SWR3 the magazine
Christiane Rebmann January/February 2004
Stage parting of a legend

Sensation! Within five hours service center was the last Phil Collins concert in Germany completely sells off in the SWR3. The megastar wants to say good-bye again to his fans. Why it will become nevertheless not boring it in the future, it betrayed SWR3 star Reporterin Christiane Rebmann.

SWR3 : In the Song ?Transformation on the ?Brother Bear Soundtrack woman voices sing the melody composed by you in Eskimosprache. Since when can you?
Phil Collins : Not at all. I had argued with the Walt Disney people, because I had assumed I sing the Song on English. But then they said: ?Wie would be it, if we omen's Choir for the singing holen? I said the Bulgarian W: ?Naja, okay, I must admit, the voices am fantastisch. then a call from Hollywood: ?Wir become the text into the Eskimosprache uebersetzen. I said: ?Was is that? Those speaks nevertheless no Schwein! however the Disney people remained stubborn and pulled through. Now I can only say: ?Wenn there any eskimos there outside are, those the Song hear it becomes it verstehen!

SWR3 : That was surely not straight balsam for your Ego.
Phil Collins : Important it is only that I know: I wrote the Song. Even if it sounds completely differently than everything that I created before. Already because an orchestra and a choir are thereby. Now that sounds more to a work of genesis Keyboarder Tony bank than after a Phil Collins Song.

SWR3 : Is that of something negative?
Phil Collins : No, that is a radix complement. Tony tore in former times always jokes over the fact that Phil Collins Songs have only three or four chords. Hectar! In this Song gibt's correctly many chords. I landed now thus in the club of the completely large ones.

SWR3 : That sounds, as if you would have a hard school behind you with the sound TRACK.
Phil Collins : When I presented Disneys sound TRACK specialist Mark of Mancina proudly my first Song ideas, he said: ?So that cannot be done, to Phil. You make that wrong. Here you have a pencil. Catch an. does not interest it still times from the front the bean whether it Phil Collins Superstar before itself sit has. If one wants to mix together, one must show up cooperatively.

SWR3 : How please does your two and a half-year old Soehnchen Nicholas the music?
Phil Collins : It is inspired. It can along-sing three the Songs.

SWR3 : Did it inherit your Faible for the music like its large brother Simon Collins?
Phil Collins : It becomes surely times Drummer. We gave him some time ago child impact things. Now it races to each morning directly after rising downward and knocks on the devices rum.

All only good resolutions?
SWR3 : The marriage with Nicholas nut/mother Orianne Cevey is your third. You are ihretwegen into Switzerland pulled and announced that you want to work finally less. Then you came now with the album ?Testify and with the sound TRACK. You live after the slogan: What me do my resolutions from yesterday interest?
Phil Collins : You are right. In addition it comes that I write straight Songs for a Broadway version of ?Tarzan and the film music for ?Tarzan 2 . In addition I composed the title melody for the UEFA Cup.

SWR3 : Why do you do yourself?
Phil Collins : I had thought: That makes fun safe. Then it was however nevertheless many more complex, than I had assumed. I must say however to my apology: I write most Songs at home in my studio Geneva lake. I do not regard that as work. I rise early in the morning, implement the dog. Then I have breakfast with Orianne and Nicholas. Against 10 o'clock I withdraw myself into my studio at the end of the garden. Orianne often already is at the time from the house. She works in our Little Dreams Foundation. Nicholas is then mostly cared for by my mother-in-law. It becomes chaotic only again if I go on tour.

SWR3 : You still said last year, you could not go to no more to your hearing fall on tour.
Phil Collins : Is correct. But in the meantime I got accustomed to the fact that I hear on an ear more badly. I can play also live, as long as I am not to for a long time without break on the way. For the moment I am at time pressure.

SWR3 : Why that?
Phil Collins : In the year 2005 must be so far finished the musical version of ?Tarzan that it can be specified at Broadway. 2006 come Nicholas into the school, then is conclusion with concert journeys. For me only a small time window remains, in order to discharge me from my fans to. ?First finally the Farewell route will be my the latter.

SWR3 : All all this?
Phil Collins : So individual concerts I will perhaps nevertheless still here and there give Aeh, naja.

SWR3 : Is it correct that you went through as a boy in a Beatles film?
Phil Collins : Yes, I participated with ?A hard Day's Night . I played a kreischenden fan. I am proud on it because I can say: I participated. And I received even money for the fact that I geschrien has.

SWR3 : Do you know still, how much was that?
Phil Collins : Anyhow less than later, than I along-played on George Harrisons of first plate. At that time I earned 15 British Pound. I redeemed the cheque directly to stupid way, because I needed the money. I wished today, I would have kept the cheque with Georges signature, as memory.

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