TRUE
COLORS
PHIL
COLLINS
SONGWRITERS: BILLY
STEINBERG & TOM KELLY
COUNTRY: U. K.
ALBUM: HITS
LABEL: FAVE VALUE
GENRE: SOFT ROCK
YEAR: 1988
Philip David Charles Collins (born 30 January
1951) is an English drummer, singer, songwriter, record producer, and actor,
best known as the drummer/singer of the rock band Genesis and for his
solo career. Between
1982 and 1990, Collins achieved 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",
"I Don't Care
Anymore", "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)",
"One More
Night", "Sussudio",
"Take Me Home",
"Two Hearts",
"A Groovy Kind
of Love", "I Wish It
Would Rain Down", and "Another Day
in Paradise".
Born
and brought up 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 successful solo career in the 1980s, initially inspired by his marital
breakdown and love of soul music,
releasing the albums Face Value(1981),
Hello, I Must Be Going(1982),
No Jacket Required(1985)
and... But Seriously (1989). Collins became, in the words of AllMusic,
"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 1985, Collins resumed his acting career,
appearing in Miami Vice and
subsequently starring in the film Buster (1988). 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 records sold 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 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.
Hits(stylized as...Hits), released in 1998
and again in 2008, following the success of "In the Air Tonight"
on the Cadbury
advertisement campaign, is the first greatest hits
album by English drummer and singer-songwriter Phil Collins. The
collection included fourteen top 40 hits, including seven American number one
songs, spanning from the albums Face Value (1981) through Dance into
the Light (1996). One new Collins recording, a
cover of Cyndi Lauper's "True Colors",
also appeared on the collection and was a popular song on adult contemporary
stations. Hits was also the first Phil Collins album to include four songs
originally recorded for motion pictures (all of them U.S. number one
hits) as well as his popular duet with Philip Bailey, "Easy Lover" (a
UK number one hit).
In 1998, the album reached number one in the United Kingdom and number 18 in the United States. On 4 August 2008, it became the
number one album on the New Zealand RIANZ album chart. In July
2012, the album re-entered the U.S. charts, reaching number six on the Billboard 200 when the album price was deeply discounted very briefly by Amazon.com. It has sold 3,429,000 in the US
as of July 2012.
The
compilation's cover features stylized versions of the cover art for Collins'
first six albums, the collection's primary sources of songs.
There
are other greatest hits compilations of Phil Collins songs. A
collection of Collins's more romantic songs were released on a two-disc
compilation titled Love Songs: A Compilation... Old and New.
1999's Turn It On
Again: The Hits, 2005's Platinum
Collection and 2014's R-Kive were greatest
hits collections by Collins' original group, Genesis. Most
recently, Collins released the 2016 compilation The Singles as part of his "Take a Look at Me Now" album remaster
series.
You with the sad eyes
Don't be discouraged til I realise
It's hard to take courage
In a world, full of people
You can lose sight of it
And the darkness, inside you makes you feel so small
But I'll see your
true colours, shining through
I see your true colours, and that's why I love you
So don't be afraid, to let them show
Your true colours, true colours
Are beautiful, ooh like a rainbow
Show me a smile
Don't be unhappy can't remember when
I last saw you laughing
When this world makes you crazy
And you've taken all you can bear
Just call me up, cos you know I'll be there
And I'll see your
true colours, shining through
I see your true colours, and that's why I love you
So don't be afraid, to let them show
Your true colours, true colours
Are beautiful, ooh like a rainbow
Such sad eyes
Take courage now, realise
if this world makes you crazy
And you've taken all you can bear
Just call me up, cos you know I'll be there
And I'll see your
true colours, shining through
I see your true colours, and that's why I love you
So don't be afraid, to let them show
Your true colours, true colours,true colours are shining through
I see your true colours, and that`s why I love you
so don`t be afraid, sharing your shoulder,
true colours, true colours, true colours
are beautiful, beautiful like the rainbow, (yeah, yeah)2x
Show me your colours, show your rainbow (4x)(music fades away)...
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