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Phil Collins

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It's always been easy with Mark, he's a rock fan and we speak the same language. He's a big Beatles fan too. We worked a lot via CLI calls, though only meeting up once every couple of months.


— Phil Collins


#beatles #been #big #calls #couple

It's not often that an English drummer gets an Oscar. So I'm very, very proud of that.


— Phil Collins


#english #gets #i #often #oscar

Many of the articles printed over the last few months have ended up painting a picture of me that is more than a little distorted.


— Phil Collins


#distorted #ended #few #last #little

Many people think of me as a perfectionist, someone who polishes and shines each song and performance. I've always been bothered by that assumption.


— Phil Collins


#assumption #been #bothered #each #i

My only saving grace is that I actually collect things that nobody else is interested in.


— Phil Collins


#collect #else #grace #i #interested

On the day of the show, I sit down with someone that speaks very good English and someone who speaks the local language very well and work out what I'm going to say.


— Phil Collins


#down #english #going #good #i

The day Tarzan opened in London, I sat in a hotel room and discussed the project in detail.


— Phil Collins


#detail #discussed #hotel #hotel room #i

To be honest, producing records interests me less at the moment and I really don't want to get involved in album projects that are going to take up a lot of time.


— Phil Collins


#get #going #honest #i #interests

To see a lot of the smaller labels disappear or get gobbled up by the bigger labels, that's a shame. It was a bit of a shock at first to see the demise of the record stores.


— Phil Collins


#bit #demise #disappear #first #get

We stayed in some pretty shabby places in Europe.


— Phil Collins


#places #pretty #shabby #some #stayed






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Did you know about Phil Collins?

1 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart – the longest time ever up to that point. With Collins as drummer the band performed jazz renditions of various Collins and Genesis hits. Collins also promoted Going Back with his first and only appearance on the BBC's foremost music series Later.

His solo career heavily influenced by his personal life brought both himself and Genesis commercial success. He was inducted to the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1999 into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2003 and into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Genesis in 2010. Following Gabriel's departure in 1975 Collins became the group's lead singer.

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