Phil Collins

10 Interesting facts about Phil Collins

#	Top 10 Interesting Facts
1	He is an Academy Award-winning English singer-songwriter, drummer, keyboardist and actor best known as a drummer and vocalist for English progressive rock group Genesis and as a solo artist.
2	Collins sang the lead vocals on eight American chart-toppers between 1984 and 1989; seven as a solo artist and one with Genesis.
3	According to britishhitsongwriters.com he is the forty-eighth most successful songwriter in U.K. singles chart history based on weeks that his compositions have spent on the chart.
4	Collins' professional career began as a drummer, first with obscure rock group Flaming Youth and then more famously with Genesis.
5	He has won seven Grammy Awards, an Academy Award, and two Golden Globes for his solo work.
6	He began a career as a child actor and model, and won his first major role as The Artful Dodger in the London production of Oliver!
7	He was an extra in The Beatles' A Hard Day's Night - one of hundreds of screaming teenagers during the TV concert sequence and seen fleetingly in a close-up. He was also in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang as one of the children who stormed the castle at the end of the movie but was edited out.
8	While attending Chiswick Community School he formed a band called The Real Thing and later joined The Freehold. With the latter group, he wrote his first song titled "Lying Crying Dying".
9	Four of his seven American number one songs came from film soundtracks, and his work on Disney's Tarzan earned him an Oscar.
10	Collins made an appearance as himself in the 2006 PlayStation Portable and PlayStation 2 video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, set in 1984.

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