Philip david charles collins biography examples

A timeline of the most important musical and private events
(without any claim to completeness)

1951: June Collins, manager of a wine store, and Greville Collins, clerk to an insurance company, living in Hounslow, have their third child Philip David Charles Collins on January 30, 1951, at five minutes past midnight.

1952: The Collins family moves to Sheen.

1954: The Collins family moves back to Hounslow.

1956: Li’l Phil, aged 5, is presented with his first mini drum kit.

1957: Grown-sumwhat Phil plays Humpty Dumpty in the Christmas play Cinderella. The Collins family (with Phil) often performs at the Richmond Yachting Club. Phil also drums as the rhythm group to an organ player.

1958: Grown-summat-more Phil wins first place at a talent show at a holiday camp.

1961: Phil’s mother begins to organize performances and hirings for the Barbara Speake Stage School as a booking agent. Phil is booked as a pullover model for fashion or knitting-pattern magazines.

1962: Mistakenly believing it to be his own, Phil swaps his brother Clive’s model train set for the drum kit of another boy in the neighbourhood. That same year he passes the exams for secondary education and is accepted at Chiswick County Grammar School.

1963: Phil is given a new drum kit as a birthday present. An aunt of his dad’s teaches him some basic terms of playing the piano and to read music. On August 08, 1963, a gang headed by Ronald “Buster” Edwards pulls off the legendary train robbery, an event which was to gain special significance for Phil in 1988. Phil also buys his first rock records: The Beatles’ Please Please Me and the first Rolling Stones record.

1964: On March 31, he is one of 350 extras in the Beatles film A Hard Day’s Night. He earns 15 pounds a week for playing the Artful Dodger in the Musical Oliver. He will play this role for seven months at the New Theatre in Martin’s Lane until his voice bre

English musician (born 1951)

For other people named Phil Collins, see Phil Collins (disambiguation).

Philip David Charles Collins (born 30 January 1951) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, record producer and actor. He was the drummer and later became the lead singer of the rock band Genesis and had a successful solo career, achieving three UK number-one singles and seven US number-one singles as a solo artist. In total, his work with Genesis, other artists and solo resulted in more US top-40 singles than any other artist throughout the 1980s. His most successful singles from the period include "In the Air Tonight", "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)", "One More Night", "Sussudio", "Another Day in Paradise" and "I Wish It Would Rain Down".

Born and raised in west London, Collins began playing drums at the age of five. During the same period he attended drama school, which helped secure various roles as a child actor. His first major role was the Artful Dodger in the West End production of the musical Oliver!. As an accomplished professional actor by his early teens, he pivoted to pursue a music career, becoming the drummer for Genesis in 1970. He took over the role of lead singer in 1975 following the departure of Peter Gabriel. During the second half of the 1970s, in between Genesis albums and tours, Collins was the drummer of jazz rock band Brand X. Collins began a successful solo career in the 1980s, initially inspired by his marital breakdown and love of soul music, releasing the albums Face Value (1981), Hello, I Must Be Going (1982), No Jacket Required (1985) and ...But Seriously (1989). Collins became, in the words of AllMusic, "one of the most successful pop and adult contemporary singers of the '80s and beyond". He became known for a distinctive gated reverb drum sound on many of his recordings. He played drums on the 1984 charity single "Do They Know It's Christmas?" a

Philip David Charles Collins (born 30 January 1951) is an English singer, musician, songwriter, record producer and actor. He was the drummer and lead singer of the rock band Genesis and also has a career as a solo performer. Between 1982 and 1990, Collins scored three UK and seven US number-one singles as a solo artist. When his work with Genesis, his work with other artists, as well as his solo career is totalled, he had more US top 40 singles than any other artist during the 1980s. His most successful singles from the period include "In the Air Tonight", "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)", "One More Night", and "Another Day in Paradise".

Born and raised in west London, Collins played drums from the age of five and completed drama school training, which secured him various roles as a child actor, with his first major role, aged 13, as the Artful Dodger in the West End musical Oliver!. He then pursued a music career, joining Genesis in 1970 as their drummer and becoming lead singer in 1975 following the departure of Peter Gabriel. Collins began a successful solo career in the 1980s, initially inspired by his marital breakdown and love of soul music, releasing the albums Face Value (1981), Hello, I Must Be Going! (1982), No Jacket Required (1985) and ...But Seriously (1989). Collins became, in the words of AllMusic, "one of the most successful pop and adult contemporary singers of the '80s and beyond". He also became known for a distinctive gated reverb drum sound on many of his recordings. In 1985, he was the only artist to perform at both Live Aid concerts. He also resumed his acting career, appearing in Miami Vice and subsequently starring in the film Buster (1988). In 1996, Collins left Genesis to focus on solo work; this included writing songs for Disney's Tarzan (1999) for which he received an Oscar for Best Original Song for "You'll Be in My Heart". He rejoined Ge