man]]. In the 1980s he appeared in several comedy sketches with ''[[The Two Ronnies]]'' on [[BBC One]].<ref>{{cite news|title=The Two Ronnies: series 12 episode 3|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00glrpx|agency=BBC|date=22 December 2017}}</ref> |
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Collins's music is featured in the [[Satire|satirical]] [[black comedy]] film ''[[American Psycho (film)|American Psycho]]'', with psychotic lead character [[Patrick Bateman]] (played by [[Christian Bale]]) portrayed as an obsessive fan who reads deep meaning into his work, especially with Genesis, while describing his solo music as "...more commercial and therefore more satisfying, in a narrower way." Bateman delivers a monologue praising Collins and Genesis during a sequence in which he engages the services of two prostitutes while playing "[[In Too Deep (Genesis song)|In Too Deep]]" and "[[Sussudio]]". |
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[[File:Phil Collins star.jpg|thumb|Collins's star on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]] was awarded to the musician for his contribution to recording. It is located at 6834 Hollywood Boulevard]] |
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Collins twice hosted the [[Billboard Music Award]]s on television, which were produced and directed by his longtime music video and TV special collaborators, Paul Flattery and Jim Yukich of FYI (Flattery Yukich Inc). He also appeared in an episode of the series ''[[Miami Vice]]'', entitled "[[List of Miami Vice episodes|Phil the Shill]]", in which he plays a cheating [[Confidence trick|con-man]]. He also appeared in several sketches with ''[[The Two Ronnies]]''. |
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In 2001, Collins was one of several celebrities who were tricked into appearing in a controversial British comedy series, ''[[Brass Eye]]'', shown on public service broadcaster [[Channel 4]]. In the episode, Collins endorsed a hoax anti-[[Pedophilia|paedophile]] campaign wearing a [[T-shirt]] with the words "Nonce Sense" and warned children against speaking to suspicious people. Collins was reported by the BBC to have consulted lawyers regarding the programme, which was originally pulled from broadcast but eventually rescheduled. Collins said he had taken part in the programme "in good faith for the public benefit", believing it to be "a public service programme that would be going around schools and colleges in a bid to stem child abduction and abuse". Collins also accused the makers of the programme of "some serious taste problems" and warned it would prevent celebrities from supporting "public spirited causes" in the future.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/1445870.stm|title=Star consults lawyers over TV spoof|work=BBC News|date=18 July 2001|access-date=13 August 2015}}</ref> |
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In 2006, Collins played a fictional version of himself in the [[PlayStation Portable|PSP]] and [[PlayStation 2|PS2]] video game ''[[Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories]]''. Set in 1984, he appears in three missions in which the main character, [[Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories|Victor]], must save him from [[American Mafia|Mafia]]-hired hitmen, who are trying to kill Collins because his manager refused to pay his $3 million debt to them. The final mission occurs during his concert, where the player must defend the scaffolding against saboteurs while Collins is performing "In the Air Tonight". After this, the player is given the opportunity to watch this performance of "In the Air Tonight" for the cost of 6,000 in-game dollars. "In the Air Tonight" is part of the official ''Vice City Stories'' soundtrack, and can be also heard on the in-game radio station Emotion 98.3. The song has also been featured in films such as ''[[Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters]]'' (2007) and ''[[The Hangover]]'' (2009).<ref>{{cite web| date=6 December 2009| first=Ryan J. | last=Downey| title=Todd Phillips Discusses His Musical Decisions For 'The Hangover'| url=http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2009/06/12/todd-phillips-discusses-his-musical-decisions-in-the-hangover| publisher=[[MTV]]}}</ref> |
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In 2001, Collins was one of several celebrities who were tricked into appearing in a controversial British comedy series, ''[[Brass Eye]]'', shown on public service broadcaster [[Channel 4]]. In the episode, Collins endorsed a hoax anti-[[Pedophilia|paedophile]] campaign wearing a [[T-shirt]] with the words "[[Nonce (slang)|Nonce]] Sense" and warned children against speaking to suspicious people. Collins was reported by the BBC to have consulted lawyers regarding the programme, which was originally pulled from broadcast but eventually rescheduled. Collins said he had taken part in the programme "in good faith for the public benefit", believing it to be "a public service programme that would be going around schools and colleges in a bid to stem child abduction and abuse". Collins also accused the makers of the programme of "some serious taste problems" and warned it would prevent celebrities from supporting "public spirited causes" in the future.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/1445870.stm|title=Star consults lawyers over TV spoof|publisher=BBC News|date=18 July 2001|accessdate=13 August 2015}}</ref> |
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"In the Air Tonight" featured in the 2007 ''[[Gorilla (advertisement)|Gorilla]]'' commercial for [[Cadbury]]'s [[Cadbury Dairy Milk|Dairy Milk]] chocolate. Many believed that Collins himself was the drummer. When asked about ''Gorilla'', Collins jokingly commented that "Not only is he a better drummer than me, he also has more hair. Can he sing too?"<ref>[https://www.nme.com/news/genesis/31034 Tabloid Hell: Phil Collins], ''[[NME]]'', 19 September 2007. Retrieved 5 August 2019.</ref> The advertisement—which won Gold at the [[British Television Advertising Awards]] in 2008—helped the song re-enter the New Zealand RIANZ Singles Chart at No. 3 in July 2008, the following week reaching No. 1, beating its original 1981 No. 6 peak.<ref>{{cite news |title=Drumming gorilla beats ad rivals |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2008/mar/13/advertising.television1 |access-date=29 March 2022 |work=The Guardian|date=13 March 2008}}</ref> "In the Air Tonight" was also [[Sample (music)|sampled]] in the song "I Can Feel It" on [[Sean Kingston]]'s [[Sean Kingston (album)|self-titled debut album]].<ref>{{cite web|first=David |last=Jeffries |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/sean-kingston-mw0000481908 |title=Sean Kingston – Sean Kingston | Songs, Reviews, Credits |website=[[AllMusic]] |date=31 July 2007 |access-date=23 February 2017}}</ref> |
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Collins was portrayed in the cartoon ''[[South Park]]'' in the episode "[[Timmy 2000]]" holding his Oscar throughout, referring to his 1999 win for "[[You'll Be in My Heart]]", which defeated "[[Blame Canada]]" from ''[[South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut]]''. The episode "[[Cartman's Silly Hate Crime 2000]]" involves a sled race down the landmark known as Phil Collins Hill, which has an impression of |
Collins was portrayed in the cartoon ''[[South Park]]'' in the episode "[[Timmy 2000]]" holding his Oscar throughout, referring to his 1999 win for "[[You'll Be in My Heart]]", which defeated "[[Blame Canada]]" from ''[[South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut]]''. The show's creators admitted resenting losing to Collins, as they felt their [[72nd Academy Awards|other competitors]] were more worthy.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://southpark.cc.com/seasons/south-park|title=South Park | South Park – Watch Full Episodes, Clips & More | South Park Studios|via=southpark.cc.com}}</ref> The episode "[[Cartman's Silly Hate Crime 2000]]" involves a sled race down the landmark known as Phil Collins Hill, which has an impression of Collins' face in the side. The Phil Collins character returns once more and gets killed off in the episode ''[[200 (South Park)|200]]''. Collins appears briefly in the Finnish animated sitcom ''[[Jefferson Anderson|Pasila]]'' in the episode "Phil Collins Hangover". The music of this episode is a pastiche of Collins's "Another Day in Paradise".<ref>[https://www.rumba.fi/uutiset/phil-collins-darra-on-vakava-asia-auttaako-siihen-phil-collins-pian-kysymysta-paasee-testaamaan-kaytannossa/ "Phil Collins -darra on vakava asia – auttaako siihen Phil Collins? Pian kysymystä pääsee testaamaan käytännössä"]. Rumba.fi. Retrieved 24 February 2019</ref> Collins was mentioned in the ''[[Psych]]'' episode "[[List of Psych episodes#Season 3: 2008–2009|Disco Didn't Die. It Was Murdered!]]" as resembling [[Shawn Spencer]]'s father, Henry, portrayed by actor [[Corbin Bernsen]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aoltv.com/2008/08/16/psych-disco-didnt-die-it-was-murdered/|title=Psych: Disco Didn't Die. It Was Murdered!|publisher=Aoltv.com|date=16 August 2008|access-date=13 June 2013|archive-date=13 November 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131113192539/http://www.aoltv.com/2008/08/16/psych-disco-didnt-die-it-was-murdered/|url-status=dead}}</ref> |
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According to a 2000 BBC biography of Collins, "critics sneer at him" and "bad publicity also caused problems", which "damaged his public profile".<ref name="Taking Collins Seriously">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/713486.stm|title=Taking Collins seriously|work=BBC News|date=19 April 2000|access-date=20 June 2013}}</ref> Rock historian [[Martin C. Strong]] wrote that Collins "truly polarised opinion from the start, his ubiquitous smugness and increasingly sterile pop making him a favourite target for critics".<ref name="strong">{{cite web|url=http://www.greatrockbible.com/c/104-collins-phil|title=Phil Collins|last=Strong|first=Martin C.|author-link=Martin C. Strong|date=December 2011|publisher=Great Rock Bible|access-date=30 August 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140903151418/http://www.greatrockbible.com/c/104-collins-phil |archive-date=3 September 2014}}</ref> According to ''[[The Guardian|Guardian]]'' writer [[Paul Lester]], Collins would "regularly" call music journalists to take issue with negative reviews.<ref name="lester">{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/oct/23/musical-evolution-cool-heinous-to-hip|title=The musical evolution of cool: from heinous to hip|last=Lester|first=Paul|author-link=Paul Lester|date=23 October 2013|newspaper=The Guardian|access-date=25 August 2014}}</ref> Over time, he came to be personally disliked;<ref name="courtney">{{cite news|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101024204001/http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/theticket/2010/1022/1224281684894.html|archive-date=24 October 2010|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/theticket/2010/1022/1224281684894.html|title=Love Don't Come Easy: Artists We Love to Hate|last=Courtney|first=Kevin|date=22 October 2010|newspaper=[[The Irish Times]]|access-date=24 October 2010}}</ref> in 2009, journalist [[Mark Lawson]] told how Collins's media profile had shifted from "pop's Mr. [[Nice guy]], patron saint of [[Everyman|ordinary blokes]]", to someone accused of "blandness, [[tax exile]] and ending a marriage by sending a fax".<ref name="Mark Lawson talks to... Phil Collins">{{cite episode|title=Phil Collins|series=Mark Lawson Talks To..|first=Mark|last=Lawson|author-link=Mark Lawson|network=[[BBC Four]]|station=BBC|date=4 January 2009|season=4|number=1|quote=Collins has had to endure two very different profiles in the media. Originally pop's Mr. Nice Guy, patron saint of ordinary blokes, he has more recently been accused of blandness, tax exile and ending a marriage by sending a fax.}}</ref> Collins has rejected accusations of [[tax avoidance]], and despite confirming that some of the divorce-related correspondence between him and second wife, Jill Tavelman, was by fax (a message from Collins regarding access to their daughter was reproduced for the front cover of ''[[The Sun (United Kingdom)|The Sun]]'' in 1993),<ref name="philcollins.co.uk" /> he states that he did not terminate the marriage in that fashion.<ref name="Mark Lawson talks to... Phil Collins" /> Nevertheless, the British media has often repeated the fax claim.<ref name="Taking Collins Seriously" /><ref name="Guardian2007">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2007/sep/19/iwishidneverheardofphil|title=I wish I'd never heard of Phil Collins|work=The Guardian|location=London|first=Caroline|last=Sullivan|date=19 September 2007|access-date=5 March 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2002/sep/20/popandrock.artsfeatures|title=Peter Gabriel: Up|work=The Guardian|first=Alexis|last=Petridis|date=20 September 2002|access-date=23 June 2013|location=London}}</ref><ref name="Phil Collins pays £25 million in divorce settlement">{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/2573702/Phil-Collins-pays-25-million-in-divorce-settlement.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080820044455/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/2573702/Phil-Collins-pays-25-million-in-divorce-settlement.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=20 August 2008|title=Phil Collins pays £25 million in divorce settlement|first=Urmee|last=Khan|date=17 August 2008|work=The Daily Telegraph|location=London}}</ref> Collins has been the victim of scathing remarks in regard to his alleged right-wing political leanings. Caroline Sullivan, a music critic of ''The Guardian'', referred to his cumulative negative publicity in her 2007 article "I wish I'd never heard of Phil Collins", writing that it was difficult for her to hear his work "without being riven by distaste for the man himself".<ref name="Guardian2007" /> |
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Several critics have commented on Collins's omnipresence, especially in the 1980s and early 1990s.<ref name="courtney" /><ref name="strong" /><ref name="nyo">{{cite web|url=http://observer.com/1999/06/the-collins-menace-the-queen-and-i/|title=The Collins Menace|last=DiGiacomo|first=Frank|date=21 June 1999|work=New York Observer|access-date=2 August 2014}}</ref>{{sfn|Brackett|2004|p=182}}<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.avclub.com/article/my-dad-toured-with-phil-collins-99104|title=My dad toured with Phil Collins|last=Modell|first=Josh|date=18 June 2013|newspaper=[[The A.V. Club]]|access-date=11 August 2014|quote=Seriously, try to go a few days without accidentally hearing a snippet [of Collins] somewhere.}}</ref> Journalist Frank DiGiacomo wrote a 1999 piece for ''[[New York Observer]]'' titled ''The Collins Menace''; he said, "Even when I sought to escape the sounds [of Collins] in my head by turning on the TV, there would be Mr. Collins ... mugging for the cameras—intent on showing the world just how hard he would work to sell millions of records to millions of stupid people."<ref name="nyo" /> In his 2010 article "Love Don't Come Easy: Artists we Love to Hate", ''[[The Irish Times]]'' critic Kevin Courtney expressed similar sentiments. Naming Collins as one of the ten most disliked pop stars in the world, he wrote: {{nowrap|"[Collins]}} performed at [[Live Aid]], playing first at Wembley, then flying over to Philadelphia via [[Concorde]], just to make sure no one in the U.S. got off lightly. By the early 1990s, Phil phatigue {{sic}} had really set in."<ref name="courtney" /> Tim Chester of the ''New Musical Express'' alluded to the backlash against Collins in an article titled, "Is It Time We All Stopped Hating Phil Collins?" Chester said of the unrelenting derision he has suffered, "a lot of it he brings on himself." He also said that Collins was "responsible for some of the cheesiest music ever committed to acetate".<ref name="nme">{{cite web|url=https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/is-it-time-we-all-stopped-hating-phil-collins|title=Is It Time We All Stopped Hating Phil Collins?|publisher=NME|first=Tim|last=Chester|date=10 March 2011|access-date=19 October 2013}}</ref> Erik Hedegaard of ''Rolling Stone'' mentioned that Phil Collins [[Hate speech|hate sites]] had "flourished" online, and acknowledged that he had been called "the sellout who took Peter Gabriel's Genesis, that paragon of prog-rock, and turned it into a lame-o pop act and went on to make all those supercheesy hits that really did define the 1980s".<ref name="hedegaard">{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/phil-collins-last-stand-why-the-troubled-pop-star-wants-to-call-it-quits-20110304|title=Phil Collins' Last Stand: Why the Troubled Pop Star Wants to Call It Quits (page 1)|magazine=Rolling Stone|first=Erik|last=Hedegaard|date=4 March 2011|access-date=7 November 2013|archive-date=8 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151008235613/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/phil-collins-last-stand-why-the-troubled-pop-star-wants-to-call-it-quits-20110304|url-status=dead}}</ref> |
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According to a 2000 BBC biography of Collins, "critics sneer at him" and "bad publicity also caused problems", which "damaged his public profile".<ref name="Taking Collins Seriously">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/713486.stm|title=Taking Collins seriously|publisher=BBC News|date=19 April 2000|accessdate=20 June 2013}}</ref> Rock historian [[Martin C. Strong]] wrote that Collins "truly polarised opinion from the start, his ubiquitous smugness and increasingly sterile pop making him a favourite target for critics".<ref name="strong">{{cite web|url=http://www.greatrockbible.com/c/104-collins-phil|title=Phil Collins|last=Strong|first=Martin C.|authorlink=Martin C. Strong|date=December 2011|publisher=Great Rock Bible|accessdate=30 August 2014|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140903151418/http://www.greatrockbible.com/c/104-collins-phil |archivedate=3 September 2014}}</ref> During his recording career Collins would regularly place telephone calls to music writers to take issue with their written reviews.<ref name="lester">{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/oct/23/musical-evolution-cool-heinous-to-hip|title=The musical evolution of cool: from heinous to hip|last=Lester|first=Paul|authorlink=Paul Lester|date=23 October 2013|website=The Guardian|accessdate=25 August 2014}}</ref> Over time, he came to be personally disliked;<ref name="courtney">{{cite web|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101024204001/http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/theticket/2010/1022/1224281684894.html|archivedate=24 October 2010|url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/theticket/2010/1022/1224281684894.html|title=Love don't come easy: artists we love to hate|last=Courtney|first=Kevin|date=22 October 2010|work=[[The Irish Times]]|accessdate=24 October 2010}}</ref> in 2009, journalist [[Mark Lawson]] told how Collins's media profile had shifted from "pop's Mr. Nice Guy, patron saint of ordinary blokes", to someone accused of "blandness, [[tax exile]] and ending a marriage by sending a fax".<ref name="Mark Lawson talks to... Phil Collins">{{cite episode|title=Phil Collins|series=Mark Lawson Talks To..|first=Mark|last=Lawson|authorlink=Mark Lawson|network=[[BBC Four]]|station=BBC|date=4 January 2009|season=4|number=1|quote=Collins has had to endure two very different profiles in the media. Originally pop's Mr. Nice Guy, patron saint of ordinary blokes, he has more recently been accused of blandness, tax exile and ending a marriage by sending a fax.}}</ref> Collins has [[#Politics|rejected accusations of tax avoidance]], and, despite confirming that some of the divorce-related correspondence between him and second wife Jill Tavelman, was by fax (a message from Collins regarding access to their daughter was reproduced for the front cover of ''[[The Sun (United Kingdom)|The Sun]]'' in 1993),<ref name="philcollins.co.uk"/> he states that he did not terminate the marriage in that fashion.<ref name="Mark Lawson talks to... Phil Collins"/> Nevertheless, the British media has often repeated the fax claim.<ref name="Taking Collins Seriously"/><ref name=Guardian2007>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2007/sep/19/iwishidneverheardofphil|title=I wish I'd never heard of Phil Collins|work=The Guardian|location=London|first=Caroline|last=Sullivan|date=19 September 2007|accessdate=5 March 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2002/sep/20/popandrock.artsfeatures|title=Peter Gabriel: Up|work=The Guardian|first=Alexis|last=Petridis|date=20 September 2002|accessdate=23 June 2013|location=London}}</ref><ref name="Phil Collins pays £25 million in divorce settlement">{{cite news|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/2573702/Phil-Collins-pays-25-million-in-divorce-settlement.html|title=Phil Collins pays £25 million in divorce settlement|first=Urmee|last=Khan|date=17 August 2008|work=The Daily Telegraph|location=London}}</ref> Collins has been the victim of scathing remarks in regard to [[#Politics|his alleged right-wing political leanings]]. Caroline Sullivan, a music critic of ''[[The Guardian]]'', referred to his cumulative negative publicity in her 2007 article "I wish I'd never heard of Phil Collins", writing that it was difficult for her to hear his work "without being riven by distaste for the man himself".<ref name="Guardian2007"/> According to [[Jeff Shannon]] in ''[[The Seattle Times]]'', Collins is the "target of much ''[[South Park]]'' derision".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://seattletimes.com/html/entertainment/2002648630_timmy28.html|title=Timmy of ''South Park'' challenges viewers' attitudes about people with disabilities|last=Shannon|first=Jeff|authorlink=Jeff Shannon|date=28 November 2005|website=The Seattle Times|accessdate=26 July 2014}}</ref> A ''[[NME|New Musical Express]]'' writer also observed the series' "endless lampooning" of Collins.<ref name="conrad">{{cite web|url=http://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/10-much-mocked-artists-its-time-we-forgave|title=10 Much-Mocked Artists It's Time We Forgave|last=Conrad|first=Anna|date=10 May 2012|website=NME|accessdate=18 August 2014}}</ref> |
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According to author [[Dylan Jones]] in his 2013 publication on 1980s popular music, many of Collins's peers "despised" him.{{sfn|Jones|2013|p=188}} Some fellow artists have made negative comments about Collins publicly. In 1990, former [[Pink Floyd]] frontman [[Roger Waters]] criticised Collins's "ubiquitous nature", including his involvement in [[the Who]]'s 1989 reunion tour.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1876&dat=19900801&id=0oEgAAAAIBAJ&pg=4643,9268 |title=Waters hard to please |work=[[Spartanburg Herald-Journal]]|date=1 August 1990|access-date=23 July 2014}}</ref> [[David Bowie]] dismissed some of his own 1980s output as his "Phil Collins years/albums".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.spectator.co.uk/arts/arts-feature/8884691/bowie-mania/|title=Why David Bowie is still underrated|work=The Spectator|first=James|last=Walton|date=13 April 2013|access-date=7 August 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/m29p|title=David Bowie Black Tie White Noise Review|publisher=BBC|first=David|last=Quantick|author-link=David Quantick|access-date=7 August 2014}}</ref> In addition to the song's negative press from music journalists, singer-songwriter and political activist [[Billy Bragg]] criticised Collins for writing "Another Day in Paradise", stating: "Phil Collins might write a song about the homeless, but if he doesn't have the action to go with it he's just exploiting that for a subject."<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20260660,00.html|title=Bragg-ing Rites|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|first=Rob|last=Brunner|date=30 June 2000|access-date=9 February 2014|archive-date=22 February 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222065443/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20260660,00.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Oasis (band)|Oasis]] songwriter [[Noel Gallagher]] criticised Collins on multiple occasions,<ref name="rs" /><ref name="noelobserver">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2007/oct/14/popandrock2|access-date=16 July 2014|work=The Observer|title=The 10: right-wing rockers|date=13 October 2007|first=Luke|last=Bainbridge|location=London}}</ref> including the comment: "Just because you sell lots of records, it doesn't mean to say you're any good. Look at Phil Collins."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24989044|title=1,000 Number ones: A chart history|work=BBC News|first=Mark|last=Savage|date=24 November 2013|access-date=16 April 2014}}</ref> Collins said he has "at times, been very down" about Noel Gallagher's comments.<ref name=TT11>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/music-news/8357227/Phil-Collins-I-quit-music-but-no-one-will-miss-me.html|title=Phil Collins: I quit music but no one will miss me|date=4 March 2011|work=The Telegraph|access-date=22 September 2014}}</ref> Gallagher's brother, Oasis singer [[Liam Gallagher|Liam]], also recalled the "boring" Collins's chart dominance in the 1980s and stated that, by the 1990s, it was "time for some real lads to get up there and take charge".<ref>{{cite journal|date=April 2003|title=Britpop: The Great Rock'n'Roll Swindle|journal=[[Mojo (magazine)|Mojo]]|issue=113}}</ref> Appearing on the BBC television series ''[[Room 101 (British TV series)|Room 101]]'' in 2005, in which guests discuss their most hated things and people, Collins nominated the Gallaghers to be sent into the [[Room 101|eponymous room]]. He described them as "horrible" and stated: "They're rude and not as talented as they think they are. I won't mince words here, but they've had a go at me personally."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.gigwise.com/news/8381/phil-collins-hits-back-at-noel-gallagher|title=Phil Collins Hits Back at Noel Gallagher|last=Williams|first=Lowri|date=7 September 2005|work=[[Gigwise]]|access-date=23 July 2014}}</ref> |
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Several critics have commented on Collins's omnipresence, especially in the 1980s and early 1990s.<ref name="courtney"/><ref name="strong"/><ref name="nyo">{{cite web|url=http://observer.com/1999/06/the-collins-menace-the-queen-and-i/|title=The Collins Menace|last=DiGiacomo|first=Frank|date=21 June 1999|work=[[The New York Observer]]|accessdate=2 August 2014}}</ref><ref name="rsag">{{cite book|last=Brackett|first=Nathan|date=2 November 2004|title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t9eocwUfoSoC&pg=PA182&lpg=PA182&dq=%22phil+collins+was+nearly+inescapable%22&source=bl&ots=BjHnrl2LZ0&sig=eN5GVVms74HFOw2Sv6QCgJ4hGcc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=F5LlU770DIO50QXNjICAAg&ved=0CCAQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22phil%20collins%20was%20nearly%20inescapable%22&f=false|publisher=[[Simon & Schuster|Fireside]]|page=182|isbn=0-7432-0169-8|accessdate=9 August 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.avclub.com/article/my-dad-toured-with-phil-collins-99104|title=My dad toured with Phil Collins|last=Modell|first=Josh|date=18 June 2013|work=[[The A.V. Club]]|accessdate=11 August 2014|quote=Seriously, try to go a few days without accidentally hearing a snippet [of Collins] somewhere.}}</ref> Journalist Frank DiGiacomo wrote a 1999 piece for ''[[The New York Observer]]'' titled ''The Collins Menace''; he said, "Even when I sought to escape the sounds [of Collins] in my head by turning on the TV, there would be Mr. Collins ... mugging for the cameras—intent on showing the world just how hard he would work to sell millions of records to millions of stupid people."<ref name="nyo"/> In his 2010 article ''Love don't come easy: artists we love to hate'', ''[[The Irish Times]]'' critic Kevin Courtney expressed similar sentiments. Naming Collins as one of the ten most disliked pop stars in the world, he wrote: "[Collins] performed at [[Live Aid]], playing first at Wembley, then flying over to Philadelphia via [[Concorde]], just to make sure no one in the U.S. got off lightly. By the early 1990s, Phil phatigue [''sic''] had really set in."<ref name="courtney"/> Appraising Collins's legacy in a 2013 review of the ''American Psycho'' musical (adapted from a [[American Psycho (film)|2000 film]] incorporating his music), ''The Guardian'' critic Tom Service described Collins as "un-stomachable" and his music as "perfectly vacuous". He also compared him unfavourably with pop contemporaries such as the [[Pet Shop Boys]] and [[The Human League]], whose music he said had endured far more successfully. Service described Collins's most popular album ''[[No Jacket Required]]'' (1985) as "unlistenable to today", reserving particular criticism for "Sussudio".<ref name="service">{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/tomserviceblog/2013/dec/20/american-psycho-musical-phil-collins-pet-shop-boys|title=American Psycho musical and Phil Collins' perfectly vacuous music|work=The Guardian|location=London|first=Tom|last=Service|date=20 December 2013|accessdate=20 December 2013}}</ref> |
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Collins acknowledged in 2010 that he had been "omnipresent". He said of his character: "The persona on stage came out of insecurity ... it seems embarrassing now. I recently started transferring all my VHS tapes onto DVD to create an archive, and everything I was watching, I thought, 'God, I'm annoying.' I appeared to be very cocky, and really I wasn't."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blog.sfgate.com/dailydish/2010/08/09/phil-collins-i-was-cocky-and-annoying-im-sorry/|title=Phil Collins: 'I was cocky and annoying; I'm sorry'|last=Parvizi|first=Lauren|date=9 August 2010|work=[[San Francisco Chronicle]]|access-date=11 August 2014}}</ref> Collins concedes his status as a figure of contempt for many people and has said that he believes this is a consequence of his music being overplayed.<ref name=TT11/><ref name="rs">{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/phil-collins-last-stand-why-the-troubled-pop-star-wants-to-call-it-quits-20110304?page=2|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110308230256/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/phil-collins-last-stand-why-the-troubled-pop-star-wants-to-call-it-quits-20110304?page=2|url-status=dead|archive-date=8 March 2011|title=Phil Collins' Last Stand: Why the Troubled Pop Star Wants to Call It Quits (page 2)|magazine=Rolling Stone|first=Erik|last=Hedegaard|date=4 March 2011|access-date=13 November 2013}}</ref> In 2011 he said: "The fact that people got so sick of me wasn't really my fault. ... It's hardly surprising that people grew to hate me. I'm sorry that it was all so successful. I honestly didn't mean it to happen like that!"<ref name=TT11/><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nme.com/news/genesis/55295|title=Phil Collins apologises for his success after quitting music|publisher=NME|date=5 March 2011|access-date=19 October 2013}}</ref> He described criticism of his physical appearance over the years as "a cheap shot",{{sfn|Jones|2013|p=188}} but has acknowledged the "very vocal element" of Genesis fans who believe that the group [[Selling out|sold out]] under his tenure as lead singer.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.contactmusic.com/news/the-things-they-say-5585_1043587|title=The Things They Say|magazine=[[Contactmusic.com]]|date=13 September 2007|access-date=2 November 2013}}</ref> Collins denied that his retirement in 2011 was due to negative attention<ref name="BBC Collins Retirement" /> and said that his statements had been taken out of context. He said: "I have ended up sounding like a tormented weirdo who thinks he was at the [[Battle of the Alamo|Alamo]] in another life, who feels very sorry for himself, and is retiring hurt because of the bad press over the years. None of this is true."<ref name="A Message From Phil" /><ref name="nme" /> |
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Collins received acerbic comments in the press following reports about his retirement in 2011. He was dubbed "the most hated man in rock" by ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'',<ref name="telegraph"/> and by ''[[FHM]]'' as "the pop star that nobody likes".<ref name="telegraph"/> ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' journalist John Dioso acknowledged "the incredible, overwhelming popularity" Collins and [[Genesis (band)|Genesis]] achieved, but said that he had become "a negative figure in the music world" and that the reaction to his legacy was strongly unfavourable.<ref name="dioso">{{cite news|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12701251|title=Reaction to Phil Collins's retirement from the music business|publisher=BBC News|date=10 March 2011|accessdate=21 October 2013}} John Dioso, ''[[Rolling Stone]]'': "He [Collins] became a negative figure in the music world...he's got such a negative reaction to his legacy, to his catalogue."</ref> Tim Chester of the ''New Musical Express'' alluded to the widespread disdain for Collins in an article titled, "Is It Time We All Stopped Hating Phil Collins?" He described Collins as "the go-to guy for ironic appreciation and guilty pleasures" and stated he was responsible for "some moments of true genius (often accompanied, it must be said, by some real stinkers)". He also argued that "Genesis turned shit at the precise point he jumped off the drum stool" to replace the departing [[Peter Gabriel]] as frontman, and said of the unrelenting derision he has suffered, "a lot of it he brings on himself." He said that Collins was "responsible for some of the cheesiest music ever committed to acetate".<ref name="nme">{{cite web|url=http://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/is-it-time-we-all-stopped-hating-phil-collins|title=Is It Time We All Stopped Hating Phil Collins?|work=NME|first=Tim|last=Chester|date=10 March 2011|accessdate=19 October 2013}}</ref> Erik Hedegaard of ''Rolling Stone'' mentioned that Phil Collins [[Hate speech|hate sites]] had "flourished" online, and acknowledged that he had been called "the sellout who took Peter Gabriel's Genesis, that paragon of prog-rock, and turned it into a lame-o pop act and went on to make all those supercheesy hits that really did define the 1980s".<ref name="hedegaard">{{cite news|url=http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/phil-collins-last-stand-why-the-troubled-pop-star-wants-to-call-it-quits-20110304|title=Phil Collins' Last Stand: Why the Troubled Pop Star Wants to Call It Quits (page 1)|work=Rolling Stone|first=Erik|last=Hedegaard|date=4 March 2011|accessdate=7 November 2013}}</ref> |
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[[File:Phil Collins - BST Hyde Park - Friday 30th June 2017 PCollinsBST300617-26 (35649688476).jpg|thumb|Collins performing to 65,000 at [[Hyde Park, London|Hyde Park]], London on 30 June 2017. Music critic [[Neil McCormick]] wrote, "He could barely walk but Phil Collins still knocked it out of Hyde Park".<ref>{{cite news |last1=McCormick |first1=Neil |title=He could barely walk but Phil Collins still knocked it out of Hyde Park – review |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/concerts/phil-collins-british-summer-time-hyde-park-review/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/concerts/phil-collins-british-summer-time-hyde-park-review/ |archive-date=10 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |access-date=19 November 2018 |work=The Telegraph}}{{cbignore}}</ref>]] |
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According to author [[Dylan Jones]] in his 2013 publication on 1980s popular music, many of Collins's peers "despised" him.<ref name="jones">{{cite book|last=Jones|first=Dylan|authorlink=Dylan Jones|date=6 June 2013|title=The Eighties: One Day, One Decade|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ywvmz2h9rxIC&pg=PT215&dq=%22many+of+his+peers+despised+him+so%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=80zdU7rLGPGA7Qajz4DQAQ&ved=0CCEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22many%20of%20his%20peers%20despised%20him%20so%22&f=false|publisher=[[Random House]]|isbn=1-4090-5225-7|accessdate=2 August 2014}}</ref> Some fellow artists have made negative comments about Collins publicly. In 1990, former [[Pink Floyd]] frontman [[Roger Waters]] criticised Collins's "ubiquitous nature", including his involvement in [[The Who]]'s 1989 reunion tour.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1876&dat=19900801&id=0oEgAAAAIBAJ&sjid=XM4EAAAAIBAJ&pg=4643,9268 |title=Waters hard to please |work=[[Spartanburg Herald-Journal]]|date=1 August 1990|accessdate=23 July 2014}}</ref> [[David Bowie]] subsequently dismissed some of his own poorly received 1980s output as his "Phil Collins years/albums".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.spectator.co.uk/arts/arts-feature/8884691/bowie-mania/|title=Why David Bowie is still underrated|work=The Spectator|first=James|last=Walton|date=13 April 2013|accessdate=7 August 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/m29p|title=David Bowie Black Tie White Noise Review|publisher=BBC|first=David|last=Quantick|authorlink=David Quantick|accessdate=7 August 2014}}</ref> In addition to the song's negative press from music journalists, singer-songwriter and political activist [[Billy Bragg]] criticised Collins for writing "Another Day in Paradise", stating: "Phil Collins might write a song about the homeless, but if he doesn't have the action to go with it he's just exploiting that for a subject."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20260660,00.html|title=Bragg-ing Rites|work=Entertainment Weekly|first=Rob|last=Brunner|date=30 June 2000|accessdate=9 February 2014}}</ref> On the closing track of their 2014 album ''[[What Have We Become?]]'', titled "When I Get Back to Blighty", former [[The Beautiful South|Beautiful South]] collaborators [[Paul Heaton]] and [[Jacqui Abbott]] included the lyric "everyone around us agrees that Phil Collins must die", which ''[[musicOMH]]'' critic David Meller remarked in his review "is delivered with willing, almost pleasurable conviction by Abbott".<ref name="What Have We Become?">{{cite web|url=http://www.musicomh.com/reviews/albums/paul-heaton-jacqui-abbott-become|title=Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott – What Have We Become|work=musicOMH|first=David|last=Meller|date=16 May 2014|accessdate=18 June 2014}}</ref> |
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[[Paul Lester]] of ''The Guardian'' wrote in 2013 that Collins is one of several pop acts that "used to be a joke" but are "now being hailed as gods".<ref name="lester" /> Collins has become an important figure in US [[Urban contemporary|urban music]],<ref name="simpson">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/dec/02/phil-collins-godfather-popular-culture?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487|title=Is Phil Collins the godfather of popular culture?|work=The Guardian|location=London|first=Dave|last=Simpson|date=2 December 2013|access-date=4 December 2013}}</ref> influencing artists such as [[Kanye West]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.stereogum.com/36971/premature_evaluation_kanye_west_808s_heartbreak/franchises/premature-evaluation/|title=Premature Evaluation: Kanye West – 808s & Heartbreak|last=Lapatine|first=Scott|date=20 November 2008 |publisher=[[Stereogum]] |access-date=22 February 2015}}</ref> [[Alicia Keys]] and [[Beyoncé]].<ref name="nydn">{{cite news |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music-arts/phil-collins-reviled-revered-article-1.1608626|title=Phil Collins goes from reviled to revered|last=Farber|first=Jim|date=16 February 2014 |newspaper=[[New York Daily News]]|access-date=11 August 2014}}</ref> His songs have been [[Sampling (music)|sampled]] by various [[Hip hop music|hip-hop]] and [[contemporary R&B]] acts, and performers including [[Lil' Kim]], [[Kelis]], and [[Wu-Tang Clan]] co-founder [[Ol' Dirty Bastard]] covered his work on the 2001 tribute album ''[[Urban Renewal (tribute album)|Urban Renewal]]''.<ref name="simpson" /> |
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In 2004, [[Death Cab For Cutie|DCFC]] and [[The Postal Service|Postal Service]] musician [[Ben Gibbard]] described Collins as a "great vocalist".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.stereogum.com/900/postal_service_hearts_pop_music/news/|title=Postal Service Hearts Pop Music |date=7 September 2004|publisher=[[Stereogum]]|access-date=2 April 2015}}</ref> Collins has been championed by his contemporary, the [[heavy metal music|heavy metal]] singer [[Ozzy Osbourne]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/5293764/Ozzy-Osbourne-I-love-Phil-Collins.html|title=Ozzy Osbourne: "I love Phil Collins"|last=Wardrop|first=Murray|date=8 May 2009|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|access-date=22 February 2015}}</ref> [[David Crosby]] called him "a dear friend" who helped him "enormously",<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/feb/26/david-crosby-new-album-croz|title=David Crosby: 'The FBI scare me more than Hell's Angels'|work=The Guardian|location=London|first=Paul|last=Lester|date=26 February 2014|access-date=27 July 2015}}</ref> [[Queen (band)|Queen]] guitarist [[Brian May]] called him "a great guy and an amazing drummer",<ref>Fitzpatrick, Rob. "'I'm The Antichrist of Music' Immensely popular for decades, yet a permanent resident on music's outermost fringes of fashionability, Phil Collins would like to apologise. Are you ready to forgive?". ''[[FHM]]''. April 2011.</ref> and [[Robert Plant]] paid tribute to him as "the most spirited and positive and really encouraging force" when commencing his own solo career after the break-up of Led Zeppelin.<ref name="Robert Plant Music Times" /> Collins has been championed by modern artists in diverse genres, including [[indie rock]] groups [[the 1975]],<ref name="lester" /> [[Generationals (band)|Generationals]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.boiseweekly.com/boise/heza-for-generationals/Content?oid=2880921|title=Heza for Generationals|last=Gross|first=Josh|date=12 June 2013|newspaper=[[Boise Weekly]]|access-date=16 August 2014|archive-date=19 August 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140819083324/http://www.boiseweekly.com/boise/heza-for-generationals/Content?oid=2880921|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Neon Indian]], [[Yeasayer]], [[St. Lucia (musician)|St. Lucia]]<ref>{{cite magazine|last1=Hampp|first1=Andrew|title=Gimme Five: St. Lucia's Biggest Musical Influences|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop-shop/5762958/gimme-five-st-lucias-biggest-musical-influences|magazine=Billboard |date=17 October 2013|access-date=25 February 2016}}</ref> and [[Sleigh Bells (band)|Sleigh Bells]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/29482/phil-collins-indie-rocks-new-muse/|title=Phil Collins: Indie Rock's New Muse|last=Moore|first=Alex|date=24 September 2010|website=Death and Taxes|access-date=2 April 2015}}</ref> [[electronica]] artist [[Lorde]],<ref name="nydn" /> and [[Soul music|soul]] singer [[Diane Birch]], who said in 2014, "Collins walks a really fine line between being really cheesy and being really sophisticated. He can seem appalling, but at the same time, he has awesome production values and there's a particular richness to the sound. It's very proficient in the instrumentation and savvy about melodies."<ref name="nydn" /> |
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[[Oasis (band)|Oasis]] songwriter [[Noel Gallagher]] criticised Collins on multiple occasions,<ref name="rs"/><ref name="noelobserver">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2007/oct/14/popandrock2|accessdate=16 July 2014|work=The Observer|title=The 10: right-wing rockers|date=13 October 2007|first=Luke|last=Bainbridge|location=London}}</ref> including the comment: "Just because you sell lots of records, it doesn't mean to say you're any good. Look at Phil Collins."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24989044|title=1,000 Number ones: A chart history|publisher=BBC News|first=Mark|last=Savage|date=24 November 2013|accessdate=16 April 2014}}</ref> Collins said he has "at times, been very down" about Noel Gallagher's comments.<ref name="telegraph"/> Gallagher's brother, Oasis singer [[Liam Gallagher|Liam]], also recalled the "boring" Collins's chart dominance in the 1980s and stated that, by the 1990s, it was "time for some real lads to get up there and take charge".<ref>{{cite journal|date=April 2003|title=Britpop: The Great Rock'n'Roll Swindle|journal=[[Mojo (magazine)|Mojo]]|issue=113}}</ref> Appearing on the BBC television series ''[[Room 101 (TV series)|Room 101]]'' in 2005, in which guests discuss their most hated things and people, Collins nominated the Gallaghers to be sent into the [[Room 101|titular room]]. He described them as "horrible" and stated: "They're rude and not as talented as they think they are. I won't mince words here, but they've had a go at me personally."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gigwise.com/news/8381/phil-collins-hits-back-at-noel-gallagher|title=Phil Collins Hits Back at Noel Gallagher|last=Williams|first=Lowri|date=7 September 2005|publisher=[[Gigwise]]|accessdate=23 July 2014}}</ref> |
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Genesis bandmate [[Mike Rutherford]] has praised Collins's personality, saying that "he always had a [[:wikt:boy next door|bloke-next-door]], happy-go-lucky demeanour about him: let's have a drink in the pub, crack a joke, smoke a cigarette or a [[Cannabis (drug)|joint]]".<ref name="walsh">{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/phil-collins-the-king-lear-of-pop-music-9553182.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220526/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/phil-collins-the-king-lear-of-pop-music-9553182.html |archive-date=26 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Phil Collins: The King Lear of pop music|last=Walsh|first=John|date=20 June 2014|work=The Independent|access-date=16 August 2014}}</ref> In 2014, former Genesis frontman [[Peter Gabriel]], who worked again with Collins in the 1980s, referred to him as the "workaholics' workaholic".<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Today|first1=USA|last2=Jazz.com|last3=UltimateClassicRock.com|last4=at|first4=among others Contact Something Else!|date=14 March 2014|title=Peter Gabriel on the Depression that Gripped Genesis' Phil Collins: 'It's Been a Very Difficult Time'|url=http://somethingelsereviews.com/2014/03/14/its-been-a-very-difficult-time-peter-gabriel-discusses-the-depression-that-gripped-genesis-bandmate-phil-collins/|access-date=5 June 2020|website=Something Else!|language=en-US}}</ref> He has been characterised by favourable critics as a "rock god",<ref name="walsh" /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/9089940/Lily-Collins-Julia-Roberts-tore-my-hair-out.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/9089940/Lily-Collins-Julia-Roberts-tore-my-hair-out.html |archive-date=10 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Lily Collins: 'Julia Roberts tore my hair out'|date=22 February 2012|work=The Telegraph|access-date=16 August 2014}}{{cbignore}}</ref> and an artist who has remained "down to earth".<ref name="Taking Collins Seriously" /> In ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide#Fourth edition|The New Rolling Stone Album Guide]]'', published in 2004, [[J. D. Considine]] wrote: "For a time, Phil Collins was nearly inescapable on the radio, and enormously popular with the listening public — something that made him an obvious target for critics. Despite his ''lumpen''-pop appeal, however, Collins is an incisive songwriter and resourceful musician."{{sfn|Brackett|2004|p=182}} |
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=== Collins on criticism === |
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Collins acknowledged in 2010 that he had been "omnipresent". He said of his character: "The persona on stage came out of insecurity ... it seems embarrassing now. I recently started transferring all my VHS tapes onto DVD to create an archive, and everything I was watching, I thought, 'God, I'm annoying.' I appeared to be very cocky, and really I wasn't."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blog.sfgate.com/dailydish/2010/08/09/phil-collins-i-was-cocky-and-annoying-im-sorry/|title=Phil Collins: 'I was cocky and annoying; I'm sorry'|last=Parvizi|first=Lauren|date=9 August 2010|work=[[San Francisco Chronicle]]|accessdate=11 August 2014}}</ref> Collins concedes his status as a figure of contempt for many people and has said that he believes this is a consequence of his music being overplayed.<ref name="telegraph"/><ref name="rs">{{cite news|url=http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/phil-collins-last-stand-why-the-troubled-pop-star-wants-to-call-it-quits-20110304?page=2|title=Phil Collins' Last Stand: Why the Troubled Pop Star Wants to Call It Quits (page 2)|work=Rolling Stone|first=Erik|last=Hedegaard|date=4 March 2011|accessdate=13 November 2013}}</ref> In 2011 he said: "The fact that people got so sick of me wasn't really my fault … It's hardly surprising that people grew to hate me. I'm sorry that it was all so successful. I honestly didn't mean it to happen like that!"<ref name="telegraph"/><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nme.com/news/genesis/55295|title=Phil Collins apologises for his success after quitting music|work=NME|date=5 March 2011|accessdate=19 October 2013}}</ref> He described criticism of his physical appearance over the years as "a cheap shot",<ref name="jones"/> but has acknowledged the "very vocal element" of Genesis fans who believe that the group [[Selling out|sold out]] under his tenure as lead singer.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.contactmusic.com/news/the-things-they-say-5585_1043587|title=The Things They Say|publisher=[[Contactmusic.com]]|date=13 September 2007|accessdate=2 November 2013}}</ref> |
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Tim Chester of the ''New Musical Express'' described Collins as "the go-to guy for ironic appreciation and guilty pleasures" and stated he was responsible for "some moments of true genius (often accompanied, it must be said, by some real stinkers)".<ref name="nme"/> [[Creation Records]] founder [[Alan McGee]] wrote in 2009 that there was a "non-ironic revival of Phil Collins" happening. According to McGee: "The kids don't care about 'indie cred' anymore. To them, a great pop song is just that: a great pop song. In this time of revivals, nothing is a sacred cow anymore, and that can only be a good thing for music." Commenting on Collins's popularity with hip-hop acts, he argued: "It's not surprising. Collins is a world-class drummer whose songs immediately lend themselves to being sampled."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2009/jan/13/phil-collins-non-ironic-revival|title=The non-ironic revival of Phil Collins|work=The Guardian|first=Alan|last=McGee|date=13 January 2009|access-date=27 July 2015}}</ref> |
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Collins denied that his retirement in 2011 was due to negative attention<ref name="BBC Collins Retirement" /> and said that his statements had been taken out of context. He said: "I have ended up sounding like a tormented weirdo who thinks he was at the [[Battle of the Alamo|Alamo]] in another life, who feels very sorry for himself, and is retiring hurt because of the bad press over the years. None of this is true."<ref name="A Message From Phil" /><ref name="nme" /> |
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In 2010, Gary Mills of ''[[The Quietus]]'' made an impassioned defence of Collins: "There can't be many figures in the world of pop who have inspired quite the same kind of hatred-bordering-on-civil-unrest as Collins, and there can't be too many who have shifted anything like the 150 million plus units that he's got through as a solo artist either ... The disgrace of a career bogged entirely in the determined dross of ''No Jacket Required'' however is simply not justified, regardless of how Collins gained either his fortune, or his public image."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://thequietus.com/articles/04335-phil-collins-genesis-brian-eno-john-lydon-peter-gabriel|title=No Flak Jacket Required: In Defence Of Phil Collins|last=Mills|first=Gary|date=26 May 2010|website=[[The Quietus]]|access-date=23 July 2014}}</ref> David Sheppard wrote for the BBC in 2010: "Granted, Collins has sometimes been guilty of painting the bull's-eye on his own forehead (that self-aggrandising Live Aid Concorde business, the cringe-worthy lyrics to 'Another Day in Paradise', ''Buster'', etc.), but nonetheless, the sometime Genesis frontman's canon is so substantial and his hits so profuse that it feels myopic to dismiss him merely as a haughty purveyor of tortured, romantic ballads for the middle income world."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/m9nv|title=Phil Collins Going Back Review|publisher=BBC|first=David|last=Sheppard|access-date=19 July 2015}}</ref> |
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===Praise=== |
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[[Paul Lester]] of ''The Guardian'' wrote in 2013 that Collins is one of several pop acts that "used to be a joke" but are "now being hailed as gods".<ref name="lester"/> Despite the criticism he has received, Collins has become an iconic figure within U.S. urban music,<ref name="simpson">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/dec/02/phil-collins-godfather-popular-culture?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487|title=Is Phil Collins the godfather of popular culture?|work=The Guardian|location=London|first=Dave|last=Simpson|date=2 December 2013|accessdate=4 December 2013}}</ref> influencing artists such as [[Kanye West]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stereogum.com/36971/premature_evaluation_kanye_west_808s_heartbreak/franchises/premature-evaluation/|title=Premature Evaluation: Kanye West – 808s & Heartbreak|last=Lapatine|first=Scott|date=20 November 2008|website=[[Daily News (New York)|Daily News]]|accessdate=22 February 2015}}</ref> [[Alicia Keys]] and [[Beyoncé]].<ref name="nydn">{{cite web|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music-arts/phil-collins-reviled-revered-article-1.1608626|title=Phil Collins goes from reviled to revered|last=Farber|first=Jim|date=16 February 2014|website=Daily News|accessdate=11 August 2014}}</ref> His songs have been [[Sampling (music)|sampled]] by various [[Hip hop music|hip-hop]] and [[contemporary R&B]] acts, and performers including [[Lil' Kim]], [[Kelis]] and [[Wu-Tang Clan]] co-founder [[Ol' Dirty Bastard]] covered his work on the 2001 tribute album ''[[Urban Renewal (tribute album)|Urban Renewal]]''.<ref name="simpson"/> In 2004, indie rock musician [[Ben Gibbard]] praised Collins's singing, claiming he's a "great vocalist".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stereogum.com/900/postal_service_hearts_pop_music/news/|title=Postal Service Hearts Pop Music|author=Stereogun|date=7 September 2004|website=[[Stereogum]]|accessdate=2 April 2015}}</ref> Collins's music has been championed by his contemporary, the [[heavy metal music|heavy metal]] singer [[Ozzy Osbourne]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/5293764/Ozzy-Osbourne-I-love-Phil-Collins.html|title=Ozzy Osbourne: "I love Phil Collins"|last=Wardrop|first=Murray|date=8 May 2009|website=The Telegraph|accessdate=22 February 2015}}</ref> [[David Crosby]] has called him "a dear friend" who has helped him "enormously",<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/feb/26/david-crosby-new-album-croz|title=David Crosby: 'The FBI scare me more than Hell's Angels'|work=The Guardian|location=London|first=Paul|last=Lester|date=26 February 2014|accessdate=27 July 2015}}</ref> [[Queen (band)|Queen]] guitarist [[Brian May]] called him "a great guy and an amazing drummer",<ref>Fitzpatrick, Rob. "'I'm The Antichrist of Music' Immensely popular for decades, yet a permanent resident on music's outermost fringes of fashionability, Phil Collins would like to apologise. Are you ready to forgive?". ''[[FHM]]''. April 2011.</ref> and [[Robert Plant]] paid tribute to him as "the most spirited and positive and really encouraging force" when commencing his own solo career after the break-up of Led Zeppelin.<ref name="Robert Plant Music Times"/> Collins has been championed by modern artists in diverse genres, including [[indie rock]] groups [[The 1975]],<ref name="lester"/> [[Generationals (band)|Generationals]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.boiseweekly.com/boise/heza-for-generationals/Content?oid=2880921|title=Heza for Generationals|last=Gross|first=Josh|date=12 June 2013|website=[[Boise Weekly]]|accessdate=16 August 2014}}</ref> [[Neon Indian]], [[Yeasayer]], [[St. Lucia (musician)|St. Lucia]]<ref>{{cite web|last1=Hampp|first1=Andrew|title=Gimme Five: St. Lucia's Biggest Musical Influences|url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop-shop/5762958/gimme-five-st-lucias-biggest-musical-influences|website=Billboard.com|publisher=Billboard|accessdate=25 February 2016}}</ref> and [[Sleigh Bells (band)|Sleigh Bells]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/29482/phil-collins-indie-rocks-new-muse/|title=Phil Collins: Indie Rock's New Muse|last=Moore|first=Alex|date=24 September 2010|website=Death and Taxes|accessdate=2 April 2015}}</ref> [[electronica]] artist [[Lorde]],<ref name="nydn"/> and [[Soul music|soul]] singer [[Diane Birch]], who said in 2014, "Collins walks a really fine line between being really cheesy and being really sophisticated. He can seem appalling, but at the same time, he has awesome production values and there's a particular richness to the sound. It's very proficient in the instrumentation and savvy about melodies."<ref name="nydn"/> |
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''Rolling Stone'' journalist Erik Hedegaard expressed disapproval of the widespread criticism which Collins has received, suggesting that he has been "unfairly and inexplicably vilified".<ref name="hedegaard" /> Martin C. Strong stated in 2011 that "the enigmatic and amiable Phil Collins has had his fair share of mockers and critics over the years, although one thing is sure, and that is his dexterity and undeniable talent".<ref name="strong" /> In a piece the following year, titled "10 Much-Mocked Artists It's Time We Forgave", ''New Musical Express'' critic Anna Conrad said Collins had been portrayed as a "villain", and wrote: "Was the bile really justified? ... come on, admit it. You've air drummed to 'In the Air Tonight', and loved it."<ref name="conrad">{{cite web|url=https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/10-much-mocked-artists-its-time-we-forgave|title=10 Much-Mocked Artists It's Time We Forgave|last=Conrad|first=Anna|date=10 May 2012|publisher=NME|access-date=18 August 2014}}</ref> ''The Guardian'' journalist Dave Simpson wrote a complimentary article in 2013; while acknowledging "few pop figures have become as successful and yet reviled as Phil Collins", he argued "it's about time we recognised Collins's vast influence as one of the godfathers of popular culture".<ref name="simpson" /> |
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Genesis bandmate [[Mike Rutherford]] has praised Collins's personality, saying that "he always had a bloke-next-door, happy-go-lucky demeanour about him: let's have a drink in the pub, crack a joke, smoke a cigarette or a joint".<ref name="walsh">{{cite news|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/phil-collins-the-king-lear-of-pop-music-9553182.html|title=Phil Collins: The King Lear of pcloploseop music|last=Walsh|first=John|date=20 June 2014|work=The Independent|accessdate=16 August 2014}}</ref> He has been characterised by favourable critics as a "rock god",<ref name="walsh"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/9089940/Lily-Collins-Julia-Roberts-tore-my-hair-out.html|title=Lily Collins: 'Julia Roberts tore my hair out'|date=22 February 2012|work=The Telegraph|accessdate=16 August 2014}}</ref> and an artist who has remained "down to earth".<ref name="Taking Collins Seriously"/> In ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide#Fourth edition|The New Rolling Stone Album Guide]]'', published in 2004, [[J. D. Considine]] wrote: "For a time, Phil Collins was nearly inescapable on the radio, and enormously popular with the listening public — something that made him an obvious target for critics. Despite his ''lumpen''-pop appeal, however, Collins is an incisive songwriter and resourceful musician."<ref name="rsag"/> [[Creation Records]] founder [[Alan McGee]] wrote in 2009 that there was a "non-ironic revival of Phil Collins" happening. According to McGee: "The kids don't care about 'indie cred' anymore. To them, a great pop song is just that: a great pop song. In this time of revivals, nothing is a sacred cow anymore, and that can only be a good thing for music." Commenting on Collins's popularity with hip-hop acts, he argued: "It's not surprising. Collins is a world-class drummer whose songs immediately lend themselves to being sampled."<ref name="McGee"/> |
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==Personal life== |
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In 2010, Gary Mills of ''[[The Quietus]]'' made an impassioned defence of Collins: "There can't be many figures in the world of pop who have inspired quite the same kind of hatred-bordering-on-civil-unrest as Collins, and there can't be too many who have shifted anything like the 150 million plus units that he's got through as a solo artist either ... The disgrace of a career bogged entirely in the determined dross of ''No Jacket Required'' however is simply not justified, regardless of how Collins gained either his fortune, or his public image."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://thequietus.com/articles/04335-phil-collins-genesis-brian-eno-john-lydon-peter-gabriel|title=No Flak Jacket Required: In Defence Of Phil Collins|last=Mills|first=Gary|date=26 May 2010|website=[[The Quietus]]|accessdate=23 July 2014}}</ref> David Sheppard wrote for the BBC in 2010: "Granted, Collins has sometimes been guilty of painting the bull's-eye on his own forehead (that self-aggrandising Live Aid Concorde business, the cringe-worthy lyrics to 'Another Day in Paradise', ''Buster'', etc.), but nonetheless, the sometime Genesis frontman's canon is so substantial and his hits so profuse that it feels myopic to dismiss him merely as a haughty purveyor of tortured, romantic ballads for the middle income world."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/m9nv|title=Phil Collins Going Back Review|publisher=BBC|first=David|last=Sheppard|accessdate=19 July 2015}}</ref> |
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===Family and relationships=== |
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''Rolling Stone'' journalist Erik Hedegaard has expressed disapproval of the widespread criticism which Collins has received, suggesting that he has been "unfairly and inexplicably vilified".<ref name="hedegaard"/> Martin C. Strong stated in 2011 that "the enigmatic and amiable Phil Collins has had his fair share of mockers and critics over the years, although one thing is sure, and that is his dexterity and undeniable talent".<ref name="strong"/> In a piece the following year, titled "10 Much-Mocked Artists It's Time We Forgave", ''New Musical Express'' critic Anna Conrad said Collins had been portrayed as a "villain", and wrote: "Was the bile really justified? ... come on, admit it. You've air drummed to 'In the Air Tonight', and loved it."<ref name="conrad"/> ''The Guardian'' journalist Dave Simpson wrote a complimentary article in 2013; while acknowledging "few pop figures have become as successful and yet reviled as Phil Collins", he argued "it's about time we recognised Collins's vast influence as one of the godfathers of popular culture".<ref name="simpson"/> |
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Collins has divorced three times. From 1975 to 1980, he was married to Canadian-born Andrea Bertorelli. They met as 11-year-old students in a London drama class and reconnected in 1974 when Genesis performed in [[Vancouver]]. They married in England in 1975 when both were 24,<ref name="philcollins.co.uk">{{cite web|url=http://www.philcollins.co.uk/radiotimes.htm |title=I'm Not So Ambitious As I Was |publisher=Replay.waybackmachine.org |access-date=22 September 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090422182236/http://www.philcollins.co.uk/radiotimes.htm |archive-date=22 April 2009 }}</ref> after which Collins legally adopted Bertorelli's daughter [[Joely Collins|Joely]] (b. 1972), who became an actress and film producer.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://urbanmoms.ca/entertainment/an_interview_with_film_producer_joely_collins_on_becoming_redwood/|title=An interview with film producer Joely Collins on Becoming Redwood|publisher=UrbanMoms|date=25 April 2013|access-date=3 August 2015}}</ref> They also had a son, [[Simon Collins]] (b. 1976), who is the former vocalist and drummer of the progressive rock band [[Sound of Contact]]. In 2016, Bertorelli took legal action against Collins pertaining to his account of their relationship in his autobiography.<ref>{{cite news | url= http://news.sky.com/story/phil-collins-sued-by-ex-wife-over-claims-made-in-autobiography-10680392| title= Phil Collins sued by ex-wife over claims made in autobiography | publisher=Sky News | date=3 December 2016 | access-date=5 December 2016}}</ref> |
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In 1984, Collins married American Jill Tavelman. They have one daughter, [[Lily Collins]] (b. 1989), who became an actress.<ref name=PM94>{{cite web|url=https://people.com/archive/dropping-the-ax-via-fax-vol-42-no-6/|title=Dropping the Ax Via Fax|date=8 August 1994|work=People|access-date=14 June 2019}}</ref> While married to Tavelman, Collins twice had an affair with Lavinia Lang, a former drama school classmate, while touring with Genesis in 1992. The two were previously engaged, but the relationship ended before they married.<ref name=PM94/> In 1994, Collins openly stated that he had fallen out of love with Tavelman and had filed for divorce, which was finalised in 1996. As part of the settlement, Collins paid £17 million to Tavelman.<ref name=PM94/><ref name=DM08>{{cite web|url=https://www.divorcemag.com/articles/phil-collins-reportedly-pays-ex-wife-50-million-in-divorce-settlement/|title=Phil Collins reportedly pays ex-wife $50 million in divorce settlement|first=Jeffrey|last=Cottrill|date=23 July 2014|work=Divorce Magazine|access-date=17 June 2019}}</ref> |
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==Personal life== |
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In 1999, Collins married Orianne Cevey, a Swiss national who worked as his translator at the start of his 1994 tour when she was 22.<ref>{{cite web | url= http://oriannecollins.com/index.php?route=product/category&path=112_113 | title= A brief bio of Orianne Collins | publisher= Orianne Collins Jewellery | access-date= 4 August 2015 | url-status=dead | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20151016210253/http://oriannecollins.com/index.php?route=product%2Fcategory&path=112_113 | archive-date= 16 October 2015 | df= dmy-all }}</ref><ref name=blick>{{cite news| url=http://www.blick.ch/people-tv/international/orianne-collins-phil-und-ich-wollen-nochmals-heiraten-id4710880.html | title=Orianne Collins: "Phil und ich wollen nochmals heiraten!" / Orianne Collins: "Phil and I want to get married again!" | first=Katja |last=Richard| publisher=[[Blick]] | date=20 February 2016| access-date=23 February 2016| archive-date= 21 February 2016| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160221235322/http://www.blick.ch/people-tv/international/orianne-collins-phil-und-ich-wollen-nochmals-heiraten-id4710880.html | url-status=live}}</ref> They have two sons, Nicholas and Matthew.<ref name=Us-02-23-16>{{cite news |url= http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/phil-collins-to-remarry-third-ex-wife-orianne-cevey-after-46-million-divorce-w165096 | work=[[Us Weekly]] | title=Phil Collins to Remarry His Third Ex-Wife, Orianne Cevey, After $46 Million Divorce| first=Stephanie |last=Webber|date=20 February 2016| access-date=23 February 2016}}</ref> The latter is an aspiring footballer for the youth squad of [[WSG Tirol]], having previously played in the youth systems of [[Bundesliga]] club [[Hannover 96]] and [[Astoria Walldorf]].<ref>{{cite news |url= https://m.bild.de/sport/fussball/hannover-96/hannover-96-zweiter-versuch-so-gehts-dem-sohn-von-phil-collins-85657274.bildMobile.html?t_ref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F | work=[[Bild]] | title= Von Hannover nach Innsbruck. So geht's dem Collins-Sohn | first=Florian |last=Krebs|language=German|date=6 October 2023| access-date=21 December 2023}}</ref> They lived in the former house of [[Jackie Stewart]] in [[Begnins]], Switzerland. In 2006 they divorced. Collins paid £25 million to Cevey, which became the largest settlement in a British celebrity divorce.<ref>{{cite news | url= https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/aug/19/phil.collins.divorce | title= Phil Collins sets divorce pay-out record | work=The Guardian | location=London | first=Sean | last=Michaels | date=19 August 2008 | access-date=5 December 2016}}</ref> Collins continued to live in [[Féchy]], Switzerland, while he also maintained homes in New York City and [[Dersingham]], Norfolk.<ref name="Phil Collins pays £25 million in divorce settlement" /> |
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Collins was married to Andrea Bertorelli from 1975 to 1980.<ref name="philcollins.co.uk">{{cite web|url=http://www.philcollins.co.uk/radiotimes.htm |title=I'm Not So Ambitious As I Was |publisher=Replay.waybackmachine.org |accessdate=22 September 2014 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090422182236/http://www.philcollins.co.uk/radiotimes.htm |archivedate=22 April 2009 }}</ref><ref name=NoDecorator>{{cite news |url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3045045/No-Phil-didn-t-run-away-decorator-broke-vows-cashing-divorce-Genesis-star-s-wife-breaks-silence-35-years-split.html |title=Phil Collins' ex-wife breaks her silence 35 years after split that inspired hit 'In The Air Tonight' ... |last=Dunbar |first=Polly |work=[[Daily Mail]] |date=18 April 2015 |accessdate=7 September 2016}}</ref> They met as 11-year-old students in a London drama class, later dated, but her family moved to Canada when she was 18.<ref name=NoDecorator/> The two reconnected when Genesis performed in [[Vancouver]], and they married in England when both were 24.<ref name=NoDecorator/><ref>GRO Register of Marriages: SEP 1975 17 0245 SURREY MID E. – Philip D. C. Collins = Andrea Bertorelli</ref> They have a son, [[Simon Collins]], who became the vocalist and drummer of the progressive rock band [[Sound of Contact]]. Collins adopted Bertorelli's daughter [[Joely Collins|Joely]], who became an actress and film producer.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://urbanmoms.ca/entertainment/an_interview_with_film_producer_joely_collins_on_becoming_redwood/|title=An interview with film producer Joely Collins on Becoming Redwood|work=UrbanMoms|date=25 April 2013|accessdate=3 August 2015}}</ref> In December 2016, Bertorelli announced that she was taking legal action against Collins pertaining to his account of their relationship in his recent autobiography, ''Not Dead Yet''.<ref>{{cite news | url= http://news.sky.com/story/phil-collins-sued-by-ex-wife-over-claims-made-in-autobiography-10680392| title= Phil Collins sued by ex-wife over claims made in autobiography | work=Sky News | date=3 December 2016 | accessdate=5 December 2016}}</ref> |
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From 2007 to 2016, Collins was in a relationship with American news anchor [[Dana Tyler]].<ref name=PC/> In 2008, Cevey and her two sons moved to Miami, Florida. Collins recalled: "I went through a few bits of darkness; drinking too much. I killed my hours watching TV and drinking, and it almost killed me." He said in 2015 that he had been [[Teetotalism|teetotal]] for three years.<ref name="rollingstone.com">{{cite magazine|title=Phil Collins Plotting Comeback: 'I Am No Longer Retired'|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/phil-collins-plotting-comeback-i-am-no-longer-retired-20151028|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=28 October 2015|access-date=29 October 2015}}</ref> In January 2016, after moving to [[Miami Beach, Florida]] in the previous year to be closer to his two youngest sons,<ref name="rollingstone.com" /> Collins reunited with Cevey and they lived together in Miami.<ref>{{cite news | url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/12131144/Against-all-odds-Phil-Collins-is-back-with-his-ex-wife-after-25m-divorce-settlement.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/12131144/Against-all-odds-Phil-Collins-is-back-with-his-ex-wife-after-25m-divorce-settlement.html |archive-date=10 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live | title= Against all odds, Phil Collins is back with his ex-wife after £25m divorce settlement | work=The Daily Telegraph | date=29 January 2016 | access-date=30 January 2016}}{{cbignore}}</ref> In October 2020, Collins filed an eviction notice against Cevey after she secretly married another man in August.<ref>{{Cite web|date=21 October 2020|title=Phil Collins' ex-wife Orianne Cevey 'still refusing to leave Miami house'|url=https://metro.co.uk/2020/10/21/phil-collins-ex-wife-orianne-cevey-files-counterclaim-refusing-leave-miami-mansion-13458746/|access-date=2 November 2020|website=Metro|language=en}}</ref> Collins sold his Miami home in 2021 for $39 million.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/real-estate-news/article248818005.html|title=Phil Collins' Miami Beach house sold to billionaire businessman and wife for $39.25M|first=Rebecca|last=San Juan|work=Miami Herald|date=28 January 2021|access-date=5 February 2021}}</ref> |
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Collins met his second wife, American Jill Tavelman, in 1980. They were married from 1984<ref>GRO Register of Marriages: AUG 1984 17 1515 SURREY SW -Philip D. C. Collins = Jill Tavelman</ref> to 1996. They had one daughter, [[Lily Collins]], born in 1989.<ref>GRO Register of Births: APR 1989 17 1579 SURREY SW, Lily Jane Collins, mmn = Tavelman</ref> |
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Collins' brother [[Clive Collins|Clive]] was a cartoonist. Phil appeared at his brother's investiture ceremony at [[Buckingham Palace]] in 2012 when he was awarded an [[Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire|MBE]] for services to art, with Phil stating, "I shared a bedroom with him when we were boys and he was always drawing. He used to do Christmas cards and birthday cards for the family."<ref name="Indy">{{cite news|title=Phil Collins flies in for bro's MBE|url=https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/music/phil-collins-flies-in-for-bros-mbe-26816046.html|work=Independent|date=23 May 2018}}</ref> |
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Collins married his third wife, Orianne Cevey, a Swiss national,<ref>{{cite web | url= http://oriannecollins.com/index.php?route=product/category&path=112_113 | title= A brief bio of Orianne Collins | work=Orianne Collins Jewellery | accessdate=4 August 2015}}</ref> in 1999.<ref name=blick>{{cite news| url=http://www.blick.ch/people-tv/international/orianne-collins-phil-und-ich-wollen-nochmals-heiraten-id4710880.html | title=Orianne Collins: "Phil und ich wollen nochmals heiraten!" / Orianne Collins: "Phil and I want to get married again!" | first=Katja |last=Richard| work=[[Blick]] | date=20 February 2016| accessdate=23 February 2016| archivedate= 23 February 2016| archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6fWNLq2ZZ?url=http://www.blick.ch/people-tv/international/orianne-collins-phil-und-ich-wollen-nochmals-heiraten-id4710880.html | deadurl=no}}</ref> They have two sons, Nicholas and Matthew.<ref name=Us-02-23-16>{{cite news |url= http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/phil-collins-to-remarry-third-ex-wife-orianne-cevey-after-46-million-divorce-w165096| work=[[Us Weekly]] | title=Phil Collins to Remarry His Third Ex-Wife, Orianne Cevey, After $46 Million Divorce| first=Stephanie |last=Webber|date=20 February 2016| accessdate=23 February 2016}}</ref> They bought [[Jackie Stewart|Sir Jackie Stewart's]] former house located in [[Begnins]], Switzerland, overlooking [[Lake Geneva]]. They divorced in 2008, with Collins paying £25 million, which became the largest settlement in a British celebrity divorce.<ref>{{cite news | url= https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/aug/19/phil.collins.divorce | title= Phil Collins sets divorce pay-out record | work=The Guardian | location=London | first=Sean | last=Michaels | date=19 August 2008 | accessdate=5 December 2016}}</ref> Collins continued to live in Switzerland at the time, residing in [[Féchy]], while he also maintained homes in New York City and [[Dersingham]], Norfolk.<ref name="Phil Collins pays £25 million in divorce settlement"/> In 2008, his ex-wife moved to Miami with the children from the marriage. Collins recalled: "I went through a few bits of darkness; drinking too much. I killed my hours watching TV and drinking, and it almost killed me." He revealed in 2015 that he had been [[Teetotalism|teetotal]] for three years.<ref name="rollingstone.com">{{cite web|title=Phil Collins Plotting Comeback: 'I Am No Longer Retired'|url=http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/phil-collins-plotting-comeback-i-am-no-longer-retired-20151028|website=Rolling Stone|accessdate=29 October 2015}}</ref> In 2015, Collins moved to Miami to be closer to his family, living in a separate home previously owned by [[Jennifer Lopez]].<ref name="rollingstone.com"/> In January 2016, Collins said he had reunited with Cevey and they were living together in the house he had bought in Miami.<ref>{{cite news | url= http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/12131144/Against-all-odds-Phil-Collins-is-back-with-his-ex-wife-after-25m-divorce-settlement.html | title= Against all odds, Phil Collins is back with his ex-wife after £25m divorce settlement | work=The Daily Telegraph | date=29 January 2016 | accessdate=30 January 2016}}</ref> |
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In 2012, Collins was estimated to be the second-wealthiest drummer in the world, surpassed only by [[Ringo Starr]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Breihan|first=Tom|url=https://www.stereogum.com/1137282/the-30-richest-drummers-in-the-world/list/|title=The 30 Richest Drummers in the World|publisher=Stereogum|date=28 August 2012|access-date=30 May 2014}}</ref> Collins was estimated to have a fortune of £120 million in the ''[[Sunday Times Rich List]]'' of 2018, making him one of the 25 wealthiest people in the British music industry.<ref>{{cite web |last=Hanley |first=James |title=Paul McCartney tops 2018 Sunday Times list of richest musicians |url=http://www.musicweek.com/talent/read/paul-mccartney-tops-2018-sunday-times-list-of-richest-musicians/072424 |work=musicweek.com |date=10 May 2018 |access-date=18 February 2019}}</ref> |
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On 29 March 2000, Collins launched a case against two former musicians from his band to recoup £500,000 |
On 29 March 2000, Collins launched a case against two former musicians from his band to recoup £500,000 in royalties that were overpaid. [[Louis Satterfield]] and Rahmlee Davis claimed their contract entitled them to 0.5 per cent of the royalties from ''[[Serious Hits... Live!]]'', a live album recorded during Collins's Seriously, Live! World Tour in 1990. They claimed they were an integral part of the whole album, but Collins responded that the two should only receive royalties from the five tracks in which they were involved.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/phil-collins-sues-backing-band-to-reclaim-overpaid-royalties-723775.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220526/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/phil-collins-sues-backing-band-to-reclaim-overpaid-royalties-723775.html |archive-date=26 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Phil Collins sues backing band to reclaim 'overpaid' royalties'|work=The Independent|location=London|first=Kate|last=Watson-Smyth|date=30 March 2000|access-date=22 May 2010}}</ref> On 19 April 2000, the [[High Court of Justice|High Court]] in London ruled that the two musicians would receive no more royalty money from Phil Collins. The amount that Collins was seeking was halved, and Satterfield and Davis (who originally brought the suit forward in California) would not have to repay any of it. The judge agreed with Collins's argument that Satterfield and Davis should have been paid for only the five tracks on which they performed, including the hit "[[Sussudio]]".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/phil-collins-wins-claim-he-overpaid-musicians-721046.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220526/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/phil-collins-wins-claim-he-overpaid-musicians-721046.html |archive-date=26 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Phil Collins wins claim he overpaid musicians|work=The Independent|location=London|first=Kate|last=Watson-Smyth|date=20 April 2000|access-date=22 May 2010}}</ref> |
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On 19 April 2000, the High Court ruled that the two musicians would receive no more royalty money from Phil Collins. The amount that Collins was seeking was halved, and Satterfield and Davis (who originally brought the suit forward in California) would not have to repay any of it. The judge agreed with Collins's argument that Satterfield and Davis should have been paid for only the five tracks on which they performed, including the hit "[[Sussudio]]".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/phil-collins-wins-claim-he-overpaid-musicians-721046.html|title=Phil Collins wins claim he overpaid musicians|work=The Independent|location=London|first=Kate|last=Watson-Smyth|date=20 April 2000|accessdate=22 May 2010}}</ref> |
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In 1999, Collins developed sudden hearing loss in his left ear following a recording session in Los Angeles. He consulted three doctors, who reportedly told him that there was nothing they could do and that the chance of a full recovery was slim. Two years later, he had recovered most of his hearing.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.genesisfan.net/phil-collins/phil-collins-archive/phil-collins-comes-clean-on-hearing-loss-scare|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150630224929/http://www.genesisfan.net/phil-collins/phil-collins-archive/phil-collins-comes-clean-on-hearing-loss-scare|url-status=usurped|archive-date=30 June 2015|title=Phil Collins comes clean on hearing-loss scare|date=19 September 2002|work=Launch|first=Darryl|last=Morden|access-date=9 March 2020}}</ref> Collins later found that it was caused by a viral infection, and that it was resolved after treatment.<ref name=PC/> |
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Collins had reportedly [[Hearing loss|lost hearing]] in his left ear in 2000 due to a [[Viral disease|viral infection]]; the condition was resolved after the infection was cured.<ref name=PC/> In September 2009, it was reported that Collins could no longer play the drums, due to a recent operation to repair dislocated vertebrae in his neck. A statement from Collins on the Genesis band website said, "There isn't any drama regarding my 'disability' and playing drums. Somehow during the last Genesis tour I dislocated some vertebrae in my upper neck and that affected my hands. After a successful operation on my neck, my hands still can't function normally. Maybe in a year or so it will change, but for now it is impossible for me to play drums or piano. I am not in any 'distressed' state; stuff happens in life."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.genesis-music.com/news/news.php?uid=466|title=Statement from Phil Collins|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091026045746/http://www.genesis-music.com/news/news.php?uid=466|archivedate=26 October 2009|publisher=Genesis-music.com|date=10 September 2009|accessdate=1 January 2010}}</ref> However, in 2010 Collins alluded to feelings of depression and low self-esteem in recent years, claiming in an interview that he had contemplated [[suicide]], but he resisted for the sake of his children.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/nov/11/phil-collins-suicide-spinal-injury|title=Phil Collins says he considered suicide|work=The Guardian|date=11 November 2010|accessdate=6 June 2013|location=London|first=Sean|last=Michaels}}</ref> |
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In April 2009, Collins had surgery on his upper neck to correct a problem that began while drumming on the 2007 Genesis tour. Following the operation, he lost feeling in his fingers and could only grip drumsticks if they were taped to his hands.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.genesis-music.com/news/news.php?uid=466|title=Statement from Phil Collins|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091026045746/http://www.genesis-music.com/news/news.php?uid=466|archive-date=26 October 2009|publisher=Genesis-music.com|date=10 September 2009|access-date=1 January 2010}}</ref> In 2010, Collins alluded to feelings of depression and low self-worth in recent years and said he had contemplated suicide, but he resisted for the sake of his children.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/nov/11/phil-collins-suicide-spinal-injury|title=Phil Collins says he considered suicide|work=The Guardian|date=11 November 2010|access-date=6 June 2013|location=London|first=Sean|last=Michaels}}</ref> In 2014, Collins said that he was still unable to play the drums and that it was not arthritis, but an undiagnosed nerve problem.<ref>''Front Row'' (2014) BBC Radio 4, 3 October 2014.</ref> In 2015, he underwent a spine operation.<ref name=CL09>{{cite web|url=https://www.cleveland.com/music/2009/10/neck_surgery_puts_phil_collins.html|title=Neck surgery puts Phil Collins on the drumming disabled list|publisher=Cleveland.com|date=19 October 2009|access-date=9 March 2020}}</ref> In 2016, he said he was still unable to drum with his left hand. His doctor advised him that if he wanted to play the drums again, he would need to take it "step by step" and "practice".<ref name=PC /><ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/phil-collins-plotting-comeback-i-am-no-longer-retired-20151028|title=Phil Collins Plotting Comeback: 'I Am No Longer Retired'|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|date=28 October 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://musicfeeds.com.au/news/phil-collins-comes-out-of-retirement-wants-to-play-australian-stadiums/|title=Phil Collins Comes Out Of Retirement, Wants To Play Australian Stadiums – Music Feeds|date=29 October 2015}}</ref> |
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In his 2016 autobiography, Collins acknowledged that he had struggled with [[alcoholism]] following his retirement and third divorce. At that point he also stated that he had been sober for three years.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-37714459|title=Phil Collins: Back from the brink after alcohol battle|work=BBC|date=22 November 2016|access-date=21 June 2018|first=Mark|last=Savage}}</ref> |
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In January 2017, Collins said he was a [[Type 2 diabetes|type 2 diabetic]] and had received treatment with a [[hyperbaric chamber]] after developing a diabetic abscess on his foot that became infected.<ref name=TI07>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/homelesshelpline/phil-collins-cool-again-comeback-homeless-helpline-homelessness-uncool-embarrassing-pop-acts-leave-a7545381.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220526/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/homelesshelpline/phil-collins-cool-again-comeback-homeless-helpline-homelessness-uncool-embarrassing-pop-acts-leave-a7545381.html |archive-date=26 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Phil Collins: the cool 'elder statesman' of pop?|first=Ed|last=Cumming|date=25 January 2017|work=The Independent|access-date=9 March 2020}}</ref> In June 2017, Collins cancelled two shows after he slipped in his hotel room during the night and hit his head on a chair as he fell, resulting in stitches for a severe gash close to his eye. The fall was caused by his [[foot drop]], resulting from his back operation.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2017/06/08/entertainment/phil-collins-fall-tour/index.html|title=Phil Collins hospitalized after fall|first=Lisa|last=France|date=8 June 2017|access-date=8 June 2017}}</ref> |
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In 2017, Collins began to use a cane to assist with walking,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://people.com/music/phil-collins-little-slower-but-mentally-very-on-it-after-fall-source/|title=Phil Collins Is a 'Little Slower but Mentally Very on It' Nearly a Year After Nasty Fall: Source|work=People|date=11 May 2018|access-date=21 June 2018|first1=Phil|last1=Boucher|first2=Karen|last2=Mizoguchi}}</ref> and to sit in a chair while performing on stage.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theringer.com/music/2018/6/20/17482360/phil-collins-career-life-tour-in-the-air-tonight|title=Take a Look at Him Now: The Many Lives of Phil Collins|work=The Ringer|date=20 June 2018|access-date=21 June 2018|first=Steven|last=Hyden}}</ref> |
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===Honorary degrees=== |
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Collins has received several honorary degrees in recognition of his work in music and his personal interests. In 1987, he received an honorary doctorate of fine arts at [[Fairleigh Dickinson University]].<ref>{{cite web|title=University will give Phil Collins an honorary doctorate degree|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=8UVIAAAAIBAJ&pg=5329%2C6710422|work=Lakeland Ledger|access-date=12 May 2012}}</ref> In 1991, he received an honorary doctorate of music at the [[Berklee College of Music]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Music History for 4 May|url=http://www.on-this-day.com/onthisday/thedays/music/may04.htm|publisher=OnThisDay.com|access-date=12 May 2012}}</ref> On 12 May 2012, he received an honorary doctorate of history at the [[McMurry University]] in [[Abilene, Texas]],<ref>{{cite web|title=McMurry doctorate a 'tremendous honor,' Phil Collins says|url=http://www.reporternews.com/news/2012/may/12/mcmurry-doctorate-a-tremendous-honor-phil-says/|work=ARNews Weekend|access-date=12 May 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120516005523/http://www.reporternews.com/news/2012/may/12/mcmurry-doctorate-a-tremendous-honor-phil-says/|archive-date=16 May 2012}}</ref> for his research and collection of [[Texas Revolution]] <!-- THIS ARTICLE USES BRITISH ENGLISH per [[WP:ENGVAR]], AND THUS artefacts is the appropriate spelling -->artefacts and documents (see [[#Other interests|other interests section]]). |
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Collins has often been mentioned erroneously in the British media as being a supporter of the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] and |
Collins has often been mentioned erroneously in the British media as being a supporter of the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] and a critic of the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]].<ref name="Guardian2007" /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/cultural-capital/2012/03/rock-music-britain-nme|title=Why are there so few right-wing rock stars?|work=New Statesman|first=Pat|last=Long|date=8 March 2012|access-date=4 April 2013}}</ref> This derives from the famous article in ''[[The Sun (United Kingdom)|The Sun]]'', printed on the day of the [[1992 United Kingdom general election|1992 UK general election]], titled "[[It's The Sun Wot Won It|If Kinnock wins today will the last person to leave Britain please turn out the lights]]", which stated that Collins was among several celebrities who were planning to leave Britain in the event of a Labour victory.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/833416.stm|title=Music's millionaires club honoured|work=BBC News|date=14 July 2000|access-date=20 June 2013}}</ref><ref name="Archie Bland Independent 2012">{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/archie-bland-forget-music--financial-wars-are-the-route-to-power-6297738.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220526/https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/archie-bland-forget-music--financial-wars-are-the-route-to-power-6297738.html |archive-date=26 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Archie Bland: Forget music – financial wars are the route to power|work=The Independent|first=Archie|last=Bland|date=1 February 2012|access-date=5 October 2013|location=London}}</ref> |
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Collins is often reported in the British press to have left the UK and moved to Switzerland in protest at the Labour Party's victory in the [[1997 United Kingdom general election|1997 general election]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/hit-and-run/hit--run-jarvis-bum-note-1675640.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220526/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/hit-and-run/hit--run-jarvis-bum-note-1675640.html |archive-date=26 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Hit & Run: Jarvis' bum note|work=The Independent|location=London|access-date=23 June 2014|date=29 April 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.economist.com/news/britain/21649051-celebrities-often-threaten-leave-britain-if-labour-comes-power-they-tend-not-go-should-i|title=Should I stay or should I go?|newspaper=The Economist|access-date=4 July 2016|date=21 April 2015}}</ref> Shortly before the [[2005 United Kingdom general election|2005 election]] (when Collins was living in Switzerland), Labour supporter [[Noel Gallagher]] was quoted: "Vote Labour. If you don't and the Tories get in, Phil Collins is threatening to come back and live here. And let's face it, none of us want that."<ref name="noelobserver" /><ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/vote_2005/frontpage/4464557.stm|title=Who's backing whom at the election?|work=BBC News|date=21 April 2005|access-date=20 June 2013|first=Jenny|last=Matthews}}</ref> Collins has since stated that although he did once say many years earlier that he might leave Britain if most of his income was taken in tax, which was Labour Party policy at that time for top earners, he has never been a Conservative Party supporter and he left Britain for Switzerland in 1994 purely because he started a relationship with a woman who lived there. He said of Gallagher: "I don't care if he likes my music or not. I do care if he starts telling people I'm a wanker because of my politics. It's an opinion based on an old, misunderstood quote."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article3808340.ece|title=Phil Collins casually serves notice of his retirement|work=The Times|location=London|first=Pete|last=Paphides|date=25 April 2008|access-date=22 May 2010}}</ref> |
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Despite his statement that he did not leave Britain for tax purposes, Collins was one of several wealthy figures living in tax havens who were singled out for criticism in a 2008 report by the charity [[Christian Aid]].<ref>{{cite news|url= |
Despite his statement that he did not leave Britain for tax purposes, Collins was one of several wealthy figures living in tax havens who were singled out for criticism in a 2008 report by the charity [[Christian Aid]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.smh.com.au/news/adele-horin/tax-tourists-and-the-crown-prince-of-thieves/2008/07/25/1216492729375.html?page=fullpage|title=Tax tourists and the crown prince of thieves|work=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]]|location=Sydney|first=Adele|last=Horin|date=26 July 2008|access-date=19 March 2015}}</ref> ''[[The Independent]]'' included Collins as one of their "ten celebrity tax exiles", erroneously repeating that he had left the country when Labour won the 1997 general election and that he threatened to return if the Conservatives won in 2005.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/ten-celebrity-tax-exiles-1798098.html?action=gallery&ino=3|title=Ten celebrity tax exiles|work=The Independent|location=London|access-date=17 October 2013|first=Jimmy|last=Leach|date=5 October 2009}}</ref> Referring to the 1997 general election in his article "Famous men and their misunderstood politics" for [[MSN]], Hugh Wilson stated: "Labour won it in a landslide, which just goes to show the influence pop stars really wield". He also wrote that Collins's reported comments and subsequent move to Switzerland led to "accusations of hypocrisy" since he had "bemoaned the plight of the homeless in the song 'Another Day in Paradise{{'"}}, making him "an easy target when future elections came round".<ref name="wilson">{{cite web|url=http://him.uk.msn.com/in-the-know/famous-men-and-their-misunderstood-politics-di-canio-fascist-row?page=7 |title=Famous men and their misunderstood politics |publisher=MSN |first=Hugh |last=Wilson |date=3 April 2013 |access-date=9 February 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222225551/http://him.uk.msn.com/in-the-know/famous-men-and-their-misunderstood-politics-di-canio-fascist-row?page=7 |archive-date=22 February 2014 }}</ref> The [[Paul Heaton]] and [[Jacqui Abbott]] song "When I Get Back to Blighty", from their 2014 album ''[[What Have We Become? (album)|What Have We Become?]]'', made reference to Collins as "a prisoner to his tax returns".<ref name="What Have We Become?">{{cite web|url=http://www.musicomh.com/reviews/albums/paul-heaton-jacqui-abbott-become|title=Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott – What Have We Become|work=musicOMH|first=David|last=Meller|date=16 May 2014|access-date=18 June 2014}}</ref> |
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Questioned about his politics by [[Mark Lawson]] in an interview for the BBC, broadcast in 2009, Collins said: "My father was Conservative but it wasn't quite the same, I don't think, when he was alive. Politics never loomed large in our family anyway. I think the politics of the country were very different then."<ref name="Mark Lawson talks to... Phil Collins"/> In a 2016 interview in ''[[The Guardian]]'', Collins stated that talking about politics to ''The Sun'' was one of his biggest regrets. When asked whether he had ever voted Conservative, he said: "I |
Questioned about his politics by [[Mark Lawson]] in an interview for the BBC, broadcast in 2009, Collins said: "My father was Conservative but it wasn't quite the same, I don't think, when he was alive. Politics never loomed large in our family anyway. I think the politics of the country were very different then."<ref name="Mark Lawson talks to... Phil Collins" /> In a 2016 interview in ''[[The Guardian]]'', Collins stated that talking about politics to ''The Sun'' was one of his biggest regrets. When asked whether he had ever voted Conservative, he said: "I didn't vote, actually. And that's not something I'm proud of. I was just so busy that I rarely was here."<ref>{{cite news |url= https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/feb/11/phil-collins-interview-take-a-look-at-me-now-remastered-albums-rerelease-2016 |title= Phil Collins returns: 'I got letters from nurses saying, "That's it, I'm not buying your records"' | work=The Guardian |location=London |first=Dorian |last=Lynskey |date=11 February 2016 |access-date=24 February 2016}}</ref> |
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Collins is a member of the Canadian charity Artists Against Racism and has worked with them on campaigns including radio PSAs.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://artistsagainstracism.org/radio-2/ |title=Radio |publisher=Artists Against Racism |access-date=21 January 2019 |archive-date=7 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201007213912/http://artistsagainstracism.org/radio-2/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> In October 2020, Collins issued a cease and desist order to [[Donald Trump]] and [[Donald Trump 2020 presidential campaign|his campaign]] for playing "In the Air Tonight" at a rally.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/phil-collins-issues-donald-trump-with-cease-and-desist-order-after-in-the-air-tonight-is-played-at-a-rally-2786230|title=Phil Collins issues Donald Trump with cease and desist order after 'In The Air Tonight' is played at a rally|date=15 October 2020|website=NME}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/phil-collins-trump-in-air-tonight-cease-and-desist-b1067579.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220526/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/phil-collins-trump-in-air-tonight-cease-and-desist-b1067579.html |archive-date=26 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Phil Collins serves Trump with a cease and desist order after 'In the Air Tonight' plays at rally|date=16 October 2020|website=The Independent}}</ref> |
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===Other interests=== |
===Other interests=== |
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Collins has a long-standing interest in [[Battle of the Alamo|the Alamo]]. He has collected hundreds of <!-- THIS ARTICLE USES BRITISH ENGLISH per [[WP:ENGVAR]], AND THUS artefacts is the appropriate spelling -->artefacts related to the famous 1836 battle in [[San Antonio, Texas]], narrated a light and sound show about the Alamo, and has spoken at related events.<ref>{{cite web|last=Michels|first=Patrick|title=Remembering the Alamo with Phil Collins|url=http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2010/05/phil_collins_at_dallas_histori.php|work=Dallas Observer| |
Collins has a long-standing interest in [[Battle of the Alamo|the Alamo]]. He has collected hundreds of <!-- THIS ARTICLE USES BRITISH ENGLISH per [[WP:ENGVAR]], AND THUS artefacts is the appropriate spelling -->artefacts related to the famous 1836 battle in [[San Antonio|San Antonio, Texas]], narrated a light and sound show about the Alamo, and has spoken at related events.<ref>{{cite web|last=Michels|first=Patrick|title=Remembering the Alamo with Phil Collins|url=http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2010/05/phil_collins_at_dallas_histori.php|work=Dallas Observer|date=11 May 2010|access-date=29 June 2011|archive-date=29 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150429075300/http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2010/05/phil_collins_at_dallas_histori.php|url-status=dead}}</ref> His passion for the Battle of the Alamo has also led him to write the book ''The Alamo and Beyond: A Collector's Journey'', published in 2012.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Alamo and Beyond: A Collector's Journey With special guest and author, Phil Collins|url=http://www.dallashistory.org/about/news.htm|publisher=Dallas Historical Society|access-date=12 May 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120510052156/http://www.dallashistory.org/about/news.htm|archive-date=10 May 2012}}</ref> A short film was released in 2013 called ''Phil Collins and the Wild Frontier'' which captures Collins on a book tour in June 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/722972912/phil-collins-and-the-wild-frontier |title=PHIL COLLINS AND THE WILD FRONTIER by Ben Powell |publisher=Kickstarter |access-date=23 February 2017}}</ref> On 26 June 2014, a press conference was held from the Alamo, where Collins spoke, announcing that he was donating his entire collection to the Alamo via the State of Texas.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thealamo.org/webcast.html|title=Phil Collins Press Conference|date=21 July 2014|publisher=The Official Alamo Website|access-date=22 September 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140928074613/http://www.thealamo.org/webcast.html|archive-date=28 September 2014}}</ref> On 11 March 2015, in honour of his donation, Collins was named an honorary Texan by the state legislature.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Cobler|first1=Nicole|title=Phil Collins made an 'honorary Texan' by the state legislature|newspaper=Mysa |date=11 March 2015|url=http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Phil-Collins-made-an-honorary-Texan-by-the-6127933.php|publisher=mysanantonio.com|access-date=13 March 2015}}</ref> |
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Like [[Rod Stewart]], [[Eric Clapton]], and [[Neil Young]], Collins is a [[Rail transport modelling|model railway]] enthusiast.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/3668740/Rod-Stewart-is-a-model-railway-enthusiast.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/3668740/Rod-Stewart-is-a-model-railway-enthusiast.html |archive-date=10 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Rod Stewart is a model railway enthusiast|work=The Daily Telegraph|first=Nigel|last=Reynolds|date=24 October 2007|access-date=26 July 2014}}{{cbignore}}</ref> He also has an interest in [[King & Country (company)|King & Country toy soldiers]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Toy Soldiers for Big Boys|url=https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/common/printpreviews.asp?categoryCode=135&newsIdx=43067|access-date=19 February 2021|website=[[The Korea Times]]}}</ref> He is an honorary president of Richmond Yacht Club, of which his parents used to be members.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.essentialsurrey.co.uk/lifestyle/celebrity-interview/eel-pie-island/|title=Twickenham's rock and roll legacy|first=Celia|last=Holman|date=25 February 2016 |publisher=Essential Surrey|access-date=30 November 2022}}</ref> |
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==Charity work== |
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Collins has performed at the ''[[The Secret Policeman's Ball|Secret Policeman's Ball]]'', a benefit show co-founded by [[Monty Python]] member [[John Cleese]] on behalf of [[Amnesty International]]. He made his first appearance at the 1981 show held in London's [[Theatre Royal, Drury Lane]], and he subsequently became an activist.<ref>{{cite news |title=Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball? |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0074qw2 |access-date=21 August 2019 |agency=BBC}}</ref> Collins was appointed a [[Royal Victorian Order|Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order (LVO)]] in the [[1994 Birthday Honours]], in recognition of his work on behalf of [[The Prince's Trust]], a leading UK youth charity founded by King [[Charles III]] (then-Prince of Wales) which provides training, personal development, business start up support, mentoring, and advice.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=53696 |date=11 June 1994 |page=4 |supp=y }}</ref> Since appearing at the first Prince's Trust's rock concert in 1982 which included a performance as part of singer [[Kate Bush]]'s backing band, Collins has played at the event numerous times since, most recently at the [[Royal Albert Hall]] in 2010.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.katebushencyclopedia.com/princes-trust-rock-gala |title=Prince's Trust Rock Gala |website=Kate Bush Encyclopedia |date=18 August 2017 |language=en |access-date=19 May 2021 |archive-date=19 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210519184827/https://www.katebushencyclopedia.com/princes-trust-rock-gala |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=TRH attend The Prince's Trust Rock Gala 2010|url=https://www.princeofwales.gov.uk/news-and-diary/trh-attend-the-prince%27s-trust-rock-gala-2010|agency=PrinceofWales.gov.uk|date=4 March 2018}}{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> |
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On 9 April 1989, Collins topped the bill at a benefit concert for the veteran English comic actor [[Terry-Thomas]]. Held at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, the event raised over £75,000 for Terry-Thomas and [[Parkinson's UK]].{{sfn|McCann|2009|p=188}} |
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In common with [[Rod Stewart]] and [[Eric Clapton]], Collins is also a [[Rail transport modeling|model railway]] enthusiast.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/3668740/Rod-Stewart-is-a-model-railway-enthusiast.html|title=Rod Stewart is a model railway enthusiast|work=The Daily Telegraph|first=Nigel|last=Reynolds|date=24 October 2007|accessdate=26 July 2014}}</ref> |
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Collins has stated he is a supporter of [[animal rights]] and [[People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals]] (PETA). In 2005 he donated autographed [[Drum stick|drumstick]]s in support of PETA's campaign against [[KFC|Kentucky Fried Chicken]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kentuckyfriedcruelty.com/c-philcollins.asp|title=Phil Collins|publisher=Kentucky Fried Cruelty|access-date=26 March 2010}}</ref> |
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==Activism== |
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Collins was appointed a [[Royal Victorian Order|Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order (LVO)]] in 1994, in recognition of his work on behalf of the [[The Prince's Trust|Prince's Trust]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/53696/supplements/4|title=Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood|work=The London Gazette|accessdate=22 September 2014}}</ref> Collins has stated he is a supporter of [[animal rights]] and [[People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals]] (PETA). In 2005 he donated autographed [[drum stick]]s in support of PETA's campaign against [[KFC|Kentucky Fried Chicken]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kentuckyfriedcruelty.com/c-philcollins.asp|title=Phil Collins|publisher=Kentucky Fried Cruelty|accessdate=26 March 2010}}</ref> |
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In February 2000, Collins and Cevey launched the Little Dreams Foundation, a non-profit organisation that aims to "...realise the dreams of children in the fields of sports and art" by providing future prodigies aged 4 to 16 years with financial, material, and mentoring support with the help of experts in various fields.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ldf.cc/EN/fondation/mot.html|title=Little Dreams Foundation|publisher=Ldf.cc|access-date=29 October 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120405133210/http://www.ldf.cc/EN/fondation/mot.html|archive-date=5 April 2012}}</ref> Collins took the action after receiving letters from children asking him how they could break into the music industry. Mentors to the students who have benefited from his foundation include [[Tina Turner]] and [[Natalie Cole]]. In 2013 he visited [[Miami Beach, Florida]], to promote the expansion of his foundation.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/phil-collins-says-he-is-writing-songs-again-1.6539216|title=Phil Collins says he is writing songs again|work=Newsday|date=4 December 2013|access-date=6 December 2013}}</ref> |
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Collins supports the South African charity ''Topsy Foundation'', which provides relief services to some of South Africa's most under-resourced rural communities through a multi-faceted approach to the consequences of [[HIV/AIDS]] and extreme poverty. He donates all the [[royalties]] earned from his music sales in |
Collins supports the South African charity ''Topsy Foundation'', which provides relief services to some of South Africa's most under-resourced rural communities through a multi-faceted approach to the consequences of [[HIV/AIDS]] and extreme poverty. He donates all the [[royalties]] earned from his music sales in South Africa to the organisation.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thebody.com/content/art11481.html|title=Musician Phil Collins Donates Nearly $54,000 in South African Royalties to AIDS Foundation|work=The Body|date=29 October 2003|access-date=20 June 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130521145546/http://www.thebody.com/content/art11481.html|archive-date=21 May 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.budapestreport.com/2010/09/17/phil-collins-gives-money-away/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110114091248/http://www.budapestreport.com/2010/09/17/phil-collins-gives-money-away/|url-status=dead|archive-date=14 January 2011|title=Phil Collins gives money away|work=Budapest Report}}</ref> |
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==Awards and nominations== |
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==Discography== |
==Discography== |
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'''Studio albums''' |
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* ''[[Face Value (album)|Face Value]]'' (1981) |
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* ''[[Hello, I Must Be Going! (album)|Hello, I Must Be Going!]]'' (1982) |
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* 1964: ''[[A Hard Day's Night (film)|A Hard Day's Night]]'' (uncredited as a young fan in the crowd during a Beatles performance) |
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* 1965: ''[[R3 (TV series)|R3]]'' (episode: "Unwelcome Visitor") |
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* 1967: ''[[Calamity the Cow]]'' |
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* 1985: ''[[Miami Vice]]'' (episode: "Phil the Shill") |
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* 1986: ''[[The Two Ronnies]]'' (2 episodes) |
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* 1988: ''[[Buster (film)|Buster]]'' (as Buster Edwards) |
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* 1988: ''[[Mickey's 60th Birthday]]'' (himself; TV special) |
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* 1991: ''[[Hook (film)|Hook]]'' (as Detective Good) |
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* 1993: ''[[Frauds (film)|Frauds]]'' (as Roland Coping) |
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* 1993: ''[[And the Band Played On (film)|And the Band Played On]]'' (as Eddie Papasano; TV movie) |
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* The Hello, I Must Be Going Tour (1982–1983) |
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* [[The No Jacket Required World Tour]] (1985) |
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* Seriously, Live! World Tour (1990) |
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* Both Sides of the World Tour (1994–1995) |
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* Trip into the Light World Tour (1997) |
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* The First Final Farewell Tour (2004–2005) |
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* Bronson, Fred ''The Billboard Book of Number One Hits''. Billboard Books, New York. 1998. p. 624. ISBN 0-8230-7641-5 |
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* {{cite book|title=Genesis: Chapter and Verse|first1=Tony|last1=Banks|first2=Phil|last2=Collins|first3=Peter|last3=Gabriel|first4=Steve|last4=Hackett|first5=Mike|last5=Rutherford|editor1-first=Philipp|editor1-last=Dodd|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2007|isbn=978-0-297-84434-1|ref={{harvid|Genesis|2007}}}} |
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* Giammetti, Mario. ''Phil Collins – The Singing Drummer''. Edizioni Segno. Tavagnacco. 2005. ISBN 88-7282-836-8 |
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*{{cite book|last1=Bowler|first1=Dave|last2=Dray|first2=Bryan|title=Genesis: A Biography|year=1992|isbn=978-0-283-06132-5|publisher=Sidgwick & Jackson}} |
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* {{cite web|publisher=Gigging-Drum-Charts.com|date=14 November 2008|url=http://www.gigging-drum-charts.com/phil-collins.html|title=Phil Collins of Genesis|accessdate=14 November 2008}} |
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* {{cite book|last=Brackett|first=Nathan|title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t9eocwUfoSoC&q=%22phil+collins+was+nearly+inescapable%22&pg=PA182|publisher=Simon & Schuster|year=2004|isbn=978-0-743-20169-8}} |
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* {{cite web|author=Hewitt, Alan|url=http://www.philcollins.co.uk/brandxgigs.htm|title=From "Opening the Music Box: A Genesis Chronicle"|publisher=Excerpted on www.philcollins.co.uk|accessdate=14 January 2006|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060110113821/http://www.philcollins.co.uk/brandxgigs.htm|archivedate=10 January 2006}} |
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* {{cite web|author=Russell, Paul|year=2002|url=http://www.philcollins.co.uk/biog1.htm|title=Phil Collins Biography|publisher=philcollins.co.uk|accessdate=9 January 2006|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060104025818/http://www.philcollins.co.uk/biog1.htm|archivedate=4 January 2006}} |
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* {{cite book|last=Collins|first=Phil|title=Not Dead Yet: The Memoir|year=2016|publisher=Crown Advocate|isbn=978-1-101-90747-4}} |
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* Thompson, Dave. ''Turn It On Again: Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, and Genesis''. Back Beat Books. San Francisco. 2004. ISBN 0-87930-810-9 |
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* {{cite book|last=Dean|first=Maury|title=Rock N' Roll Gold Rush: A Singles Un-cyclopedia|author-link=Maury Dean|year=2003|publisher=Algora Publishing|isbn=978-0-875-86207-1|url=https://archive.org/details/rocknrollgoldrus00dean}} |
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* {{cite book|last=Jones|first=Dylan|author-link=Dylan Jones|year=2013|title=The Eighties: One Day, One Decade|publisher=Random House|isbn=978-1-409-05225-8}} |
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* {{cite book|last=Lackowski|first=Rich|title=On the Beaten Path – Progressive Rock: The Drummer's Guide to the Genre and the Legends Who Defined It|year=2009|publisher=Alfred Publishing|isbn=978-0-739-05671-4}} |
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* {{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Larkin (writer)|title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music|edition=5th|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_NNmFiUnSmUC&q=%22the+widely+criticised+another+day+in+paradise%22&pg=PA2006-IA1345|publisher=Omnibus Press|year=2007|isbn=978-0-857-12595-8}} |
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* {{cite book|last=Röttgers|first=Philipp|title=Two Eras of Genesis? – The Development of a Rock Band|year=2015|publisher=Tectum Wissenschaftsverlag|isbn=978-3-828-86270-8}} |
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Philip David Charles Collins LVO (born 30 January 1951) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, record producer and actor. He was the drummer and later became the lead singer of the rock band Genesis and had a successful solo career, achieving three UK number-one singles and seven US number-one singles as a solo artist. In total, his work with Genesis, other artists, and solo resulted in more US top-40 singles than any other artist throughout the 1980s.[7] His most successful singles from the period include "In the Air Tonight", "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)", "One More Night", "Sussudio", "Another Day in Paradise" and "I Wish It Would Rain Down".
Born and raised in west London, Collins began playing drums at age five. During the same period he attended drama school which secured him various roles as a child actor. His first major role was the Artful Dodger in the West End production of the musical Oliver!. As an accomplished professional actor by his early teens, he pivoted to pursue a music career, becoming the drummer for Genesis in 1970, at age 19. He took over the role of lead singer in 1975 following the departure of Peter Gabriel. During the second half of the 1970s, in-between Genesis albums and tours, Collins was also the drummer of jazz rock band Brand X. Collins began a successful solo career in the 1980s, initially inspired by his marital breakdown and love of soul music, releasing the albums Face Value (1981), Hello, I Must Be Going (1982), No Jacket Required (1985) and ...But Seriously (1989). Collins became, in the words of AllMusic, "one of the most successful pop and adult contemporary singers of the '80s and beyond".[8] He also became known for a distinctive gated reverb drum sound on many of his recordings.[9] He played drums on the 1984 charity single "Do They Know It's Christmas?", and in July 1985, he was the only artist to perform at both Live Aid concerts. He also resumed his acting career, appearing in Miami Vice and subsequently starring in the film Buster (1988).
Collins left Genesis in 1996 to focus on solo work; this included writing songs for Disney's animated film Tarzan (1999). He wrote and performed the songs, "Two Worlds", "Son of Man", "Strangers Like Me" and "You'll Be in My Heart", the latter of which earned him the Academy Award for Best Original Song. He rejoined Genesis for their Turn It On Again Tour in 2007. Following a five-year retirement to focus on his family life, Collins released his memoir in 2016 and completed his Not Dead Yet Tour in 2019. He then rejoined Genesis in 2020 for a second reunion tour, ending in March 2022.
Collins's discography includes eight studio albums that have sold 33.5 million certified units in the US and an estimated 150 million records sold worldwide, making him one of the world's best-selling artists.[10] He is one of only three recording artists, along with Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson, who have sold over 100 million records both as solo artists and separately as principal members of a band.[11][12] He has won eight Grammy Awards, six Brit Awards (winning Best British Male Artist three times), two Golden Globe Awards, one Academy Award, and a Disney Legend Award.[13] He was awarded six Ivor Novello Awards from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors, including the International Achievement Award. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1999, and was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2003 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Genesis in 2010. He has also been recognised by music publications with induction into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 2012, and the Classic Drummer Hall of Fame in 2013.[14][15]
Early life
Philip David Charles Collins was born on 30 January 1951 at Putney Hospital in Wandsworth, south-west London.[16][17] His father, Greville Philip Austin Collins (1907–1972), was an insurance agent for London Assurance and his mother, Winifred June Collins (née Strange, 1913–2011), worked in a toy shop and later as a booking agent at the Barbara Speake Stage School, an independent performing arts school in East Acton.[18][19] Collins is the youngest of three children: his sister Carole competed as a professional ice skater and followed her mother's footsteps as a theatrical agent, and his brother Clive was a noted cartoonist.[19][20] The family moved twice by the time Collins had reached two; they settled at 453 Hanworth Road in Hounslow, Middlesex.[21]
Collins was given a toy drum kit for Christmas when he was five, and later his two uncles made him a makeshift set with triangles and tambourines that fitted into a suitcase.[22] As Collins grew older, these were followed by more complete sets bought by his parents.[23] He practised by playing along to music on the television and radio.[24] During a family holiday at Butlin's, a seven-year-old Collins entered a talent contest singing "The Ballad of Davy Crockett", but stopped the orchestra halfway through to tell them they were in the wrong key.[25][18] The Beatles were a major early influence on Collins, including their drummer Ringo Starr.[26][27][28] He followed the lesser-known London band the Action, whose drummer he would copy and whose work introduced him to the soul music of Motown and Stax Records.[26] Collins was also influenced by jazz and big band drummer Buddy Rich,[29] whose opinion on the importance of the hi-hat prompted him to stop using two bass drums and start using the hi-hat.[30]
Around twelve, Collins received basic piano and music tuition from his father's aunt.[31] He studied drum rudiments under Lloyd Ryan and later under Frank King, and considered this training "more helpful than anything else because they're used all the time. In any kind of funk or jazz drumming, the rudiments are always there."[30] Collins never learned to read or write musical notation and devised his own system, which he regretted in later life. "I've always felt that if I could hum it, I could play it. For me, that was good enough, but that attitude is bad."[30]
Collins attended Nelson Primary School until he was eleven.[22] He was accepted into Chiswick County Grammar School, where he took to football and formed the Real Thing, a school band that had Andrea Bertorelli, his future wife, and friend Lavinia Lang, as backup singers. Both women would have an impact on Collins' personal life in later years.[32] Collins' next group was the Freehold, with whom he wrote his first song, "Lying, Crying, Dying",[33] and played in a group named the Charge.[34] He was childhood friends with Jack Wild, who would become famous for playing Dodger in the film Oliver! (1968); the pair attended the same stage school after Collins's mother June spotted Wild as the two played football in the park.[35]
Career
1963–1970: Early acting roles and bands
Collins quit school at fourteen to become a full-time pupil at Barbara Speake. He had an uncredited part as an extra in the Beatles' film A Hard Day's Night (1964), where he is amongst the screaming teenagers during the television concert sequence.[36] Later in 1964, Collins was cast as the Artful Dodger in two West End runs of the musical Oliver![37] He was paid £15 a week, and called the role "the best part for a kid in all London".[38][19] His days as the Dodger were numbered when his voice broke during a performance and had to speak his lines for the rest of the show.[20] Collins starred in Calamity the Cow (1967), a film produced by the Children's Film Foundation. After a falling out with the director, Collins decided to quit acting to pursue music.[39] He was to appear in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) as one of the children who storm the castle, but his scene was cut.[40] Collins auditioned for the role of Romeo in Romeo and Juliet (1968), but the role went to Leonard Whiting.[41] He also travelled the UK teaching people the "crunch" dance made popular by a Smith's crisps advertising campaign.[34]
Collins's enthusiasm for music grew during his acting years.[37] He frequented the Marquee Club on Wardour Street so often that eventually the managers asked him to set out the chairs, sweep the floors, and assist in the cloakroom. It was here where Collins saw The Action and newcomers Yes perform, which greatly influenced him.[42] When auditions for Vinegar Joe and Manfred Mann Chapter Three were unsuccessful,[43] Collins secured a position in the Cliff Charles Blues Band and toured the country. This was followed by a stint in The Gladiators, a backing band for a black vocal quartet, which also featured Collins's schoolmate Ronnie Caryl on guitar.[44] Around this time, Collins learned that Yes were looking for a new drummer and spoke to frontman Jon Anderson, who invited him to an audition the following week. Collins failed to turn up, and later wondered what his life would have been like had he gone ahead with it.[45]
In 1969, Collins and Caryl joined John Walker's backing band for a European tour, which also consisted of guitarist Gordon Smith and keyboardist Brian Chatton.[44] The tour finished, and the quartet formed a rock band, Hickory, which recorded one single ("Green Light"/"The Key"). Still in 1969, they were later renamed Flaming Youth. They signed to Fontana Records and recorded Ark 2 (1969), a concept album written and produced by Ken Howard and Alan Blaikley that tells the story of man's evacuation from a burning Earth and its voyage into space. Each member sings a lead vocal.[46][47]
In May 1970, after Flaming Youth split, Collins played congas on George Harrison's song "Art of Dying", but his contribution was omitted.[26] Years later, Collins asked Harrison about the omission. Harrison sent Collins a recording allegedly containing Collins's performance; Collins was embarrassed to hear that the performance was poor. When Collins apologised, Harrison confessed that the recording was a prank, which Collins accepted in good humour.[48]
1970–1978: Genesis, later role as lead singer, and Brand X
In July 1970, the rock band Genesis had signed with Charisma Records and recorded their second album Trespass (1970), but suffered a setback following the departures of drummer John Mayhew and guitarist Anthony Phillips. They decided to continue, and placed an advert in the Melody Maker for a drummer "sensitive to acoustic music" and a 12-string acoustic guitarist.[49][50] Collins recognised Charisma owner Tony Stratton Smith's name on it, and he and Caryl went for the auditions. The group, who had been a full-time working band for less than a year, consisted of school friends from Charterhouse School, a private boarding school: singer Peter Gabriel, keyboardist Tony Banks, and bassist/guitarist Mike Rutherford. Collins and Caryl arrived early, so Collins took a swim in the pool at Gabriel's parents' house and memorised the pieces the drummers before him were playing.[51] He recalled: "They put on 'Trespass', and my initial impression was of a very soft and round music, not edgy, with vocal harmonies, and I came away thinking Crosby, Stills and Nash."[52] On 8 August 1970, Collins became their fourth drummer. Genesis then took a two-week holiday, during which Collins earned money as an exterior decorator.[53] Rutherford thought Caryl was not a good fit; in 1971, the band enlisted Steve Hackett.
From 1970 to 1975, Collins played drums, percussion, and largely sang backing vocals on Genesis albums and concerts. His first album as a member, Nursery Cryme, features the acoustic song "For Absent Friends" that has Collins singing lead vocal. He sang "More Fool Me" on their 1973 album Selling England by the Pound.[54] In 1974, during the recording of The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, Collins played drums on Brian Eno's second album Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) after Eno had contributed electronic effects to two songs on the album.[55]
In August 1975, Gabriel's departure from the band was publicly announced. Genesis advertised for a replacement in Melody Maker and received around 400 replies. After a lengthy auditioning process, during which he sang backup vocals for applicants, Collins became the band's lead vocalist during the recording of their album A Trick of the Tail.[56] The album was a commercial and critical success, reaching number 3 in the UK charts and 31 in the US.[57] Rolling Stone wrote that Genesis "has managed to turn the possible catastrophe of Gabriel's departure into their first broad-based American success."[58] For the tour, Collins accepted former Yes and King Crimson drummer Bill Bruford to play drums while Collins sang. Wind & Wuthering was the last Genesis album recorded with Hackett before he left the group. In 1976, Collins brought in American drummer Chester Thompson, formerly of Frank Zappa and Weather Report who became a mainstay of Genesis' and Collins' backing bands until 2010. When Collins, Banks, and Rutherford decided to continue Genesis as a trio in 1977, they recorded ...And Then There Were Three.... This marked a shift from their progressive rock roots to a more radio-friendly, pop rock sound, and included the band's first UK Top 10 and US Top 40 single, "Follow You Follow Me".[59][60] The level of commercial success that Genesis had reached by this time allowed Collins and his wife to move into Old Croft, a home in Shalford, Surrey, in the spring of 1978.[61]
Collins pursued various guest spots and solo projects from his time as Genesis's drummer. In 1973, he and Hackett were among the musicians who performed on the solo debut of ex-Yes guitarist Peter Banks. In 1975, Collins sang and played drums, vibraphone, and percussion on Hackett's first solo album, Voyage of the Acolyte;[62] performed on Eno's albums Another Green World, Before and After Science, and Music for Films;[63] and replaced drummer Phil Spinelli of the jazz fusion group Brand X before recording their first two albums, Unorthodox Behaviour and Moroccan Roll. Collins played percussion on Johnny the Fox by Thin Lizzy,[64] and sang on Anthony Phillips' debut solo album, The Geese & the Ghost.[65]
1978–1984: Solo debut with Face Value and Hello, I Must Be Going!
After Genesis finished touring in December 1978, the group went on hiatus after Collins went to Vancouver, Canada to try to save his failing marriage.[66] The attempt failed, leaving his wife to return to England with their children while living apart. Collins returned to Old Croft, their home in Shalford, Surrey, and their divorce was finalised in 1981. Banks and Rutherford were recording their first solo albums during this time, so Collins rejoined Brand X for their album Product and its accompanying tour, played on John Martyn's album Grace and Danger, and started writing demos of his own at home.[66] This was followed by Genesis resuming activity and recording and touring through 1980 with their album Duke (1980). The three members contributed two tracks each; Collins put forward "Please Don't Ask" and "Misunderstanding".[67]
In February 1981, Collins released his debut solo album Face Value. He signed with Virgin Records and WEA for American distribution in order to distance himself from the Charisma label, and oversaw every step of its production; he wrote the liner notes himself and by hand.[68] His divorce was the focus of its lyrical themes and song titles: "I had a wife, two children, two dogs, and the next day I didn't have anything. So a lot of these songs were written because I was going through these emotional changes."[69] Collins produced the album in collaboration with Hugh Padgham, with whom he had worked on Peter Gabriel's self-titled 1980 album.[70] Face Value reached number one on the UK Albums Chart.[57] It was also an international success, reaching number one in six other countries and number seven in the US where it went on to sell 5 million copies.[71] "In the Air Tonight", the album's lead single, became a hit and reached number two in the UK charts. The song is known for the gated reverb effect used on Collins's drums, a technique developed by Padgham when he worked as an engineer on Gabriel's song "Intruder", on which Collins played drums.[70]
Following an invitation by record producer Martin Lewis, Collins performed live as a solo artist at an Amnesty International benefit show The Secret Policeman's Other Ball at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London in September 1981, performing "In the Air Tonight" and "The Roof Is Leaking".[72] Collins also worked again with John Martyn in this year, producing his album Glorious Fool.[73] In September 1981, Genesis released Abacab. This was followed by its 1981 supporting tour and a two-month tour in 1982 promoting the Genesis live album Three Sides Live. In early 1982, Collins produced and played on Something's Going On, the third solo album by Anni-Frid Lyngstad of ABBA,[74] and performed most of the drum parts on Pictures at Eleven, the first solo album by Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant.[75] In October 1982, Collins took part in the one-off Genesis reunion concert Six of the Best held at the Milton Keynes Bowl in Buckinghamshire, which marked the return of Gabriel on lead vocals and Hackett on guitar.[76]
Collins's second solo album, Hello, I Must Be Going!, was released in November 1982. His marital problems continued to provide inspiration for his songs, including "I Don't Care Anymore" and "Do You Know, Do You Care". The album reached number 2 in the UK and number 8 in the US, where it sold 3 million copies.[59][71] Its second single, a cover of "You Can't Hurry Love" by the Supremes, became Collins's first UK number one single and went to number 10 in the US.[57] Collins supported the album with the Hello, I Must Be Going! tour of Europe and North America from November 1982 to February 1983. Following the tour, Collins played drums on Plant's second solo album, The Principle of Moments,[75] and produced and played on two tracks for Adam Ant's album Strip, "Puss 'n Boots" and the title track.[77] In May 1983, Collins, Banks and Rutherford recorded a self-titled Genesis album; its tour ended with five shows in Birmingham, England in February 1984. The latter shows were filmed and released as Genesis Live – The Mama Tour.[78]
1984–1989: No Jacket Required and commercial ubiquity
Collins wrote and performed on "Against All Odds", the main theme for the romantic film of the same name, which demonstrated a more pop-orientated and commercially accessible sound than his previous work. Released in February 1984, it was the first single of his solo career to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart; it peaked at number two in the UK. Collins won a Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male.[60] The song also earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song, and he arranged his 1985 tour to accommodate the possibility of performing it at the awards ceremony. However, a note to Atlantic Records from show producer Larry Gelbart explaining a lack of invitation stated: "Thank you for your note regarding Phil Cooper [sic]. I'm afraid the spots have already been filled", and Collins watched actress and dancer Ann Reinking perform it.[79] The Los Angeles Times said: "Reinking did an incredible job of totally destroying a beautiful song."[80] Collins would introduce it at subsequent concerts by saying: "I'm sorry Miss Ann Reinking couldn't be here tonight; I guess I just have to sing my own song."[81]
In 1984, Collins contributed to the production on Chinese Wall by Earth, Wind & Fire vocalist Philip Bailey, which included a duet from the two, "Easy Lover". The song was number one in the UK for four weeks, and peaked at number 2 in the US.[57][82] He also produced and played drums on several tracks on Behind the Sun by Eric Clapton. In November, Collins was part of the charity supergroup Band Aid in aid of Ethiopian famine relief and played drums on its single, "Do They Know It's Christmas?".[83]
Collins's third album, No Jacket Required, was recorded in 1984 and marked a turning point in his output. He departed from lyrics about his personal life and wrote more upbeat and dance-orientated songs with strong hooks and melodies, such as "Sussudio", "One More Night", and "Take Me Home". The album also featured guest backing vocals from Sting, Peter Gabriel, and Helen Terry. No Jacket Required was released in February 1985 and became a huge worldwide success, reaching number one in several countries.[57] "Sussudio" and "One More Night" topped the US singles chart, and "Don't Lose My Number" and "Take Me Home" made the US top ten. The album remains the most successful of his career, selling over 12 million copies in the US where it was certified diamond, and 1.9 million in the UK where it was the second-best-selling album of 1985.[84]
Referring to the album's success, David Fricke of Rolling Stone wrote: "After years on the art-rock fringe, Collins has established himself firmly in the middle of the road. Perhaps he should consider testing himself and his new fans' expectations next time around."[85] "Sussudio" attracted negative attention for sounding too similar to Prince's "1999", a charge that Collins did not deny,[86] and its hook line has been named as the most widely disliked element of his career.[87] No Jacket Required earned Collins the first two of his six Brit Awards, winning Best British Male and Best British Album.[88] Collins had three US number one songs in 1985, the most by any artist that year.[60] No Jacket Required won three Grammy Awards including Album of the Year.[89]
The No Jacket Required World Tour saw Collins perform 85 shows between February and July 1985. On 13 July, Collins took part in the Live Aid concerts, a continuation of the fundraising effort started by Band Aid. Collins was the only performer to appear at the London concert at Wembley Stadium and the US concert at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia on the same day.[90] After performing what Ultimate Classic Rock called "an especially crowd-pleasing selection of songs" in London, including "Against All Odds", "In the Air Tonight", and playing alongside Sting, Collins flew to Philadelphia on a Concorde to perform his solo material, play drums for Clapton, and drum with Plant and Jimmy Page for a Led Zeppelin reunion.[90] The latter performance was poorly received and later disowned by the band.[91] Page later said that Collins had not learned his parts for the set.[92] Collins responded that the band "weren't very good", that a "dribbling" Page had made him feel uncomfortable, and he only continued with the set rather than leave the stage in order to avoid negative attention.[93] In November 1985, the song "Separate Lives", a duet featuring Collins and Marilyn Martin for the musical drama film White Nights, was released and became a US number one hit.[60]
By the end of 1985, the music press noted that Collins's astronomical success as a solo artist had made him more popular than Genesis.[94] Before the release of No Jacket Required, Collins insisted that he would not leave the band and that he felt "happier with what we're doing now, because I feel it's closer to me."[94] In October 1985, he reunited with Banks and Rutherford to record Genesis's thirteenth album, Invisible Touch. Released in 1986, it became the group's biggest selling album with 6 million copies sold in the US, and 1.2 million sold in the UK. Its title track was released as a single and reached No. 1 in the US, the only Genesis song to do so. The group received a Grammy Award (their only one) and a nomination for the MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year in 1987 for "Land of Confusion", which features puppet caricatures from the British satirical program Spitting Image.[95] Several music critics drew comparisons between the album and Collins's solo work, but Rolling Stone's J. D. Considine praised the album's commercial appeal, stating, "every tune is carefully pruned so that each flourish delivers not an instrumental epiphany but a solid hook".[96] March 1986 saw the release of "No One Is to Blame", a hit single by Howard Jones which included Collins on drums, backing vocals, and co-production alongside Padgham.[97] Collins provided backing vocals, produced and played drums on most of Eric Clapton's 1986 album August.[98] He also toured parts of Europe with Clapton in support of the album as the drummer, of which two concert videos were released; Live at Montreux 1986 (Eric Clapton film) and Eric Clapton and Friends Live 1986. In each of those videos, Collins is featured as the drummer and also performs "In the Air Tonight" with Clapton, bassist Nathan East and keyboardist Greg Phillinganes backing him.
After touring with Genesis in 1987, Collins was aware that his music had gained too much exposure and took a year off from writing and recording. He took on his first acting role since the late 1960s, starring as Buster Edwards opposite Julie Walters (who played his wife, June) in the romantic comedy drama-crime film Buster which centred around the Great Train Robbery from 1963 in Ledburn, Buckinghamshire. Reviews for the film were mixed and controversy ensued over its subject matter; Prince Charles and Princess Diana declined an invitation to the première after it was accused of glorifying crime.[99] Collins contributed four songs to the film's soundtrack; his ballad rendition of "A Groovy Kind of Love", originally by the Mindbenders, became his only single to reach No. 1 in the UK and the US. The film also spawned the US #1 single "Two Hearts", which he co-wrote with Lamont Dozier and won the pair a Golden Globe for Best Original Song and an Oscar nomination in the same category. Film critic Roger Ebert said Collins "played [the role of Buster] with surprising effectiveness".[100] In 1988, Collins was the subject of an episode of the British TV series This Is Your Life.[101] In 1989, Collins was among the musicians who donated their own clothes to Madame Tussaud's Rock Circus, an exhibition held at the London Pavilion celebrating the history of rock and pop music featuring its major figures recreated in wax.[102]
1989–1996: ...But Seriously, Both Sides, and leaving Genesis
In August 1989, Collins appeared as a special guest for the Who on their 1989 tour for two shows, performing "Fiddle About" as Uncle Ernie and "Tommy's Holiday Camp" from their rock opera Tommy (1969).[103]
From April to October 1989, Collins recorded his fourth album ...But Seriously in England and Los Angeles, which saw him address social and political themes in his lyrics. The album was released in November 1989 to worldwide commercial success, spending fifteen weeks at No. 1 in the UK charts and in the US for three.[59] It became the UK's best-selling album of 1990 and is among the best-selling albums in UK chart history.[104] It is one of the best-selling albums in Germany.[105] Its lead single "Another Day in Paradise" is an anti-homelessness song and features David Crosby singing backing vocals. Upon its release in October 1989, it went to No. 1 in the US to become the final number one single there of the 1980s. Despite its success, the song was also heavily criticised and became linked to allegations of hypocrisy made against Collins.[106][107] Responding to criticism of the song, Collins stated: "When I drive down the street, I see the same things everyone else sees. It's a misconception that if you have a lot of money you're somehow out of touch with reality."[108] In 1991, "Another Day in Paradise" won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year.[109][110] Other songs from ...But Seriously also reached the top-five in the US: "Something Happened on the Way to Heaven", "Do You Remember?", and "I Wish It Would Rain Down" featuring Eric Clapton on guitar.[59][60]
...But Seriously was supported with the Seriously, Live! World Tour which ran between February and October 1990 and covered 121 dates. The tour spawned the live album Serious Hits... Live!, which sold 1.2 million copies in the UK and over 4 million in the US. In February 1990, Collins performed "Another Day in Paradise" at the 1990 Brit Awards which won British Single of the Year, and in September he performed "Sussudio" at the 1990 MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles.[111] He also played drums on the 1989 Tears for Fears single, "Woman in Chains".[112]
In 1991, Collins reconvened with Banks and Rutherford to write and record a new Genesis album, We Can't Dance. It became the band's fifth consecutive No. 1 album in the UK and reached No. 4 in the US, where it sold over 4 million copies. It features the singles "Jesus He Knows Me", "I Can't Dance", "No Son of Mine", and "Hold on My Heart". Collins performed on their 1992 tour. At the 1993 American Music Awards, Genesis won the award for Favorite Pop/Rock Band, Duo, or Group.[113] Collins co-wrote, sang and played on the 1993 single "Hero" by David Crosby.[114]
Collins worked on his fifth studio album, Both Sides, in 1992 and 1993. It marked a departure from his more polished and up-tempo songs on recent albums to material more experimental in nature, with Collins performing all the instruments and producing the record himself, because the songs written "were becoming so personal, so private, I didn't want anyone else's input". The decline of his second marriage was a focal point of the album.[115] Released in November 1993, Both Sides reached No. 1 in eight countries, including the UK, and No. 13 in the US. It marked a drop in sales in the latter when compared to his previous records, only reaching a single platinum certification by the end of the year. Its two biggest singles were "Both Sides of the Story" and "Everyday". The Both Sides of the World Tour saw Collins perform 165 shows across four legs between April 1994 and May 1995. Collins turned down the chance to contribute to Tower of Song, an album of covers of Leonard Cohen songs, due to his touring commitments.[116] On 29 March 1996, Collins's decision to leave Genesis to concentrate on his solo career was publicly announced.[117]
1996–2006: Phil Collins Big Band, Dance into the Light, Disney work, and Testify
In the months surrounding his departure from Genesis, Collins formed the Phil Collins Big Band, seating himself on the drums. He had wanted to undertake the project for some time and felt inspired from the Burning for Buddy project that drummer Neil Peart had put together. Having moved to Switzerland, an invitation to perform at the Montreux Jazz Festival led to the band to come together, which featured Quincy Jones as conductor and Tony Bennett on vocals.[118] The group toured summer jazz festivals in July 1996 with a set of jazz renditions of Genesis and Collins' solo material. Their first date was at the Royal Albert Hall for a Prince's Trust concert with Queen Elizabeth II and Nelson Mandela in attendance. To learn his parts, Collins devised his own notation on sheets.[118] The band then went on hiatus until a US and European tour in the summer of 1998, which spawned the live album A Hot Night in Paris.
In October 1996, Collins released his sixth solo album, Dance into the Light. It reached No. 4 in the UK and No. 23 in the US. The album was received negatively by the music press and sold less than his previous albums. Entertainment Weekly reviewed by saying that "even Phil Collins must know that we all grew weary of Phil Collins".[119] Singles from the album included "Dance into the Light", which reached No. 9 in the UK, and the Beatles-inspired "It's in Your Eyes".[57] The album was certified Gold in the US. Collins toured the album throughout 1997 with his Trip into the Light World Tour, covering 82 dates. He performed "In the Air Tonight" and "Take Me Home" at the Music for Montserrat benefit concert in London alongside Paul McCartney, Elton John, Eric Clapton, Mark Knopfler, and Sting.[120]
In October 1998, Collins released his first compilation album ...Hits which contains a new track, a cover of "True Colors" by Cyndi Lauper that was produced by Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds.[121] The album was a commercial success worldwide, reaching No. 1 in the UK charts and selling 3.4 million copies in the US by 2012.[122]
In the mid-1990s Collins was recruited to write and perform songs for Disney's adventure film Tarzan (1999), integrated with a score by Mark Mancina. Collins also sang his songs in French, Italian, German, and Spanish for the dubbed versions of the film's soundtrack. His song "You'll Be in My Heart" was released in June 1999 and spent 19 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart, the longest time ever up to that point. In 2000, the song won Collins an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, both for Best Original Song. He performed "Two Worlds" at that year's ceremony and the Disney-themed Super Bowl halftime show.
In June 1999, Collins was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.[123] In 2000, he became partially deaf in one ear due to a viral infection.[124] In June 2002, Collins accepted an invitation to drum for the house band at the Party at the Palace concert held on the grounds of Buckingham Palace, an event which celebrated Queen Elizabeth II's Golden Jubilee.[125] In 2002, he received the Disney Legend award.[126]
On 11 November 2002, Collins released his seventh solo album, Testify. Metacritic's roundup of album reviews found this record to be the worst-reviewed album at the time of its release, though it has since been surpassed by three more recent releases.[127] The album's single "Can't Stop Loving You" (a Leo Sayer cover) was a number-one Adult Contemporary hit. Testify sold 140,000 copies in the US by year's end.[128]
Disney hired Collins to compose and perform on the soundtrack to its 2003 animated feature Brother Bear, which included the song "Look Through My Eyes".[129] In the same year he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.[130] In 2004, Collins released two compilation albums, The Platinum Collection and Love Songs. From June 2004 to November 2005, Collins performed his First Final Farewell Tour, a reference to the multiple farewell tours of other popular artists.[131] In 2006, he worked with Disney on a musical production of Tarzan.[132]
2006–2015: First Genesis reunion, Going Back, and retirement
Collins reunited with Banks and Rutherford and announced Turn It On Again: The Tour on 7 November 2006, nearly 40 years after the band first formed. The tour took place during summer 2007, and played in twelve countries across Europe, followed by a second leg in North America. During the tour Genesis performed at the Live Earth concert at Wembley Stadium, London.[133] In 2007 they were honoured at the second annual VH1 Rock Honors, performing "Turn It On Again", "No Son of Mine" and "Los Endos" at the ceremony in Las Vegas.[134] On 22 May 2008, Collins received his sixth Ivor Novello Award from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors when he was presented the International Achievement Award at a ceremony held at the Grosvenor House Hotel, London.[135]
In October 2009, it was reported that Collins was to record a Motown covers album. He told a German newspaper, "I want the songs to sound exactly like the originals", and that the album would feature up to 30 songs.[136] In January 2010, Chester Thompson said that the album had been completed and would be released some time soon. He also revealed that Collins managed to play the drums on the album despite a spinal operation.[137] The resulting album, Going Back, was released on 13 September 2010. It reached number one on the UK Albums Chart.[138] In summer 2010, Collins played six concerts with the music from Going Back. These included a special programme, Phil Collins: One Night Only, aired on ITV1 on 18 September 2010. Collins also promoted Going Back with his first and only appearance on the BBC's music series Later... with Jools Holland, broadcast on 17 September 2010.[139]
In March 2010, Collins was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Genesis at a ceremony in New York City.[140] As of January 2011, Collins has spent 1,730 weeks in the German music charts—766 weeks of them with Genesis albums and singles and 964 weeks with solo releases.[141] On 4 March 2011, citing health problems and other concerns, Collins announced that he was taking time off from his career, prompting widespread reports of his retirement.[142] On 7 March his UK representative told the press, "He is not, has no intention of, retiring."[143] Later that day, Collins posted a message to his fans on his own website, confirming his intention to retire to focus on his family life.[144][145] In July 2012, Collins's greatest hits collection ...Hits re-entered the US charts, reaching No. 6 on the Billboard 200.[146]
In November 2013, Collins told German media that he was considering a return to music and speculated that this could mean further live shows with Genesis, stating: "Everything is possible. We could tour in Australia and South America. We haven't been there yet."[147] Speaking to reporters in Miami, Florida in December 2013 at an event promoting his charity work, Collins indicated that he was writing music once again and might tour again.[148]
On 24 January 2014, Collins announced in an interview with Inside South Florida that he was writing new compositions with fellow English singer Adele.[149] Collins said he had no idea who Adele was when he learned she wanted to collaborate with him.[150] He said "I wasn't actually too aware [of her]. I live in a cave."[149][151] Collins agreed to join her in the studio after hearing her voice.[150] He said, "[She] achieved an incredible amount. I really love her voice. I love some of this stuff she's done, too."[152] In September 2014, Collins revealed that the collaboration had ended and he said it had been "a bit of a non-starter".[153] In May 2014, Collins gave a live performance of "In the Air Tonight" and "Land of Confusion" with young student musicians at the Miami Country Day School in Miami, Florida.[154] Collins was asked to perform there by his sons, who are students at the school.[155] In August 2014, Collins was reported to have accepted an invitation to perform in December at a benefit concert in Miami in aid of his Little Dreams Foundation charity. He ultimately missed the concert due to illness.[156]
2015–present: Out of retirement, Not Dead Yet Tour, and second Genesis reunion
In May 2015, Collins signed a deal with Warner Music Group to have his solo albums remastered and reissued with previously unreleased material.[157] In October of that year, he announced that he was no longer retired and had started plans to tour and make a new album.[158][159] By mid-2016, all eight of his albums were reissued with the artwork updated to display Collins as his older self, the exception being Going Back, which had a new cover.[160] In 2019, the additional digital only releases Other Sides and Remixed Sides followed.[161]
In October 2016, Collins's autobiography Not Dead Yet was published.[162] At a press conference held at the Royal Albert Hall in the same month, Collins announced his Not Dead Yet Tour which initially took form as a short European trek from June 2017.[163] The tour included five nights at the Royal Albert Hall which sold out in fifteen seconds, prompting the announcement of Collins's headline spot at the 2017 BST Hyde Park festival which became his largest solo concert.[164] His band included his son Nicolas on the drums. A review in The Telegraph stated: "Unlike the body, the voice is largely unravaged by time. It's still soulful, sometimes silky, occasionally bruised."[165] In 2017, the tour was extended worldwide and ran until October 2019 for a total of 97 shows.[166][167][168]
In March 2020, Collins, Banks, and Rutherford announced they had reformed Genesis once more to undertake The Last Domino? Tour. This time the band were joined by Collins's son Nic on the drums, leaving his father to handle lead vocals. After the tour was rescheduled twice due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it began in September 2021 and finished in London on 26 March 2022.[169] At the last show, at The O2 Arena in London, Collins said on stage: "It's the last show for Genesis".[170]
Drumming and influence
In his book on the "legends" who defined progressive rock drumming, American drummer Rich Lackowski wrote: "Phil Collins's grooves in early Genesis recordings paved the way for many talented drummers to come. His ability to make the drums bark with musicality and to communicate so convincingly in odd time signatures left many a drummer tossing on the headphones and playing along to Phil's lead."[171] In 2014, readers of Rhythm voted Collins the fourth most influential progressive rock drummer for his work on the 1974 Genesis album The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway.[172] In 2015, MusicRadar named Collins one of the six pioneers of progressive rock drumming.[173] In 2005, Planet Rock listeners voted Collins the fifth greatest rock drummer in history.[174] Collins was ranked tenth in "The Greatest Drummers of All Time" list by Gigwise and number nine in a list of "The 20 greatest drummers of the last 25 years" by MusicRadar in 2010.[175][176] In 1987, Collins looked back at his fast playing in Brand X and early Genesis: "I actually can't play like that anymore".[177]
Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins cited Collins as one of his drumming heroes.[178] He said, "Collins is an incredible drummer. Anyone who wants to be good on the drums should check him out – the man is a master."[179] In the April 2001 issue of Modern Drummer, Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy named Collins in an interview when asked about drummers he was influenced by and had respect for.[180] In another conversation in 2014, Portnoy lauded his "amazing progressive drumming" back in the early and mid-1970s.[181] Rush drummer Neil Peart praised his "beautiful drumming" and "lovely sound" on the 1973 Genesis album Selling England by the Pound, which he called "an enduring masterpiece of drumming".[173] Marco Minnemann, drummer for artists including Joe Satriani and Steven Wilson, described Collins as "brilliant" for the way "he composes his parts, and the sounds he gets". He said, "Phil is almost like John Bonham to me. I hear his personality, his perspective." He singled out the drumming on "In the Air Tonight" as an example of "ten notes that everybody knows" and concluded "Phil is [an] insanely talented drummer."[182]
Other drummers who have cited him as an influence or expressed admiration for his drumming work are Brann Dailor of Mastodon,[183] Nick D'Virgilio of Spock's Beard and Big Big Train,[184] Jimmy Keegan of Spock's Beard,[185] Matt Mingus of Dance Gavin Dance,[186] John Merryman of Cephalic Carnage,[187] Craig Blundell of Steven Wilson and Frost*,[188] and Charlie Benante of Anthrax.[189] According to Jason Bonham, his father "respected Phil Collins' drumming very much" and one of his favourite songs was Genesis' "Turn It On Again", which he used to love playing with him.[190]
Modern Drummer readers voted for Collins every year between 1987 and 1991 as Pop/Mainstream Rock drummer of the year. In 2000, he was voted as Big Band drummer of the year. In 2012, he was inducted into the Hall of Fame.[14]
Equipment
Collins is a left-handed drummer, and uses Gretsch drums, Noble & Cooley solid snare drums, Remo heads, Sabian cymbals and he uses his signature Promark sticks. Past kits he used were made by Pearl and Premier.[191]
Other instruments associated with Collins's sound (particularly in his post-1978 Genesis and solo career) include the Roland TR-808, Roland TR-909, the Simmons SDS-V electronic drum set, and the LinnDrum drum machines.[192] Collins also used a Roland CR-78, Sequential Circuits Prophet-5 synthesizer, the Fender Rhodes and Yamaha CP-70 electric pianos, and a vocoder for his voice.[193] Other Korg instruments include the Wavestation, the Karma and the Trinity.[194]
Cameo film and television appearances
Collins had cameo appearances in Steven Spielberg's Hook (1991) and the AIDS docudrama And the Band Played On (1993). He starred in Frauds, which competed for the Palme d'Or at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.[195] He supplied voices to two animated features: Amblin's Balto (1995) and Disney's The Jungle Book 2 (2003). A long-discussed but never completed project was a film titled The Three Bears; originally meant to star Collins, Danny DeVito, and Bob Hoskins. He often mentioned the film, though an appropriate script never materialised.[196] Collins's music is featured in the satirical black comedy film American Psycho, with psychotic lead character Patrick Bateman (played by Christian Bale) portrayed as an obsessive fan who reads deep meaning into his work, especially with Genesis, while describing his solo music as "...more commercial and therefore more satisfying, in a narrower way." Bateman delivers a monologue praising Collins and Genesis during a sequence in which he engages the services of two prostitutes while playing "In Too Deep" and "Sussudio". Collins told The New Musical Express: "I don't think him being a psychopath and liking my music is linked – my music was just omnipresent in that era."[197]
During the 1980s, Collins was among the celebrities caricatured on the satirical television puppet show Spitting Image—the show's creators were then commissioned by Genesis to create puppets of the entire band to appear in their 1986 music video "Land of Confusion".[198] Collins twice hosted the Billboard Music Awards on television, which were produced and directed by his longtime music video and TV special collaborators, Paul Flattery and Jim Yukich of FYI (Flattery Yukich Inc). He also appeared in an episode of the series Miami Vice, entitled "Phil the Shill", in which he plays a cheating con-man. In the 1980s he appeared in several comedy sketches with The Two Ronnies on BBC One.[199]
In 2001, Collins was one of several celebrities who were tricked into appearing in a controversial British comedy series, Brass Eye, shown on public service broadcaster Channel 4. In the episode, Collins endorsed a hoax anti-paedophile campaign wearing a T-shirt with the words "Nonce Sense" and warned children against speaking to suspicious people. Collins was reported by the BBC to have consulted lawyers regarding the programme, which was originally pulled from broadcast but eventually rescheduled. Collins said he had taken part in the programme "in good faith for the public benefit", believing it to be "a public service programme that would be going around schools and colleges in a bid to stem child abduction and abuse". Collins also accused the makers of the programme of "some serious taste problems" and warned it would prevent celebrities from supporting "public spirited causes" in the future.[200]
In 2006, Collins played a fictional version of himself in the PSP and PS2 video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories. Set in 1984, he appears in three missions in which the main character, Victor, must save him from Mafia-hired hitmen, who are trying to kill Collins because his manager refused to pay his $3 million debt to them. The final mission occurs during his concert, where the player must defend the scaffolding against saboteurs while Collins is performing "In the Air Tonight". After this, the player is given the opportunity to watch this performance of "In the Air Tonight" for the cost of 6,000 in-game dollars. "In the Air Tonight" is part of the official Vice City Stories soundtrack, and can be also heard on the in-game radio station Emotion 98.3. The song has also been featured in films such as Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters (2007) and The Hangover (2009).[201]
"In the Air Tonight" featured in the 2007 Gorilla commercial for Cadbury's Dairy Milk chocolate. Many believed that Collins himself was the drummer. When asked about Gorilla, Collins jokingly commented that "Not only is he a better drummer than me, he also has more hair. Can he sing too?"[202] The advertisement—which won Gold at the British Television Advertising Awards in 2008—helped the song re-enter the New Zealand RIANZ Singles Chart at No. 3 in July 2008, the following week reaching No. 1, beating its original 1981 No. 6 peak.[203] "In the Air Tonight" was also sampled in the song "I Can Feel It" on Sean Kingston's self-titled debut album.[204]
Collins was portrayed in the cartoon South Park in the episode "Timmy 2000" holding his Oscar throughout, referring to his 1999 win for "You'll Be in My Heart", which defeated "Blame Canada" from South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut. The show's creators admitted resenting losing to Collins, as they felt their other competitors were more worthy.[205] The episode "Cartman's Silly Hate Crime 2000" involves a sled race down the landmark known as Phil Collins Hill, which has an impression of Collins' face in the side. The Phil Collins character returns once more and gets killed off in the episode 200. Collins appears briefly in the Finnish animated sitcom Pasila in the episode "Phil Collins Hangover". The music of this episode is a pastiche of Collins's "Another Day in Paradise".[206] Collins was mentioned in the Psych episode "Disco Didn't Die. It Was Murdered!" as resembling Shawn Spencer's father, Henry, portrayed by actor Corbin Bernsen.[207]
Critical and public perceptions
Criticism
According to a 2000 BBC biography of Collins, "critics sneer at him" and "bad publicity also caused problems", which "damaged his public profile".[208] Rock historian Martin C. Strong wrote that Collins "truly polarised opinion from the start, his ubiquitous smugness and increasingly sterile pop making him a favourite target for critics".[209] According to Guardian writer Paul Lester, Collins would "regularly" call music journalists to take issue with negative reviews.[210] Over time, he came to be personally disliked;[87] in 2009, journalist Mark Lawson told how Collins's media profile had shifted from "pop's Mr. Nice guy, patron saint of ordinary blokes", to someone accused of "blandness, tax exile and ending a marriage by sending a fax".[211] Collins has rejected accusations of tax avoidance, and despite confirming that some of the divorce-related correspondence between him and second wife, Jill Tavelman, was by fax (a message from Collins regarding access to their daughter was reproduced for the front cover of The Sun in 1993),[212] he states that he did not terminate the marriage in that fashion.[211] Nevertheless, the British media has often repeated the fax claim.[208][213][214][215] Collins has been the victim of scathing remarks in regard to his alleged right-wing political leanings. Caroline Sullivan, a music critic of The Guardian, referred to his cumulative negative publicity in her 2007 article "I wish I'd never heard of Phil Collins", writing that it was difficult for her to hear his work "without being riven by distaste for the man himself".[213]
Several critics have commented on Collins's omnipresence, especially in the 1980s and early 1990s.[87][209][216][217][218] Journalist Frank DiGiacomo wrote a 1999 piece for New York Observer titled The Collins Menace; he said, "Even when I sought to escape the sounds [of Collins] in my head by turning on the TV, there would be Mr. Collins ... mugging for the cameras—intent on showing the world just how hard he would work to sell millions of records to millions of stupid people."[216] In his 2010 article "Love Don't Come Easy: Artists we Love to Hate", The Irish Times critic Kevin Courtney expressed similar sentiments. Naming Collins as one of the ten most disliked pop stars in the world, he wrote: "[Collins] performed at Live Aid, playing first at Wembley, then flying over to Philadelphia via Concorde, just to make sure no one in the U.S. got off lightly. By the early 1990s, Phil phatigue [sic] had really set in."[87] Tim Chester of the New Musical Express alluded to the backlash against Collins in an article titled, "Is It Time We All Stopped Hating Phil Collins?" Chester said of the unrelenting derision he has suffered, "a lot of it he brings on himself." He also said that Collins was "responsible for some of the cheesiest music ever committed to acetate".[219] Erik Hedegaard of Rolling Stone mentioned that Phil Collins hate sites had "flourished" online, and acknowledged that he had been called "the sellout who took Peter Gabriel's Genesis, that paragon of prog-rock, and turned it into a lame-o pop act and went on to make all those supercheesy hits that really did define the 1980s".[220]
According to author Dylan Jones in his 2013 publication on 1980s popular music, many of Collins's peers "despised" him.[221] Some fellow artists have made negative comments about Collins publicly. In 1990, former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters criticised Collins's "ubiquitous nature", including his involvement in the Who's 1989 reunion tour.[222] David Bowie dismissed some of his own 1980s output as his "Phil Collins years/albums".[223][224] In addition to the song's negative press from music journalists, singer-songwriter and political activist Billy Bragg criticised Collins for writing "Another Day in Paradise", stating: "Phil Collins might write a song about the homeless, but if he doesn't have the action to go with it he's just exploiting that for a subject."[225] Oasis songwriter Noel Gallagher criticised Collins on multiple occasions,[226][227] including the comment: "Just because you sell lots of records, it doesn't mean to say you're any good. Look at Phil Collins."[228] Collins said he has "at times, been very down" about Noel Gallagher's comments.[229] Gallagher's brother, Oasis singer Liam, also recalled the "boring" Collins's chart dominance in the 1980s and stated that, by the 1990s, it was "time for some real lads to get up there and take charge".[230] Appearing on the BBC television series Room 101 in 2005, in which guests discuss their most hated things and people, Collins nominated the Gallaghers to be sent into the eponymous room. He described them as "horrible" and stated: "They're rude and not as talented as they think they are. I won't mince words here, but they've had a go at me personally."[231]
Collins acknowledged in 2010 that he had been "omnipresent". He said of his character: "The persona on stage came out of insecurity ... it seems embarrassing now. I recently started transferring all my VHS tapes onto DVD to create an archive, and everything I was watching, I thought, 'God, I'm annoying.' I appeared to be very cocky, and really I wasn't."[232] Collins concedes his status as a figure of contempt for many people and has said that he believes this is a consequence of his music being overplayed.[229][226] In 2011 he said: "The fact that people got so sick of me wasn't really my fault. ... It's hardly surprising that people grew to hate me. I'm sorry that it was all so successful. I honestly didn't mean it to happen like that!"[229][233] He described criticism of his physical appearance over the years as "a cheap shot",[221] but has acknowledged the "very vocal element" of Genesis fans who believe that the group sold out under his tenure as lead singer.[234] Collins denied that his retirement in 2011 was due to negative attention[144] and said that his statements had been taken out of context. He said: "I have ended up sounding like a tormented weirdo who thinks he was at the Alamo in another life, who feels very sorry for himself, and is retiring hurt because of the bad press over the years. None of this is true."[145][219]
Praise
Paul Lester of The Guardian wrote in 2013 that Collins is one of several pop acts that "used to be a joke" but are "now being hailed as gods".[210] Collins has become an important figure in US urban music,[236] influencing artists such as Kanye West,[237] Alicia Keys and Beyoncé.[238] His songs have been sampled by various hip-hop and contemporary R&B acts, and performers including Lil' Kim, Kelis, and Wu-Tang Clan co-founder Ol' Dirty Bastard covered his work on the 2001 tribute album Urban Renewal.[236]
In 2004, DCFC and Postal Service musician Ben Gibbard described Collins as a "great vocalist".[239] Collins has been championed by his contemporary, the heavy metal singer Ozzy Osbourne,[240] David Crosby called him "a dear friend" who helped him "enormously",[241] Queen guitarist Brian May called him "a great guy and an amazing drummer",[242] and Robert Plant paid tribute to him as "the most spirited and positive and really encouraging force" when commencing his own solo career after the break-up of Led Zeppelin.[75] Collins has been championed by modern artists in diverse genres, including indie rock groups the 1975,[210] Generationals,[243] Neon Indian, Yeasayer, St. Lucia[244] and Sleigh Bells,[245] electronica artist Lorde,[238] and soul singer Diane Birch, who said in 2014, "Collins walks a really fine line between being really cheesy and being really sophisticated. He can seem appalling, but at the same time, he has awesome production values and there's a particular richness to the sound. It's very proficient in the instrumentation and savvy about melodies."[238]
Genesis bandmate Mike Rutherford has praised Collins's personality, saying that "he always had a bloke-next-door, happy-go-lucky demeanour about him: let's have a drink in the pub, crack a joke, smoke a cigarette or a joint".[246] In 2014, former Genesis frontman Peter Gabriel, who worked again with Collins in the 1980s, referred to him as the "workaholics' workaholic".[247] He has been characterised by favourable critics as a "rock god",[246][248] and an artist who has remained "down to earth".[208] In The New Rolling Stone Album Guide, published in 2004, J. D. Considine wrote: "For a time, Phil Collins was nearly inescapable on the radio, and enormously popular with the listening public — something that made him an obvious target for critics. Despite his lumpen-pop appeal, however, Collins is an incisive songwriter and resourceful musician."[217]
Tim Chester of the New Musical Express described Collins as "the go-to guy for ironic appreciation and guilty pleasures" and stated he was responsible for "some moments of true genius (often accompanied, it must be said, by some real stinkers)".[219] Creation Records founder Alan McGee wrote in 2009 that there was a "non-ironic revival of Phil Collins" happening. According to McGee: "The kids don't care about 'indie cred' anymore. To them, a great pop song is just that: a great pop song. In this time of revivals, nothing is a sacred cow anymore, and that can only be a good thing for music." Commenting on Collins's popularity with hip-hop acts, he argued: "It's not surprising. Collins is a world-class drummer whose songs immediately lend themselves to being sampled."[249]
In 2010, Gary Mills of The Quietus made an impassioned defence of Collins: "There can't be many figures in the world of pop who have inspired quite the same kind of hatred-bordering-on-civil-unrest as Collins, and there can't be too many who have shifted anything like the 150 million plus units that he's got through as a solo artist either ... The disgrace of a career bogged entirely in the determined dross of No Jacket Required however is simply not justified, regardless of how Collins gained either his fortune, or his public image."[250] David Sheppard wrote for the BBC in 2010: "Granted, Collins has sometimes been guilty of painting the bull's-eye on his own forehead (that self-aggrandising Live Aid Concorde business, the cringe-worthy lyrics to 'Another Day in Paradise', Buster, etc.), but nonetheless, the sometime Genesis frontman's canon is so substantial and his hits so profuse that it feels myopic to dismiss him merely as a haughty purveyor of tortured, romantic ballads for the middle income world."[251]
Rolling Stone journalist Erik Hedegaard expressed disapproval of the widespread criticism which Collins has received, suggesting that he has been "unfairly and inexplicably vilified".[220] Martin C. Strong stated in 2011 that "the enigmatic and amiable Phil Collins has had his fair share of mockers and critics over the years, although one thing is sure, and that is his dexterity and undeniable talent".[209] In a piece the following year, titled "10 Much-Mocked Artists It's Time We Forgave", New Musical Express critic Anna Conrad said Collins had been portrayed as a "villain", and wrote: "Was the bile really justified? ... come on, admit it. You've air drummed to 'In the Air Tonight', and loved it."[252] The Guardian journalist Dave Simpson wrote a complimentary article in 2013; while acknowledging "few pop figures have become as successful and yet reviled as Phil Collins", he argued "it's about time we recognised Collins's vast influence as one of the godfathers of popular culture".[236]
Personal life
Family and relationships
Collins has divorced three times. From 1975 to 1980, he was married to Canadian-born Andrea Bertorelli. They met as 11-year-old students in a London drama class and reconnected in 1974 when Genesis performed in Vancouver. They married in England in 1975 when both were 24,[212] after which Collins legally adopted Bertorelli's daughter Joely (b. 1972), who became an actress and film producer.[253] They also had a son, Simon Collins (b. 1976), who is the former vocalist and drummer of the progressive rock band Sound of Contact. In 2016, Bertorelli took legal action against Collins pertaining to his account of their relationship in his autobiography.[254]
In 1984, Collins married American Jill Tavelman. They have one daughter, Lily Collins (b. 1989), who became an actress.[255] While married to Tavelman, Collins twice had an affair with Lavinia Lang, a former drama school classmate, while touring with Genesis in 1992. The two were previously engaged, but the relationship ended before they married.[255] In 1994, Collins openly stated that he had fallen out of love with Tavelman and had filed for divorce, which was finalised in 1996. As part of the settlement, Collins paid £17 million to Tavelman.[255][256]
In 1999, Collins married Orianne Cevey, a Swiss national who worked as his translator at the start of his 1994 tour when she was 22.[257][258] They have two sons, Nicholas and Matthew.[259] The latter is an aspiring footballer for the youth squad of WSG Tirol, having previously played in the youth systems of Bundesliga club Hannover 96 and Astoria Walldorf.[260] They lived in the former house of Jackie Stewart in Begnins, Switzerland. In 2006 they divorced. Collins paid £25 million to Cevey, which became the largest settlement in a British celebrity divorce.[261] Collins continued to live in Féchy, Switzerland, while he also maintained homes in New York City and Dersingham, Norfolk.[215]
From 2007 to 2016, Collins was in a relationship with American news anchor Dana Tyler.[124] In 2008, Cevey and her two sons moved to Miami, Florida. Collins recalled: "I went through a few bits of darkness; drinking too much. I killed my hours watching TV and drinking, and it almost killed me." He said in 2015 that he had been teetotal for three years.[262] In January 2016, after moving to Miami Beach, Florida in the previous year to be closer to his two youngest sons,[262] Collins reunited with Cevey and they lived together in Miami.[263] In October 2020, Collins filed an eviction notice against Cevey after she secretly married another man in August.[264] Collins sold his Miami home in 2021 for $39 million.[265]
Collins' brother Clive was a cartoonist. Phil appeared at his brother's investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace in 2012 when he was awarded an MBE for services to art, with Phil stating, "I shared a bedroom with him when we were boys and he was always drawing. He used to do Christmas cards and birthday cards for the family."[266]
Wealth
In 2012, Collins was estimated to be the second-wealthiest drummer in the world, surpassed only by Ringo Starr.[267] Collins was estimated to have a fortune of £120 million in the Sunday Times Rich List of 2018, making him one of the 25 wealthiest people in the British music industry.[268]
Court case
On 29 March 2000, Collins launched a case against two former musicians from his band to recoup £500,000 in royalties that were overpaid. Louis Satterfield and Rahmlee Davis claimed their contract entitled them to 0.5 per cent of the royalties from Serious Hits... Live!, a live album recorded during Collins's Seriously, Live! World Tour in 1990. They claimed they were an integral part of the whole album, but Collins responded that the two should only receive royalties from the five tracks in which they were involved.[269] On 19 April 2000, the High Court in London ruled that the two musicians would receive no more royalty money from Phil Collins. The amount that Collins was seeking was halved, and Satterfield and Davis (who originally brought the suit forward in California) would not have to repay any of it. The judge agreed with Collins's argument that Satterfield and Davis should have been paid for only the five tracks on which they performed, including the hit "Sussudio".[270]
Health
In 1999, Collins developed sudden hearing loss in his left ear following a recording session in Los Angeles. He consulted three doctors, who reportedly told him that there was nothing they could do and that the chance of a full recovery was slim. Two years later, he had recovered most of his hearing.[271] Collins later found that it was caused by a viral infection, and that it was resolved after treatment.[124]
In April 2009, Collins had surgery on his upper neck to correct a problem that began while drumming on the 2007 Genesis tour. Following the operation, he lost feeling in his fingers and could only grip drumsticks if they were taped to his hands.[272] In 2010, Collins alluded to feelings of depression and low self-worth in recent years and said he had contemplated suicide, but he resisted for the sake of his children.[273] In 2014, Collins said that he was still unable to play the drums and that it was not arthritis, but an undiagnosed nerve problem.[274] In 2015, he underwent a spine operation.[275] In 2016, he said he was still unable to drum with his left hand. His doctor advised him that if he wanted to play the drums again, he would need to take it "step by step" and "practice".[124][276][277]
In his 2016 autobiography, Collins acknowledged that he had struggled with alcoholism following his retirement and third divorce. At that point he also stated that he had been sober for three years.[278]
In January 2017, Collins said he was a type 2 diabetic and had received treatment with a hyperbaric chamber after developing a diabetic abscess on his foot that became infected.[279] In June 2017, Collins cancelled two shows after he slipped in his hotel room during the night and hit his head on a chair as he fell, resulting in stitches for a severe gash close to his eye. The fall was caused by his foot drop, resulting from his back operation.[280]
In 2017, Collins began to use a cane to assist with walking,[281] and to sit in a chair while performing on stage.[282]
Honorary degrees
Collins has received several honorary degrees in recognition of his work in music and his personal interests. In 1987, he received an honorary doctorate of fine arts at Fairleigh Dickinson University.[283] In 1991, he received an honorary doctorate of music at the Berklee College of Music.[284] On 12 May 2012, he received an honorary doctorate of history at the McMurry University in Abilene, Texas,[285] for his research and collection of Texas Revolution artefacts and documents (see other interests section).
Politics
Collins has often been mentioned erroneously in the British media as being a supporter of the Conservative Party and a critic of the Labour Party.[213][286] This derives from the famous article in The Sun, printed on the day of the 1992 UK general election, titled "If Kinnock wins today will the last person to leave Britain please turn out the lights", which stated that Collins was among several celebrities who were planning to leave Britain in the event of a Labour victory.[287][288]
Collins is often reported in the British press to have left the UK and moved to Switzerland in protest at the Labour Party's victory in the 1997 general election.[289][290] Shortly before the 2005 election (when Collins was living in Switzerland), Labour supporter Noel Gallagher was quoted: "Vote Labour. If you don't and the Tories get in, Phil Collins is threatening to come back and live here. And let's face it, none of us want that."[227][291] Collins has since stated that although he did once say many years earlier that he might leave Britain if most of his income was taken in tax, which was Labour Party policy at that time for top earners, he has never been a Conservative Party supporter and he left Britain for Switzerland in 1994 purely because he started a relationship with a woman who lived there. He said of Gallagher: "I don't care if he likes my music or not. I do care if he starts telling people I'm a wanker because of my politics. It's an opinion based on an old, misunderstood quote."[292]
Despite his statement that he did not leave Britain for tax purposes, Collins was one of several wealthy figures living in tax havens who were singled out for criticism in a 2008 report by the charity Christian Aid.[293] The Independent included Collins as one of their "ten celebrity tax exiles", erroneously repeating that he had left the country when Labour won the 1997 general election and that he threatened to return if the Conservatives won in 2005.[294] Referring to the 1997 general election in his article "Famous men and their misunderstood politics" for MSN, Hugh Wilson stated: "Labour won it in a landslide, which just goes to show the influence pop stars really wield". He also wrote that Collins's reported comments and subsequent move to Switzerland led to "accusations of hypocrisy" since he had "bemoaned the plight of the homeless in the song 'Another Day in Paradise'", making him "an easy target when future elections came round".[107] The Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott song "When I Get Back to Blighty", from their 2014 album What Have We Become?, made reference to Collins as "a prisoner to his tax returns".[295]
Questioned about his politics by Mark Lawson in an interview for the BBC, broadcast in 2009, Collins said: "My father was Conservative but it wasn't quite the same, I don't think, when he was alive. Politics never loomed large in our family anyway. I think the politics of the country were very different then."[211] In a 2016 interview in The Guardian, Collins stated that talking about politics to The Sun was one of his biggest regrets. When asked whether he had ever voted Conservative, he said: "I didn't vote, actually. And that's not something I'm proud of. I was just so busy that I rarely was here."[296]
Collins is a member of the Canadian charity Artists Against Racism and has worked with them on campaigns including radio PSAs.[297] In October 2020, Collins issued a cease and desist order to Donald Trump and his campaign for playing "In the Air Tonight" at a rally.[298][299]
Other interests
Collins has a long-standing interest in the Alamo. He has collected hundreds of artefacts related to the famous 1836 battle in San Antonio, Texas, narrated a light and sound show about the Alamo, and has spoken at related events.[300] His passion for the Battle of the Alamo has also led him to write the book The Alamo and Beyond: A Collector's Journey, published in 2012.[301] A short film was released in 2013 called Phil Collins and the Wild Frontier which captures Collins on a book tour in June 2012.[302] On 26 June 2014, a press conference was held from the Alamo, where Collins spoke, announcing that he was donating his entire collection to the Alamo via the State of Texas.[303] On 11 March 2015, in honour of his donation, Collins was named an honorary Texan by the state legislature.[304]
Like Rod Stewart, Eric Clapton, and Neil Young, Collins is a model railway enthusiast.[305] He also has an interest in King & Country toy soldiers.[306] He is an honorary president of Richmond Yacht Club, of which his parents used to be members.[307]
Charity work
Collins has performed at the Secret Policeman's Ball, a benefit show co-founded by Monty Python member John Cleese on behalf of Amnesty International. He made his first appearance at the 1981 show held in London's Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, and he subsequently became an activist.[308] Collins was appointed a Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order (LVO) in the 1994 Birthday Honours, in recognition of his work on behalf of The Prince's Trust, a leading UK youth charity founded by King Charles III (then-Prince of Wales) which provides training, personal development, business start up support, mentoring, and advice.[309] Since appearing at the first Prince's Trust's rock concert in 1982 which included a performance as part of singer Kate Bush's backing band, Collins has played at the event numerous times since, most recently at the Royal Albert Hall in 2010.[310][311]
On 9 April 1989, Collins topped the bill at a benefit concert for the veteran English comic actor Terry-Thomas. Held at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, the event raised over £75,000 for Terry-Thomas and Parkinson's UK.[312]
Collins has stated he is a supporter of animal rights and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). In 2005 he donated autographed drumsticks in support of PETA's campaign against Kentucky Fried Chicken.[313]
In February 2000, Collins and Cevey launched the Little Dreams Foundation, a non-profit organisation that aims to "...realise the dreams of children in the fields of sports and art" by providing future prodigies aged 4 to 16 years with financial, material, and mentoring support with the help of experts in various fields.[314] Collins took the action after receiving letters from children asking him how they could break into the music industry. Mentors to the students who have benefited from his foundation include Tina Turner and Natalie Cole. In 2013 he visited Miami Beach, Florida, to promote the expansion of his foundation.[315]
Collins supports the South African charity Topsy Foundation, which provides relief services to some of South Africa's most under-resourced rural communities through a multi-faceted approach to the consequences of HIV/AIDS and extreme poverty. He donates all the royalties earned from his music sales in South Africa to the organisation.[316][317]
Awards and nominations
Discography
Studio albums
- Face Value (1981)
- Hello, I Must Be Going! (1982)
- No Jacket Required (1985)
- ...But Seriously (1989)
- Both Sides (1993)
- Dance into the Light (1996)
- Testify (2002)
- Going Back (2010)
Concert tours
- The Hello, I Must Be Going Tour (1982–1983)
- The No Jacket Required World Tour (1985)
- Seriously, Live! World Tour (1990)
- Both Sides of the World Tour (1994–1995)
- Trip into the Light World Tour (1997)
- The First Final Farewell Tour (2004–2005)
- Not Dead Yet Tour (2017–2019)
Filmography
Film
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
1964 | A Hard Day's Night | Seated Fan with Necktie | |
1967 | Calamity the Cow | Mike Lucas | |
1968 | Chitty Chitty Bang Bang | Vulgarian Child | |
1970 | I Start Counting | Ice Cream Vendor | |
1988 | Buster | Buster Edwards | |
1991 | Hook | Inspector Good | |
1993 | Frauds | Roland Copping | |
And the Band Played On | Eddie Papasano | TV movie | |
1995 | Balto | Muk / Luk (voice) | |
2003 | The Jungle Book 2 | Lucky (voice) |
Television
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
1965 | R3 | Terry | Episode: "Unwelcome Visitor" |
1966 | Thirty-Minute Theatre | Gwyn | Episode: "A Letter from the Country" |
1985 | Miami Vice | Phil Mayhew | Episode: "Phil the Shill" |
1999 | Behind the Music | Himself | Episode: "Genesis" |
2010 | Behind the Music: Remastered | Himself | Episode: "Genesis" |
Video games
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
2006 | Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories | Himself (voice) |
Books
- The Alamo and Beyond: A Collector's Journey (2012)
- Not Dead Yet: The Autobiography (2016)
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External links
- Official website
- Phil Collins at IMDb
- Phil Collins discography at Discogs