


When Phil Collins wanted to record some solo material he decided that he couldn’t afford the top-of-the-range studios, so he booked the Stone Wall studio recordings of his drumming for “In The Air Tonight.” It sounded fantastic. Rather than having the normal padded walls to kill all acoustic reverberations, we had built in stone walls. At the back of the Town House we had built a second studio, which was hired out at a lower rate. NOTABLE QUOTABLE – “As well as the Manor, we had acquired a studio in West London which we called the Town House. INTERVIEW WITH JIMMY FALLON ABOUT THE SONG:

That frightens me a bit, but I’m quite proud of the fact that I sang 99.9 percent of those lyrics spontaneously.” – Phil Collins The lyrics you hear are what I wrote spontaneously. I got these chords that I liked, so I turned the mic on and started singing. I’m not quite sure what the song is about, but there’s a lot of anger, a lot of despair and a lot of frustration…I was just fooling around. NOTABLE QUOTABLE – “I wrote the lyrics spontaneously. It was released as the lead single from Collins’ debut solo album, Face Value, in January 1981. It was later sold to Thorn EMI in 1992 for $1 billion.įUN FACT: “In the Air Tonight” is the debut solo single by the English singer-songwriter and drummer Phil Collins. The company grew to be a worldwide phenomenon over time, with the success of its platinum performers such as Janet Jackson, Roy Orbison, Phil Collins, Devo, Genesis, Keith Richards, the Human League, Culture Club, Simple Minds, Lenny Kravitz, dc Talk, the Smashing Pumpkins, Mike Oldfield, Spice Girls and more on their list of artists. During this show they discuss the following topics and more: How he started The Student magazine without being able to read very well (he has dyslexia), how he started Virgin Records, how he entered the recording business, and the story behind the hit song, In The Air Tonight by Phil Collins.įUN FACT: Virgin Records, a British-American record label founded by English entrepreneurs Richard Branson, Simon Draper, Nik Powell, and musician Tom Newman in 1972.
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SBA Entrepreneur of the Year (Clay Clark) break down the seemingly unlikely success story of Richard Branson while demonstrating that success is possible for everyone (in a free market country) as long as you are work diligently with the spirit of over-delivering. During today’s broadcast of The Thrive Time Business Coach Radio Show, Doctor Zoellner and the former U.S.
