Following the deaths of Meet Me in St Louis and Milburn, Phil Collins appears to have retired from music, everyone.
The former Genesis man and solo artist in his own right apparently told a journalist from The Times as much in an interview published this morning.
Collins has recently finished a world reformation tour with Genesis and he’s done with playing live now. As well as that, there’s no album planned, which could of course mean that he’s out of this music game for good or simply that he’s got nothing planned for the time being.
Still – ‘PHIL COLLINS RETIRES’ does admittedly make for a better headline.
In an interesting aside, Times scribe Pete Paphides said that Collins sounded “more excited about nurturing his collection of memorabilia relating to the Battle of the Alamo”.
“It’s not that unusual for a man of my age who grew up reading Davy Crockett,” Collins claims, before polishing his gun barrel and sprinting off into the distance.
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NOOOOOOOOOOO
I mean, yesss.
how odd
Brighton mask-rock legends Phil Collins Three played their last gig at the weekend just gone as well.
oh.
i was just about to mention phil collins 3 aswell...
i didnt get to go, mighty sad :(
this thread title
is bullshit
^this
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Yeah
I shouldn't have done that.
Fixed, with apologies.
Nice.
:)
Best. News. EVAR!
Yup.
Oh
and lovely photo!
i thought he was actually dead
Shouldn't have altered the title
^ this
lost its charm.
FUCK LAWSUITS
What was the original title???
Dammit, I hate missing things!
RIP: Phil Collins
That
is a far better headline.
It's quite misleading
I thought he was actually dead until I seen the Eastenders pic!
Misleading, yes
but all the better for it, shirley?
i've been wishing
that for a long time
his retirement will do for now though
The Cabury Gorilla
upstaged him one time too many...
did he announce it by fax?
BADUMTISH
What
am I supposed to buy my dad for his Birthday/Christmas/Aniversary/Fathers Day?
its ok his albums will still be on general sale
fuck all youz haterz
Collins has concocted some masterpieces... Against all Oddz, Two Hearts, EZ Lover.
Don't tell me the world would be brighter a place without them.
Just don't even go there sistas
High Five!
^ + Separate Lives
^ Choooon!
+ Another Day in Paradise... the musings of a multimillionaire on poverty never sounded so wrong and yet, incredibly, so right.
Well, John Lennon did it...
with "Imagine". No one moans about him though!
Phil Collins is the enemy of music
his turgid and dull musings cast a very long shadow on music in the 80s and 90s. The world is a better place without him. We can all rest easy now.
What he said
Yeah.
Phil and Mick on a farm
Maybe Collins and Hucknell will both go live on a remote farm together and sing each other to sleep over some fresh pig shit..?
yeah more on TPC3
Yeah this shouldn't have been about the phil collins3 not the dickcheese himself.
But there is hope! Los Mendozas can now happily fill the void in our lives.
For pictures of both bands at the final tpc3 show last weekend go to
http://www.flickr.com/photos/theavangelist
fat wankers
you're all a bunch of fat wankers... don't deny the beauty of PC's music. You'll only end up hatring yourself and that just ain't helfy
^ Hey Jesechristo is Phil Collins your dad?
if not then i would be worried why your defending possibly one of the blandest musicians to come out of these shores. The target audience for Phil Collins listeners is someone who drives a Ford Mondeo, dresses like Alan Partridge (in a non ironic way) and reads the Daily Mail - does that describe you in anyway?
sports casual is due a comeback
And if you'd care to check any copy of What? Car magazine you'd realise that the Ford Mondeo is a "comfortable family run-around with a very competitive level of miles to the gallon."
Research.
jesus
this guy is alan partridge
for my two pennyworth
collins music is very hard for me to listen to (and that's with my girlfriend playing it often) - i don't like the production - the general sound and feeling of his music
his music makes me feel old and not in a good way
it's often plodding and predictable
that said : when i'm 40/45 maybe i'll connect to it then
Against all odds (take a look at me now)
Actual guilty pleasure
gah
there was a retrospective on his <snort guffaw> "genius" in the guardian guide, then the coffe shop was playing One More Night whn I just got coffee, now THIS. FUCK YOU PHIL COLLINS!!!!!
Actually, I thought before he did Genesis (who are rubbish, shut up) he was on his First Farewell Tour, implying he'd be doing a few laps of the world to fleece his fans a couple more times?
Actually, how many jokes can we get out of him doing a residency at the Dome?
at least...
...he can say he was once Peter Gabriel's drummer.
cunt
cunt said he would leave the uk if a labour governemtn ever got into power, then wrote a song about the plight of homelessness, what a cunt.
are you telling me...
...that you can't dig the incomparable beauty of 'No Jacket Required'?
I'll dig it
Dig it a fucking six foot hole, smack the fucker over the head with a shovel and bury him without checking he's dead while singing su-su-sudio in a mocking high voice. The day he got mugged in the west end was a very sad day for me, 1) I didn't get there in time to give him a good kicking 2) the mugger didn't finish him off.
though... in his defence he divorced his wife by fax after catching her with the house painter, he's a reasonable drummer, he's not as bad as Mugabe...
"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture" F Zappa
If you don't understand why Collins is respested as a drummer by jazz and hip-hop artsits, you don't know music from your arse mate.