Reviews of current and previous Phil Collins releases (including Flaming Youth and Brand X).
Around the time Testify was released in 2002 the BBC produced a documentary about Phil Collins that was watched by several million viewers when it was broadcast. The interesting and frequently quite personal insights into Phil’s life have now been released on DVD.
Six years had passed since Dance Into The Light before Phil Collins released a new studio album called Testify in 2002. Bernd Vormwald has listened to it.
Nachdem 1999 der Soundtrack zum Disney Film Tarzan im englischen Original erschien, legte Phil 2000 nach und veröffentlichte das ALbum unter anderem auch in deutscher Sprache.
When the DVD became increasingly popular Phil Collins released a documentary about how his debut album Face Value developed. It was published in the TDK series Classic albums. Christian Gerhardts checked it out.
Hudson Music released a VHS video and later a DVD of a special big band performance by Phil Collins.
It actually took quite long for Phil Collins to release a real Greatest Hits album. Helmut Janisch examines what …HITS is about.
As the Volkswagen Group did when it sponsored Genesis’ We Can’t Dance Tour, Toyota also released a special CD as part of the promotion of Phil’s Dance Into Europe Tour, along with other “goodies”. Unlike the Wolfsburg We Dan’t Dance edition, which contained practically no new material but only six edited songs from the album,… View Article
Half a year after he officially left Genesis Phil Collins released Dance Into The Light. The album offers a couple of surprises, e.g. there is no drum computer on the record. Bernd Vormwald has all the details for you.
In 1996 a comprehensive and authorized biography about Phil Collins was published. Its author Ray Coleman had, however, already passed away when the excellent book came out.
During the Both Sides tour a VHS video was offered for sale at the merchandise stands only, the proceeds of which were donated for a good cause. Bernd Zindler tells us more about it.
