How Phil Collins created the pop sound that defined the 1980s

Jacob Bielecki at Quillette: “Artists given complete freedom die a horrible death. So, when you tell them what they can’t do, they get creative and say, ‘Oh yes I can,’” Peter Gabriel told music journalist Mark Blake in 2011. This was Gabriel’s reasoning for telling his former Genesis bandmate, Phil.

This was Gabriel’s reasoning for telling his former Genesis bandmate, Phil.