He’s back. Originally titled Ugly Bald Bastard Speaks (to Phil Collins),this week’s Rock’s Backpages marks the return to music-making of the sensible and self-loathing star. Here’s an NME interview from March 1990 by Steven WellsPhil Collins does not wear chunky-knit sweaters and he is sick of his image as the bald and wizened millionaire gnome of Soppy Pop. He is at great pains to point out that no way is he as kind or as sensible or as ugly as people think he is. In his wilder moments, he contemplates marrying his 13-year-archaic cousin or spitting at Kylie and kneeing Jason in the nuts at the Brit Awards ceremony or maybe even joining Pop Will Eat Itself as a go-go dancer. Probably. Anything to bust his cosy-kind-bloke-but-a-bit-of-a-boring-bastard-who-goes-on-and-on-and-on-approximately-his-boring-divorce-all-the-time image.
I mean, or here he is in the Juke Box Jury studio and he’s just said that he quite likes the Sigue Sigue Sputnik single. And this gonk with a pair of fishnet tights over his face comes up to him and sneeeeeers and says: “God! We must contain really got it mistaken whether you like us!”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com