Editing Phil Collins (section)

===Praise===
[[File:Phil Collins - BST Hyde Park - Friday 30th June 2017 PCollinsBST300617-26 (35649688476).jpg|thumb|Collins performing to 65,000 at [[Hyde Park, London|Hyde Park]], London on 30 June 2017. Music critic [[Neil McCormick]] wrote, "He could barely walk but Phil Collins still knocked it out of Hyde Park".<ref>{{cite news |last1=McCormick |first1=Neil |title=He could barely walk but Phil Collins still knocked it out of Hyde Park – review |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/concerts/phil-collins-british-summer-time-hyde-park-review/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/concerts/phil-collins-british-summer-time-hyde-park-review/ |archive-date=10 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |access-date=19 November 2018 |work=The Telegraph}}{{cbignore}}</ref>]]
[[Paul Lester]] of ''The Guardian'' wrote in 2013 that Collins is one of several pop acts that "used to be a joke" but are "now being hailed as gods".<ref name="lester" /> Collins has become an important figure in US [[Urban contemporary|urban music]],<ref name="simpson">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/dec/02/phil-collins-godfather-popular-culture?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487|title=Is Phil Collins the godfather of popular culture?|work=The Guardian|location=London|first=Dave|last=Simpson|date=2 December 2013|access-date=4 December 2013}}</ref> influencing artists such as [[Kanye West]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.stereogum.com/36971/premature_evaluation_kanye_west_808s_heartbreak/franchises/premature-evaluation/|title=Premature Evaluation: Kanye West – 808s & Heartbreak|last=Lapatine|first=Scott|date=20 November 2008 |publisher=[[Stereogum]] |access-date=22 February 2015}}</ref> [[Alicia Keys]] and [[Beyoncé]].<ref name="nydn">{{cite news |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music-arts/phil-collins-reviled-revered-article-1.1608626|title=Phil Collins goes from reviled to revered|last=Farber|first=Jim|date=16 February 2014 |newspaper=[[New York Daily News]]|access-date=11 August 2014}}</ref> His songs have been [[Sampling (music)|sampled]] by various [[hip-hop]] and [[contemporary R&B]] acts, and performers including [[Lil' Kim]], [[Kelis]], and [[Wu-Tang Clan]] co-founder [[Ol' Dirty Bastard]] covered his work on the 2001 tribute album ''[[Urban Renewal (tribute album)|Urban Renewal]]''.<ref name="simpson" />

In 2004, [[Death Cab for Cutie]] and [[The Postal Service]] musician [[Ben Gibbard]] described Collins as a "great vocalist".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.stereogum.com/900/postal_service_hearts_pop_music/news/|title=Postal Service Hearts Pop Music |date=7 September 2004|publisher=[[Stereogum]]|access-date=2 April 2015}}</ref> Collins has been championed by his contemporary, the [[heavy metal music|heavy metal]] singer [[Ozzy Osbourne]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/5293764/Ozzy-Osbourne-I-love-Phil-Collins.html|title=Ozzy Osbourne: "I love Phil Collins"|last=Wardrop|first=Murray|date=8 May 2009|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|access-date=22 February 2015}}</ref> [[David Crosby]] called him "a dear friend" who helped him "enormously",<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/feb/26/david-crosby-new-album-croz|title=David Crosby: 'The FBI scare me more than Hell's Angels'|work=The Guardian|location=London|first=Paul|last=Lester|date=26 February 2014|access-date=27 July 2015}}</ref> [[Queen (band)|Queen]] guitarist [[Brian May]] called him "a great guy and an amazing drummer",<ref>Fitzpatrick, Rob. "'I'm The Antichrist of Music' Immensely popular for decades, yet a permanent resident on music's outermost fringes of fashionability, Phil Collins would like to apologise. Are you ready to forgive?". ''[[FHM]]''. April 2011.</ref> and [[Robert Plant]] paid tribute to him as "the most spirited and positive and really encouraging force" when commencing his own solo career after the break-up of Led Zeppelin.<ref name="Robert Plant Music Times" /> Collins has been championed by modern artists in diverse genres, including [[indie rock]] groups [[the 1975]],<ref name="lester" /> [[Generationals]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.boiseweekly.com/boise/heza-for-generationals/Content?oid=2880921|title=Heza for Generationals|last=Gross|first=Josh|date=12 June 2013|newspaper=[[Boise Weekly]]|access-date=16 August 2014|archive-date=19 August 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140819083324/http://www.boiseweekly.com/boise/heza-for-generationals/Content?oid=2880921|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Neon Indian]], [[Yeasayer]], [[St. Lucia (musician)|St. Lucia]]<ref>{{cite magazine|last1=Hampp|first1=Andrew|title=Gimme Five: St. Lucia's Biggest Musical Influences|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop-shop/5762958/gimme-five-st-lucias-biggest-musical-influences|magazine=Billboard |date=17 October 2013|access-date=25 February 2016}}</ref> and [[Sleigh Bells (band)|Sleigh Bells]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/29482/phil-collins-indie-rocks-new-muse/|title=Phil Collins: Indie Rock's New Muse|last=Moore|first=Alex|date=24 September 2010|website=Death and Taxes|access-date=2 April 2015}}</ref> [[electronica]] artist [[Lorde]],<ref name="nydn" /> and [[Soul music|soul]] singer [[Diane Birch]], who said in 2014, "Collins walks a really fine line between being really cheesy and being really sophisticated. He can seem appalling, but at the same time, he has awesome production values and there's a particular richness to the sound. It's very proficient in the instrumentation and savvy about melodies."<ref name="nydn" />

Genesis bandmate [[Mike Rutherford]] has praised Collins's personality, saying that "he always had a [[:wikt:boy next door|bloke-next-door]], happy-go-lucky demeanour about him: let's have a drink in the pub, crack a joke, smoke a cigarette or a [[Cannabis (drug)|joint]]".<ref name="walsh">{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/phil-collins-the-king-lear-of-pop-music-9553182.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220526/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/phil-collins-the-king-lear-of-pop-music-9553182.html |archive-date=26 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Phil Collins: The King Lear of pop music|last=Walsh|first=John|date=20 June 2014|work=The Independent|access-date=16 August 2014}}</ref> In 2014, former Genesis frontman [[Peter Gabriel]], who worked again with Collins in the 1980s, referred to him as the "workaholics' workaholic".<ref>{{Cite web|date=14 March 2014|title=Peter Gabriel on the Depression that Gripped Genesis' Phil Collins: 'It's Been a Very Difficult Time'|url=http://somethingelsereviews.com/2014/03/14/its-been-a-very-difficult-time-peter-gabriel-discusses-the-depression-that-gripped-genesis-bandmate-phil-collins/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140314183525/http://somethingelsereviews.com/2014/03/14/its-been-a-very-difficult-time-peter-gabriel-discusses-the-depression-that-gripped-genesis-bandmate-phil-collins/|archive-date=14 March 2014|access-date=5 June 2020|website=Something Else!|language=en-US}}</ref> He has been characterised by favourable critics as a "rock god",<ref name="walsh" /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/9089940/Lily-Collins-Julia-Roberts-tore-my-hair-out.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/9089940/Lily-Collins-Julia-Roberts-tore-my-hair-out.html |archive-date=10 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Lily Collins: 'Julia Roberts tore my hair out'|date=22 February 2012|work=The Telegraph|access-date=16 August 2014}}{{cbignore}}</ref> and an artist who has remained "down to earth".<ref name="Taking Collins Seriously" /> In ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide#Fourth edition|The New Rolling Stone Album Guide]]'', published in 2004, [[J. D. Considine]] wrote: "For a time, Phil Collins was nearly inescapable on the radio, and enormously popular with the listening public — something that made him an obvious target for critics. Despite his ''lumpen''-pop appeal, however, Collins is an incisive songwriter and resourceful musician."{{sfn|Brackett|2004|p=182}}

Tim Chester of the ''New Musical Express'' described Collins as "the go-to guy for ironic appreciation and guilty pleasures" and stated he was responsible for "some moments of true genius (often accompanied, it must be said, by some real stinkers)".<ref name="nme"/> [[Creation Records]] founder [[Alan McGee]] wrote in 2009 that there was a "non-ironic revival of Phil Collins" happening. According to McGee: "The kids don't care about 'indie cred' anymore. To them, a great pop song is just that: a great pop song. In this time of revivals, nothing is a sacred cow anymore, and that can only be a good thing for music." Commenting on Collins's popularity with hip-hop acts, he argued: "It's not surprising. Collins is a world-class drummer whose songs immediately lend themselves to being sampled."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2009/jan/13/phil-collins-non-ironic-revival|title=The non-ironic revival of Phil Collins|work=The Guardian|first=Alan|last=McGee|date=13 January 2009|access-date=27 July 2015}}</ref>

In 2010, Gary Mills of ''[[The Quietus]]'' made an impassioned defence of Collins: "There can't be many figures in the world of pop who have inspired quite the same kind of hatred-bordering-on-civil-unrest as Collins, and there can't be too many who have shifted anything like the 150 million plus units that he's got through as a solo artist either&nbsp;... The disgrace of a career bogged entirely in the determined dross of ''No Jacket Required'' however is simply not justified, regardless of how Collins gained either his fortune, or his public image."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://thequietus.com/articles/04335-phil-collins-genesis-brian-eno-john-lydon-peter-gabriel|title=No Flak Jacket Required: In Defence Of Phil Collins|last=Mills|first=Gary|date=26 May 2010|website=[[The Quietus]]|access-date=23 July 2014}}</ref> David Sheppard wrote for the BBC in 2010: "Granted, Collins has sometimes been guilty of painting the bull's-eye on his own forehead (that self-aggrandising Live Aid Concorde business, the cringe-worthy lyrics to 'Another Day in Paradise', ''Buster'', etc.), but nonetheless, the sometime Genesis frontman's canon is so substantial and his hits so profuse that it feels myopic to dismiss him merely as a haughty purveyor of tortured, romantic ballads for the middle income world."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/m9nv|title=Phil Collins Going Back Review|publisher=BBC|first=David|last=Sheppard|access-date=19 July 2015}}</ref>

''Rolling Stone'' journalist Erik Hedegaard expressed disapproval of the widespread criticism which Collins has received, suggesting that he has been "unfairly and inexplicably vilified".<ref name="hedegaard" /> Martin C. Strong stated in 2011 that "the enigmatic and amiable Phil Collins has had his fair share of mockers and critics over the years, although one thing is sure, and that is his dexterity and undeniable talent".<ref name="strong" /> In a piece the following year, titled "10 Much-Mocked Artists It's Time We Forgave", ''New Musical Express'' critic Anna Conrad said Collins had been portrayed as a "villain", and wrote: "Was the bile really justified?&nbsp;... come on, admit it. You've air drummed to 'In the Air Tonight', and loved it."<ref name="conrad">{{cite web|url=https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/10-much-mocked-artists-its-time-we-forgave|title=10 Much-Mocked Artists It's Time We Forgave|last=Conrad|first=Anna|date=10 May 2012|publisher=NME|access-date=18 August 2014}}</ref> ''The Guardian'' journalist Dave Simpson wrote a complimentary article in 2013; while acknowledging "few pop figures have become as successful and yet reviled as Phil Collins", he argued "it's about time we recognised Collins's vast influence as one of the godfathers of popular culture".<ref name="simpson" />