Friday, April 20, 2007

Phil Collins Lends A Hand

I've always been a fan of Phil Collins. He's gets a bad wrap from some for being too pop-oriented, but I would argue that he's responsible for some of the biggest and best hits in modern music history. Reading Rolling Stone's blog about the all-star gathering for the late Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun, it states that:
Later, Phil Collins performed a solo piano version of “In the Air Tonight” (leaving out the drum fills that Ertegun famously convinced him to add) and then sang “Follow You, Follow Me” with his Genesis bandmates.
The article also states:
"Robbie Robertson and all three surviving members of Led Zeppelin were also on hand, but they didn’t jump on stage"
That might be the closest we ever get to a reunion from 3/4 of Led Zeppelin.

Without having footage of that specific performance from earlier this week, I dug into the YouTube archives to unearth Phil's solo piano performace of "In The Air Tonight" from the 40th Anniversary celebration of Atlantic Records in 1988:

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