Phil Collins originally wrote the song for his first solo album, Face Value, but decided against including the track. It wasn't until he was asked to provide a tune for the movie Against All Odds that he found himself going back to his unused demo.
Even if Collins wasn't initially a huge fan of his own song, everybody else liked it quite a bit: "Against All Odds" became his first #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
“That song was written during my first divorce,” Collins once said, per Far Out. “My first wife and the kids had gone, and I was left there. The song was written out of experience as opposed to a ‘what if’ song."
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Interestingly, Collins had already written the lyrics before he saw the film.
While Against All Odds the movie didn't win any major awards, the song did win Collins the 1984 Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Performance and was nominated for a Best Original Song Oscar (it lost to Stevie Wonder's "I Just Called To Say I Love You").
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