SEPARATE LIVES
PHIL COLLINS & MARILYN MARTIN
SONGWRITER: BISHOP STEPHEN
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ÁLBUM: WHITE NIGHTS
LABEL: ATLANTIC RECORDS
GENRE: SOFT ROCK
YEAR: 1985
Philip David Charles Collins LVO (born 30
January 1951) is an English drummer, singer, songwriter, and record producer,
best known as the drummer/singer of the rock band Genesis and for his solo career. Between 1982 and 1990, Collins scored three UK and seven
US number-one singles in his solo career. When his
work with Genesis, his work with other artists, as well as his solo career is
totalled, he had more US Top 40 singles than any other artist during the 1980s.
His most successful singles from the period include "In
the Air Tonight", "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)",
"One More Night", "Sussudio",
"Take Me Home", "Two Hearts", "A
Groovy Kind of Love" (featured in the
film Buster),
"I Wish It Would Rain Down",
and "Another
Day in Paradise".
Born
and raised in west London, Collins played drums from the age of five and
completed drama school training, which secured him various roles as a child
actor. He then pursued a music career, joining Genesis in
1970 as their drummer and becoming lead singer in 1975 following the departure
of Peter Gabriel.
Collins began a solo career in the 1980s, initially inspired by his marital
breakdown and love of soul music,
releasing a series of successful albums, including Face
Value (1981), No
Jacket Required (1985), and ...But Seriously (1989). Collins became "one of the most successful pop and
adult contemporary singers of the '80s and beyond". He also became known
for a distinctive gated reverb drum sound on many of his recordings. In 1996, Collins left Genesis
to focus on solo work; this included writing songs for Disney’s Tarzan (1999) for which he received an Oscar for Best Original Song for “You'll
Be in My Heart”. He rejoined Genesis for their Turn It On Again Tour in 2007.
Following a five-year retirement to focus on his family life, Collins released
an autobiography in 2016 and completed his Not Dead Yet Tour in 2019.
Collins's discography includes eight
studio albums that have sold 33.5 million certified units in the US and an
estimated 150 million worldwide, making him one of the world's best-selling artists. He is
one of only three recording artists, along with Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson,
who have sold over 100 million records worldwide both as solo artists and
separately as principal members of a band. He has won eight Grammy Awards,
six Brit Awards (winning Best British Male Artist three times), two Golden
Globe Awards, one Academy Award,
and a Disney Legend Award. He was awarded six Ivor
Novello Awards from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and
Authors, including the International Achievement
Award. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1999, and was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2003 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Genesis in 2010. He has also been recognised by music
publications with induction into the Modern
Drummer Hall of Fame in 2012, and the Classic
Drummer Hall of Fame in 2013.
Marilyn
Martin (born May 4, 1954) is an American singer and songwriter. She
is best known for her 1985 hit duet with Phil
Collins, "Separate
Lives", her only Number 1.
"Separate Lives" is a 1985 song
recorded by Phil Collins and Marilyn Martin and featured on the soundtrack to the motion picture White Nights. It reached Nº. 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and Adult Contemporary charts as well
as in Canada and Ireland. It reached No. 4 on the UK Singles Chart,
and was certified silver by the British Phonographic Industry.
Songwriter Stephen Bishop recorded his
own version for his album Sleeping with Girls for Polydor Records, released in
1985. Bishop received na Oscar
nomination for Best Original Song in 1986.
It lost to Lionel Richie's
song "Say You, Say Me"
from the same film.
Collins
recorded other versions of "Separate Lives" while on tour. He
sang with touring singer Amy Keys in 1994, the song appearing on the album Live from the Board. Beginning
in 1997 he has performed the song many times with Italian singer Laura Pausini.
In 2004, Collins recorded a version with Bridgette Bryant who had toured with
him in 1990 in support of ...But
Seriously.
You called me from
the room in your hotel
All full of romance for someone that you met
And telling me how sorry you were, leaving so soon
And that you miss me sometimes when you're alone in your room
Do I feel lonely too?
You have no right to ask me how I feel
You have no right to speak to me so kind
I can't go on just holding on to times
Now that we're living separate lives
Well I held on to let you go
And if you lost your love for me, well you never let it show
There was no way to compromise
So now we're living (living)
Separate lives
Ooh, it's so typical, love leads to isolation
So you build that wall (build that wall)
Yes, you build that wall (build that wall)
And you make it stronger
Well you have no right to ask me how I feel
You have no right to speak to me so kind
Some day I might (I might) find myself looking in your eyes
But for now, we'll go on living separate lives
Yes for now, we'll go on living separate lives
Separate lives.
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