Summary of Phil Collins's Not Dead Yet

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#1 I went to see a medium in 1977, to ask about a naughty dog. She told me that it was my dad who was behind the antics, and that he wanted me to have a few things: his watch, his wallet, and the family cricket bat.

#2 My father, Greville Philip Austin Collins, was not a faithful husband to my mother, June Winifred Collins. He had used his mundane, bowler-hatted, nine-to-five suburban commuter life to maintain a secret life with an office girlfriend.

#3 I am a divorcee, and I have three children from my first two marriages. I have always tried to be honest with them about my personal history, which affects them every day of their lives.

#4 I was the first London child, as both Carole and Clive had been born in Weston-super-Mare after the entire family had been relocated there by London Assurance prior to the Blitz. My father, born in 1907, came from then-fashionable Isleworth, a riverside neighborhood on London’s western edges. His family home was big, dark, and musty.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jun 9, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822536715

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Insights on Phil Collins's Not Dead Yet

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

Insights from Chapter 17

Insights from Chapter 18

Insights from Chapter 19

Insights from Chapter 20

Insights from Chapter 21

Insights from Chapter 22

Insights from Chapter 23

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I went to see a medium in 1977, to ask about a naughty dog. She told me that it was my dad who was behind the antics, and that he wanted me to have a few things: his watch, his wallet, and the family cricket bat.

#2

My father, Greville Philip Austin Collins, was not a faithful husband to my mother, June Winifred Collins. He had used his mundane, bowler-hatted, nine-to-five suburban commuter life to maintain a secret life with an office girlfriend.

#3

I am a divorcee, and I have three children from my first two marriages. I have always tried to be honest with them about my personal history, which affects them every day of their lives.

#4

I was the first London child, as both Carole and Clive had been born in Weston-super-Mare after the entire family had been relocated there by London Assurance prior to the Blitz. My father, born in 1907, came from then-fashionable Isleworth, a riverside neighborhood on London’s western edges. His family home was big, dark, and musty.

#5

The family didn’t have a car until 1952, when Dad got his license. He didn’t have any interest in home improvement, and he didn’t understand how electricity worked. He was convinced that the plugs were part of a plot against him.

#6

I grew up in London with my two sisters, Carole and Clive, and our parents. We lived in a large, three-floored house in East Sheen. By the time I was a teen, there was barely room to change under my bed.

#7

I grew up in Hounslow, a suburb of London. Everything was a walk or a bus ride away, and the train was my method of getting around. London, but not London. Not quite this, not quite that.

#8

I became good friends with local lads Arthur and Jack Wild. The lives of Jack and me would later entwine as we were child actors, sharing a West End stage in the first staging of Oliver! the musical.

#9

I am a huge football fan, and I regularly go to watch Tottenham Hotspur play. I also go to watch Brentford FC play, as