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NWS C PB SOUTH FLORIDA SUN- SENTINEL | MONDAY | SEPTEMBER 27 , 20 0 4 | SECTION E
End
road
of the
Phil Collins will put his family
first after his “farewell” tour
concludes in South Florida.
IF YOU GO
BY NICK TATE Phil Collins plays the Office Depot
STAFF WRITER Center, One Panther Parkway,
Phil Collins is calling it quits. Sunrise, at 8 p.m. Thursday. Tickets
The Brit pop star is giving up touring to spend more are $85, $65 and $45 through the
time with his growing family — and because he’s losing box office, 954-835-8000; or
his hearing. Ticketmaster, 954-523-3309,
“I’ve had enough of it,” said Collins, 53. “It’s been 305-358-5885, 561-966-3309, or
great, but I’ve done this for 30 years — 34 years, if you www.ticketmaster.com.
count when I started with Genesis. And I just don’t want
to do it anymore. There are other things in life.”
Speaking by phone from a tour stop in Chicago,
Collins said he isn’t getting out of the business entirely. GOODBYE, I MUST BE
“This is not retirement or semi-retirement,” he said. But GOING: Collins, married three
his advancing hearing loss, from an infection contracted times with four children, says
two years ago, and a desire to “be there” for his third the demands of his career
wife, Orianne, and 3-year-old son, Nicholas, will curtail often overwhelmed his
the rigorous travel schedule he’s maintained since his personal life. File photo
late teens.
He is not going quietly. The cheekily titled “First Final
Farewell Tour” is a greatest-hits-live survey of Collins’
mighty solo career. It wraps up Thursday at the Office
Depot Center in Sunrise.
Collins, of course, is one of the reigning kings of
adult-contemporary music. He became an FM radio
demi-god in the 1980s, building a monstrously
successful solo career on the coattails of Genesis, the
progressive rock act he turned into a hit factory in the
late ’70s and ’80s.
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COMMENTARY TO OUR READERS
FINDING A WAY TO DANCE AGAIN New comics start today
In case you missed the announcement in
BY KITTY OLIVER lots of free-form solo time on the that night, I am not yet fully Sunday’s newspaper, we are making some
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT floor. I once spent eight hours aware of the shift that has changes in the comics, effective today.
Aurora dances, and her bare straight in a disco bouncing occurred in me. Here is what we are doing — largely based on
shoulders twitch front to back, around until sunup when I was A few minutes earlier, her the results of the two comics polls we conducted
back to front, hips floating like a in my 30s. I’d been known to social radar had briefly beamed during the summer:
lazy swing. She keeps time to the lead a chorus line of girlfriends in on the only black American I In the daily (Monday through Saturday)
drumbeat of the Jamaican away from their dinner to the there, invited by an acquaintance comics, we are starting The Other Coast and
reggae music with hands center of the room whenever the who had yet to arrive. I was taking out Six Chix on the black and white page
brushing hard against her full band played a good song. content to hide in plain sight, (the one with the puzzles on it). We are also
silk skirt. I watch from a corner But as I entered my 40s, and observing the handful of returning Sherman’s Lagoon to the bottom of the
of the living room at the party single life, I started going out international people who had black and white page. On the color page, we are
where the other guests are less. It became harder to find gathered so far and seemed to starting three new comics — Get Fuzzy, Rhymes
seemingly oblivious to the music I liked, and the younger know each other, when Aurora With Orange and Silo Roberts, and dropping
private show she is putting on, dancers were doing bump-and- came over. We sipped our drinks Sally Forth, Curtis and Hi and Lois.
and a part of me longs to join in. grind calisthenics that were and traded introductions. Using I In the Sunday comics, effective Oct. 10, we
Instead, I stand there bobbing difficult for me to imitate, or gestures to try to bridge her will be adding Get Fuzzy, Rhymes With Orange
my head and swaying slightly recover from if I tried. For a heavily accented English and my and Silo Roberts, and dropping Sally Forth,
while something stronger keeps while I sought refuge in quieter pittance of Spanish words, we Curtis and Hi and Lois. The reason we are waiting
me rooted in place. The feeling is “adult” spots. But, edging my shared our disparate so long to change the Sunday comics is that they
unfamiliar, out of character as I arm-flowing, finger-snapping backgrounds — hers white and are printed weeks in advance.
look back on it. way up near the bandstand, I Cuban, mine African and If you missed the story and results of our comics
I remember myself as being proved to be no match for the Southern — enough to know polls, please see either Sunday’s AE&TV section
bold in that area of my life. couples showing off their latest that we were around the same (Pages 16-18) or go to www.sun-sentinel.com/
Married for many years to a man ballroom and dirty dance moves. age. Then she leaned close with comics.
who rarely danced, I got So I took a seat. Staff illustration/ — DAN NORMAN
DEPUTY MANAGING EDITOR
comfortable early on with having Watching Aurora at the party I OLIVER CONTINUES ON 6E Vanessa Cordo
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