Phil Collins and Paul McCartney have finally buried the hatchet after over two decades — but what sparked their falling out?
During an appearance on Piers Morgan Uncensored on Friday, October 2, the Genesis frontman revealed that the Beatles star recently reached out to discuss their 24-year-old feud.
The tension began at the Queen’s Jubilee Concert at Buckingham Palace in 2002, when Collins presented McCartney with a rare first edition of Hunter Davies’ book on The Beatles and asked him to sign it. McCartney agreed, but not before turning to his then-wife, Heather Mills, and saying, “He’s a big Beatles fan is our little Phil.”
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“I thought, ‘You ar**hole,’” Collins recalled, though he acknowledged he may have taken the comment more personally than McCartney intended.
The turning point came recently, when McCartney called Collins after learning he was collecting memorabilia for a Kings Trust charity auction. During the conversation, McCartney confronted Collins, and they hashed it out.
“So we kissed and made up,” Collins quipped.
Collins previously accused McCartney of treating him “condescendingly” in a 2016 interview. However, he now says he is glad they resolved the issue, explaining that McCartney is “part of [his] life.”
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