{"id":62775,"date":"2015-10-13T01:10:39","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T05:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=62775"},"modified":"2016-04-02T23:33:46","modified_gmt":"2016-04-03T03:33:46","slug":"phil-collins-autobiography-in-the-air-tonight-will-be-published-in-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/10\/13\/phil-collins-autobiography-in-the-air-tonight-will-be-published-in-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Phil Collins autobiography in the air tonight, will be published in 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_62776\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62776\" style=\"width: 495px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/1_collins.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-62776\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/1_collins.jpg\" alt=\"Phil Collins (Wikipedia photo)\" width=\"495\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/1_collins.jpg 495w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/1_collins-248x300.jpg 248w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-62776\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Phil Collins (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Phil_Collins\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia photo<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LONDON \u2013 Against all odds, Phil Collins has decided to write an autobiography.<\/p>\n<p>The former Genesis drummer and 1980s icon is one of pop music\u2019s bestselling artists, with hits including \u201cIn the Air Tonight\u201d and \u201cAgainst All Odds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Collins said in a statement Monday that he had been asked several times to write a memoir \u201cbut never felt that the time was right \u2013 until now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The seven-time Grammy Award winner promised to tell his life story \u201cwarts and all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The as-yet-untitled book will be published in October 2016 by Century in Britain and Crown Archetype in the U.S. Both are owned by Penguin Random House, which holds global rights.<\/p>\n<p>Crown Archetype editorial director Tricia Boczkowski said the \u201cunflinchingly honest\u201d memoir would reveal \u201ca Phil Collins that not many people know.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON \u2013 Against all odds, Phil Collins has decided to write an autobiography. The former Genesis drummer and 1980s icon &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":62776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-62775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-original","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}