“I remember with The Geese And The Ghost, I was in the States and they handed me a sheet. Phil Collins confirms ‘embarrassingly honest’ memoir.Anthony Phillips: The Geese And The Ghost.The Top 10 Best Genesis Songs With Peter Gabriel.If you do a solo album, you are really baring your soul, and you do tend to remember the bad reviews.” With library music, you never know of the rejections – you just see the successes. Not that I think I would ever go back into some of the prog stuff – I think maybe that era’s gone for me.“So I am seriously contemplating doing a solo album, which is a bit scary because the truth is, when you put your head above the parapet, it’s quite often shot off. You can’t go diving off into the heavy 7⁄ 8 section with a sax. I think I’m getting a little bit restless now because much as I’m proud of a lot of it, I’m starting to think about longer instrumental formats where you’re not restricted by the disciplines of library. You immediately recognise the congenial Phillips to be a man of very little ego, but there must be at least some frustration in having great success with library compositions playing in films and on television without a soul knowing who they’re by. “But you get these little vignettes, like hearing you got played at a dinner party or something, and you think, ‘There must be so many more people like that.’ I’m not fooled that my music would ever be massively commercial, but for each person that hears it, there are probably more out there that will never hear it.” If they’ve all heard it and turned you down, like at a general election, you’ve failed. “If you invent a great soap, but it’s not on the supermarket shelves, how are you going to say that’s a failure?” he ponders. The deal will put many years of work a little further into the public gaze, an opportunity Phillips relishes. But maybe something more in that genre, longer-form instrumental so you have the chance for more development, rather than the library pieces of two or three minutes.” “There’s nothing worse than the thought of going back and doing The Geese And The Ghost Part Two because that would be a disaster.
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