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Phil Collins Parade
Feb 18, 2011 Updated Feb 21, 2011

The streets of Brooklyn's Greenpoint district were transformed earlier this week for the annual Phil Collins Day parade.

Against all odds*, more than 250 fans of the much-maligned drumming, producing, acting and singing sensation showed up and danced into the night down Greenpoint’s main thoroughfare Franklin Street, surrounding the parade's single float - a six-foot-tall papier mache bust of Collins’s head tied to a car.

* Sorry for the pun...it's Friday.

Source: brooklynpaper.com external link

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Philip David Charles "Phil" Collins, LVO (born 30 January 1951) is an English singer-songwriter, drummer, pianist and actor best known as a drummer and vocalist for British progressive rock group Genesis and as a solo artist. Collins sang the lead vocals on several chart hits in the United Kingdom and the United States between 1975 and 2010, either as a solo artist or with Genesis. His singles,...

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