Not quite close enough
Regarding Dave McKenna’s Nov. 20 Music Review “As close as a Genesis fan can get to paradise” [Style]: Phil Collins did not play “a schoolboy in the Beatles’ 1964 feature film ‘A Hard Day’s Night.’ ” The “deserter” schoolboy who banters with Ringo Starr in the film is David Janson (at the time billed “David Jaxon”). Collins was an extra in the final scene, one of the kids screaming in the audience as the Beatles played. He had no lines, was seen only very briefly or, in many cuts of the film, not at all.
Also, the writer’s assertion that Collins’s touring with Genesis makes him “seem the more selfless of the two Genesis frontmen” (the other being Peter Gabriel, who quit the band many years ago) was extremely weird. Gabriel is a passionate and dedicated global human rights activist.
Dalal Musa, Falls Church