Phil Collins is mulling a comeback tour

Phil Collins, recently turned 75, hasn't been on stage since 2022, when Genesis' farewell tour ended. However, in a video interview recorded for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which will welcome him for the second time on November 14, this time as a soloist, he spoke about the possibility of a live return.

“I never say never”

A few days before entering the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist, Phil Collins confessed that he occasionally thinks about returning to tour. “When you've spent your whole life on stage and you've had that feeling, it's hard to stop,” he explained. "I never say a definitive never. Every now and then I think about getting back on the road."

Collins also pointed to the main obstacle, which is practical in nature: "You can't do something like that for just half a dozen concerts, because it wouldn't make economic sense. So every now and then I think I'm not done yet."

The Hall of Fame recognition caught him at a time when he was getting used to the idea of ​​retirement. “I was thrilled,” he said. “I turned 75 this year and I thought it was all coming together, just as I was retiring.”

Collins had already entered the Hall of Fame in 2010 as a member of Genesis.

The studio in the cellar and the songs in the middle

In addition to concerts, the musician also talked about new music. His last album of unreleased songs, Testify, was released in 2002, but Collins doesn't want to rule out a new recording project. “I have a perfectly good studio in the basement of my house and I keep telling myself I should go down there,” he said. "I have ideas, I have finished things and half-finished things. So who knows? Now I'm back to feeling like I could do it."

The years away from the scene

For now there is no official announcement, and the path of recent years explains the musician's prudence. Phil Collins had already stopped performing after Going Back, the short 2010 tour dedicated to Motown classics. He returned to the stage in 2017 with the Not Dead Yet Tour but, in those concerts, he sang sitting down due to severe nerve damage from a spinal injury, which also prevented him from playing the drums. In his place, behind the drums, was his son Nic.

The same pattern was repeated with The Last Domino?, Genesis' last tour, which ended on March 26, 2022 at the O2 Arena in London. Among the audience that evening there was also Peter Gabriel, the band's historic former frontman.

In the following years Collins faced other health problems, also linked to alcohol, as he himself told the BBC. Today his conditions have improved, and the musician says he is ready to at least consider a new chapter.