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 South collaborators Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott included the lyric "everyone around us agrees that Phil Collins must die", which "musicOMH" critic David Meller remarked in his review "is delivered with willing, almost pleasurable conviction by Abbott". Oasis songwriter Noel Gallagher criticised Collins on multiple occasions, including the comment: "Just because you sell lots of records, it doesn't mean to say you're any good. Look at Phil Collins." Collins said he has "at times, been very down" about Noel Gallagher's comments. Gallagher's brother, Oasis singer Liam, also recalled the "boring" Collins's chart dominance in the 1980s and stated that, by