{"id":6565,"date":"2011-03-06T00:36:33","date_gmt":"2011-03-06T00:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/06\/the-telegraph-reports-that-phil-collins-has\/"},"modified":"2018-12-11T01:01:51","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T01:01:51","slug":"the-telegraph-reports-that-phil-collins-has","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/06\/the-telegraph-reports-that-phil-collins-has\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-6565 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/06\/the-telegraph-reports-that-phil-collins-has\/attachment\/6566\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tumblr_lhm148lu8Y1qzxaqho1_500-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tumblr_lhm148lu8Y1qzxaqho1_500-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tumblr_lhm148lu8Y1qzxaqho1_500-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>The Telegraph reports that &ldquo;Phil Collins has indicated that he intends to end his rock career after learning that health problems will prevent him playing the drums again.&rdquo; \u00a0Apparently, Collins has &ldquo;hearing problems, a dislocated vertebra and nerve damage in his hands, all brought on by a lifetime spent hunched behind a drum kit.&quot;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Along with his health issues, Collins seems to feel as if he is no longer relevant, saying that &quot;I look at the MTV Music Awards and I think: &lsquo;I can&rsquo;t be in the same business as this&rsquo;&rdquo; and claiming that\u00a0&quot;listeners have grown &#8216;sick&rsquo; of him.&ldquo; \u00a0I think that this is quite a shame, as it seems like he&rsquo;s gotten a very undeserved bad rap almost his entire career.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&rsquo;t even realize that he had an album last year (<em><a title=\"amazon.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B003ZSI9YI?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=andrewchorney&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B003ZSI9Y\" target=\"_blank\">Going Back<\/a><\/em>), so I&rsquo;m looking forward to hearing it now. \u00a0Hopefully he&rsquo;ll reconsider at least working on new music, even if he can&rsquo;t necessarily perform the drums portion.<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;ll end this post with a fitting, if somewhat predictable, tribute to his drumming skills with the video to <em>In The Air Tonight<\/em>:<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Telegraph reports that &ldquo;Phil Collins has indicated that he intends to end his rock career after learning that health problems will prevent him playing the drums again.&rdquo; \u00a0Apparently, Collins has &ldquo;hearing problems, a dislocated vertebra and nerve damage in his hands, all brought on by a lifetime spent hunched behind a drum kit.&quot;\u00a0 Along &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/06\/the-telegraph-reports-that-phil-collins-has\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6567,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6565\/revisions\/6567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}