Phil Collins

In a music career spanning over 30 years Phil Collins has sold 100 million albums, won 7 Grammy Awards, 2 Golden Globes and an Oscar. AGAINST ALL ODDS, PHIL TRIES AGAIN Eighties legend Phil Collins has finally plucked up the nerve to play Against All Odds, for the first time in 23 years. In fact the ex-Genesis drummer has only performed this famous hit three times, labelling it his ‘trouble song’ after stumbling through the piano chord changes in front of 1.5 billion viewers. Collins says, “I played it when I wrote it, and I played it at Live Aid twice in one day and apart from that I’ve never played it.’ Also In this Songbook episode, Collins reveals how his first divorce led him to song writing - the lyrics for In the Air Tonight were angrily scrawled “on the back of the decorator’s notepaper who went off with the wife.” Having not performed, Against All Odds since the 1985 Live Aid concerts in London and Philadelphia, Collins grants Sky Arts a treat with an amazing rendition of his “troublemaker song”. Songs performed: In the Air Tonight Another Day In Paradise Against All Odds You’ll Be In My Heart