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Phil Collins is no longer officially retired
By Andy Malt | Published on Thursday 29 October 2015
Phil Collins is no longer officially retired.
“I’m no longer officially retired”, he told Rolling Stone in a new interview.
The former Genesis frontman, of course, made a whole thing of his official retirement (which he is no longer on) back in 2011, because everyone hated him and all music was shit (or because he wanted to spend more time with his children). But by 2013 he was starting to think that the world might need him after all.
Now, he says, he wants his kids to “see what their dad does”. He explains: “They were in nappies when I was last on the road. They love my music and I’d like to take them out so they can enjoy it”. Surely they could just enjoy it at home, no?
Well, anyway, surgery to correct problems that put an end to his drumming career after the last Genesis reunion tour in 2007 means the upcoming shows could be the full Collins experience. “I don’t think I want a very long tour”, he says though. “But I would like to play the stadiums in Australia and the Far East, and [a long tour is] the only way to do that. But there’s a part of me that just wants to do theatres, so we’ll see”.
He also said: “If people rediscover the old stuff and show interest, it would be silly to not make more music”.
