Both Sides Of The Story - 2015 Remastered

In this song, Collins reminds us to examine both sides of the story in various scenarios - including a homeless man who desperately wants a job, a couple on the brink of a divorce, and a boy from the ghetto threatening a stranger with a gun - rather than make snap judgments. It's a very personal song that Collins wrote after splitting up with his second wife, Jill Tavelman. He told The Mail on Sunday: "Here I am trying to show the need to stand back and see things from the other person's point of view. The lyrics speak for themselves."

This was the lead single from Phil Collins' fifth solo album, Both Sides. The song reached #7 on the UK Singles Chart, but was Collins' first lead single since "Thru These Walls" in 1982 to fail to hit the Top 10 on the US Billboard Hot 100.

Collins did just about everything himself in making the Both Sides album: he played all the instruments, wrote all the songs and produced it. He says that the album sealed his departure from Genesis, since he now had little interest in working as a group and making the necessary compromises.