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Phil Collins

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MyKingdomForACaramel · 16/08/2019 23:15

Ok am going to admit to liking listening to bit of 1980s power ballad shite. However listing to Phil Collins - and had a thought that it sounds like a sound track for the divorced man. Agree?

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Hawkmoth · 16/08/2019 23:16

He is correctly known as Phl FUCKING Cll*ns.

daisyboocantoo · 16/08/2019 23:18

Hé is divorced.

I don't understand what you mean OP

Pardonwhat · 16/08/2019 23:19

I must be a divorced man Grin

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MyKingdomForACaramel · 16/08/2019 23:19

@daisyboocantoo did he happen to write things like “take a look at me now” afterward?

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MyKingdomForACaramel · 16/08/2019 23:20

Soz have had wine or two so am probably not totally clear

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Isitme13 · 16/08/2019 23:21

I think about 90% of the songs Phil Collins wrote are about his divorce 😂

Brefugee · 16/08/2019 23:22

back in the early 80s when Face Value came out it was a break up album for his first marriage. Story is that his wife went off with their painter/decorator. Which is why when he was on TOTP he had a bucket of paint and a brush on his piano.

Sparklingbrook · 16/08/2019 23:24

When there's just a sleb's name as a thread title I always think they have died.

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MyKingdomForACaramel · 16/08/2019 23:26

Omg he dumped his wife by fax!!

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Hoghgyni · 16/08/2019 23:26

I always thought there was an element of risk in calling his autobiography "Not dead yet" after David Bowie, George Michael, Prince....

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MyKingdomForACaramel · 16/08/2019 23:27

They just have such a whiff of over dramatic divorces man about them (and I’ll admit they are my guilty pleasure so not knocking this)

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KatherineJaneway · 16/08/2019 23:27

I love Phil Collins 😍

ScreamingValenta · 16/08/2019 23:33

Nowt wrong with a birrov our Phil!

kalinkafoxtrot45 · 16/08/2019 23:36

I agree. His songs sound like the musings of a remorseful divorced man moping sadly into his pint. Definitely not my cup of tea!

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MyKingdomForACaramel · 16/08/2019 23:42

See I love a bit of Phil too - but just did maybe too much of a marathon and realised he’s a self indulgent type of guy

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Yabbers · 16/08/2019 23:43

Song writers write about their lives. Shocker.

Katinski · 16/08/2019 23:43

Katherine, I'm feeling the love tooSmile

Goingonagondola · 16/08/2019 23:44

When there's just a sleb's name as a thread title I always think they have died.

Yep this. Died or been arrested for historical allegations.

quitefranklyivehadenough · 16/08/2019 23:44

Love a bit of Phil. "You can't hurry love" was the song playing at the disco when I had my first kiss with the love of my life. Makes me cry every time 😢

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MyKingdomForACaramel · 16/08/2019 23:44

@Yabbers it’s not so much that he’s obviously writing as divorcee it’s the self pitying. (But still like the songs l)

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dustarr73 · 16/08/2019 23:48

I think about 90% of the songs Phil Collins wrote are about his divorce

It was the only way he could afford them Grin

Yabbers · 17/08/2019 00:10

it’s not so much that he’s obviously writing as divorcee it’s the self pitying

Because Adele’s songs are uplifting an optimistic?

And P!nk writes so positively about her relationships?

alittleprivacy · 17/08/2019 00:12

My guilty secret is that I really, really quite enjoy a lot of Phil Collins music. It feels really naff but fuck it the man could knock out a good tune and he's a very distinctive drummer, which is a pretty unique talent in some way. Two Hearts, Easy Lover, Jesus Loves Me, In The Air Tonight, etc. They are great.

I can't give him credit for Can't Hurry Love because it was The Supremes who made that famous. Though I do remember as a child being surprised that there was only one Collins because I really did think there was a band called The Collins Brothers, with Phil and his two brothers because of the video.

30to50FeralHogs · 17/08/2019 00:14

Aw I love a bit of Phil. My boyfriend when I was 16 serenaded me with Groovy Kind of Love at a karaoke night - swoon! We came out of the venue and it had snowed. Most romantic night of my life, peaked too early!

Shortly after that I bought a The Cure album trying to be all edgy but I didn’t like it so I took it back and swapped it for Phil Collins. My friend who was a proper music fan was horrified!!