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\n\tFor more than three decades, Oasis<\/a>\u2018 Noel Gallagher<\/a> has been dunking on Phil Collins<\/a>. He\u2019s called the Genesis<\/a> frontman the antichrist and humorously urged Britons to vote Labour as a means of keeping Collins out of England. Now that Gallagher, 59, and Collins, 75, stand to run into one another when they\u2019re inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame<\/a> this fall, Collins is speaking out. \u201cI\u2019m giving him the benefit of the doubt here, and assuming he doesn\u2019t really think I\u2019m the antichrist,\u201d Collins recently told Mojo<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n \n\tThe magazine reports that in 1994, Gallagher called Collins \u201cthe antichrist of music\u201d in an interview. The Oasis guitarist\/songwriter said he drew that conclusion after attending a Genesis show in the Eighties while \u201ccompletely out of it.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tCollins told Mojo<\/em> he\u2019s given some thought to Gallagher\u2019s story and reckons it was a performance of \u201cMama\u201d \u2014 a menacing song off Genesis\u2019 1980 self-titled album, in which Collins commands a demoniacal laugh while holding a flashlight under his face \u2014 that must have spooked the Oasis guitarist. \u201cI think \u2018Mama\u2019 is why Noel called me the antichrist,\u201d Collins said.<\/p>\n \n\tAntichrist comments notwithstanding, Mojo <\/em>dredged up other instances when Gallagher disparaged Collins, sometimes using gruesome and, dare we say, un-Christian language. \u201cI want the severed head of Phil Collins in my fridge by the end of this decade. And if I haven\u2019t, I\u2019ll be a failure,\u201d Gallagher reportedly once said. <\/p>\n \n\tAnd in 1997 Gallagher told The Guardian<\/a> <\/em>that people should effectively vote Collins out of the country. \u201cIf the Conservatives get in, Phil Collins is threatening to come back and live here,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd let\u2019s face it, none of us want that.\u201d (One artist who defended Collins against Gallagher was rapper and actor Ice-T, who told Rolling Stone<\/a> <\/em>in 2011, \u201cNoel Gallagher should shut the fuck up and calm the fuck down.\u201d)<\/p>\n