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