On July 7th, GMT, with the end of the 38th Montreux Jazz Festival in Montreux, Switzerland, Phil Collins' "Farewell Tour" World Tour Europe also came to an end, with 26 sold-out venues, and the rock star of the 80s and 90s is still shining today.

He will take a short break before he starts preparing for the US tour, as well as continuing to produce a selection of albums to be released in the second half of the year.

The residential area on the hillside on the shore of Lake Geneva in Switzerland is one of the most livable places in the world, with beautiful scenery and a peaceful atmosphere, full of lush vegetation, quaint and secluded houses, and looking at Lake Geneva under the blue sky, a sparkling and clear sky, like the Milky Way pouring down.

The Phil Collins family usually settled here.

Recently, Phil has really eaten well and slept soundly, the tour has been very successful, his wife Orion's second child will be born around the end of November, and the inspection found that it is a boy again, and the baby daughter's heart is back, his sweetheart baby, no one can snatch it away!

But this dream was woken up by a shrill and noisy song.

":3w., oh, oh—"

"Hahaha!" On the lawn in front of the red-roofed house, Lily played a recording on her mobile phone, looking at her father's strange face, as if this was the funniest scene in human history, she laughed so much that she almost rolled off the wooden chair to the ground, although it was not the first time to broadcast, but every time it was so hilarious.

"Oh! oh!" Phil suddenly screamed a few times, and said angrily: "That bastard can't even sing oh?

Lily wanted to say something so much that she couldn't laugh, but after stopping the recording to slow down, she smiled and said, "I don't agree with you, but you sing well enough, you don't know how to appreciate it!" She got up and walked into the room, humming softly.

I don't know how to appreciate!? What can Phil say except stunned, every more girl falls in love, there is one more father who has fallen out of favor!

Seeing that Lily loved right and wrong, he was very jealous, but he was actually quite happy, of course he hoped that she could always be happy.

That bastard can't sing, but at least he knows how to coax her, which is commendable...... Slow down......

A look of "yes" flashed on the old face! Phil couldn't help but laugh when he thought about it, good idea, good idea!

To be honest, in many ways, he felt sorry for Lily, owed her too much, and couldn't make up for it. And he's realized that since he had Nicholas, he'd always neglected the older Lily when he's busy with work, but she's just a teenager who has been through a lot of family since she was a child.

He didn't want to do that anymore, so he decided to give most of his time to his family after this tour.

In these days, with this attitude and hard work, the former rock father-daughter duo has finally reappeared in the world, Phil cherishes it and wants to make Lily happy more, and now it is impossible to make her happy without one person, Ye Wei.

He has also been trying to make up for the fault of that gaffe that hit Lily's relationship, although he helped her get Ferguson's signed photo, but it was really nothing, it seemed that it had been a long, long time, and he hadn't surprised Lily, and the thought of this made him anxious.

Lily is not an ordinary teenager, her upbringing has made her have high standards for surprises, it is useless to buy some expensive gifts or something, and she doesn't bother to think about it, she can't look at it at all. Of course, it doesn't look at whose daughter she is, she has the spirit of lyrical rock in her blood.

Phil is getting older and older, and his talent for making girls happy is getting more and more degraded, so let's sing the best songs, like "You'll-Be-in-My-Heart" is very good.

And now there's a chance to go to Los Angeles and find that bastard, take him to the studio to record a decent song, and give the CD to Lily!

Good idea, it's time to meet that kid for a while......

The bald old man showed a slightly fierce pouting and squinting expression on his face, calculating the time, it was just early in the morning in Los Angeles, and it was still suitable for calling, Phil immediately walked to the side, kept an eye on the room, called Jill Tavorman with his mobile phone, and whispered as soon as he connected: "Give me that bastard's number." ”

"Who? What did you say?"

"That bastard boy who soaked our daughter!"

"What do you want to do?" Taverman's voice was alarmed and wary, "Phil, you'd better not mess with it. ”

"I just wanted to surprise Lily......" Phil had to say his mind, "keep it secret, or it won't be a surprise." Tavorman smiled helplessly: "I don't prevent you from coaxing Lily, but you have to do things beautifully, but that kid is very sensible, that is, in some ways with you...... It's one of those people, and I'm afraid you're going to have conflicts. ”

Phil chuckled: "Hehe, I'm 53 years old, and I can't even beat the drums, what are you worried about." ”

As soon as Tawoman sent him the number, he called.

......

Los Angeles under the night sky, Brentwood, Ye's house.

After a busy night of copywriting, Ye Wei was about to go to bed, so he turned off the lights and went to bed, when his mobile phone suddenly rang. He now has two mobile phones, one is a work number, which no one usually calls after work hours, and the other is the original private number that is ringing, and the strange thing is that the caller is an unfamiliar foreign number, who?

"Hello?"

"Hello, Ye Wei, yes, I'm Phil Collins, the number given to me by Lily's mother. ”

Ok, Phil Collins, Ye Wei realized it for half a second, his eyes widened suddenly, and he suddenly rose up, this voice is indeed ......!

He fell out of bed, grinning strangely, too suddenly, excitedly and a little at a loss: "Wow, what a surprise, hey Mr. Collins, what's the matter with me?"

"Lily is fine, she didn't know I was looking for you. ”

"Oooh. Ye Wei responded a few times, it was really unexpected, and he got up and walked around, "What's the matter?" Mr. Collins, please say. ”

"Boy, if you call me 'Mr. Collins' again, I promise you're in big trouble. ”

"Ugh. Ye Wei shrugged, turned on the light in the room, and didn't know how to get along with each other for a while, it was Phil Collins, needless to say, but he didn't want to use business to communicate, because this person was still Lily's father.

The other party also seemed to hate those politeness, and just then, he asked calmly, "Received, Phil, what's the matter?"

"You sing so badly, you're embarrassed to sing to Lily at that level, and I'm ashamed of you. Phil was mean for a few words before he said the plan, and finally said, "We'll do this in two days, surprise Lily, are you interested in joining?"

"Of course!" Ye Wei had already heard it excitedly, feeling very interesting and impulsive, "Cool idea, Lily will be moved by the bad, I'll join!"

"Are you free for the next two days?"

Ye Wei's working hours are very free now, and he is in the stage of inspecting the newly established producer team, and it is necessary to wait to see the results of their work, and it is the weekend again, so of course he is free. He smiled, "Yes, no problem, I'm always available about Lily." ”

"That's fine, I'll fly to Los Angeles, and you'll be there tomorrow afternoon." Protect your voice, don't shout in the past two days, I'll do whatever you want when you record a song. ”

The two talked about some details again, how to connect, how to keep secrets......

After the call, after a while, Ye Wei came back to his senses and was about to excitedly shout "I'm going to rock and roll!", and immediately covered his mouth again to protect his throat!

Record a song, record a song, which song do you want to sing?

He proudly walked to the CD cabinet next to the bookshelf, the one-man tall cabinet was full of records, they witnessed that five-minute hot music dream, many old songs, the Beatles, the Queen, Carpenter are all favorites, there are a few Genesis, and Phil Collins's solo albums are all collected, only a few selected discs are missing.

In fact, he has always liked to listen to Phil Collins, "another-day-in-paradise" is one of his favorite songs, and after dating Lily, he also listened to it more.

"Which one?" Ye Wei flipped through Collins' solo records, looking at the introduction above, they have sold more than 100 million copies worldwide! Including 7 Grammy Awards and 17 nominations, 5 BRIT Awards and 7 nominations, 1 Oscar and 3 nominations, 2 Golden Globes and 1 nomination......

"Another-Day-In-Paradise" is certainly good, the number one song of the Billboard TOP100, Collins's masterpiece of social reflection, but it is not a love song and is not suitable. The same champion song has also been covered in countless versions, both in Mandarin and Cantonese, and in 2000 Mariah Carey and Backstreet Boys teamed up to cover it, and it became an airborne champion in the UK upon its release.

Ye Wei felt that his cover version would definitely not be able to compare to them, and this one was too sad and not suitable.

But he really loves it, because it was originally an interlude in the movie of the same name, and the male lead of that film was one of his favorite actors, "The Governor" Jeff Bridges, which was nominated for an Oscar that year and later became the theme song.

"I have to sing a champion song...... Ye Wei muttered,?? it's not suitable, or or." He looked at the song, whether it was a champion or not, what a classic, "i-wish-it-would-rain-down"......

"Cool. He suddenly couldn't help but sigh that it was all Collins who composed, wrote the lyrics, sang and played the drums himself, what a talented guy!

Suddenly, there was a vulgar feeling that I hadn't had much before, and finally I understood Lev's yelling "That's Lily Collins!", and he was actually in love with Phil Collins's daughter!

"when-i'm-feeling-blue, all-i-have-to-do, is-take-a-look-at-you, then-i'm-not-so-blue, just sing!"

......

On the 8th, Phil Collins hid from almost everyone and took his assistant to Los Angeles.

It was more than 2 p.m. when they arrived in Los Angeles, and due to the time difference or the 8th, Phil and his party rushed directly from the airport to the "Westlake Recording Studio" in West Hollywood, which was one of the best recording studios.

Except for some passengers on the same plane and airport personnel who suspiciously saw the superstar, no one knew that the bastard Collins was coming.

West Lake Recording Studio has a number of large and small recording studios, Phil and his entourage entered the hall, led by the surprise and enthusiasm of the front desk staff, came to a small recording studio with the name of the scheduled customer "Phil Collins" posted on the door, opened the door and walked in, only to see a black-haired teenager already waiting on the sofa, and when he saw him, he immediately smiled and walked over.

"Phil, it's a pleasure to meet you. The boy stretched out his right hand.

Phil squinted slightly, he looked at the other man at 16 years old, he was taller than him, wearing a gray T-shirt with a guitar pattern and jeans, and he looked quite pleasing to the eye.

At the same time, Ye Wei was also looking at Collins, it was impossible not to be nervous, whether it was a rock star or his girlfriend's father, they were all uneasy, the two were the same person!

"Okay, okay, don't be polite to me, I don't understand. Phil shook hands with the boy, looked at the mixing console over there, and the recording studio behind the glass window inside, but found no recording engineers and recording assistants, and asked, "Where are the people?"

"They went to another room, and said that you would call them when you arrived. Ye Wei said knowingly, since Collins has asked me to be myself many times, let's be myself.

He suddenly thought of something, and couldn't help but smile and asked, "I want to take the liberty of asking you an old-fashioned question, do you really see a person who dies and can't be saved, or is it ...... Just a song of broken love?"

He was reminded of a famous story from this classic song, which has the lyrics "if-you-told-me-you-were-drowning, i-would-not-lend-a-hand", and there is a popular story about Collins who saw a man drowning one day, and a guy next to him saw it, and the man walked away without reaching out, hence the song.

"Oh?" Phil's face changed instantly, what does this kid mean!

Didn't you know that this was the song he wrote in anger after his first ex-wife......, Andrea Betinelli, cheated on him? Although those things are long gone, and he has been friends with Betinelli and Tavorman for a long time, as Lily's boyfriend, is this a good fit?

"I'm sorry......" Ye Wei noticed that something was wrong, and seemed to ask what he shouldn't ask, so he quickly apologized and said, "I'm just curious, this question has been bothering me for some years." ”

Phil sneered as he walked to the mixing console, "It's just a song of broken love, and that story is an ese-whispers." ”

"Oh, sir, pay attention to your words!" Ye Weihuo frowned, and a surge of anger surged in his heart.

ese-whispers (Chinese whispers) is an unfriendly word, equivalent to the meaning of false, unreasonable, and gossip in Chinese, first because Europeans could not understand Chinese culture and language, this is a racist and controversial outdated word, who would say this in front of a Chinese?

There is no interest, whether it is a big man or his girlfriend's father, he just wants to give the middle finger to this old man! This is a matter of principle, he will always defend the principle, just like his ancestors, no one can insult the Chinese! God can't either!

The old man looked back, and did not mean to apologize. Ye Weiyan said: "Maybe you don't think it's a big deal, then how about I call you Limey?"

Limey is a scornful term for the British, and it sounds rather unpleasant to the British.

"Damn boy!" the old man immediately became angry, "I have an Asian wife, and I have a mixed-race son, two of them! Do you think I look like some kind of Ku Klux Klan racist? They say you're a genius, I think you're an idiot!"

"Who knows, maybe it's not the Ku Klux Klan, it's the skinheads. Ye Wei did not back down, and his face obviously said: I need an apology.

"Hahaha! I found that I still like you, kindly!" Phil suddenly laughed, and his magnetic voice echoed through the studio: "I'm sorry, I didn't use the right words just now, so how about you have a long tongue to reveal my scars?"

"I said it before, I'm sorry!" Ye Wei suddenly laughed too, he understood, this old bastard, interesting! That's right, how could the person who wrote "another-day-in-paradise" be so superficial and mentally retarded, the interest suddenly returned, we are going to rock!

The two looked at each other, the more they laughed, the funnier they became, there was an indescribable sense of fate, they slapped their palms, and they were fine, "Hahaha!"

"Phil, I thought about it for a long time last night, and finally made a decision, I want to sing. ”

"I have a new idea, why don't you make a song of your own?" Phil's old face was interested, "you compose, write the lyrics, and sing a new song." ”

Ye Wei was stunned when he heard this, "What?" Ye Wei did not back down, and his face obviously said: I need an apology.

"Hahaha! I found that I still like you, kindly!" Phil suddenly laughed, and his magnetic voice echoed through the studio: "I'm sorry, I didn't use the right words just now, so how about you have a long tongue to reveal my scars?"

"I said it before, I'm sorry!" Ye Wei suddenly laughed too, he understood, this old bastard, interesting! That's right, how could the person who wrote "another-day-in-paradise" be so superficial and mentally retarded, the interest suddenly returned, we are going to rock!

The two looked at each other, the more they laughed, the funnier they became, there was an indescribable sense of fate, they slapped their palms, and they were fine, "Hahaha!"

"Phil, I thought about it for a long time last night, and finally made a decision, I want to sing. ”

"I have a new idea, why don't you make a song of your own?" Phil's old face was interested, "you compose, write the lyrics, and sing a new song." ”

Ye Wei was stunned when he heard this, "What?"