Phil Collins

12/23/1989 "Another Day In Paradise" #1 The Billboard Hot 100. 1997 Stranded. He is married to his third wife and lives in Switzerland. 1998 Stranded (In Dub). He played drums for the likes of Paul McCartney, Ozzy Osbourne and Cliff Richard. 1998 Future of the Future (Stay Gold) [Australia]. 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. 1998 Future of the Future (Stay Gold) [US].

In recent years he has reportedly been losing his hearing in one ear, and in 2003 announced a farewell tour. 1998 Future of the Future (Stay Gold) [UK]. Collins does not read and write conventional musical notation but uses a system of his own devising. 1999 Summer's Over. Disney hired Collins in 2003 for the soundtrack to another animated feature film, Brother Bear. 1999 Mohammad Is Jesus. His song "You'll Be in My Heart" won an Academy Award. 2003 Global Underground: Toronto [12" Single].

Collins is a successful songwriter, and was asked by The Walt Disney Company to produce the score for the animated film Tarzan in 1999. 2004 Flashdance. The Phil Collins Big Band also did a world tour in 1998 and performed at the Montreaux Jazz Festival.
Single/EP. In 1996, Phil formed the "Phil Collins Big Band", which, with Phil as drummer, performed jazz renditions of Phil Collins and Genesis hits. 1998 Junk Science [Japan]. Collins' passion for Big Band music is well documented. 1999 Junk Science [Bonus Tracks].

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.
Box Set/Compilation. 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. 1995 Penetrate Deeper. The album failed to elicit much commercial interest, although stylistically it harked back to the sound of his '80s smashes. 3. 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. 1996 DJ's Take Control, Vol.

Collins' total worldwide album sales, including Genesis albums, are approximately two hundred million. 1997 Cream Separates. Subsequent releases never reached the levels of his 1980s albums. 1998 Junk Science. 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. 1999 Yoshiesque [UK]. The song went to Number 1 on the Billboard US Charts and won Phil Collins a Grammy for “Record of the Year” (1990). 1999 Yoshiesque.

In 1989, Collins produced another hugely successful album, But Seriously..., which featured the anti-homelessness anthem Another Day In Paradise. 2000 Renaissance Ibiza. He also played a cameo role in Miami Vice and guest starred in some sketches with The Two Ronnies. 2001 Global Underground: Moscow. Phil Collins’ rendition of “A Groovy Kind of Love” for that movie reached Number One on the charts. 2. Collins began 1988 by acting in the movie Buster, in which he played train robber Buster Edwards. 2001 Yoshiesque, Vol.

He also recorded the critically-acclaimed Separate Lives, a duet with Marilyn Martin. 2003 Global Underground: Toronto: Sharam [Afterclub Mix]. Phil also enjoyed another UK Number 1 with Easy Lover, a duet with Philip Bailey that same year. 2003 Global Underground: Toronto: Dubfire [Afterclub Mix]. 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. 2003 Global Underground: Toronto [Box Set]. 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. 2003 Global Underground: Toronto.

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. 3. 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,. 2003 Yoshiesque, Vol. 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.
Albums. This is purely myth; Collins says the song, like the album, refers to his feelings about his divorce from his first wife, Andrea. 2000 Renaissance Ibiza.

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. 2. The song “In the Air Tonight” launched Phil Collins as a solo artist and is now part of folklore. 2001 Yoshiesque, Vol. 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. 1998 Junk Science. 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". 2004 Flashdance.

Phil Collins parted ways with Genesis in 1995 after a massive world tour. Most Popular albums. 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.
. The group also received an MTV “Video of the Year” award for “Land of Confusion”.
. 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. And for those of us who are chomping at the bit for some more original Deep Dish material, rest assured because it's on its way.

In the 1980s, Genesis moved from an progressive rock base to one that was more pop oriented. Currently locked away in their DC studio, the in-demand duo are putting the finishing touches to a Madonnaremix. In the 1980s he did session drumming for such high-profile acts as Robert Plant, Howard Jones and Tears for Fears. You can also find them causing dance floor euphoria in Ibiza this year as they sign on for a Renaissance residency for the summer. During the 1970s Collins also played drums for the jazz fusion band Brand X. Their residencies continue at Twilo in NYC, Renaissance in Nottingham UK, 1015 in San Francisco and The End in London. 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. Somehow Ali and Sharam still manage to find the time to jet around the world with their record boxes stuffed full of priceless pieces of plastic.

The follow up album A Trick of the Tail outsold all previous Genesis albums combined. Keep your eyes peeled for more releases from Brother Brown - whose "Under The Water" was a standout tune on the first "Yoshiesque". The group also recruited former Yes drummer Bill Bruford and later Chester Thompson to play drums during live shows. Yoshitoshi continues to drop superior quality tunes on a very regular basis - recent successes include: Eddie Amador's "Rise", "Bases Loaded" by 2 Smokin' Barrels (actually San Francisco's Tony Hewitt and London's Terry Francis), Luzon's "The Baguio Track" and a debut release from Oliver Lieb's Smoked titled "Metropolis". 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. Keeping it diverse keeps us excited and we're there dancing right along with the people on the dance floor." The pair were recently holed up in their studio working on a new Renaissance mix which will be followed by another "Yoshiesque"' compilation later in the year. Genesis gained acclaim as major progressive rock outfit with compositions such as their 1972 magnum opus, the 23 minute "Supper's Ready" from Foxtrot. Says Ali:"We like playing tracks that people may not have heard before, styles that they may not think they're into.

Collins also regularly sang backing vocals on all Genesis albums up until 1975. Deep Dish know that good music is good music and - like Tenaglia before them - they have no snobbery when it comes to making people dance. 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). Refreshingly diverse and reassuringly unique, Deep Dish continue to fly in the face of the purists who believe in the one-sound-suits-all theory of DJing. Phil Collins impressed the group enough for them to hire him as a fulltime drummer. A melting pot of styles and genres, "Yoshiesque"' manages to capture the classy groove of the perfect Deep Dish set. During the audition, prospective candidates were asked to play pieces from the group’s sophomore album Trespass. Infusing their trademark eclectic sound with down-tempo, hard techno, trance, house and drum & bass, the album is a lovingly constructed dance floor experience.

The ad was for an up and coming rock group called Genesis. Deep, dark and delicious, "Yoshiesque" is a perfect example of what to expect should you be lucky enough to attend one of the Deep Dish DJ residencies around the globe. In 1970 Phil Collins answered a Melody Maker classified ad for “..a drummer sensitive to acoustic music and twelve-string guitars”. "Yoshiesque" is partly a retrospective look at the label's releases to date and partly an example of the Deep Dish clubbing experience. 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!”. With the release last year of their "Yoshiesque" compilation - a stunning mix of deep house, garage, tech house and techno - Deep Dish continue to readjust and re-tweak the parameters of contemporary dance music whilst never losing sight of the dance floor. By the time he was a teenager he was a fully accomplished drummer. Yoshitoshi has provided a welcome outlet for the likes of Brother Brown, Morel, Miguel Migs, Kings Of Tomorrow, YMC, Chiapet and Eddie Amador.

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. With a roster building into one of the finest in the country, Yoshitoshi is firmly established as supplier of some of the best beats from around the world. Collins' ambitions to wield the sticks started early when he was given a toy drum for Christmas at the age of three. A labor that has paid enormous dividends; only a few years since its inception and Yoshitoshi is a breeding ground for talent, giving a home to artists who otherwise may never be heard by the club-going masses.
. However, licensing tracks from smaller labels around the world, as well as finding new artists from demo tapes and bringing their projects to fruition, has been a labor of love for the duo in recent years. 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. Set up as a subsidiary of the larger Deep Dish label, Yoshitoshi was initially intended as a side-project, which would enable them to release their friends' recordings.

He was the lead drummer for the jazz-fusion group Brand X and progressive rock band Genesis. Enthused and invigorated by what they'd been hearing on these DJing excursions abroad, they had already founded the Yoshitoshi imprint in 1994. Philip David Charles Collins (born January 30, 1951 in London), better known as Phil Collins, is a British rock/pop musician. They've spent their time since "Junk Science" on a number of high profile projects, not least their own Djing events and residencies around the globe. Phil Collins) #19 UK. In 2000 Ali and Sharam could quite easily claim to be the most industrious men in dance music. 2003 "Home" (Bone Thugs-N-Harmony feat. "Stranded" became a worldwide dance floor hit and "The Future Of The Future (Stay Gold)" even made it onto daytime radio and flirted with Europe's pop charts.

from "Thug World Order" (album by Bone Thugs-N-Harmony)