Face value is the title of the first solo album from Phil Collins to be published in February 1981.

When I was in my teens I was obsessed with the defeated music of middle-age. Eric Clapton, Chris De Burgh, Dire Straits – these were my jams.

Phil Collins have an incredible performance at the British Summertime Festival in Hyde Park, and handed over the baton to his drummer son Nic.

In This Moment have released a stream of their cover of Phil Collins track In The Air Tonight.

Unless your technical knowledge of music runs deep, you may have never heard the phrase "gated reverb."

​Lorde has long been a vocal fan of Phil Collins; there’s a great moment on her episode of Marc Maron’s WTF podcast where, in attempting to convince Maron that Collins is the best, she sings him a few bars of "Take Me Home." And now we get to hear that at length.

There are many different ways to celebrate the moment the clock strikes midnight on Jan. 1, but thanks to Phil Collins, we now know the most magical one.

'I wish my face wasn’t as round. I wish I had hair. I wish I were a little slimmer. I don’t like myself very much'

Phil Collins will soon begin rolling out super-deluxe versions of his solo albums as part of his "Take a Look at Me Now" retrospective campaign, beginning on January 29th with the re-release of 1981's Face Value and 1993's Both Sides. Collins dug into his vaults and unearthed many demos, B-sides and live songs to flesh out the albums into two-disc sets.

Blame Peter Gabriel. For five years, Phil Collins was just the drummer. But when the lead singer for Genesis quit in 1974, the band could not find a suitable replacement, and Collins reluctantly stepped in — and a superstar was born.