Phil Collins question?

Question

I heard that Phil Collins monumental song “In the Air Tonight” was about Phil witnessing a man murdering another man on a beach in England. A friend told me that Phil Collins was swimming and wrestled the guy to the ground to detain him. Phil didn’t have anything to tie him up with so he took his lime green thong speedo off and tied the guys hands to a tree while Phil went and got the cops in a towel. The guy escaped from Phil’s clutches and Phil wrote the song to try to find him again (sort of like how Tiger Wood’s dad named Tiger “Tiger” so he could find an old German captain that he fought with in World War II). The guy came to Phil’s house and they have Mojitos together so Phil could invite him to his concert. Phil serenaded the guy and then had the security force capture the guy. Phil tied him up again with his speedo onstage and then the cops arrested him finally.

Is that true?

Answer 1

Blimey, is that urban myth still going?!

It is all a great, big, fat LIE!!!



Phil was going through a divorce when he wrote the song, and there were a lot of tabloid rumours flying around about the situation with his ex, and while he himself is not 100% sure what he was writing about, it is clear there was a lot of emotional anger in there...

Answer 2

No all the stories about the song aren't true, especially that one. Next time you see your friend, knock them upside the head.



Here's phil collins words on the song...

"I don't know what this song is about. When I was writing this I was going through a divorce. And the only thing I can say about it is that it's obviously in anger. It's the angry side, or the bitter side of a separation. So what makes it even more comical is when I hear these stories which started many years ago, particularly in America, of someone come up to me and say, 'Did you really see someone drowning?' I said, 'No, wrong'. And then every time I go back to America the story gets Chinese whispers, it gets more and more elaborate. It's so frustrating, 'cos this is one song out of all the songs probably that I've ever written that I really don't know what it's about, you know."

Answer 3

Phil said this about it:

"I don't know what this song is about. When I was writing this I was going through a divorce. And the only thing I can say about it is that it's obviously in anger. It's the angry side, or the bitter side of a separation. So what makes it even more comical is when I hear these stories which started many years ago, particularly in America, of someone come up to me and say, 'Did you really see someone drowning?' I said, 'No, wrong'. And then every time I go back to America the story gets Chinese whispers, it gets more and more elaborate. It's so frustrating, 'cos this is one song out of all the songs probably that I've ever written that I really don't know what it's about, you know."

Answer 4

Well, way I heard it was Phil wrote that song about Paul McCartney being dead largely due to Rod Stewart having to have his stomach pumped because Charles Manson was nixed from the Monkey's lineup due to Gene Simmons having a cows tongue transplanted so that when Ozzy bit the heads off of bats onstage, Keith Richards could use the blood to replace his own because Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil in exchange for the Ham sandwich that Cass Elliot choked on so that Frank Zappa's dad "Mr. Greenjeans" from Capt. Kangaroo, would then be able to cure Roy Orbison of his blindness and then forever ensuring that "YOU'VE BEEN HAD"

Answer 5

That is really not likely to happen why would the guy come back to have mojitos with hiim? why was he wearing a speedo to a concert?why would phil serenade him? that is soooo fake. your friend played you!!!!!!

Answer 6

False. Read this.

http://www.snopes.com/music/songs/intheair.asp

Answer 7

I think someone is bored.

Get off of Mom's computer and go outside to play or read a book.

Answer 8

Aside from his broken 1st marriage and committing that it was his fault that he is not close to his children for being workaholic, I think he is a legend to me..

Answer 9

go to this wikipedia website, it will explain the whole story



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Air_Tonight



it's an urban legend

Answer 10

no it isn't true. there have been tons of stories behind that song.

Answer 11

" I dont care any more "