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Led Zeppelin Live Aid Reunion A Disaster For Phil Collins

11/03/2014
. (Classic Rock) Phil Collins has described his 1985 appearance with Led Zeppelin at Live Aid a disaster - and says he would have walked off if he thought he'd have got away with it.

And he knew he'd made the wrong choice seconds after the charity performance began. Collins, who worked on Plant's first two solo albums, tells Q: "I thought it was just going to be low-key and we'd all get together and have a play. But something happened between that conversation and the day - it became a Led Zeppelin reunion.

"I turned up and I was a square peg in a round hole. Robert was happy to see me, but Jimmy wasn't." He admits to realizing "this is a mistake" almost as soon as the band started playing. "You could sense I wasn't welcome, and Tony was not making life easy," he recalls. "If I could have walked off, I would have done. But then we'd all be talking about why Phil Collins walked off Live Aid - so I just stuck it out." Read more here.

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