Phil Collins, an update on his health status

In recent days the press office of Phil Collins He took care to deny the voices circulating in the last period that the 74 -year -old British musician was hospitalized in a hospice. The former member of Genesis It would currently be in the hospital, as declared to The Independent, to better recover from knee surgery.

Last month, talking to the Mojo magazine, the same Phil Collins He was not hidden from commenting on his state of health, explaining: “I keep thinking that I should go down to the studio and see what happens. But I don’t have it anymore. The fact is that I was bad, I mean very badly …”

For a long time, Collins has been plagued by serious health problems. Everything can be traced back to the reunion tour of Genesis of 2007, when a neck vertebra was lusted and suffered nerves damage. Because of this in the following years the musician had to undergo several surgical interventions to the spine.

In 2021 i Genesis They gathered for one last time on tour. Phil Collins He participated singing sitting in a chair without being able to play the battery, in his place His son Nic replaced him behind the drums. Phil said that unfortunately he could barely “hold a wand” and that he was “very frustrating because I would have liked to play”. At the O2 Arena in London on March 26, 2022, with the last concert of that tour, he closed his career of Phil Collins and also that of Genesis.

In a documentary on his figure released in 2024 it was possible to see
Phil Collins
sitting behind one
Battery for the first time after several years
. In the film you hear it say: “If one day I woke up and I could hold back a couple of wands again, I would try. I feel like I had exhausted my aerial miles”.