Phil Collins Net Worth

Phil Collins's Quotes

• I'm not a singer who plays a bit of drums. I'm a drummer that sings a bit.
• I don't own an ABBA album and I never had the urge to go and buy one. If you're just talking about well crafted pop songs, they were fantastic.
• I prefer black music in general.
• We're (Genesis) tarred with a brush we don't deserve... like Grateful Dead - now, I've never even heard a Grateful Dead album, but they're there in that corner, the same as we are to people who have never heard us! Maybe if I listened, I might like them. But it's frustrating, when we started, we used to got compared with Alice Cooper, David Bowie, Yes and the Floyd (Pink Floyd), because we used mellotrons and synthesisers, and were quite theatrical, but no one's put me in the same area as The Human League because they use drum machines.
• [to a music journalist in 1982] You put Genesis over there in a corner with Yes, ELP [Emerson Lake and Palmer], Moody Blues [The Moody Blues] and the Floyd [Pink Floyd] because that's the period we happened to come up in. I don't like any of those groups - so it angers me and frustrates me when we get compared to them.

Interesting Facts about Phil Collins

1. He first rose to fame as the drummer (and later singer) of the progressive and pop rock band Genesis. He announced his departure from Genesis in 1996 after many successful years so that he could focus completely on his solo career. In 2007, he returned for his final tour with the band, which was dubbed the "Turn it on Again" tour after their 1980 single.
2. He was awarded Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order of the British Empire in the 1994 Queen's Honours List for his services to music and charity.
3. He became a trustee of the Prince's Trust in 1983. He was one of the guests at the wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles.
4. He beat South Park (1997) creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone for the Best Original Song Oscar in 1999. In return, Parker and Stone ridiculed Collins in several South Park (1997) episodes.
5. He was chosen ahead of many other singers as a replacement for vocalist Peter Gabriel after Gabriel left Genesis for a solo career. Most fans readily accepted Collins because he had been singing backup to Gabriel for years in the band and knew the band's catalog very well.
6. He was the only artist to play at both of the main Live Aid (1985) concerts at both Wembley Stadium in London and John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia. He was able to accomplish the feat by getting on a Concorde and flying to Philadelphia as soon as he finished his set in London. Once in Philadelphia, he played drums for Eric Clapton, performed a solo set and then, along with Tony Thompson of Power Station, he sat in for the late John Bonham during Led Zeppelin's performance.
7. On 21 November 2003, he performed at the BBC's annual Children in Need charity event.
8. He has a son, the singer and drummer Simon Collins (born 1976) and a daughter, actress Joely Collins (born 1973) with his first wife, Andrea Collins; a second daughter, the film actress Lily Collins (born 1989) with his second wife, Jill Tavelman and two sons, Nicholas Grev Austin (born 21 April 2001) and Mathew Thomas Clemence (born 1 December 2004) with his third wife, Orianne.
9. He plays the piano.
10. In 2000, Mariah Carey and Westlife had a British number one hit with a cover of his song "Against All Odds" (originally a hit for Collins in 1984). The song became a number one single again, this time for Steve Brookstein, in 2005. It was also recorded by Michael Ball, appearing on his albums "The Movies", "Stage and Screen" and "Seasons of Love", Barry Manilow on his album "The Greatest Songs of the Eighties" and Bonnie Tyler on her album "Heart Strings".
11. In 1999, he reunited with his former Genesis bandmates Peter Gabriel, Tony Banks, Mike Rutherford and Steve Hackett for a re-recording of the Genesis song "The Carpet Crawlers" (originally from their 1974 album "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway"), which appears on the Genesis compilation "Turn it on Again". It was the first time since 1982 the five performed together, when Peter Gabriel reunited with the band for a charity concert. Steve Hackett was also there but performed only in the encore.
12. He never topped the UK singles chart with Genesis but had solo number ones with "You Can't Hurry Love" (1983), "Easy Lover" (1985) (with Philip Bailey) and "A Groovy Kind of Love" (1988). He has had UK number one solo albums with "Face Value" (1981), "No Jacket Required" (1985), "But Seriously" (1989), "Both Sides" (1993), "Hits" (1998) and "Going Back" (2010). He has also had UK number one Genesis albums with "Duke" (1980), "Abacab" (1981), "Genesis" (1983), "Invisible Touch" (1986), "We Can't Dance" (1991) and "Live - The Way We Walk - Vol 2: The Longs" (1993).
13. He is of English descent. His paternal line can be traced back to his great-grandfather, Arthur James Collins, who was born c. 1854, in England.
14. Chester Thompson played drums on Genesis and Phil Collins solo tours - thus enabling Phil to go out front where the punters could see him.
15. He played drums on Robert Plant's first two solo albums as well as accompanying Plant on his first solo tour. He sang backup vocals to Howard Jones on his 1986 single "No One Is To Blame". He also played drums and sang backup on Eric Clapton's single "Bad Love" from his album "Journeyman" (1989).
16. He started to play drums at the age of five.
17. He is the son of talent agent June Collins. His mother discovered Jack Wild, who was a childhood friend of Phil's and went on to play the Artful Dodger in Oliver! (1968), and Keith Chegwin, who also became an actor and British television presenter.
18. His favourite guitarist is Eric Clapton, who played on his singles "If Leaving Me Is Easy" and "I Wish It Would Rain Down".
19. His music video for his 1990 single "I Wish It Would Rain Down" featured him fictionally winning an Academy Award. He later won one for his song "You'll Be in My Heart" from the soundtrack to Tarzan (1999).
20. He won the British Phonographic Industry Award for British Male Solo Artist in 1986 following the success of his multi-million selling album "No Jacket Required". He won the 1989 Brit Award for British Male Solo Artist following the success of his singles "A Groovy Kind of Love" and "Two Hearts", both featured in the movie Buster (1988). He was also the winner of the 1990 Brit Awards for British Male Solo Artist and British Single for "Another Day in Paradise" following the success of his multi-million selling album "But Seriously".