![]() He was just always there.Ĭollins was a creature of the ’80s in so many ways. The fucking guy flew across the world in the Concorde so that he could play Live Aid in London and Philadelphia on the same day. But when Collins became famous, he was so available to mug for any camera in his immediate vicinity that his omnipresence started to feel oppressive. In Collins, we had a truly unlikely hitmaker, a prog-rock drummer who came along at the exact right time and rode a particular musical zeitgeist farther than anyone could’ve imagined. Within his squat frame, Collins encapsulated so many of that decade’s little oddities and contradictions. Phil Collins wasn’t the biggest ’80s pop star - though he was certainly close - but he may have been the most ’80s pop star. In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present.Īnd so the ’80s end the only way they could end: with Phil Collins softly murmuring about poverty, as if he couldn’t drop a life-changing wad of bills into an unhoused person’s hands on the merest whim. ![]()
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