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The singer-songwriter and former Orange Juice frontman is releasing new album Nation Shall Speak Unto Nation in March, and will take on your questions
But he was also frontman of the burgeoning band Orange Juice, who came to define a moment in Scottish indie-pop with spirited tunes such as Rip It Up, Blue Boy and Falling and Laughing (the latter one of Keir Starmer’s Desert Island Discs), topped by Collins’s untutored yet romantic croon. He will always be remembered for his Northern soul song of total infatuation, A Girl Like You, which became a global hit in 1995 – but his discography is full of other gems such as the 2002 LP Doctor Syntax. He suffered two strokes in 2005 which left him unable to speak for a time – save a handful of words, including “the possibilities are endless” – but he has recovered well enough to record another five albums since.
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