Phil Collins, 74, receives emotional tribute from daughter Lily in sweet birthday post

Phil Collins’ daughter Lily Collins paid a saccharine tribute to her instrumentalist begetter arsenic the legendary drummer and songwriter celebrated his 74th birthday.

The British-American actress, 35, was calved successful Guildford and raised by dada Phil and his 2nd woman Jill Tavelman – they divorced erstwhile Lily was seven.

She has since go a palmy actress, starring arsenic Emily Cooper successful the deed Netflix bid Emily successful Paris, yet receiving a Golden Globe nomination.

Her instrumentalist dad, who fronted the progressive stone set Genesis and had his ain stellar solo career, has been battling mobility issues since a spinal wounded successful 2007.

In the loving Instagram upload, Lily posted 2 pictures containing her and her dada by each other’s sides – 1 from the past, and 1 from the present.

The archetypal representation featured Lily and Phil unneurotic astatine a designation ceremony, arsenic helium accepted his agelong overdue prima connected the Hollywood Walk of Fame successful 1999.

Second up was a acold much caller picture, with Lily present each grown up and smiling with her dada Phil, backstage astatine a caller unrecorded theatre event.

In the caption, she said: ‘From a westbound seashore prima to the West End signifier and everyplace successful betwixt — I’m truthful grateful to beryllium by your side.

‘[I’m truthful grateful] for the support, experiences, and emotion we person and volition proceed to share. The older I get, the greater I admit each the little, peculiar moments spent together.’

She concluded: Happy day Dad. I couldn’t emotion you much oregon beryllium much thankful to observe you contiguous and each day. Truly. To the satellite and backmost again.’

Phil has been incapable to play drums since 2022, and decided to discontinue from unrecorded performances thereafter, bringing his unthinkable 60-year vocation to an end.

Three years ago, successful a documentary titled Phil Collins: Drummer First, helium revealed helium was inactive coming to presumption with the imaginable extremity of his euphony career.

‘It’s inactive kinda sinking successful a small bit,’ helium said astatine the time. ‘You know, I’m 71. I’ve spent each my beingness playing drums. To abruptly not beryllium capable to bash that is simply a shock.’

‘I’m not a vocalist who plays the drums, I’m much of a drummer who sings a bit,’ helium explained, revealing wherefore the documentary had been fixed that name.

Last year, Lily admitted that she had nary hint that immoderate of her dad’s biggest hits were existent songs, contempt having heard them often erstwhile she was overmuch younger.

When asked her favourite Genesis song, the Emily successful Paris histrion had to instrumentality a 2nd earlier sharing: ‘The comic happening is that I person these memories, arsenic a kid, of songs that I don’t cognize if they’re really real.

‘Because they were successful my caput arsenic I was possibly successful the womb. When I went to my archetypal Genesis performance arsenic an adult, determination were songs [played] that I went, “That’s a existent song?! I thought that was conscionable a melody successful my head!”‘

However, arrogant girl that she is, she was speedy to accidental that her favourite opus written by her dada was In the Air Tonight, which was a large UK deed for Phil successful 1981.

Phil wrote the opus You’ll Be In My Heart astir Lily – it yet won the Academy Award for champion archetypal opus successful 1999 aft its usage successful the movie Tarzan.

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