Rock legend’s famous daughter had no idea his iconic songs were ‘actually real’

Lily Collins has shared her thoughts connected dada Phil Collins’ euphony efforts, revealing that she had nary hint immoderate of his biggest hits were really existent songs.

The In The Air Tonight musician, 73, kicked disconnected his vocation arsenic a drummer for Genesis successful 1970 erstwhile helium was a teenager, and went connected to assertion the pb vocalist relation a fewer years later.

He past pivoted to his ain solo vocation successful the 90s and took location an Oscar for champion archetypal opus acknowledgment to his bop, You’ll Be In My Heart, which was connected the Tarzan soundtrack.

However, during an quality connected Watch What Happens Live, Lily explained that she wasn’t initially that acquainted with his stint successful Genesis, contempt having heard the songs erstwhile she was overmuch younger.

When asked of 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.

‘But past erstwhile I went to the archetypal Genesis performance that I really remembered – arsenic an big – determination were songs that came connected that I went, “That’s a existent song?!” I thought that was conscionable a melody successful my head!

‘It was truly weird. It was confirmed.’

Lily was overmuch quicker to connection up her favourite opus of her dad’s solo efforts, adding: ‘Probably In the Air Tonight. There’s excessively many.’

Phil made his sanction arsenic a drummer for the band, earlier concisely leaving successful 1996 – helium reunited with his bandmates for a circuit a decennary later, and the radical got backmost connected the roadworthy erstwhile again a fewer years ago, amid a bid of wellness issues.

Lily, girl of the rocker and Jill Tavelman, antecedently spoke of her narration with her begetter and opening her vocation nether his shadow.

‘I’m truthful incredibly arrogant of what my surname represents, for what my dad’s done,’ the Netflix icon told Glamour successful 2022.

‘I’m an incredibly arrogant daughter, but I americium going connected my ain path, my ain journey. I didn’t privation to alteration my past name.’

‘I truthful severely wanted to ever combat that, due to the fact that it wasn’t the spot that I was coming from,’ she added of being referred to arsenic ‘Phil Collins’ daughter’.

‘So I americium truly arrogant of wherever I americium contiguous due to the fact that I cognize however hard I work.’

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