Hooray! Oh no, what I meant to say was, sad news everybody. Phil Collins has announced his retirement from music. He's told The Times that, having recently completed a reunion tour with Genesis, he has no plans to tour or to make another album. Although, he will continue to write because, he says, he doesn't know how to stop. So, not really retiring from music, just from recording and performing. Which is a start.
Asked if he minded that, thanks to a certain Cadbury advert, his most remembered song will forever be 'In The Air Tonight', he said: "Do I mind? Well, if you're ever remembered at all, it's only usually for one or two things. With me, it'll be: 'He faxed his wife a divorce', which is actually bollocks, but that'll be on top of the headstone. And then, further down, you'll have [simulating the song's opening drum fill] 'Da-dum, da-dum'..."