Gazza’s cri de coeur
PHIL COLLINS says he once lent an ear to troubled former England footballer Paul Gascoigne. The Genesis frontman claims that when Gazza was playing for Tottenham Hotspur in the late Eighties, he told Collins about his fears over returning to the north-east.
“Genesis were playing Wembley and Paul came to see us. He said: ‘I want to go back to Newcastle but I’ve got some bad friends up there and I think they’re going to kill me,’” Phil, 58, tells FourFourTwo magazine.
“I became his confidant for a while.”