http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiKj007MA0g Believe it or not, Phil Collins wasn't always the silk-voiced laundromat staple and former Genesis drummer he is (perhaps) recognised as. Get this: back when Collins was a hair-clad 14 year-old, the "In the Air Tonight" singer was a prospective actor and model, studying at London's Barbara Speake Stage School. He landed a part as the Artful Dodger in the London production of Oliver!, appeared in a scene from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (that ultimately got cut), auditioned for the part of Romeo in the 1968 Romeo and Juliet film adaptation, and was almost cast as one of the four Bugaloos (from the American children's show about a 'bug-band' not called The Beatles). Collins's most poignant on-screen part was only a bit one as one of the screaming children in the Beatles film Hard Days Night. His part in the film however, proved to be far more influential on the drummer/pop singer/suit-wearer's musical career than any step towards thespian prestige. Although, if things went any differently, this might've been how we remember Phil Collins: Something like the Kinks meets an unattended picnic basketon mushrooms.
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