Phil Collins

[poserboy71]

I read this and thought about Vinnie and what possibly goes through his head . I am not saying that Vinnie thinks of suicide yet when someone has had the success that Phil has and STILL lets criticism affect him to the point of contemplating suicide, it makes a person wonder. Here's a bit of the article:

Phil Collins says he believes that he may have lived past lives — and that he's contemplated suicide. The reclusive singer — who hasn't released an album of new material in nearly ten years — took writer Erik Hedegaard into his surprisingly modest home in Switzerland and explained that most of his time is now spent working on his gigantic collection of artifacts from the Alamo and raising his two young sons from his last marriage. Decades of criticism have taken their toll, and Collins says he has little desire to create more music beyond his new disc of Motown covers, Going Back. "I sometimes think I'm going to write this Phil Collins character out of the story," the singer says. "Phil Collins will just disappear or be murdered in some hotel bedroom, and people will say, 'What happened to Phil?' And the answer will be, 'He got murdered, but, yeah, anyway, let's carry on.' That kind of thing."

Other highlights from the article:

• Collins has noticed glowing, semitransparent light orbs in a series of photos he took at the Alamo. "It's paranormal energy," he explains, nothing that a psychic recently told him he fought at the fort in a previous lifetime. "I don't want to sound like a weirdo. I'm not Shirley MacLaine, but I'm prepared to believe. You've seen the pictures. You can't deny them, so therefore it's possible that I was there in another life."

• Collins admits that he's had suicidal thoughts in recent years. "I wouldn't blow my heard off," he says. "I'd overdose or do something that didn't hurt. But I wouldn't do that to the children. A comedian who committed suicide in the Sixties left a note saying,'Too many things went wrong too often.' I often think about that."

[Genebaby]

Wow, crazy stuff.

Full on depression doesn't recognise success and families. A guy I know was going to get married to a great new lady, his young kids were happy, yet he did himself in.

Witness Paul Hester from Crowded House, all that he had going and suicide was the answer?

You have to think it's a pretty big problem. My mate's brother did it too.

I didn't know Phil was hassled that much, I thought he was well regarded.

He's right though, you can't do that to your children, they need you.

[shramiac]

Ole Phil was pretty scabby in paying his band members too. He had to back pay millions a couple of year ago. Must have a bit of G & P in him!!!