Phil Collins in an episode of the series "Miami Vice", entitled "Phil the Shill", in which he plays a cheating con-man. In the 1980s he appeared in several comedy sketches with "The Two Ronnies" on BBC One. In 2001, Collins was one of several celebrities who were tricked into appearing in a controversial British comedy series, "Brass Eye", shown on public service broadcaster Channel 4. In the episode, Collins endorsed a hoax anti-paedophile campaign wearing a T-shirt with the words "Nonce Sense" and warned children against speaking to suspicious people. Collins was reported by the BBC to have consulted lawyers regarding the
Testify (Phil Collins album) are derived from demos Collins made in his bedroom studio and finished off with the help of producers Rob Cavallo and James Sanger, engineer Allen Sides, guitarist Tim Pierce, and bassist Paul Bushnell. Phil worked extensively with computers during production, work that can be seen throughout the album. After Phil made "Dance into the Light" without any drum machine, he returned to the device for "Testify". The album begins with an up-tempo "Wake Up Call". It was based on a 16-bar doodle Phil wrote, and only began to formalise when he brought it into studio. The title track, the longest