The gym I use has TV monitors tuned in to the music video channels. As it's a university gym they are mostly showing Q, Kerrang or Kiss. The other day due to some aberration they were tuned to Classic and were showing early 80's Genesis playing Turn It On Again.

The video was live performance footage interspersed with back-stage shots. Phil Collins was seen putting on his T-shirt in the dressing room, then later singing on stage without it. He looked in pretty good shape, in a wirey, rock-star sort of way.

Fast forward twenty five years and Genesis are touring again. I wonder if Phil is planning to appear on stage similarly attired. This photograph taken from their last tour suggests to me that he won't. It looks to me like there's probably a bit of a paunch there.

Time takes its toll on all of us. Many of us when we were young were able to eat what we liked, take next to no exercise and we still stayed in reasonable shape. But as middle-age sets in the body starts to pile on the fat reserves and we need to put more effort into keeping trim.

For Phil Collins this ought to be easy. He can afford a well-appointed gym in his country mansion, a personal trainer and a personal nutritionist. For the rest of us there's Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle.