Phil Collins to hit NYC to promote upcoming Motown covers disc

About six months ago, I wrote about Phil Collins and his plans to release a disc of Motown covers. Well it looks like that disc is finally going to see the light of day. Titled “Going Back”, the disc will hit stores in September and will feature covers of such Motown classics as The Temptations’ [...]

One Hit Wonder Wednesday: Easy Lover

Call it a Tale of Two Phils. Phil Collins’ association with the Earth, Wind & Fire vocalist goes back to Collins’ debut solo album, Face Value, in 1981. On that and subsequent albums Collins made frequent use of the EWF horn section. When Philip Bailey asked Collins to produce his own second solo album, 1985′s [...]

Please, not again.

I’ve always liked Phil Collins in all his incarnations, as it were. There was Phil.1, the songwriter and drummer for the Peter Gabriel era of Genesis. Then there was Phil.2, songwriter, drummer and now lead vocalist of Genesis. That was folowed by Phil.3, hugely successful solo artist and ongoing member of Genesis. I saw Genesis [...]

Cover Me (double shot): Shadows In The Rain/Behind The Lines

It’s one thing for an artist to record a cover version of someone else’s song, but what to make of an artist who records a new version of their own song (I’m just talking studio versions; not live albums)? Creative licence or lack of originality?  You be the judge. Two cases in point:  I’ve always [...]

Rockin’ All Over The World (July 13, 1985)

What an event it was. A globally televised concert to raise money for famine relief. Concerts were held simultaneously at Wembley Stadium in London and JFK Stadium in Philadelphia, and broadcast to countries around the world. I can remember watching from my parent’s basement and making sure I had enough Beta(!) tapes to record the [...]