[My Favorite Headache]

Phil...I can't thank you enough for everything you have given us. From drumming to some of the most meaningful music ever recorded with Genesis and solo.

Tip of the hat to you sir and good day! Job well done.

[stratman1969]

Ditto MFH. I think Phil Collins’ and Genesis’ music will stand the test of time, compared to the Lady CaCa’s and all the other flash in the pans who pass as “music” today.

[vetvetdoug]

It is good for him to retire at a comfortable place in his life. For someone who's first film debut was a Beatle’s concert, he has gone pretty far.

[JoeProBono]

Genesis - Tony Banks, Phil Collins, Mike Rutherford, Steve Hackett and Peter Gabriel.

[ilgipper]

Was just thinking about Phil Collins recently. Wondered what he had been up to...sorry to hear he is done. He is a brilliant talent.

[mamelukesabre]

“I don’t really belong to that world and I don’t think anyone’s going to miss me.
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I feel like that every day. But I’m not talking about music.

[FlingWingFlyer]

“I look at the MTV Music Awards and I think: ‘I can’t be in the same business as this’.

I know what he means. That's not music. "In the Air Tonight" is music.

[trumandogz]

Hopefully, this will mean that they can no longer play any of his music.

[corkoman]

v good drummer - see Brand X - was a good voice-over with P Gabriel on Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. All that shmarmy ballad stuff was good for making $$ but having been part of one of the most amazing bands he is golden.

[RobRoy]

My favorite band was and is Genesis. He was amazing as a drummer and a singer.

[max americana]

I hate to admit it...someone gave me for Christmas his greatest hits CD years ago, and I didn’t trash it. Missed Again’ is still one of my fave songs, and is now in MP3 form on my Ipod.

Phil Collins also was featured on FR months ago...

He wanted to write a book about the Alamo and Texas because growing up he preferred American western stories more compelling than British stories.

[allmost]

He’ll pop in every now and then. Incredible career. He did it because he loves it.

[Revolting cat!]

Bravo!

[OrangeHoof]

I never was a big Collins or Genesis fan but I admire when someone is willing to admit that the biz has passed him by. You do wonder how much hearing loss these rock stars experience.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Collins once disclosed that the only way he could play was by taping his drumsticks to his hands.

It's said that when the painter Renoir grew old, his hands were so crippled by arthritis that the only way he could paint was by taping the brushes to his hands.

One day a reporter asked the withered old man, "With such hands, how do you paint?"

Replied Renoir, "With my prick."

[Marie Antoinette]

Genesis for the next generation ping. :)

[Yaelle]

I have always loved his voice and several of his songs bring me back to specific places and times of my life. He has definitely been a part of my personal soundtrack.

How nice when you can retire, after a sensational career, and relax, very classy, unlike certain other older rockers who go on after the hook should have come out and gotten them.

Enjoy your life, Phil!

[CaptainPhilFan]

Best of everything to him.
He’s made damn good music, and I liked him
in that movie he did, too!

Lordy! I’m getting choked up over this.
What a sap I am.

[edpc]

I always loved the section of the In The Cage medley when he and Chester Thompson did the synchronized drumming.

[Raebie]

I love Phil. Will never forget his amazing performance in a small 2000 seat college amplitheater. Truly an amazing talent.

[Vision]

“I look at the MTV Music Awards and I think: ‘I can’t be in the same business as this’.