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Phil Collins appears in the new video game Grand Theft Auto – Vice City Stories, just released (for PSP) by Rockstar Games. Collins plays himself in the latest in the hugely popular and successful GTA series, which is set in Miami in the 80s, and great attention to detail has been paid to everything – the cars, the clothes, the music – to ensure period accuracy.

As with all the Grand Theft Auto games, there’s plenty of opportunity to drive around in fast cars and create mayhem, taking out other vehicles, flattening pedestrians, shooting guns and offing anyone who gets in your way.

There’s also the music: Vice City Stories includes more than 100 hits from the 80s, which you can listen to by tuning in to radio stations while driving around the city like a maniac.
Of the many missions you can take on, there are some where you must kill Phil, one of which is by sawing through the cables holding the lighting rig while he’s on stage playing drums and singing his 80s blockbuster In The Air Tonight. Whether or not your success in that mission results in Phil lying on stage in a pool of blood under a pile of mangled cymbal stands and with a bass drum stuck on his head, well, you’ll just have to play the game to find out.

“From the late 80s through until the late 90s I was a big gamer myself,” Collins told Classic Rock concerning his involvement in the GTA game. “I just fell in love with platform games, as they call them – Crash Bandicoot, Spiro The Dragon…”

And what does Collins think of his look and wardrobe in the game?

“Well it’s what I was like, you know – the long mane down the back, with the widow’s peak that was thicker than it is now, five o’clock shadow, the check suits. They spent a lot of time on the look.”

Press Information: London 7 November 2006

Tony Banks, Phil Collins and Mike Rutherford of the iconic band Genesis unveiled the dates for their first tour in 15 years. Turn It On Again – the tour, will see the band play a series of stadium concerts in Europe in the summer of 2007. Kicking off in the Olympic Stadium, Helsinki on 11 June, the tour will hit twelve different European countries, ending in Rome on 14 July. At a Pan-European press conference staged today at London’s exclusive Mayfair hotel and hosted by comedian and lifelong Genesis fan, David Baddiel, the band took questions from international media about their reasons for reforming and thoughts on the tour.

European tour promoter, John Giddings, commented:
“It is a privilege to work with one of the greatest rock bands of all time, and to see their musical talent together again onstage will be incredible. The live shows are as famous as their music.”

The “Turn It On Again” tour will be travelling to all the biggest stadiums as it treks across Europe in 2007 through Finland, Denmark, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, Poland, Germany, France, Holland, UK, Monte Carlo and Italy. For all European tour dates, please go HERE.

Tickets will be on sale for UK dates on 24 November and for dates in Germany on 10 November. Other on-sale dates to be announced.

Tony Banks, Phil Collins and Mike Rutherford will be joined on stage by long time Genesis sidemen, Chester Thompson on drums and Daryl Steurmer on guitar. Two of the world’s greatest show technicians, award-winning lighting designer Patrick Woodroffe and acclaimed set designer Mark Fisher are working on plans for the 2007 Genesis tour.

Genesis have sold over 130 million albums, it is one of a small elite of British bands who have achieved global success and sustained it over four decades. Genesis was formed in 1966 by Tony Banks, Peter Gabriel, Mike Rutherford and Anthony Phillips, while still at school, but its most successful incarnation was the late 70′s early 80′s line-up of Phil Collins taking on lead vocals and sharing songwriting, with Rutherford and Banks. The Duke album topped the UK charts in 1980 with the hit single, Turn It On Again monopolising the airwaves. In 1987, Genesis played sold out stadium shows across the globe, including four consecutive Wembley Stadiums.

To coincide with the Genesis tour, EMI Records will be re-issuing 14 Genesis studio albums in three stages during 2007. All the releases will be SACD/DVD double disc sets featuring newly re-mastered 5.1 surround sound and stereo mixes. The release schedule is as follows:

March 2007: A Trick Of The Tail (1976), Wind & Wuthering (1977), …And Then There Were Three…(1978), Duke (1980) Abacab (1981)

June/July 2007: Genesis(1983), Invisible Touch(1986), We Can’t Dance (1991), Calling All Stations(1997)

Late 2007/Early 2008: Trespass (1970), Nursery Cryme (1971), Foxtrot (1972 ), Selling England By The Pound (1973), The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway(1974)