Phil later tracked this guy down and send him front row tickets to a nearby concert. Phil made it back to shore but his friend drowned. He screamed for him to help (apparently the guy had a boat and everything) but the guy just sat there and watched. Phil was swimming to shore with his friend and saw a guy sitting on his dock just watching them. According to memory, Phil and a buddy were sailing and a downpour started, which caused the boat to capsize. I believe I heard it on Casey Kasem's Top 40 when I was a young lass. I heard a similar story about 10 years ago about that song. The version of the story that I heard is:Ģ) He (Phil) finds out where the rapist lives.ģ) He arranges to play a concert in the rapist's home town.Ĥ) A ticket for the concert is then sent to the rapist's house. Phil swims out to save the guy, but when he reaches him, he finds it's the rapist! He lets him go, swims back to shore and lets him drown. Much later, at nite, Phil is walkin round a lake when he hears calls for help from the lake. Phil's wife had been raped and Phil knew who it was. He says, the inspiration for this song came from years ago. Last nite at happy hour, good ol' Phil came on the jukebox singin "In the Air Tonite." Me an the boys got to talkin (and doin the drum solo) when one of 'em mentions what sounds to me like a UL. To this day, at every concert, Phil starts out singing this song as an accusation aimed at this individual.
Apparently that individual looked up and spotted Phil. I heard that Phil Collins when he small, witnessed an individual drowning another individual. What I heard about the song is it's Phil (or the storyteller) noting that a friend watched someone drown in a lake and did not offer to help. My first girlfriend was a big Genesis/Phil Collins fan, and according to something she had heard 'In the Air Tonite' was inspired by Phil finding his then-wife in bed with another man at a party they were attending. The show the guy in question killed himself. Probably looked like a spotlite was on him). (1994)ĭefinitely TRUE (except the part about the spotlite, although he was in the front row. The guy's wife divorces him, he loses his job, etc.
#PHIL COLLINS SOMETHING IN THE AIR TONIGHT FOR FREE#
One version of this story even has Phil doing detective work to find the identity of the bystander, inviting him to a concert for free (without revealing why), and then humiliating him in front of a huge crowd. The other man apparently could have done something to save the drowning person, but didn't. (1993)Įvery once in a while, I'll hear someone mention that there is a story behind the Phil Collins song "In the air tonight."Īt any rate Phil supposedly wrote this song after watching another man watch someone drown. same guy that he'd seen rape a girl in an alley. Encompassing adultery, rape, murder, drowning, and the dramatic exposure of a reprehensible wrongdoer (resulting in an arrest or suicide), the narratives all include despicable acts either witnessed by Phil Collins or visited upon him and his family (or friends), inspiring the musician to exact a form of revenge by encapsulating the experience in the lyrics of a song: Of all pop songs for which elaborate, apocryphal backstories have been created to explicate the lyrics, Phil Collins' 1981 hit, "In the Air Tonight" (from his Face Value album), has perhaps the most varied and fantastic set of legends associated with it.
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