Phil Collins

12/23/1989 "Another Day In Paradise" #1 The Billboard Hot 100. A version of "When You Walk in the Room" by Pam Tillis in 1994 topped the country charts. He is married to his third wife and lives in Switzerland. The songs "Breakaway" recorded by Tracey Ullman in 1983 and "Put a Little Love in Your Heart" recorded by Annie Lennox and Al Green in 1988 also became huge hits. He played drums for the likes of Paul McCartney, Ozzy Osbourne and Cliff Richard. It earned DeShannon the 1982 Grammy Award for Song of the Year. The previous year he accepted an invitation to be the drummer in the 'house band' at the rock concert celebrating Queen Elizabeth II's Golden Jubilee. In 1975 with Donna Weiss, she composed "Queen of the Rodeo" and "Bette Davis Eyes" for her album New Arrangement. The song "Bette Davis Eyes" later became a worldwide Number 1 single for singer Kim Carnes in 1981.

In recent years he has reportedly been losing his hearing in one ear, and in 2003 announced a farewell tour. While DeShannon hasn't produced any further Top Ten singles of her own, her songs have been covered by other artists who have in turn converted them into hits. Collins does not read and write conventional musical notation but uses a system of his own devising. In 1973 she was invited by Van Morrison to sing on his Hard Nose the Highway album. Disney hired Collins in 2003 for the soundtrack to another animated feature film, Brother Bear. Switching to Atlantic Records in 1970 and moving to Los Angeles, DeShannon recorded the critically acclaimed albums Jackie and Your Baby Is a Lady but they failed to produce the same commercial successes of previous releases. His song "You'll Be in My Heart" won an Academy Award. The single "Love Will Find a Way" off the same album was also a moderate hit.

Collins is a successful songwriter, and was asked by The Walt Disney Company to produce the score for the animated film Tarzan in 1999. DeShannon continued writing and recording but it wasn't until 1968 when she scored her next biggest smash single and album, both entitled Put a Little Love in Your Heart. The Phil Collins Big Band also did a world tour in 1998 and performed at the Montreaux Jazz Festival. She appeared in the 1967 film C'mon Let's Live a Little with Bobby Vee, as a folk singer. In 1996, Phil formed the "Phil Collins Big Band", which, with Phil as drummer, performed jazz renditions of Phil Collins and Genesis hits. In late 1965, DeShannon recorded Bacharach and David's "What the World Needs Now Is Love" and it provided her first Number 1 hit and regular appearances on television shows and club tours. Collins' passion for Big Band music is well documented. Moving to New York, DeShannon co-wrote with Randy Newman producing such songs as "She Don't Understand Him" and "Did He Call Today Mama" as well as writing "You Have No Choice" for Delaney Bramblett.

Testify featured the Leo Sayer cover Can't Stop Loving You, and Come With Me - a heartfelt father-to-child song originally written in 1990 but finally recorded for Collins' baby son Nicholas. When Jimmy Page recorded his first solo single for Fontana Records, DeShannon sang vocals on "Keep Moving", the B-side of "She Just Satisfies". His latest studio album, 2002's Testify met with a similar fate, adored by fans but failing to make much impact on the mainstream charts. DeShannon also appeared on the television show Ready Steady Go!. The album failed to elicit much commercial interest, although stylistically it harked back to the sound of his '80s smashes. Both Page and DeShannon also wrote material for singer Marianne Faithfull including her Top Ten UK and US hit "Come and Stay with Me". Phil Collins' 1996 album Dance Into the Light included songs like "No Matter Who", a rendition of Bob Dylan's "The Times They Are A-Changin" and the comical music video "Wear My Hat" which featured Danny DeVito. Staying briefly in England in 1965, DeShannon formed a songwriting partnership with Jimmy Page, which resulted in hit singles "Dream Boy" and "Don't Turn Your Back on Me".

Collins' total worldwide album sales, including Genesis albums, are approximately two hundred million. Her music at this stage was heavily influenced by the American West Coast sounds and folk music. Subsequent releases never reached the levels of his 1980s albums. DeShannon also wrote "Don' Doubt Yourself Babe" for The Byrds debut album. Collins' record sales dropped after the 1993 release of Both Sides, a largely experimental album which ironically, according to Collins is his finest, despite the fact that he abandoned the winning formula that had brought him so much success in the '80s. DeShannon's biggest break came in February, 1964 when she supported The Beatles on their first US tour, and formed a touring band with guitarist Ry Cooder. The song went to Number 1 on the Billboard US Charts and won Phil Collins a Grammy for “Record of the Year” (1990). She also co-starred and sang with Bobby Vinton in the teen surf movie Surf Party.

In 1989, Collins produced another hugely successful album, But Seriously..., which featured the anti-homelessness anthem Another Day In Paradise. DeShannon dated Elvis Presley and formed friendships with The Everly Brothers and Ricky Nelson. He also played a cameo role in Miami Vice and guest starred in some sketches with The Two Ronnies. During these years it was her songwriting and public profile, rather than her singing, which kept her contracted to Liberty Records. Phil Collins’ rendition of “A Groovy Kind of Love” for that movie reached Number One on the charts. She recorded many other singles that encompassed teen pop, country ballads, rockabilly, gospel and Ray Charles style soul that didn't fare as well on the charts. Collins began 1988 by acting in the movie Buster, in which he played train robber Buster Edwards. English group The Searchers later covered both songs in 1963 for success on the UK charts.

He also recorded the critically-acclaimed Separate Lives, a duet with Marilyn Martin. In 1962, DeShannon signed with Liberty Records and recorded "Needles and Pins" and "When You Walk in the Room", with both resulting in major American hits. Phil also enjoyed another UK Number 1 with Easy Lover, a duet with Philip Bailey that same year. The partnership produced hits such as "Dum Dum" and "He's the Great Imposter" for Brenda Lee and The Fleetwoods respectively. DeShannon was then commissioned to write the soundtrack for the 1961 film Splendor in the Grass. The same year, Collins released his most successful album No Jacket Required, which contained hits like "Sussudio", "One More Night" and "Take Me Home" which featured ex-bandmate Peter Gabriel and Sting as backing vocalists. Recording under various names such as Sherry Lee, Jackie Dee, and Jackie Shannon, she had little success however her interpretations of country songs, "Buddy" and "Trouble", gained the attention of Eddie Cochran who arranged for her to travel to California and meet singer songwriter Sharon Sheeley, who formed a writing partnership with DeShannon in 1960. In 1985, Phil Collins performed at the Wembley stadium in England and flew to Philadelphia, United States the same day on a Concorde to perform with Live Aid, sing his solo material and then drum for Genesis and Led Zeppelin, making him the only man to perform in two continents on the same day. By the age of eleven, DeShannon was already hosting her own radio program.

He wrote and performed the award-winning title song to the movie Against All Odds in 1984 and appeared as drummer at the Band Aid recording at the end of the year. The daughter of showbusiness parents, Sandra Jean and James Erwin Myers, DeShannon was introduced to singing country tunes on a local radio show at the age of six. Phil Collins continued to record as a solo artist and with Genesis in 1983 releasing a Number One hit rendition of The Supremes’ “You Can’t Hurry Love” and the Genesis self titled album which went to Number 9 on the Billboard Album Charts,. Jackie DeShannon was born in Hazel, Kentucky. Another urban legend has it that Collins performed on Top Of The Pops with a paintbrush on top of his piano since the man for whom his wife left him was a painter. Record company executives at Liberty Records thought the name Sharon Myers wouldn't sell records. This is purely myth; Collins says the song, like the album, refers to his feelings about his divorce from his first wife, Andrea. Sharon Myers adopted the name Jackie DeShannon, believed to be an Irish ancestor.

There are many stories around the song, but usually they have to do with Phil seeing a man let someone drown, writing the song about the man, then inviting him to its debut, and singing it while the man is in the spotlight. She is one of the first female singer songwriters of the rock 'n' roll period. The song “In the Air Tonight” launched Phil Collins as a solo artist and is now part of folklore. Jackie DeShannon, real name Sharon Lee Myers, (born August 21, 1944) is an American singer/songwriter with a string of hit song credits from the 1960s onwards. Phil Collins vented frustrations in his marital life by composing new material which formed the bulk of his first solo album Face Value in 1981. The Catcher (1972) (television series). Collins and Gabriel reunited with Tony Banks, Mike Rutherford and Steve Hackett in 1999 to re-record "Carpet Crawl" ("The Carpet Crawlers") from The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway for Genesis' "Turn It On Again: The Hits". C'mon Let's Live a Little (1967).

Phil Collins parted ways with Genesis in 1995 after a massive world tour. Intimacy (1966). Most of thier work this year was orchestrated by Leeroy Williams, member of the legendary 80's band GATE and later to join the boys. Surf Party (1964). The group also received an MTV “Video of the Year” award for “Land of Confusion”. You Know Me (2000). With Phil Collins as lead singer, the group scored a string of successful albums, including the 1986 Invisible Touch, which was their first UK Top hit. Come and Get Me: Best of 1958-1980 (2000) (compilation).

In the 1980s, Genesis moved from an progressive rock base to one that was more pop oriented. The Early Years (1998) (compilation). In the 1980s he did session drumming for such high-profile acts as Robert Plant, Howard Jones and Tears for Fears. Trouble with Jackie Dee (1991). During the 1970s Collins also played drums for the jazz fusion band Brand X. The Best of Jackie DeShannon (1991) (compilation). The band enjoyed its most commercially successful period with Collins as vocalist, which essentially began in 1978 when the single Follow You, Follow Me became their first UK Top 10 hit. Good as Gold! (1990) (compilation).

The follow up album A Trick of the Tail outsold all previous Genesis albums combined. What the World Needs Now Is ...: The Definitive Collection (1987) (compilation). The group also recruited former Yes drummer Bill Bruford and later Chester Thompson to play drums during live shows. Jackie DeShannon (1985) (compilation). In 1975, after the final tour of Genesis’ ambitious, concept album The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, frontman Peter Gabriel left the group and Collins took over as lead vocalist. Pop Princess (1981) (compilation). Genesis gained acclaim as major progressive rock outfit with compositions such as their 1972 magnum opus, the 23 minute "Supper's Ready" from Foxtrot. Together (1980) (soundtrack).

Collins also regularly sang backing vocals on all Genesis albums up until 1975. Quick Touches (1978). Phil Collins gained acclaim as a “technically sound drummer” and sang lead vocals on “For Absent Friends” (from Nursery Cryme) and “More Fool Me” (from Selling England by the Pound). You're the Only Dancer (1977). Phil Collins impressed the group enough for them to hire him as a fulltime drummer. The Very Best of Jackie DeShannon (1975) (compilation). During the audition, prospective candidates were asked to play pieces from the group’s sophomore album Trespass. New Arrangement (1975).

The ad was for an up and coming rock group called Genesis. Your Baby Is a Lady (1974). In 1970 Phil Collins answered a Melody Maker classified ad for “..a drummer sensitive to acoustic music and twelve-string guitars”. Jackie (1972). His career had begun early, as a child actor and model, highlights of which included appearing onstage in Oliver! as the Artful Dodger and as an extra on The Beatles’ A Hard Day's Night, though he jokes “Paul McCartney doesn’t believe me!”. Songs (1971). By the time he was a teenager he was a fully accomplished drummer. To Be Free (1970).

He instantly harbored ambitions to drum properly and professionally, and as he got older, his uncles made him a makeshift kit for him to practice on. Put a Little Love In Your Heart (1969). Collins' ambitions to wield the sticks started early when he was given a toy drum for Christmas at the age of three. Laurel Canyon (1969).
. Lonely Girl (1968) (compilation). Phil Collins has collaborated with such well known musicians as George Harrison, Paul McCartney, Robert Plant, Eric Clapton, Mike Oldfield, Sting, Peter Gabriel and Ravi Shankar. What the World Needs Now Is Love (1968).

He was the lead drummer for the jazz-fusion group Brand X and progressive rock band Genesis. Me About You (1968). Philip David Charles Collins (born January 30, 1951 in London), better known as Phil Collins, is a British rock/pop musician. For You (1967). Phil Collins) #19 UK. New Image (1967). 2003 "Home" (Bone Thugs-N-Harmony feat. Are You Ready for This? (1967).

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