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There may still be life in the old dog. So says Phil Collins, after discussing some of the health challenges he has faced and taking a stroll down memory lane through his years with Genesis and as a solo performer. <\/p>\n
Yes, he has a 24-hour live-in nurse, he says in a new interview, to make sure he takes his medicines on time. But he also has some things he could see himself working on in the recording studio in the future. He doesn\u2019t seem frail or fragile, not for a 74-year-old.<\/p>\n
As they say in \u201cMonty Python and the Holy Grail\u201d \u2014 and in Collins\u2019 2016 memoir<\/a> and on his 2017-2019 tour<\/a> \u2014 he\u2019s not dead yet. <\/p>\n The sit-down chat with Zoe Ball, which will be broadcast to celebrate Collins\u2019 75th birthday after it concludes a five-episode podcast series about his life and times, isn\u2019t nearly as dire as many headlines would have it. The drummer-singer-producer called managing his health an \u201congoing thing.\u201d <\/p>\n \u201cI have a 24 hour live-in nurse to make sure I take my medication as I should do,\u201d he admits, because \u201ceverything that could go wrong with me did go wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYou know, I mean, I got COVID in hospital, my kidneys started to back up, you know, everything that could, all seemed to sort of converge at the same time. And I had five operations on my knee.\u201d<\/p>\n He says everything just caught up with him at once, and he spent months hospitalized. <\/p>\n The kidney issues might have had something to do with the amount of alcohol he drank, he says. \u201cI\u2019d probably been drinking too much,\u201d but he maintains that he was never drunk and was actually the type to stop drinking as soon as the evening began, rather than the other way around. Collins recently reached two years without a drink \u2014 something he was apprised of by his assistant, who marked the occasion by bringing him a \u201c2\u201d balloon. <\/p>\n \u201cNow I\u2019ve got a knee that works and I can walk, albeit with assistance, you know, crutches or whatever.\u201d<\/p>\n As for touring, he says he would \u201clove to do it again.\u201d<\/p>\n When the band was out on tour in recent years, Collins says, they all \u201cenjoyed ourselves every night and, you know, the audience sang along with pretty much everything, especially on the last couple of tours. I wouldn\u2019t have missed it for the world. And I sometimes, I feel like, you know, \u2018Wouldn\u2019t it be nice if\u2019 \u2014 and I\u2019m sure I could, certainly, physically I could. <\/p>\n \u201cI just don\u2019t know if I wanna go as far as to launch that boat, you know? \u2018Cause once you launch it, it\u2019s difficult to unlaunch it.\u201d<\/p>\n He doesn\u2019t think he could play a few shows in England and be done with it. Then it would be South America and Australia and and and and, he says.<\/p>\n \u201cThe things that are ahead for me would be \u2014 apart from just being back to being totally mobile and healthy \u2014 is sort of maybe [to go into a recording studio] and have a fiddle about and see if there\u2019s more music … you\u2019ve got to start doing it to see if you can do it. Otherwise, you don\u2019t do it. So that is something on my horizon.\u201d<\/p>\n So there you have it, he does see new things on the horizon. <\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve got some things that are half-formed or were never finished,\u201d Collins says, \u201cand a couple of things that were finished, which I like, so you know \u2014 maybe life in the old dog. Yeah. You\u2019ll see.\u201d<\/p>\n Part five of the \u201cEras: Phil Collins\u201d podcast series comes out on Jan. 26, and the TV special \u201cPhil Collins: Eras \u2014 In Conversation\u201d will be broadcast Jan. 31 on BBC Two at a time still to be determined. Collins turns 75 on Jan. 30. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.latimes.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There may still be life in the old dog. 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