![]() ![]() Somewhere among all this, Collins found time to play drums on ex-bandmate Gabriel's third solo album, where a happy accident in the recording studio would shape the future of music.Ī microphone used to communicate between the drummer in the studio and the producer in the control room was accidentally left turned on while Collins drummed on Gabriel's track Intruder. Genesis rejected the song, much to their later regret.Ĭollins tucked it way and made it the opening track and first single off Face Value. He said the "album is definitely autobiographical triggered by" his divorce.īut before Collins could get to work on Face Value, Genesis reconvened to make their 10th album, Duke.Īmong the songs Collins presented to his bandmates was a dark dirge called In the Air Tonight - a droning synth-driven track filled with barely contained anger he'd written in the wake of his divorce. ![]() Genesis missed its chance not picking up Collins' offering for Duke. "I had a lot of time on my hands," Collins told the BBC's Classic Albums episode about writing Face Value, the debut solo record he ended up creating during that hiatus. The band had just broken into the US on the back of the ninth studio album … And Then There Were Three … and hit single Follow You Follow Me, but a gruelling nine-month, 100-plus show tour contributed to Collins' divorce from his first wife Andrea Bertorelli and led to Collins taking time away from Genesis. In 1979, Phil Collins was the drummer and reluctant vocalist for British fusion rock band Genesis, having stepped into the frontman role when Peter Gabriel left the group. The song's legacy is entwined in that epic drum fill, considered to be one of the all time great pieces of pop percussion.īut there's a lot more to Collins' smash hit than drums - there's the air of mystery, a production mistake that shaped the future of music, and an urban legend about a drowning that never happened. Instead, his son Nicholas, then 15, would be doing the drumming.It takes three minutes and forty seconds before the signature moment arrives.Ī powerful cacophony of drums explodes out of the speakers, taking Phil Collins' ominous, seething opus In the Air Tonight to another level that has helped it endure for four decades. “I have eight screws in my back but it left my foot numb," he told The Mirror, explaining how his bad drumming posture caused his injuries. Surgery to fix his spine had caused nerve damage in her foot, meaning he could no longer stand for any significant amount of time. Happy and healthy and reunited with Orianne, in 2016 he 'changed his mind' about retirement and revealed plans for five nights at London's Royal Albert Hall and dates in Cologne and Paris.īy that point he was walking with a cane and admitted he wouldn't be able to drum - although he hoped to at least manage the famous introduction to In The Air Tonight. ![]() “I didn’t drink for all that time but now I am quite capable of having two or three glasses of wine, saying goodnight and walking away,” he told The Mirror. In 2013, doctors told him his pancreas was showing signs of permanent damage and he finally quit boozing for three years. It was spirits, corrosive stuff," he later admitted.ĭespite a stay in rehab, Phil later got so drunk on a trip to Turks and Caicos with his sons that he had to be airlifted off the island to New York. He turned to alcohol after his marriage collapsed ![]()
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