“I remember at Phil Collins’ wedding in 1975 I met Jon Anderson for the first time and he said to me, ‘Why don’t you make Phil the singer and get in another instrumentalist so that the drums are covered?’ And that’s exactly what we did. I don’t suppose Jon would have had any idea that the instrumentalist he suggested we get would have come so close to home for him in the shape of Bill.
“I remember Bill showing up on the first day of rehearsal and joining in with one of our very simple tunes, either Squonk or I Know What I Like, and I thought he was going to turn around and say, ‘Oh, that’s far too easy. Have you got anything more complicated?’ [Laughs] But he seemed only…
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