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He is now literally incapable of picking up the sticks as a result of health problems. So he will be concentrating on singing on what looks like the last tour by Genesis.
Collins seems to provoke a Marmite-ish reaction, although it's not an even split – more people appear to dislike him than to like him.
I'm not clear why he arouses such animosity. I have little interest in his personal life or behaviour... and I hear him only as a man who has spoken with such a clear voice through his drums.
If he has come over as arrogant at times, he probably has some right to do so. Not only did he play one of the most monstrously good breaks of all time on In The Air Tonight but he came up with his own original sound for the drums.
The fact that he now cannot play at all is a real tragedy – whatever one thinks of him.