Phil Collins sang Against All Odds and now he is beating the odds, recovering from his crippling neurological conditions and enough rehab from back, neck and arm trauma, to once again play the drums. Phil has confirmed he will perform behind the drum kit again on next summer’s comeback shows. Collins is so determined that he vows to tape his sticks to his hand if he loses control. He has hired his son for his upcoming tour but is expected to play drums himself in the encore - to play his infamous drum fill from In The Air Tonight. Phil, 65, said: “I am sure I will be able to pull that together, yeah. “And I am going to apply myself to do something and hopefully be playing that particular thing (In The Air Tonight) with my son Nick, who is playing drums on the tour. “It is the subtlety in my hands that is important and I know that drum fill isn’t particularly subtle but there is a subtlety to what I do and when I play which involves my fingers and I have had this neuro problem for a while so even if I have to tape the sticks to my hand I will do something.” Speaking on US radio he said of his previous battle with the bottle: “Sure I am 65. I have done it for 60 years bits wear out and sometimes hat is because of the old age and gradually things happen at different points in your life. “But this suddenly happened on the Genesis reunion tour in 2007 and that is what what started it off, but this irrelevant now.”
