After several decades of success in the music business, the legendary British musician Phil Collins decided to retire from the music world.

Phil Collins pullback from the music industry got various responses from fans all over the world. Had circulated the news that he did so because his health deteriorated in recent years.

Another quoted from The Hoolywood Gossip, he said

“I look at the MTV Music Awards and I think: ‘I can’t be in the same business as this.’ I don’t really belong to that world and I don’t think anyone’s going to miss me. I’m much happier just to write myself out of the script entirely.”

To provide clarity of various circulating news that Phil Collins wrote a special message to his fans.

Here is the message from Phil Collins as quoted from his personal blog, philcollins.co.uk,

Greetings to all, I’ve decided to write this in response to the articles that surfaced last weekend regarding my retirement. Why they were printed at all is a mystery, as I haven’t spoken to anybody in the press for a few months.

However, many of the articles printed over the last few months have ended up painting a picture of me that is more than a little distorted. Therefore, I would like to add my comments and try to explain again my reasons for calling it a day.

1) I’m not stopping because of dodgy reviews or bad treatment in the press.

2) I’m not stopping because I don’t feel loved, I know I still have a very large fanbase that loves what I do. Thank you.

3) I’m not stopping because I don’t fit in, this was proved with “Going Back” reaching No 1 in the UK, and doing incredibly well worldwide.

4) I’m not stopping so I can dive full time into my interest for the Alamo.

I am stopping so I can be a full time father to my two young sons on a daily basis.

Some of the things mentioned above have been said by me in various interviews, but said as asides with a smile on my face and in passing. They were not meant to be “headlines”, they were small parts of a conversation. This clearly doesn’t come over in print and I should know better.

However, the result is that I have ended up sounding like a tormented weirdo who thinks he was at the Alamo in another life, who feels very sorry for himself, and is retiring hurt because of the bad press over the years.

Just so you remember, the 60 years old Genesis drummer has acquired seven Grammys and an Academy Award in 1999 for best original song category, for his work ‘You’ll Be In My Heart’ for the Disney animated film, Tarzan.