GENESIS OF A SOLO CAREER: PHIL COLLINS HAS IT HIS WAY
Set in the stockbroker belt 30 miles to the southwest of London, the Genesis studio complex is exactly what you might expect: several thatched, suitably idyllic, wood-beamed 17th century buildings that until recently comprised a farm, with the studio itself housed in a modern, factory-assembled former cow-shed hidden by the high barn.
GENESIS OF A SOLO CAREER: PHIL COLLINS HAS IT HIS WAY
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Chris Salewicz
Set in the stockbroker belt 30 miles to the southwest of London, the Genesis studio complex is exactly what you might expect: several thatched, suitably idyllic, wood-beamed 17th century buildings that until recently comprised a farm, with the studio itself housed in a modern, factoryassembled former cow-shed hidden by the high barn.
At the end of a sunny, late summer day I sit in the garden by a Shakespearian-like leafy cloister on .a set of elegantly worn stone steps with Phil Collins, the Genesis drumming and singing workaholic who this year has enjoyed a large worldwide success with his first solo album, Face Value.
Phil’s slight physique and the cut of his thinning hair provide him with a profile at times disconcertingly similar to that of Brian Eno.