In the space of just over two years, Phil Collins scored twelve Top 10 singles on the Billboard Hot 100. 12...That’s insane. And actually, that list includes five #1s, and the lowest single really came in at #7. So 12 Top 7 singles? And as it just so happens, today we’re covering that #7 song. Take Me Home from his 25 X Platinum album No Jacket Required from 1985. But what makes this story even more compelling, is the fact that Phil Collins hired the singer he once replaced to sing on the track. Peter Gabriel…. And when I say replaced, I’m talking about fronting one of the biggest bands of the rock era... Genesis. So you would expect there to be some bad blood. Find out if there was. This is definitely one of my favorite tracks from this artist and honestly, it deserved a higher ranking than it got. Get ready, the story is coming up… NEXT on the Professor of Rock.
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Today, we’re turning the clock back to 1985, an era when Phil Collins was king of the radio dial, both with Genesis and as a solo artist. And that #7 featured song I was telling you about is ‘Take Me Home’ from his third solo record ‘No Jacket Required.’ We’ll have more on those eight other Top 7 hits coming up too.
So looking back at this time, Phil admitted with some self-deprecating honesty that these were “the years when [he was] everywhere, all the time, monopolizing the airwaves, MTV and the charts, even the bloody Oscars.” He said try as you might, you couldn’t escape him when you turned on a TV or radio. And then, he continued, “If you take a charitable view, I simply write a lot of hits. If you take a pragmatic view, me and my music just won’t give it a rest.” Well said, Mr. Collins. Ah, the 80s when a guy looked more like your uncle that an international pop star.
Yeah, Uncle Phil was everywhere in the 80s, releasing four studio albums with Genesis and another four solo offerings. When he wasn’t topping the charts with singles and records, he was almost topping the charts with records and singles. Things really started ramping up in 84 with stand-alone solo singles ‘Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)’ and ‘Easy Lover’ and would of course continue on into the early 90s. And if you want to get really technical, from 1984 to 1990 in a span of roughly 6 and a half years… Phil Collins had 19 top 7 hits both solo and with Genesis… with 7 going to #1. That's approaching Beatles-like numbers.
But the pop culture moment I want to focus on comes in the middle of all this with the highly successful back-to-back releases of ‘No Jacket Required’ and ‘Invisible Touch’. Both reached #1 on the Billboard Albums chart.
16 мар 2023
