Phil Collins - Another Day In Paradise

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PHIL COLLINS- THE KING RULES

It all began with "Something Happened on the way to heaven"......
Yes...Phil Collins is my inspiration who was responsible for my kick off with the drums folks !!
The day I heard the drums of the above song, I was mesmerised, what a punch and what a feel...I was zapped and that day I decided, I am gonna play the drums !!
Who can forget the songs.... "Another Day In Paradise", "Groovy Kind Of Love", "Something Happened On The way to Heaven", "Sussudio", "I Wish It Would Rain Down", "In The Air Tonight", "Both Sides Of The Story", "Father To Son", "One More Night"....well the list goes on.

Phil Collins is one of that very rare breed of artists who combine musical accessibility and overwhelming popularity with the respect of their most illustrious peers. One of the world's best-loved vocalists, Phil has also worked with artists as iconoclastic as Brian Eno, Robert Fripp and John Cale. Genre-hoping is no problem for the man who has been a member of both the jazz ensemble Brand X and the hugely successful Genesis. In another role entirely, he has enjoyed both commercial success and critical acclaim for acting performances as divergent as a starring role in the British film Buster and a cameo in the HBO production, And The Band Played On.

Furthermore, Phil Collins is hailed by fellow musicians as one of the very best rock drummers in the world. Robert Plant, for example, enlisted him for his very first tour as a solo artist following the break-up of Led Zeppelin. This is the same man who recently fulfilled a lifetime ambition by taking to the road with his own 20-piece big band, debuting at the Albert Hall in the company of conductor Quincy Jones and guest vocalist Tony Bennett, and going on to play seven other European concerts, including two shows at the prestigious Montreux Jazz Festival.

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His history with Genesis is well documented, from their art-rock beginnings to their rise to multi-platinum, stadium-packing status. Collins launched his solo career fifteen years ago with "Face Value" ('81), followed by "Hello, I Must Be Going!" ('82), "No Jacket Required" ('85), "...But Seriously" ('89). "Serious Hits... Live!" ('90), and "Both Sides" ('93). He's picked up numerous accolades in the process, including six Grammy Awards, while racking up total solo sales to date of over 70 million. And, if you figure in his work with Genesis, Brand X, and the aforementioned gallery of peers, Collins has left his mark on some 200 million records worldwide.

So much has happened since the release of Phil's last album, 1993's "BOTH SIDES." There was the announcement of an end to his 25-year membership in Genesis and, in more personal terms, a much-publicized divorce and the start of a new relationship and a new life in a different country. Says Collins, the happiness he has achieved on coming out of this period of both professional and emotional reassessment and upheaval is reflected in what may be his most upbeat and positive set of songs to date. "'BOTH SIDES' was part of a big change in my personal life, so I did that album on my own because I felt that nobody else would understand quite where that music was coming from. It was a very personal, sad, dark album, if you like. This new record is a turnaround in that it's really up and optimistic, which is the way I feel at the moment."