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Phil Collins, who is inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist in Los Angeles on Saturday 14 November, isn’t closing the door on a return to the stage. In a video recorded for the Hall of Fame, he says: “Once you’ve been on stage all your life and tasted that, it’s difficult to stop. I never say exactly never. Every now and again, I think about, well, going out on the road again. You can’t do that kind of thing just for a half a dozen shows, because it’s not financially practical. So I do think every now and again that I haven’t finished.”
There’s music waiting too: “I’ve got a studio that’s totally in working order downstairs in the basement of my house, and I keep saying to myself, I should go down there. I’ve got ideas. I’ve got things I’ve finished. I’ve got things that I’ve half finished. So who knows? I’m now back to being where I think I could do it.”
Collins turned 75 in January. His last concert was on 26 March 2022 at London’s O2 Arena, the final night of Genesis’s farewell tour: severe nerve damage and back and hip problems kept him off the drums, and he sang seated all night.
He has been in the Hall of Fame with Genesis since 2010. He calls this second induction “a lovely way to end it, a full stop at a lovely sentence.”
Text by Guillem Cardós