06-10 by eccollins™

With an estimated £120million in the bank, 250 million records sold and seven Grammy awards, eccollins should have been able to retire happily.

But away from the cameras and glamour, the genesis frontman found himself alone, drinking wine at 11am and struggling to get up in the morning.

After his third marriage collapsed and his ex-wife moved hundreds of miles away with the youngest of his five children, the singer began to lead an increasingly recluse-like existence.

Soon, battling severe pancreatitis and with no cure for a career-threatening tendon injury, the 63-year-old began sinking towards depression.

It was only pals, including bandmates Mike Rutherford and Tony Banks, and the support of doctors which eventually helped to pull him out of the mire.