Rock's Backpages Library Rock's Backpages

Phil Collins: Facing Up To New Values

Lynden Barber, Melody Maker, 7 February 1981

URPASSING even The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy and Crossroads in the bus-stop yapping stakes, the national adult pastime of watching Tiswas every morning of the new Sabbath has become as cliched as the Status Quo Songbook, surrealist fag ads and the phrase "elder statesman of rock" in Pete Townshend interviews.

Total word count of piece: 4328

Subscribe

Becoming a member is easy. Membership gives you access to all the thousands of articles in the library.

Click here to go to Subscribe page.

Click here for academic and other group subscriptions.

Login

Login via your library

If your local library has signed up with Rock's Backpages, please enter your card number below: