The Duke Tour featured distinctive lighting for each song. 3 songs had stories.
Phil Collins took 3 3/4 minutes to tell the story of Albert to introduce tracks from Duke: 'Well I'm going to tell you a short story. [heckling from the audience] Yeah, I remember my first beer too! This next piece of the show here is all about a friend of ours whose name is Albert. And Albert was a born loser.
He once fell in love - with a lady. Her name was The Duchess. And she was really beautiful. And The Duchess was into S&M. But poor old Albert didn't speak Spanish or Mexican. And so she kicked him out. He went home that night very disappointed, very dejected. He sat down and turned on the television. Suddenly his life changed because Albert was in love again. Albert fell in love unfortunately with the television set. Bit of a strange one was Albert. And it was a bit of a one-sided affair. And within 2 or 3 days Albert had to go into hospital and have the glass removed from his private parts.
So he went on a convalescing holiday abroad where tragedy struck again - because within 2 or 3 days Albert was back in love - this time with his walking stick. Bit of a wierdo, bit of a wierdo. And I think you've guessed it - within 2 or 3 days he was back in hospital having the walking stick removed from his private parts.
Well, Albert decided to give up this holiday as a bad job. And he came back to England where he entered a home for unsuccessful young lovers. It's a shame, i'nt it? This was called Duke's End. But every cloud (don't feel too sorry for Albert.) has a silver lining, and every silver lining has a cloud. And every bin has a liner. And it was within this bin that Albert wrote some of his easily forgettable books. He reckoned himself a literary genius (with a habit). But unfortunately he was a bit late on the boat because he wrote books like Albert Through the Looking Glass, Albert in Wonderland, Albatross. Then there was Albert Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Albert the Space Odessy (that was a big one). Albert Tatlock. And a big hit for him came, a big sexual novel he wrote called Danish Albert on the Job.
A very big one for Albert and leads us very nicely and smoothly to our next piece of music, which hasn't got much to do with Albert at all. It is in fact some music from our album called Duke, and we have put some songs together from our album called Duke, which we have c... Leave him alone! Which we have called for the purposes of tonight's concert Music From Our Album Called Duke. Thank you.
God mag het weten.
