“THE DRUM FILL AT 3:40… AND 20,000 PEOPLE FORGOT HOW TO BREATHE.” No one really believed he’d do it again. The lights dimmed. The room went quiet in that fragile, sacred way. Phil Collins walked out slowly. Sat down. Took a breath. He looked thinner. Older. But his eyes were steady. Then the first notes of In the Air Tonight crept in. Soft. Patient. Almost cruel. And when that drum break finally hit — the one people have waited 45 years to hear — the arena broke. Hands over mouths. Tears falling without warning. Nic Collins stood nearby, smiling like a son who knew this mattered. This wasn’t nostalgia. It was a man reminding the world who he still is.
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