Phil Collins was everywhere in the 1980s. He had more top forty singles
in the US than any other artist during the 1980s: fourteen as a solo
artist and eleven with Genesis, along with two number one albums. Add to
this, twenty-five solo / group hit singles and eight number one albums
in the UK. He also recorded with artists as diverse as Peter Gabriel,
John Martyn, Frida, Robert Plant, Mike Oldfield, Marti Webb, Al Di
Meola, Adam Ant, Eric Clapton, Phil Bailey, Band Aid, Marilyn Martin,
Paul McCartney, Tina Turner, Chaka Khan and Tears For Fears - another
thirty-five albums or standalone singles, some of which were massive
global hits. He also found time, somehow, to tour with Plant and Clapton
in addition to his extensive in-concert duties with Genesis and as a
solo artist. And perform at Live Aid. At both concerts. That's around
six hundred live concerts in total between 1980 and 1989. There's no
doubt that the guy was busy in that period! Amidst the overwhelming
commercial success and ahead of any other career plan Phil Collins was
and is a musician. His ubiquity between 1980 and 1989 hides ten years of
magnificent music and this book examines Phil Collins' musical output
through these ten tumultuous years.
