Tribute to Soul and Motown; looks interesting; he's chosen some good tunes - which label is it on?

Atlantic/Warner Music International I believe

Warner, I think.

New video just been uploaded.

Not bad; the problem with Going Back is that Dusty's incredible voice (arguably the best British female vocalist ever) had such pathos and soul that Phil's beautiful, spot-on (I've never known anyone more accurate at hitting the notes) vocal doesn't come close.

I was returning from holiday last year, selected a random Dusty CD and this came on; it made me cry.

Heard some of the tracks. Is it not pointless to have his voice on top of a carbon copy of the original arrangement? It is no different from the original. In for a penny eh Phil?

Poor old Phil: he started out as the Artful Dodger, but ended up looking like Magwitch.

Very funny Pru and spot on.
I started as Buddy Holly and ended up as Rebekah Wade!

Atlantic kindly sent me the CD but sad to say it's awful. Phil has a great voice but he's tried to copy all the original arrangements and it's just like karaoke.
A shame - with a great producer and totally different approach to each song, it could have been wonderful.
Why cover Dusty songs? Nobody can ever improve on her vocals - only a completely original interpretation would work.
Truly disappointing.

I've no desire to listen to his new album, but I thought the track-listing looked fantastic. So, could somebody please put together an CD of all the original versions of the songs he's covered. (I know, I could download them all, but I still prefer CD - especially for listening in the car!).

A project for Brian berg and Universal Music TV?

If only Brian was still at UMTV!

terrylamps wrote:
If only Brian was still at UMTV!

Where is he now? Has he left Universal? And who's running UMTV? I must have missed that one.

Genesis and early Phil Collins solo stuff were superb.....

Shame he has fallen so low.....

Perhaps he should get hammered - drive his car into Snappy Snaps and look for a spell in Prison to help get his creative juices going again ( I have it on good authority from Daily Mail readers that this is what will happen to GM - so why not Phil ? )

Plus that JK chap got a very good musical out of his Prison experience called VILE PERVERT - so it does seem to work as a strategy for creativity !!

Try Karen Simmonds who now runs the area formally controlled by B Berg.

President of a new division, Universal Music Enterprises UK

terrylamps wrote:
President of a new division, Universal Music Enterprises UK

So it's just a case of moving his [deck] chair!

Probably uses the same golf courses as before.