Collins Explains Retirement 2011-03-08 by Nagrarok | 18 Comments | In an update on his website, drummer and singer Phil Collins shed some more light on the news circulating last week regarding his retirement:
'Greetings to all, I've decided to write this in response to the articles that surfaced last weekend regarding my retirement. Why they were printed at all is a mystery, as I haven't spoken to anybody in the press for a few months.
However, many of the articles printed over the last few months have ended up painting a picture of me that is more than a little distorted. Therefore, I would like to add my comments and try to explain again my reasons for calling it a day.
1/ I'm not stopping because of dodgy reviews or bad treatment in the press.
2/ I'm not stopping because I don't feel loved, I know I still have a very large fanbase that loves what I do. Thank you.
3/ I'm not stopping because I don't fit in, this was proved with "Going Back" reaching No 1 in the UK, and doing incredibly well worldwide.
4/ I'm not stopping so I can dive full time into my interest for the Alamo.
I am stopping so I can be a full time father to my two young sons on a daily basis.
Some of the things mentioned above have been said by me in various interviews, but said as asides with a smile on my face and in passing. They were not meant to be "headlines", they were small parts of a conversation. This clearly doesn't come over in print and I should know better.
However, the result is that I have ended up sounding like a tormented weirdo who thinks he was at the Alamo in another life, who feels very sorry for himself, and is retiring hurt because of the bad press over the years.
None of this is true.'
http://www.philcollins.com/news/breaking-news-message-phil
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lol tarzan
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Cool.
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That's good to hear. It would be shitty if he actually had retired on those grounds. So this is yet another case that re-emphasises maintream media's biased, patchy, bullshit way of going about "journalism", if we can still call that.
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4/ I'm not stopping so I can dive full time into my interest for the Alamo.
I lul'd
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I bet his kid saw Tarzan and was like "That dude that did the music is a fucking fag." Then Phil decided to belt him for 6 straight years, pausing only to make statements about retirement and learn about the Alamo
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What the hell? He's interested in the Alamo? Ok.
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What the hell? He's interested in the Alamo? Ok.
Better to be interested in it than to piss on it.
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the pissing is for your mother
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Apparently he has the largest privately owned Alamo memorabilia collection in the world and became obsessed with the Alamo when he was 5.
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wtf phil collins is white?!
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He seems to have an invisible touch on people
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I just want to throw in an American Psycho reference before anyone else does
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2/ I'm not stopping because I don't feel loved, I know I still have a very large fanbase that loves what I do. Thank you.
I believe this is the reason why he retired.
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i can feel it
his reason , i mean
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Still sad to see him retire.
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I actually met him not too long ago
Such a surprisingly chill guy
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rip
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lol
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