Phil Collins admits that he would have joined The Who if he would have been asked.

He added that he would have even left Genesis to join the band.

"Absolutely would have joined The Who. I would have left Genesis to join The Who," Collins said during a Guardian webchat.

"But they've got a great drummer now in Zak Starkey, he's fantastic. Someone with the balls that Keith Moon had."

It was also recently revealed that Collins' son Nicholas will be taking over on drums after he suddenly stopped playing due to a mystery ailment.

"I'll never play the way I used to," he said. "Something happened on the Genesis reunion tour.

At the end of each show, I had a drumming duel with Chester Thompson, and one night something happened.

It just went. I tried everything - bigger drumsticks and so on, but it just never came back. "

"It's a mystery what happened, I just couldn't get it back. But I'm 65 and I played drums since I was five.

I'd like to have the choice about being able to play, but I'm not going to cry myself to sleep about it."