Friday September 16, 2022 “Two Hearts” Phil Collins
The number continues today with “Two Hearts”.
Phil Collins' status as one of the most successful pop and adult contemporary singers of the '80s and beyond was probably as much a surprise to him as it was to many others. Balding and diminutive, the Genesis drummer-turned-vocalist was almost 30 years old when his first solo single, "In the Air Tonight," became a Top 20 hit in the US. Between 1984 and 1990, Collins had a string of thirteen straight US top ten hits.
Long before any of that happened, however, Collins was a child actor/singer who appeared as the Artful Dodger in the London production of Oliver! in 1964 a role replicated by future Monkee Davy Jones in the US Broadway production of Oliver!. He also has a cameo in the Beatles classic A Hard Day's Night, among other films. He got his first break in music in his late teens, when he was chosen to be a replacement drummer in the British art rock band Genesis in 1970.
When lead singer Peter Gabriel abruptly left the group in 1974, Genesis auditioned 400 singers to find a replacement, then decided to let Collins have a go and the Phil Collins led Genesis albums And Then There Were Three went gold in 1978, and Duke was even more successful.
Collins made his debut solo album, Face Value, in 1981, which had greater sales than any Genesis album. Today’s song reached number one in the US and Canada and was featured in the film Buster which starred Phil Collins.
Stay safe and well…and “Two Hearts” was written and produced by Phil Collins and Lamont Dozier of the famed Holland-Dozier-Holland Motown writing team..