Wake Up Call (Phil Collins song) Wake Up Call (Phil Collins song) "Wake Up Call" is a double A-side 2003 single release by English drummer Phil Collins from his seventh solo album "Testify", released in 2002. The song was released in a double A-side format alongside "The Least You Can Do". The music video made for "Wake Up Call", showed Collins waking early and going around Switzerland giving a wake-up call to local residents. Before long, a crowd gathers to follow him and starts to pester him with questions, of which the last question enquires about a possible Genesis reunion, to which Collins shakes his head
Phil Collins criticised Collins's "ubiquitous nature", including his involvement in the Who's 1989 reunion tour. David Bowie dismissed some of his own 1980s output as his "Phil Collins years/albums". In addition to the song's negative press from music journalists, singer-songwriter and political activist Billy Bragg criticised Collins for writing "Another Day in Paradise", stating: "Phil Collins might write a song about the homeless, but if he doesn't have the action to go with it he's just exploiting that for a subject." On the closing track of their 2014 album "What Have We Become?", titled "When I Get Back to Blighty", former Beautiful