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Stephanie
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So many famous name drops... But since I'm not a huge music person, most of them slide right past (exceptions: the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix). Collins sure brushed elbows with a lot of people during his teens/early 20s when trying to get into the music scene, and that's kind of the framework holding together the string of other musicians.
— Mar 18, 2025 09:44PM
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Stephanie
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Whoosh that decade of upheaval went fast! With both highs (e.g. Tarzan the movie and the musical, and Brother Bear) and lows (the ending of his third marriage, the physical ailments. We're in the alcohol now...).
— Mar 26, 2025 10:41AM
Stephanie
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It's interesting to see the links between the music he's making and his personal life. Not to mention how crazy busy he kept, especially in the late 80s/early 90s! I also finally picked up a few Genesis and Phil Collins' solo CDs to give them a listen, especially since he keeps telling how this song or that CD was him writing about his marriages/partners/feelings.
— Mar 23, 2025 09:23PM
Stephanie
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I may not have known anything about Genesis either before I started this, but once he joined them and through the 80s (about where I'm at) has been very interesting to hear about! The ups and downs, the ins and outs of a growing-in-popularity band and incredible mismanagement of money (or, in the bandmates' cases, probably just not knowing the money side of things to watch it). Plus the codas about his romantic life.
— Mar 22, 2025 01:22PM
