And then attempted to mimic Peter’s voice for the rest of his career…
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Very clever 
I see the problem here…
We have (got given) croc one from the NT.
They work.
Problem is getting them off the 2yo. Just about her favourite thing ever.
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Hate to quote myself, but found this tidbit of interesting info that not only did Phil Collins try to mimic PG’s voice , he also used some of PG’s IP to launch his whole solo career in what is probably his most famous song:
Produced by Steve Lillywhite and engineered by Hugh Padgham, with the indelible melting-face cover art by Hipgnosis, Peter Gabriel iteration 3 (1980) was his most fully realized solo record. It introduced signature songs, like the single “Games Without Frontiers” and “Biko,” a breathtaking tribute to murdered South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko. It would also, surprisingly, help blueprint the sound of eighties rock through its trailblazing use of what became known as the “gated reverb” drum effect. In search of fresh arrangements, Gabriel decided the record would not use cymbals, and through experimentation - as fate would have it, with pinch-hitting ex-bandmate Phil Collins - the group of musicians and technicians landed on a drum rhythm, played by Collins and run through a gated compressor, that flattened and clipped off the beats. Used on the opening track, “Intruder,” the effect was dazzling. Collins would also use it, to greater commercial effect, on his Face Value LP (1981), notably on the hit, “In the Air Tonight.” The rest is beat-biting history.
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I think Steve Lillywhite (and his then engineer Hugh Padgham) have both acknowledged that the gated drum effects employed on both PG3 and Face Value were first trialed by them on XTC’s Drums And Wires - specifically, on Making Plans For Nigel in 1979.
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Sounds like Wiki is having a bet both ways:
Padgham is credited with creating the “gated reverb” drum sound used so prominently on Phil Collins’ single “In the Air Tonight”, and which became the template for much of the recorded pop drum sound of the 1980s. The effect is believed to have first been used on the 1980 third self-titled solo album by Peter Gabriel, which Padgham engineered and on which Collins played
THEN
Other examples from Collins’ own music also include “Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)”, “I Don’t Care Anymore”, “I Wish It Would Rain Down”, and “You’ll Be in My Heart” and the Genesis songs “Mama” and “No Son of Mine”. Lillywhite’s and Padgham’s work on Peter Gabriel 3 was bookended with their work on XTC’s Drums and Wires and Black Sea . In this period they perfected their technique on Terry Chambers’ drums, which can be heard most distinctively on Black Sea (particularly songs “Respectable Street”, “Generals and Majors” and “Love At First Sight”).
Wiki also says Drums & Wires recorded June-July’79 while PG is only listed as Summer-Autumn’79 which is pretty vague timeline. And BTW I love XTC, I saw them at Festival Hall in 1980
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You lucky bugger!!! They’d stopped playing live by the time I was attending gigs. Would love to have seen them…
BTW, there’s bootleg footage of that gig on Youtube:
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totes!!
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When Sweden play Denmark, the scoreboard reads SWE - DEN.
But wait!! The unused letters spell DEN - MARK.
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Who ever is top row fourth from the left, I really like the cut of their jib.
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Any chance of someone putting names to those faces ? Only know you in the pic.
Why you gotta call me out like that?
Sorry
He’s the guy who looks like he could be DeGoey’s father.
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