Five Careers for the Post-Retirement Phil Collins

3. Street Busker

Check out the video for "Take Me Home." New York, Paris, London, Tokyo, Sidney--go just about anywhere in the world, and Phil Collins is comfortable enough to dance in front of landmarks while singing and snapping his fingers to a beat only he can hear. Decked out in the busker standby of Panama Jack hat and rumpled Hawaiian shirt, Collins delivers his pedestrian, redundant lyrics with the kind of decaying enthusiasm you'd expect from a man who subsists on dollar bills tossed to his feet by condescending strangers.


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Dlkfjelbjwe332tw2

Any musician who has listened to early Genesis would have no trouble telling you that Phil Collins is one of the finest rock drummers ever.  Period. 

There are plenty of talentless and gimmicky "artists" to make fun of these days.  Why choose such a talented and decent man to ridicule? 

Ryan Weyls, why don't you post your picture and list of accomplishments and we'll see how you measure up against Phil Collins?  I'm guessing that you're as insignificant as this post of yours. 

Writing for OCWeekly eh?  I guess community college didn't prepare you for a real paper.

Guest
Guest

I'm wondering....based on this piece (of what you can decide), would the writer also consider Cheech Marin as a scornful, Mexican-hater. Listen to Born in East LA. But then who in media within the last 15 years ever put any thought into what the writing?

gail
gail

Or you can always entertain the possibility that this article is humor. Everyone knows that Phil Collins is a nice guy.

macdoodle
macdoodle

Is he really more like losers mel gibson and ted nugent than he would seem?Is there a list of performers who are bigots or made statements against certain groups?

andrew
andrew

that solo made me sad

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