Another version was that Phil wrote the song about a man who watched another man drown, and sang it to him at a concert. The story goes that Phil watched as a man who once attacked his wife drowned. I'm not quite sure what the song is about, but there's a lot of anger, a lot of despair and a lot of frustration.' Phil said in 2016: 'I wrote the lyrics spontaneously. The divorce contributed to his 1979 hiatus from Genesis, until the band regrouped in October of that year to record the album Duke.ДЄll of the original songs on the Face Value album, including follow-up hit 'I Missed Again', were intended to be 'messages' to his first wife, in an attempt to lure her back to him. Phil wrote the song during the grief he felt after divorcing his first wife Andrea Bertorelli in 1980. The album, when it does come out, will have a lot of different styles on it.' Phil said at the time: 'One ambition is to do my own album which will have a lot of variety. Read more: This performance of 'In the Air Tonight' by Phil Collins is incredible He had been planning to do a solo album for some time by 1981. What a way to start! By 1978, he had been part of Genesis for nearly eight years, and had reluctantly accepted the role of frontman following Peter Gabriel's departure.ДЇor the band's album 'And Then There Were Free', they had taken on a more mainstream sound, with songs such as 'Follow You Follow Me', with Phil's vocals at the forefront.

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