It is known that 74-year-old musician deals with health problems, but fans still had hope of specific movement in the idol’s career
It’s no secret to fans that Phil Collins deals with physical problems. Today 74 years old, the musician famous for the work with Genesis and solo career suffered a severe spine injury in 2007. It worsened further the wear and tear caused by decades as a drummer, whether on the back or nerves in general.
For some time, English has been moving with cane. In interviews, he says he can’t even hold a drumstick.
As a result, he has been retired from music since March 2022, when he completed a farewell tour of the Genesis. In a solo career, she has not performed a show since October 2019. In the final commitments, she was not standing: she came up on the sitting stage and remained until the end of the repertoire.
Despite this, there was hope on the part of the fans that Collins At least work on new songs, as it has been off stage and has not launched unprecedented material for a long time. The producer and entrepreneur Simon Naiper-Bell was responsible for renewing the mood of this part of the public by saying on Facebook (via Igor Miranda website), in 2024, that the friend had renovated his home studio. At the time, he said:
“We filmed Phil Collins [para um documentário] at his house near Lake Geneva. He was fit, full of fantastic stories, a lot of fun. And he has just renewed his studio. For sure, soon we will hear new music. ”
It seems, however, that the forecast of Naiper-cell It’s wrong. In an interview with Foolish, Collins It was categorical in declaring that fans should not expect new songs on their part. He explains:
“I still think I should go down to the studio and see what happens. But I’m not ‘hungry’ anymore. The problem is that I’m sick, very sick. ”
A pity. The trajectory of Phil As a solo artist, it should even end with the covers album Going Back2010. Eight years before, left Testifyyour last album of unpublished. With the Genesishis final studio work was We Can’t Dance1991.
Phil Collins Documentary theme
The trajectory of Phil It was narrated again, now in a documentary, produced by Drumo. Phil Collins: Drummer First He managed to put the iconic artist in a battery bank for the first time in a long time. He couldn’t play – and needed his son’s help Nic To sit – but gave some test drums at the kit you used during the album tour We Can’t Dance (1991).
Check out a preview of the movie (with the scene that brings Collins on the battery) and the full documentary (in English and without subtitles).
The origin of part of the problems of Phil Collins
During the documentary, NIC Collins, who is also a drummer – having accompanied the Genesis in the last shows and assembled the band itself Better Strangers He pointed out a detail that may have accentuated his father’s physical problems. The battery position required that Phil to lean forward. Without it, I couldn’t play.
The dilemma is that this led the veteran to posture errors. It wouldn’t be serious if it happened only once or another, but he spent decades that way. As a result, the artist deals with a chronic pain in the neck.
What the musician thinks about not being able to play
Also in the movie (via Igor Miranda website), Phil Collins He shared reflections on his “forced” remoteness of the battery. He acknowledges that it is strange to be able to play anymore and says it seems unnatural that it is simply to hold drumsticks after so long.
“I spent my whole life playing drums. Suddenly, no longer being able to do this is a shock. If I can’t do what I did as well as I did, I prefer to rest and do nothing. If I wake up one day and can hold a pair of drumsticks, then I will try. But I feel I already did everything I already had to do. It’s so strange to hold them now. I’m not a singer who plays a little battery. I’m more for a drummer who sings a little. ”
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