Phil Collins never expected a solo career to happen. In this Phil Collins interview, the 2026 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Inductee looks back on how one successful record turned into a Phil Collins solo career that ran alongside Genesis, and talks about what the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction means at 75. The songs on No Jacket Required started as demos in a home studio, and most of those demos ended up being the finished tracks. Phil Collins says the album kind of made itself, with no big moment where everyone went into a studio to do it properly, just “accident after accident.” Genesis was climbing at the same time. Each album sold a little more,




