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The digital home of music journalist Nicholas Jennings, author of Lightfoot, the bestselling biography of Gordon Lightfoot. Includes a searchable database of current and archived work, including thousands of record reviews and feature articles.
Phil Collins - Going Back
The cover depicts Collins as a teenage drummer when he came of age to the sound of American soul music. Inside, the singer goes back to those roots, covering 18 classics of the Motown era. There’s an exuberance to Collins' versions of Stevie Wonder’s “Uptight (Everything’s Alright)” and Martha & the Vandellas’ “Jimmy Mack,” while the darker “Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone” can be read as a heartwrenching confession to his older children—musician Simon and actresses Joely and Lily—about his absence as their father.
