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What Hi-Fi? reviewers share 10 test tracks they used to test hi-fi in 2024

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Phil Collins shares rare health update and admits: 'It’s still sinking in that I can’t play the drums’

The legendary musician candid on retirement and the physical toll of his decades in the spotlight

Evening Standard

Phil Collins can still no longer play drums amid a major health fight

After retiring two years ago, Phil Collins has admitted he can still no longer play drums amid a major health fight.

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"Tony Banks got wind of it. From then on, we knew that Pete could leave at any time, but we had a 150-show tour to do": Phil Collins opens up in epic new career retrospective documentary

Phil Collins: Drummer First reveals the secrets of his sound, his career highs and lows, and the story of that drum fill…

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Phil Collins revisits his drumkit for the first time in years: ‘It just feels so strange’

Musician is the subject of a new documentary that explores his legacy as one of the greatest drummers of all time

The Independent UK

“I’m probably the one who’s most aware of everything we’ve done. I probably like our music the most”: Genesis’ Tony Banks wonders if the world needs any more of his music

Keyboard icon looks back on his classical albums, recently assembled in a box set, recalls being knocked off the No. 1 spot by gardener Alan Titchmarsh – and remembers offering Peter Gabriel a new gig

Louder

“I just keep forgetting it”: Watch Phil Collins work out his drum part for Do They Know It’s Christmas in 40-year-old footage

A new documentary sheds light on the genius performance that you may not have noticed

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“If I wake up one day and I can hold a pair of drumsticks then I will have a crack at it”: Phil Collins opens up on his struggle to play drums in affecting trailer for new documentary

"I just feel I’ve used up my air miles," he admits

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Genesis Phil Collins-years book gets an update

Genesis:1975 to 2025 - The Phil Collins Yearswill be published by Kingmaker on April 17

Louder

“I don’t have many rock’n’roll stories for you – that was always someone else’s job”: Phil Collins was pranked by George Harrison, outdrunk by John Martyn, blown away by Robert Fripp and well-behaved with Eric Clapton

He may not always have been life and soul of the party, but he’s been the heartbeat behind songs across a huge range of genres – to his lasting pride

Louder

"If I wake up one day and I can hold a pair of drumsticks then I will have a crack at it": Watch the trailer for the new documentary about the drumming life of Phil Collins

The Phil Collins documentary Drummer First will premiere later this month

Louder

“Suddenly he had a different attitude, and from that moment it wasn’t as much fun… It’s strange when one of the guys is a little less keen”: How The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway forced Peter Gabriel and Genesis apart

1974’s ambitious double-album took a heavy toll on the people who worked on it – then its lukewarm reception and bewildering stage show made things even more tense

Louder

Do They Know It’s Christmas? The pop stars involved in the 2024 version

Organiser Sir Bob Geldof said the song serves as a rebuke to the Eighties notion that ‘greed is good’

The Independent UK

“An obvious smash in hindsight, given its chart-friendly tale of a gardener who refuses to grow up because he’d rather push his lawnmower around”: Genesis’ 10 best songs with Peter Gabriel

The band’s first phase features a charming, very English sense of melancholy and melodrama – matched with wilful prog complexity

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“You know the way drummers get, they get a bit weird when they start singing”: watch a drunk U2 completely rinse Phil Collins at an awards ceremony

The Genesis frontman was tasked with presenting to an inebriated Bono & co. in 1992 and they were in a cheeky mood

Guitar World

“It took me a while to learn that guitarists can’t play bass. It’s about more than just getting the notes right”: How Mike Rutherford’s ‘lead bass’ approach helped demystify the low-end for prog rock cornerstone Genesis

The departure of guitarists Anthony Phillips and Steve Hackett cleared the way for Rutherford's angular bassline on this Genesis classic

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Lily Collins: The West End has always been my dream

Lily Collins has revealed that she's fulfilling a long-held ambition by starring in London's West End.

The Independent UK

Lily Collins teases possibility of Emily in Paris London spin-off

Netflix star said her character would love London landmarks including Portobello Road

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How to recreate classic recorded drum sounds from The Beatles, Metallica, Nirvana and more

ArtOfDrumming shows you how to make your drum recordings sound like the greats

The Independent UK

Lily Collins reveals her presidential endorsement one week before election

‘Emily in Paris’ star encouraged her followers to ‘vote for what’s right’

Louder

“In interviews they’d talk about Phil and Mike then say, ‘What have you been doing while these guys have been in the charts?’ It takes as long to make a record that’s not a success as it does to make one that is”: Tony Banks on his career outside Genesis

Keyboardist’s solo albums may not have reached the heady heights of his bandmates’ output – but he’s had a great time making “more progressive” music with artists of his own choosing, including Fish, Toyah and Nik Kershaw

Louder

“I had to threaten them. If they weren’t going to include all of my ideas on it, I was off. No one was expecting me to be quite so forthright”: Genesis’ Selling England By The Pound wore a smile over hidden depths

By the time they’d toured their 1973 album, they’d had a sit single, proved Phil Collins could deliver lead vocals, and offered a hint at what would come after Steve Hackett and Peter Gabriel left

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“This is the story of joy, persistence, love, pain, magic and self discovery”: Questlove is making a new documentary on funk, soul and disco legends Earth, Wind & Fire

The new movie comes on the heels of his exec movie producer roles and Academy Award-winning Summer of Soul doc

MusicRadar

"That’s a real song? I thought that was just a melody in my head. It was really weird": Lily Collins didn't realise that the songs that father Phil had played to her as a child were actually famous

The drummer's daughter names her favourite Phil track… But can’t name a single Genesis number…

Louder

“I felt they were having second thoughts… I got quite angry – ‘Just stop the bus, I’ll get off, no problem’”: Ray Wilson knows what went wrong during his time in Genesis

The singer who fronted 1997’s Calling All Stations only had one serious argument with Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford – and remains glad he was there at all

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