Now don't tell anybody...

Of all the songs to do it, Illegal Alien puts a big fat grin on my lid every time. There's something about that poppy beat and the absolutely dopey lyrics that jams me straight back to 1984. It's also a wonderful song to christen the first day back to work after a lengthy vacation.

More than any other Genesis song, this is the song that I associate almost entirely with the music video - in fact, I don't really remember hearing this song on the radio. I definitely didn't own the album or single. But the confession is this: it took me almost 15 years to realize that Phil Collins was the one fronting the band in the video. As far as I believed, Phil Collins was a solo artist (Against All Odds) and the lead singer of Genesis was a short Mexican man with a big handle-bar mustache. Later in life, it became one of those giant head-slappers!

And it's in honour of this distant memory that we post the first image to the Ol' Blitzeroo...