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Phil Collins Biography

Phil Collins is an English songwriter, drummer, singer, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and actor born and raised in west London. He begun acting classes acting at the Barbara Speake Stage School, also known as eponymous stage school. After training, he secured various roles as a child actor.

Phil Collins Age

He was born as Philip David Charles Collins on 30 January 1951 in Chiswick, London, United Kingdom. He is 67 years old as of 2018.

Phil Collins Wife|Phil Collins Children|Phil Collins Family

He first married Andrea Bertorelli in 1975, in England when both were 24, but divorced in 1980. The two met in a drama class in London when they were 11, Andrea’s family moved to Canada when she was 18. The two reconnected in Vancouver when Genesis was performed. They together have a son Simon Collins, born in 1976, who became the vocalist and drummer of the progressive rock band Sound of Contact.  He adopted Bertorelli’s daughter Joely.

He then met his second wife, American Jill Tavelman, in 1980. The two got married in 1984, and had one daughter, Lily Collins, born in 1989. They then divorced in to 1996. He is currently married to his third wife, Orianne Cevey, a Swiss national. The two got married in in 1999. They have two sons, Nicholas and Matthew. The two once divorced in 2008 but reunited in january 2016.

Phil Collins Career

He begun playing drums at the age of five, at the age of 14. In 1970, he begun a music career, and joined Genesis as their drummer, in 1975, he become their lead singer. In the 1980s, he began a solo career, inspired by his marital breakdown and love of soul music, he released a series of albums that become successful.

He become among the most successful adult pop modern singers of the ’80s and after. He was also known for a peculiar gated reverb drum sound on most of his recordings. In 1996, he left Genesis to focus on his work, and later returned for their Turn It On Again Tour in 2007. He released an autobiography and began his Not Dead Yet Tour which runs from June 2017 until February 2019.

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His discography comprises of eight studio albums, they have sold 33.5 million verified units in the US and an estimation of 150 million worldwide, this has made him as one of the world’s best-selling artists. He is one of only two recording artists. He has won a Disney Legend Award, six Brit Awards—winning as the Best British Male thrice two Golden Globe Awards, one Academy Award and eight Grammy Awards.

He received six Ivor Novello Awards from the British Academy of Composers, Authors and Songwriters, with the International Achievement Award. In 1999, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and in 2003, he was admitted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 2012,the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Genesis in 2010, and the Classic Drummer Hall of Fame in 2013.

Phil Collins Drums

He is a left-handed drummer, he uses Noble & Cooley solid snare drums,Gretsch drums, Sabian cymbals, Remo heads and he uses his signature Promark sticks. The Past kits he used were made by Pearl and Premier.

Other instruments associated with his sound are; Roland TR-909, the Roland TR-808, the Linn LM-1, the Simmons SDS-V electronic drum set, and LinnDrum drum machines. He also used a Roland CR-78, Sequential Circuits Prophet-5 synthesizer, Fender Rhodes electric piano, and a vocoder for his voice. Other Korg instruments are the Wavestation, the Karma and the Trinity.

Phil Collins Tour

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BB&T Center – Sunrise, FL
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Capital One Arena – Washington, DC
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Wells Fargo Center-PA – Philadelphia, PA
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OCT 09

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TD Garden – Boston, MA
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Scotiabank Arena – Toronto, ON, CA
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Prudential Center – Newark, NJ
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Barclays Center – Brooklyn, NY
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Bell Centre – Montreal, QC, CA
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Quicken Loans Arena – Cleveland, OH
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Nationwide Arena – Columbus, OH
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Target Center – Minneapolis, MN
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United Center – Chicago, IL
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ORACLE Arena – Oakland, CA
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MGM Grand Garden Arena – Las Vegas, NV
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L.A. Forum – Inglewood, CA

Phil Collins Australian Tour

Phil Collins Brings Sold-Out Not Dead Yet: Live! Tour To Australia & New Zealand In January And February 2019.

  1.  21 Jan 2019
    Mon
    SYDNEY
    QUDOS BANK ARENA
    ‘Not Dead Yet: Live!’ 2019 Tour, Sydney
  2.  22 Jan 2019
    Tue
    SYDNEY
    QUDOS BANK ARENA
    ‘Not Dead Yet: Live!’ 2019 Tour, Adelaide
  3.  25 Jan 2019
    Fri
    ADELAIDE
    ADELAIDE OVAL
    ‘Not Dead Yet: Live!’ 2019 Tour, Perth
  4.  28 Jan 2019
    Mon
    PERTH
    RAC ARENA
    ‘Not Dead Yet: Live!’ 2019 Tour, Perth
  5.  29 Jan 2019
    Tue
    PERTH
    RAC ARENA
    ‘Not Dead Yet: Live!’ 2019 Tour, Melbourne
  6. 01 Feb 2019
    Fri
    MELBOURNE
    AAMI PARK
    ‘Not Dead Yet: Live!’ 2019 Tour, Melbourne
  7.  02 Feb 2019
    Sat
    MELBOURNE
    AAMI PARK
    ‘Not Dead Yet: Live!’ 2019 Tour, Christchurch
  8.  04 Feb 2019
    Mon
    CHRISTCHURCH
    CHRISTCHURCH STADIUM
    ‘Not Dead Yet: Live!’ 2019 Tour, Napier
  9.  06 Feb 2019
    Wed
    NAPIER
    MISSION ESTATE

Phil Collins London

  • Friday, October 05 2018
    8:00 PM
    BB&T Center, Sunrise, Florida, USA
  • Sunday, October 07 2018
    8:00 PM
    Capital One Arena, Washington DC, District of Columbia, USA
  • Monday, October 08 2018
    8:00 PM
    Wells Fargo Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
  • Tuesday, October 09 2018
    8:00 PM
    TD Garden, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
  • Thursday, October 11 2018
    8:00 PM
    Scotiabank Arena (Formerly Air Canada Centre), Toronto, Canada
  • Saturday, October 13 2018
    8:00 PM
    Prudential Center, Newark, New Jersey, USA
  • Sunday, October 14 2018
    8:00 PM
    Barclays Center, Brooklyn, New York, USA
  • Tuesday, October 16 2018
    8:00 PM
    Bell Centre, Montreal, Canada
  • Thursday, October 18 2018
    8:00 PM
    Quicken Loans Arena, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
  • Friday, October 19 2018
    8:00 PM
    Nationwide Arena, Columbus, Ohio, USA
  • Sunday, October 21 2018
    8:00 PM
    Target Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
  • Monday, October 22 2018
    8:00 PM
    United Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA
  • Thursday, October 25 2018
    8:00 PM
    Oracle Arena, Oakland, California, USA
  • Saturday, October 27 2018
    7:00 PM
    MGM Grand Garden Arena, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
  • Sunday, October 28 2018
    8:00 PM
    The Forum – Los Angeles, Inglewood, California, USA

Phil Collins North American Tour

  • 10/05 – Ft. Lauderdale, FL @ BB&T Center
  • 10/07 – Washington, DC @ Capital One Arena
  • 10/08 – Philadelphia, PA @ Wells Fargo Center
  • 10/09 – Boston, MA @ TD Garden
  • 10/11 – Toronto, ON @ Air Canada Centre
  • 10/13 – Newark, NJ @ Prudential Center
  • 10/14 – Brooklyn, NY @ Barclays Center
  • 10/16 – Montreal, QC @ Centre Bell
  • 10/18 – Cleveland, OH @ Quicken loans Aren
  • 10/19 – Columbus, OH @ Nationwide Arena
  • 10/21 – Minneapolis, MN @ Target Center
  • 10/22 – Chicago, IL @ United Center
  • 10/25 – Oakland, CA @ Oracle Arena
  • 10/27 – Las Vegas, NV @ MGM Grand Garden Aren
  • 10/28 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Forum

Phil Collins Health

In 2000, he lost hearing in his left ear due to a viral infection, it was resolved after the infection was cured. In September 2009, it was announced that he could no longer play the drums, due to an operation to repair a dislocated vertebrae in his neck. He personally said on the Genesis band website that, there was no drama regarding his disability and playing drums. During the last Genesis tour, he dislocated some vertebrae in his upper neck and that affected his hands.

After a successful operation on his neck, his hands still couldn’t function normally, it was impossible for him to play drums or piano. In 2010, he stated in an interview that he had thought of commiting suicide, but resisted for the sake of his children. In 2016, he acknowledged that he had struggled with an alcohol problem following his retirement and third divorce, he also stated in the book that he had been sober for three years.

On 8 June 2017, he postpone two planned tours, as a result of a back operation which makes it difficult to walk. He slipped in his hotel room, on his way to the toilet in the night, hitting his head in the fall on a chair. He had stitches for a severe gash on his head close to his eye.

Phil Collins Songs

  • In the Air Tonight
  • Another Day in Paradise
  • Against All Odds
  • One More Night
  • Easy Lover
  • You’ll Be in My Heart
  • Sussudio
  • I Wish It Would Rain Down
  • I Don’t Care Anymore
  • Take Me Home
  • Two Hearts
  • You Can’t Hurry Love
  • Do You Remember
  • A Groovy Kind of Love
  • Everyday
  • Separate Lives
  • Can’t Stop Loving You
  • True Colors
  • Don’t Lose My Number
  • I Can’t Dance
  • Something Happened on the Way to Heaven
  • Strangers Like Me
  • If Leaving Me Is Easy
  • Two Worlds
  • That’s All
  • Both Sides of The Story
  • I Missed Again
  • Mama
  • Hold On My Heart
  • Land of Confusion
  • Follow You Follow Me
  • Can’t Turn Back The Years

Phil Collins Disney Songs

  • Strangers Like Me
  • No Way Out

Phil Collins The Singles Songs

  • Easy Lover
  • Two Hearts
  • Sussudio
  • I Missed Again
  • Wear My Hat
  • Don’t Lose My Number
  • You Can’t Hurry Love
  • Something Happened on the Way to Heaven
  • We Wait And We Wonder
  • Can’t Stop Loving You
  • Dance Into the Light
  • It’s in Your Eyes
  • Hang In Long Enough
  • Thru These Walls
  • I Wish It Would Rain Down
  • Both Sides of The Story
  • (Love Is Like a) Heatwave
  • Going Back
  • In the Air Tonight
  • Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)
  • If Leaving Me Is Easy
  • One More Night
  • Separate Lives
  • A Groovy Kind Of Love
  • That’s Just the Way It Is
  • Do You Remember
  • Everyday
  • True Colors
  • You’ll Be in My Heart
  • The Least You Can Do
  • Look Through My Eyes
  • Another Day in Paradise
  • Take Me Home

Phil Collins Albums

  • Face Value
  • No Jacket Required
  • …But Seriously
  • Both Sides
  • Hello, I Must Be Going!
  • Going Back
  • Testify
  • Serious Hits… Live!
  • Live at Montreux 2004
  • Dance into the Light
  • The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
  • Selling England by the Pound
  • You Ought to Know…
  • Live and Loose in Paris
  • A Trick of the Tail
  • Genesis Live
  • Frère des Ours (Bande Originale Française du Film)
  • Tarzan (Bande Originale Française du Film)
  • Hits
  • The Singles
  • Love Songs: A Compilation… Old and New
  • Best Ballads
  • The Platinum Collection
  • 12″ers
  • A Little Bit of Something for the Weekend
  • At Fukuoka Dome: Live
  • Bee Gees Greatest Hits
  • Plays Well With Others

Best Of Phil Collins

The following are Phil Collins’ top ten voted as his best songs:

  1.  In the Air Tonight
  2.  Another Day in Paradise
  3.  You’ll Be in My Heart
  4.  Against All Odds
  5.  Easy Lover
  6.  One More Night
  7.  I Wish It Would Rain Down
  8.  I Don’t Care Anymore
  9.  Do You Remember
  10.  Take Me Home

Phil Collins Music Groups

  • Genesis
  • Bee Gees
  • Brand X
  • Flaming Youth
  • The Phil Collins Big Band
  • Band Aid

Phil Collins Love Songs

Love Songs: A Compilation… Old and New is a compilation his album. It was released On 28 September 2004, by Atlantic Recording Corporation and Rhino Entertainment, only a few months after the box set The Platinum Collection, which appeared earlier in the year.

Artist: Phil Collins
Release date: 28 September 2004
Genres: Pop music, Pop rock

Phil Collins Genesis

Genesis were an English rock band formed at Charterhouse School, Godalming, Surrey in 1967. The most commercially successful and longest-lasting line-up consisted of keyboardist Tony Banks, bassist/guitarist Mike Rutherford with him as the drummer and singer.

Origin: Godalming, United Kingdom (1967)
Hall of fame induction: 2010
Members: Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel, Steve Hackett, Tony Banks, MORE
Genres: Progressive rock, Art rock, Pop rock, Progressive pop

Phil Collins Testify

Testify is his seventh solo studio album. The album debuted at No. 30 on the American Billboard 200 albums chart, which was also the album’s peak position. It was also the second Collins studio album where no track peaked within the American top 40 singles chart.

Release date: 11 November 2002
Recorded: 2000–2002 (Switzerland and United States)
Released: 11 November 2002 (UK)
Producers: Phil Collins, Rob Cavallo
Genres: Pop music, Pop rock

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Phil Collins Interview

Glenn O’Brien spoke with Collins the. afternoon before his New York solo debut at the Ritz. O’Brien found the ex-child actor still something of a child and some­thing of an actor, and a thoroughly charm­ing, casually witty and naturally hep hu­man being.

PHIL COLLINS: I’m really tired. I have a midnight show tonight. I’d be ready for that in a couple of weeks but

GLENN O’BRIEN: You just flew in today?

COLLINS: Day before yesterday. I’m not too bad….

O’BRIEN: Don’t they have the Concorde be­tween here and London?

COLLINS: Yeah, they do, but we came into Toronto. We played there last night. The trouble is that being so good on the road, when I’m off the road I do terrible things to myself. So I’m recovering from all that. But I’m fine. Don’t worry about me.

O’BRIEN: If that’s the case, do you spend enough time on the road to keep yourself out of trouble and in good condition?

COLLINS: Sure, I get really fit. Look at me.

O’BRIEN: You look okay. Of course, I’ve nev­er seen you before.

COLLINS: Actually, I do get very fit with Gene­sis because I do a lot of running around, a lot of playing. So I go out on the road flabby and I come back like Schwarze­negger.

O’BRIEN: You lose weight?

COLLINS: Yeah, although the older you get the less weight you lose. I sweat off a lot. But then I like to drink so I put it back on.

O’BRIEN: I’ve never seen you play live. Do you get out from behind the drums?

COLLINS: With the band I tend to sing from out front. Chester Thompson plays drums when I’m singing. He used to play with Frank Zappa and Weather Report. When there’s no singing I go back and play on my own kit. We play together quite a lot. Sometimes when I come back to the drums he’ll stop and go to percussion. Sometimes if there’s a vocal line or two in the middle of an instrumental part I will sing from the drums. On my own tour I play keyboards as well as sing and I play some drums. I get around.

O’BRIEN: Is it hard to sing while you play drums?

COLLINS: Not for me. I did it while I was in a school group. I had a group when I was fourteen—we did a lot of Motown stuff, a lot of Styx stuff. I was the only singer in the group so I learned to co-ordinate and sing at the same time so now it’s no prob­lein.

O’BRIEN: It always amazes me when drum­mers sing because it seems that every limb is doing something different…

COLLINS: It has to be second nature. It just looks so dull—to have the lead singer of a group on the drums is visually the kiss of death.

O’BRIEN: Well, did you ever think of having a. revolving drum platform on wheels that would roll up to the front when it was time to sing, maybe, with a built-in light show?

COLLINS: Fortunately, I never came up with that idea. You have to get out there and com­municate—they have to see you singing. They can’t see you singing in these big places, if you’re hidden behind eight torn toms and fifteen cymbals, so I opted for the other way out.

O’BRIEN: Do you use drum machines?

COLLINS: I do use them a lot. The basis of everything I write is drum machine rhythm. I have four or five drum machines at home. I just set up a pattern, get a sound on my Prophet or piano and just sod about until I get something I like. I’m not a drummer who believes they are a threat. When I first started doing my records at home I found myself playing drums and singing along and then putting the keyboards on later. It was hard work doing it like that. It’s easier to get the drum machine going and play the keyboards, then later replace the machine with drums. But I like drum machines a lot. I think they’re much maligned instruments.

O’BRIEN: Someone was telling me about a new Linn machine that’ s supposed to be really advanced.

COLLINS: The most significant development is in the chips. The length of time that you’ve been able to get on a microchip up till now has been about half a second, which means that you have a very clipped sound, you can’t have cymbals which have a long decay. Now you can get about a second, so you can have cymbals. The new Linn has that. I have an English equivalent of a Linn which has got my own sounds in it: the “In the Air” sound for instance, and the “In­truder” sound. Well, I will have that, when they bloody deliver it, on my own drum machine. I’ve got me on chip, which is a nice thing to have.

O’BRIEN: It will, actually be the sound of you playing on the chip.

COLLINS: Yeah, when I was doing Frida’s album I spent a few hours with Hugh Padgett recording sounds that I like so I could give a tape to the drum machine company.

O’BRIEN: Can other people buy that chip with you playing on it?

COLLINS: No.

O’BRIEN: Well, if you buy a standard chip who is playing on it?

COLLINS: I don’t know. It’s this faceless charac­ter. It has gotten to the stage now that when you book people… people like Harvey Mason—a big session drummer in En­gland—you’ll book him for a session and he’ll come to the session with the Linn drum and he’ll just program the thing with his sounds on it. He might not actually play drums, but it’s him on the Linn. When you buy a Linn machine someone has actually played on those chips in the first place, but that could be anybody Eddie Session.

O’BRIEN: Were drums the first instrument you played?

COLLINS: Yes. I was given a drum when I was about three or four. When I was five my uncle made me a drum kit that fit into a suitcase, made out of tambourines, triang­les, cymbals, toy drums.

O’BRIEN: Did you ask for drums?

COLLINS: No, I think every kid… you were nev­er given a drum when you were three years old?

O’BRIEN: No, I think that’s the last thing my parents would have given me.

COLLINS: The old cliché is, “Well, at least it will keep him quiet.”

O’BRIEN: What kind of music were you in­terested in?

COLLINS: My brother was eight or nine years older and he was always listening to Radio Luxembourg which played Bill Haley, Eddie Cochran, stuff like that, which didn’t interest me at all. I never ever liked that music, but when I started playing seriously, the English beat thing was just happening, the Shadows and bands like that. It was the very early ’60s. I remem­ber buying Please Please Me. I used to put the record player on very loud and set up my drums so I was facing the mirror, that way you don’t look at what you’re doing. Then when I was fourteen I went to a teacher to learn to read drum music. I figured when this rock-and-roll thing finished I would have to make a living playing in a dance band or in an orchestra pit. So I learned to read drum music, but I found that my capacity for reading was not anywhere near as good as actually playing by instinct. I would have this chart in front of me and my teacher would have me play it and I’d play it very haltingly. I’d get exasperated and I’d ask him to play it and he’d play it and I’d say, “Oh you mean that!” and I would repeat it perfectly. Give it to me written down and I had no idea. So I decided to abandon that area of learning and ever since I’ve lived off my wits musically. When I would do sessions, if they would hum me the song I could play it, but if they wanted me to read a part, they had the wrong bloke. Fortunately, I don’t think I’ll ever have to do that for a living.

O’BRIEN: It seems to me that most great drummers started out being inspired by jazz.

COLLINS: I think so. That’s because of the free­dom in jazz to develop a certain personal­ity. People always tend to think that I’m more of a jazz fan than I really am. In great jazz there’s basically a tempo and you can express yourself around it. But now you can express yourself that way in other types of music.

O’BRIEN: You must have become a jazz fan at some point, right?

COLLINS: Yeah, I was always fascinated by big bands. I loved the very first Buddy Rich big band. I was a huge fan. I bought all of his albums. You go through fads of drumming and I no longer idolize Buddy Rich; I do admire him. I respect what he is and what he’s done and how he still kicks it around when he’s 60. What he was doing with big bands has been copied by lots of different groups, the band Yes being one of them. That style of arranging crept into rock-and-roll.

O’BRIEN: Later you learned to play piano and trumpet?

COLLINS: No, I don’t play trumpet. I pretend to play trumpet. The trumpet to me is what the violin is to Jack Benny.

O’BRIEN: How old were you when you joined Genesis?

COLLINS:I’ve been in it twelve years and I’m 31 now, so I must have been 19.

O’BRIEN: Was it a big group then?

COLLINS: I think they’d only been going on the road professionally for about a year before I joined up. They were together before that but they were still in school. They weren’t big. They were hard workin’, seven days a week.

O’BRIEN: I was wondering if you were joining a famous band.

COLLINS: No. I was joining a band that was known for working. I joined as Trespass came out, that was the first proper album the band made. That did well in some European countries. In Italy and Belgium it went to number one, but it wasn’t until three or four years after that we became popular in England as a result of hard work.

O’BRIEN: Can you be anonymous in England? If you walk down the street does everybody point and say…

bThere goes Johnny Lydon? It varies. I only go to the places where I know I’m going to be recognized. I live in a town called Guilford. That’s one of the places where Genesis used to work a lot: it’s a university town so there are a lot of kids who know me. It’s not as if I drive through town in the Rolls Royce I haven’t got, I just go down to the supermarket and somebody says “Hey Phil, I like the album.” Genesis has always been anonymous. We look much the same as anybody else. It’s only since I’ve had my picture on the record cover that people know what I look like. Also I change what I look like. Long hair and beard, long hair and no beard, short hair and beard; I’m constantly changing what I look like because it makes me think differently, gives me a different personality.

O’BRIEN: What do you think of the boom in rock videos?

COLLINS: I think with a lot of them it’s almost as if they’ve found a director who can use all these gadgets and they’ve let him loose. When I was going to do a video of In the Air, Virgin:Records sent me tapes of various directors, David Mallet, who is supposed to be very, very good, who did Bowie’s stuff and the Stones’ , stuff, Raymond Mulcai anyway, they sent me three or four tapes of endless videos—all this color coding and chroma-key. I like to have a very strong simple idea and exploit it. Like or not the videos I do, they’re all my ideas and at least I know I’ve got control over them. It seems to me that a lot of people just hand the song over to a director and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t. But I dislike more than most.

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