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From: twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Hotel California and Satanism
Date: 9 May 1993 00:46:02 GMT

prater@minerva.cis.yale.edu (Ethan Evan Prater) writes:
+>On a related note, I saw the Phil Collins's "In the Air Tonight" is not
+>about a death Phil Colins witnessed. What's the source for that?

caedmon@cats.ucsc.edu (Jeffq) writes:
+I thought it was about his brother drowning. But I was then told it
+was about the man who raped Phil's wife. I'm just wondering if Phil even
+HAS a brother and a wife. :)
+
+If it's the latter, one can assume that Phil 'walked in' on the act.

Oh boy! Wait till you see this reference. In response to a similar query, I quote the following:

     "The 1977 hit was inspired by a painful incident in Phil 
      Collin's life--but not one concerning his brother. After
      the singer's first wife, Andrea, left him, he poured his
      heart into 'In the Air Tonight.'  Collins explains:
      'People ask me, 'Aren't you embarassed?  You're putting 
      your private life out for all to see.'  It's like I 
      oughtn't to let people see that I was hurt, that I cry, 
      that I do 'unmanly' things.  But I'm not embarrassed by
      it.'  Collins, 41, wed the former Jill Tavelman in 1984
      and no doubt hopes this marriage doesn't end with another
      sad song--no matter how many records it sells."
   
                           --"Walter Scott's Personality Parade,"
                                   27 September 1992, _Parade_ in
                                   _Sunday Examiner and Chronicle_

Kind of boring huh?

Terry "I prefer the heroin addiction version" Chan

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