{"id":4657,"date":"2014-10-01T11:44:21","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T11:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/10\/01\/phil-collins-never-wanted-to-sing-for-genesis\/"},"modified":"2014-10-01T11:44:21","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T11:44:21","slug":"phil-collins-never-wanted-to-sing-for-genesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2014\/10\/01\/phil-collins-never-wanted-to-sing-for-genesis\/","title":{"rendered":"Phil Collins never wanted to sing for Genesis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/f\/fd\/Genesis_1967_lineup.jpg\/220px-Genesis_1967_lineup.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>Phil Collins admitted in an interview with the newspaper The Telegraph that he did not want to sing for Genesis but he only wanted to remain a drummer.  <!--more-->  \u201cWe were all from different backgrounds. Tony, Pete and Mike \u00adobviously did    the public school thing. Just that alone meant that I was a totally    different animal \u2019cause I came from drama school, where anything went. And    [at] public school you\u2019re on such a tight rein \u2013 guitars being banned and    all this kind of thing. I had a school band \u2013 it was encouraged.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo those examples and everything in between meant we were all cut from    different cloth. And even the guys that went to school together, there was    probably more acrimony among that lot than there was between them and us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd it was good to get a few things off our chests about the misunderstandings that maybe have come up. There are some out there that would claim that I was wringing my hands when Pete left \u2019cause I could take over and change the band. And I said on camera: &#8216;I never bloody wanted to sing!\u2019 I was happy to be the drummer.\u201d But at the same time, he says: \u201cSo what? If I hadn\u2019t been the singer, I would never have had a solo career.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Source: The Telegraph<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phil Collins admitted in an interview with the newspaper The Telegraph that he did not&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}