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The Heckler: those who doubt the brilliance of Phil Collins are snobs

Don’t they realise pop music is supposed to be naff?

12 December 2015

9:00 AM

12 December 2015

9:00 AM

Three boos for those rotten spoilsports who started an online petition against Phil Collins coming out of retirement (there’s already enough suffering in the world, they said). Fools. Don’t they realise pop music is supposed to be naff? It’s the soundtrack to our tawdry lives. How could it be anything but schmaltzy? Don’t they know there’s nothing quite so uncool as a bloke with really cool taste in music? Like a large penis, a large record collection is something that only impresses other men.

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