Phil Collins - No Jacket Required

by Scourge on Mon, Jul 12, 2021

No jackets required, but parachute pants are.

What you need to know up front about my relationship with Phil Collins is that it was predicated on my love for Miami Vice. In 1984 my family moved from the suburbs of Austin to a rural locale which opened doors for my formative years that may well have remained shut and locked otherwise. You see, before the move, we were heavily involved in the cult of Jehovah’s Witnesses for several years, and due in large part to that extreme fundamentalism, pop music and much of prime time television was verboten, to a point where I wasn’t allowed to listen to the radio, and for the last couple of years before the move we had no t.