There are some songs that never fail to make you cry, no matter how many times you hear them...and no matter what's going on in your life at the time. A perfect example is the heartbreaking hit "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)" by Phil Collins, which was inspired by a devastating real-life breakup.
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.
"I was really hot at the time, and they said, 'Have you got a song for this movie of ours?' I said, 'I’m not able to do it on the road, but I have a demo of this ballad.' It was basically like saying, 'Here’s $10 million. Would you want it?'" Collins told Rolling Stone in 2016.
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.
It could be that part of what made the song so relevant was that Collins poured his own heartbreak into the tune, which was penned while he was divorcing his first wife, Andrea Bertorelli.
“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."
“If that personal stuff had not happened to me at the time, I probably would have never made an album, and if I was to have made an album eventually, it probably would have been a jazz-rock thing," he continued.
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Collins went on to say that he didn't like "Against All Odds" as much as "You Know What I Mean," and he "thought there was only room for one of those on the album. I don’t know what would have happened to it if [director] Taylor Hackford hadn’t got in touch.”
Interestingly, Collins had already written the lyrics before he saw the film.
"When I think about the movie, the first thing that comes to mind is the size of Rachel Ward’s breasts," he quipped. "I thought they were fantastic. I like Jeff Bridges, too."
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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