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Now if only Sting would follow suit!><

I agree wholeheartedly!

"It's just some friends of mine and they're busting down the door"

Collins recently said how he had played congas on George Harrison's ALL THINGS MUST PASS and didn't get a credit. So when it was reissued in 2000 he hoped he'd get a credit and mentioned it to George. George sent him an old outtake that consisted of Collins really badly playing congas and George saying to the engineer, "Let's try it without the congas." Collins was really hurt and thought George didn't have to send such an insulting outtake. When George later called him about the credit, Collins angrily mentioned the hurtful outtake. George said, "Phil, I recorded that just last month as a practical joke on you. That wasn't actually you on the congas. I had another drummer play congas really badly and I made that comment, and sent it to you as a practical joke." Collins said he went from the height of anger to the height of hilarity in a span of seconds. And he did get his credit finally on the reissue.

(I read this in PEOPLE or PARADE, I forget which.)



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"I don't think anyone's going to miss me."

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Now if only Sting would follow suit!><

I agree wholeheartedly!

Yeah! Like Phil Collins, he was great with the band and his early solo work was excellent as well, but he's totally lost it somewhere in the first half of the 1990s...

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Collins has confirmed his retirement, but says he is not "a tormented weirdo".

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There are enough of those around here.

They're not tormented. They're tormenting the rest of us.

Good for him ... and good for us.
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Collins recently said how he had played congas on George Harrison's ALL THINGS MUST PASS and didn't get a credit. So when it was reissued in 2000 he hoped he'd get a credit and mentioned it to George. George sent him an old outtake that consisted of Collins really badly playing congas and George saying to the engineer, "Let's try it without the congas." Collins was really hurt and thought George didn't have to send such an insulting outtake. When George later called him about the credit, Collins angrily mentioned the hurtful outtake. George said, "Phil, I recorded that just last month as a practical joke on you. That wasn't actually you on the congas. I had another drummer play congas really badly and I made that comment, and sent it to you as a practical joke." Collins said he went from the height of anger to the height of hilarity in a span of seconds. And he did get his credit finally on the reissue.

(I read this in PEOPLE or PARADE, I forget which.)

Very good story. I won't miss him, but good story.

I think he's taking it all too hard. He made some good music, so what if it was more on the pop side, and it wasn't everyone's cup of tea. He shouldn't feel bad about his success. Hopefully he'll re- embrace his work as time goes on.



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Genesis three gems...let's forget about the rest...

what's the matter with Wind And Weathering?

Yeah that one is pretty much worth listen too also...

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Collins recently said how he had played congas on George Harrison's ALL THINGS MUST PASS and didn't get a credit. So when it was reissued in 2000 he hoped he'd get a credit and mentioned it to George. George sent him an old outtake that consisted of Collins really badly playing congas and George saying to the engineer, "Let's try it without the congas." Collins was really hurt and thought George didn't have to send such an insulting outtake. When George later called him about the credit, Collins angrily mentioned the hurtful outtake. George said, "Phil, I recorded that just last month as a practical joke on you. That wasn't actually you on the congas. I had another drummer play congas really badly and I made that comment, and sent it to you as a practical joke." Collins said he went from the height of anger to the height of hilarity in a span of seconds. And he did get his credit finally on the reissue.

(I read this in PEOPLE or PARADE, I forget which.)

Very good story. I won't miss him, but good story.

Did you see in the Beatles Anthology when they were all at the mixing desk at Abbey Road with George Martin listening to "Tomorrow Never Knows" (or it might have been "Golden Slumbers") and George Harrison said jokingly "bring in Phil Collins"? Very odd.

Phil had some atmosphere in 'In the air tonight'...

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I read somewhete that his retirement has something to do with pain. Collins said he couln't hold his drumsticks in his hands anymore and had to fix them with some chatterton.

He accually retired about 7 years ago due to a hearing problem, this hasn't been mensioned so i don't quite know what happened there.

He does sound very down, and I guess he has to grieve. But all is not lost; apparently he can recover from the physical damage in a year or so.

He's just 60, and there is plenty of time to forge new directions. Look at Bill Wyman! And there are many things within the sphere of music he could do if he truly wanted to. But no one ever promised a pop career would last until a musician died, unless he died young.

Good luck, Phil, and remember, when God closes a door, he opens a window.

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Collins recently said how he had played congas on George Harrison's ALL THINGS MUST PASS and didn't get a credit. So when it was reissued in 2000 he hoped he'd get a credit and mentioned it to George. George sent him an old outtake that consisted of Collins really badly playing congas and George saying to the engineer, "Let's try it without the congas." Collins was really hurt and thought George didn't have to send such an insulting outtake. When George later called him about the credit, Collins angrily mentioned the hurtful outtake. George said, "Phil, I recorded that just last month as a practical joke on you. That wasn't actually you on the congas. I had another drummer play congas really badly and I made that comment, and sent it to you as a practical joke." Collins said he went from the height of anger to the height of hilarity in a span of seconds. And he did get his credit finally on the reissue.

(I read this in PEOPLE or PARADE, I forget which.)

Very good story. I won't miss him, but good story.

Did you see in the Beatles Anthology when they were all at the mixing desk at Abbey Road with George Martin listening to "Tomorrow Never Knows" (or it might have been "Golden Slumbers") and George Harrison said jokingly "bring in Phil Collins"? Very odd.

They were listening to Tomorrow Never Knows. The reference to Phil probably had to do with Phil having done a cover version of TNK on his 1981 album, Face Value. As with the Beatles Revolver, it was the closing track on the album.

The one thing I didn't care for was a quote by him, I believe in Rolling Stone Magazine, saying something to the effect of he can't relate to what is on MTV & they wouldn't relate to him. I felt saddened that he thought the only way to be relavent in music is to appeal to the MTV crowd.

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Collins recently said how he had played congas on George Harrison's ALL THINGS MUST PASS and didn't get a credit. So when it was reissued in 2000 he hoped he'd get a credit and mentioned it to George. George sent him an old outtake that consisted of Collins really badly playing congas and George saying to the engineer, "Let's try it without the congas." Collins was really hurt and thought George didn't have to send such an insulting outtake. When George later called him about the credit, Collins angrily mentioned the hurtful outtake. George said, "Phil, I recorded that just last month as a practical joke on you. That wasn't actually you on the congas. I had another drummer play congas really badly and I made that comment, and sent it to you as a practical joke." Collins said he went from the height of anger to the height of hilarity in a span of seconds. And he did get his credit finally on the reissue.

(I read this in PEOPLE or PARADE, I forget which.)

He he! Good old George. Now there is someone that was, is and will continue to be missed.

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The one thing I didn't care for was a quote by him, I believe in Rolling Stone Magazine, saying something to the effect of he can't relate to what is on MTV & they wouldn't relate to him. I felt saddened that he thought the only way to be relavent in music is to appeal to the MTV crowd.

Well, this is what i have been driving at in another thread. I'm no fan of Phil's music personally, although his music is mostly very listenable, except for when he went too pop in the mid-late eighties with 'Two Hearts' etc. Would still rather have him than the X-Factor and American Idol wannabies, which dominates the charts with nothing but hype (in the main). Phil does have a musical talent, which i think is hard to deny.

This is how I like to remember him.
One of the best jazz-prog rockbands ever: Brand X, with Phil at his best!!