What does Phil Collins think of Eric Clapton

Phil Collins has a few years less than Eric Claptonthe two are good friends and, in the 1980s, when Collins seemed to be everywhere in the mainstream, he also had the opportunity to work together.

In an interview with the American journalist and writer David Sheff ex Genesis He told, among other topics, also of his relationship with Clapton, explaining: “After all, I am still a fan of someone. If someone like Clapton or Philip Bailey asks me to produce it, I am completely flattered. It is as if I could not say no. I also learn a lot. There is another aspect, especially for the lesser known artists. I really liked John Martyn, an English blues musician, who had to do a record.

And he continues by telling: “In a certain sense I felt I understood his music. So I wanted to be basically because I didn’t want anyone to enter it, to ruin her. With Clapton, Well, Eric is one of my best friends for some time, and one day he called me. I was amazed. ‘My God, Eric Clapton wants to produce it.’ Even if we are good friends, he is always Eric Clapton.

Collins and Clapton met in 1981 working together with the album “Glorious Fool” Of John Martyn. Four years later they joined to make the album “Behind the Sun” Of Eric Claptonwhich Collins Co-Produsse and in which he played the battery in some songs.

Collins hadn’t liked it “Money and Cigarettes”the album that Clapton made in 1983 before “Behind the Sun”. Speaking with consequently in 2016, the frontman of Genesis He described that album as “insight”. “I was grateful to have approached Clapton. I mean, we were great friends in England even before I produced two albums for him. I felt in a certain sense, as if I had introduced it at this time. Because sometimes some of his first albums … I am not referring to Dominos or Cream or to his first years as a soloist. But” Money and Cigarettes “was a little. Automatic pilot. I threw it out of that situation and forced him to start writing. “

After working on
“Behind the Sun”
,
Phil Collins
He continued to work with
Eric Clapton
covering the following disc, from 1986,
“August”
. The battery also rang in the hit
“Bad Love”
from the 1989 album of SlowHand
“Journeyman”
. According to Phil, they were really good friends, especially in the 80s, they went to play football together or a billiards all night. Curiously, Collins believes that Clapton didn’t even know he was a musician when they met for the first time. As he revealed in an interview in the 80s: “I met him when he was quite drunk, I think I didn’t know that I was a musician. I was recording the album of John Martyn, probably in 1978, we met and we found ourselves immediately well. Then I invited him to a Genesis concert at the Hammersmith. world together.