{"id":5898,"date":"2026-09-12T21:06:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T21:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/phil-collins-bbc-performance-was-a-secret-insult\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T21:06:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T21:06:19","slug":"phil-collins-bbc-performance-was-a-secret-insult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/phil-collins-bbc-performance-was-a-secret-insult\/","title":{"rendered":"Phil Collins&#8217; BBC Performance Was A Secret Insult"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZsX4XXy-IhU?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>In 1979, Phil Collins was on tour. Then a fax arrived. His wife Andrea Bertorelli wanted a divorce. She&#8217;d fallen for the interior decorator they&#8217;d hired. Phil was devastated. Sat alone in his studio. Called her: &#8220;Is there any way we can save this?&#8221; There wasn&#8217;t. Phil did the only thing he knew. He wrote &#8220;In The Air Tonight.&#8221; Poured every ounce of pain into music. When he performed it on BBC in 1981, he placed a paint tin and brush on his piano. A sarcastic nod to the decorator who destroyed his marriage. A producer asked him about it backstage. Phil smiled: &#8220;I just thought the set needed a little retouching.&#8221; The divorce cost him financially. But it gave the world an unforgettable song. <\/p>\n<p>#Famous #Celebrities #History #Legends #Viral #Success #Inspiration #PhilCollins #InTheAirTonight #MusicHistory #RockLegends #80sMusic #TrueStory #Heartbreak #Genesis<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZsX4XXy-IhU\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1979, Phil Collins was on tour. Then a fax arrived. His wife Andrea Bertorelli wanted a divorce. She&#8217;d fallen for the interior decorator they&#8217;d hired. Phil was devastated. Sat alone in his studio. Called her: &#8220;Is there any way we can save this?&#8221; There wasn&#8217;t. Phil did the only thing he knew. He wrote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4155150933,"featured_media":5899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[11669,11676,11675,11663,11678,11667,3418,4435,11665,11661,11673,21,11658,11666,11670,193,2515,11671,11672,11660,9517,11662,11664,11668,11674,11659,11679,11677,1107],"class_list":["post-5898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-actingcareer","tag-actingjourney","tag-actinglegends","tag-actorlife","tag-before","tag-behindthescenes","tag-biography","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrityhistory","tag-celebritystories","tag-cinematichistory","tag-documentary","tag-famous","tag-famousactors","tag-fromzerotohero","tag-history","tag-hollywood","tag-hollywoodstories","tag-ilmindustry","tag-inspiration","tag-legends","tag-modernstars","tag-moviestars","tag-oldhollywood","tag-risingstars","tag-success","tag-truestory","tag-tvandfilm","tag-viral","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4155150933"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}