Phil Collins described meeting jazz-fusion keyboardist Joe Zawinul as being “like meeting God”, reflecting his admiration for the Weather Report co-founder. The account highlights Collins’s continuing connection to progressive and fusion music alongside his more commercially successful pop career.

Collins said he got to know Zawinul slightly after they met at a jazz festival, exchanged contact details and stayed in touch, though they never performed together. He said he loved Zawinul’s work and would have liked to collaborate, but would have been “scared stiff”; Collins’s own fusion work with Brand X made such a partnership stylistically plausible.