Phil Collins is Retiring

[nissangirl74]

He says that due to his declining health, he is going to retire. He's 60 years old and has sold over 150 million albums. I'd say he's justified.
http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/stopth ... -problems/

Anyone else a fan?

Here's my favorite
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkADj0TPrJA[/youtube]

[RCA]

Phil is awesome.

23 year old dude.

[Razi]

Collins!

[Jesda]

"I look at the MTV Music Awards and I think, 'I can't be in the same business as this.' I don't really belong to that world... I'm much happier just to write myself out of the script entirely."

[nissangirl74]

"I look at the MTV Music Awards and I think, 'I can't be in the same business as this.' I don't really belong to that world... I'm much happier just to write myself out of the script entirely."

Very telling words. The music world has slid a long way since his glory days.

[Razi]

[dre1507]

i loved this:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIiuBfzZ ... C6C5187BD6[/youtube]

i also like son of man.

[mmkeller]

Being a big Miami Vice fan, of course I am a fan of Phil Collins. Started when he was with Genesis. Although his acting on Vice was forgettable, his music will be remembered.

[sx moneypit]

Saw him in Memphis at the Mid South Coliseum in the mid 80s, one of the best shows i have ever been to.

[frapjap]

Phil Collins rocks! 2 albums get regular rotation on my hard drive. Helluva successful artist too. I remember a classic rock station playing ever #1 hit by the decade by the artist. Genesis had SO FREGGIN' MANY! They were on for what felt like days. Then they got to his solo act. Hes the man- read his biography sometime, thats a good book. I would have loved to see him live; my mom was lucky enough to get to see him 2-3 times.

[Bubba1]

I liked his work too, but I thought he had retired a few years ago, when his back was giving him problems.

[MinisterofDOOM]

This video rocks:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU9lv_WqK6k[/youtube]

[Rev_D21]

The end of an era.

[RCA]

This video rocks:

THIS!

I didn't know Phil was still around. I haven't heard any new stuff from him in a while.

[RicerX]

I may be one of the few in this thread, but while he was a very talented song writer and singer, I respect him most for his contributions to drumming.

It was sad reading the article about him retiring from drumming as he can no longer play due to complications from some surgeries he had (I'm guessing for his back). I was hoping he'd still do music to some extent, but I totally understand his reasoning. TRUE music hardly gets the recognition it deserves these days. Seems anyone with a microphone and an iMac can win a grammy these days.

[Rev_D21]

Here's some crazy old PC with Peter Gabriel during the Genesis years, my favorite stuff. PC wrote this track BTW.


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HDDCJ9lKKI[/youtube]

[gmac708]

And then there were none....

[Encryptshun]

I may be one of the few in this thread, but while he was a very talented song writer and singer, I respect him most for his contributions to drumming.

Count me in with you. I started drumming at age 10 and he was one of my earliest and biggest influences. Most of my friends were "Lars Ulrich" this and "Neil Peart" that. While those two were later influences, my first were Phil Collins, Bill Ward, Don Henley, Charlie Watts and Carl Palmer.

[szh]

Here's my favorite
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkADj0TPrJA[/youtube]

By far his best, IMHO.

Z

[RicerX]

SZH - I see that and I raise you this:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egJR3K6UIJY[/youtube]

Just awesome.

[themadscientist]

If you are going to post a video, do the right one!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCE7vXXv9M8[/youtube]