Read Travis Barker’s Full Speech Inducting Phil Collins into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Phil Collins was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist, becoming a two-time inductee after joining Genesis in 2010. Travis Barker introduced him, describing how Collins shaped his own drumming and influenced the sound and popularity of drums in the 1980s.

Barker recalled hearing a drum duet between Collins and Chester Thompson as a teenager, then modelling his drum kit and playing on Collins’s style. He praised Collins’s work as a drummer and singer-songwriter, naming songs including “Sussudio”, “Take Me Home” and “Against All Odds”, and singled out the drum fill in “In the Air Tonight”. Collins attended and gave an acceptance speech but did not perform; Barker performed the song with Cynthia Erivo at the ceremony.