Phil Collins
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Philip David Charles Collins is an English singer, drummer, songwriter, record producer, and actor. He is best known as the drummer and later lead vocalist of the rock band Genesis, and for his highly
Collins in 2025
Collins attended the Barbara Speake stage school in East Acton, west London
Collins performing in 1981
On 13 July 1985, Collins played at Live Aid at the old Wembley Stadium (exterior pictured) in London, before taking a transatlantic Concorde flight to perform at the Philadelphia leg of the event later that day.
Genesis (band)
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Genesis were an English rock band formed at Charterhouse School, in Godalming, Surrey, in 1967. The band's longest-lasting and most commercially successful line-up consisted of keyboardist Tony Banks,
Phil Collins
…1951) is an English singer, drummer, songwriter, record producer, and actor. He is best known as the drummer and later lead vocalist of the rock band Genesis, and for his highly successful career as a solo artist. Between 1982 and 1990, Collins achieved three UK and seven US number-one singles as a solo…
The 1977–1996 lineup of Genesis (from left: Mike Rutherford, Tony Banks and Phil Collins) (pictured in 1980)
Charterhouse School in Godalming, Surrey, where the band originally formed.
Genesis in 1971. Clockwise from bottom left: Steve Hackett, Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, Mike Rutherford, and Tony Banks
Rutherford, Gabriel (in Slipperman costume) and Collins in 1974 during The Lamb... tour