Flaming Youth

This short-lived UK act made up of Gordon Smith (guitar), Brian Chatton (keyboards), Ronnie Caryl (bass) and Phil Collins (drums). Their only documenting, Ark 2, was an ambitiously packed concept album, created and organized by Ken Howard / Alan Blakely, a group better known for creating the unashamed pop from the Herd and Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick And Tich. The task was the main topic of considerable buzz, but its fresh musical departure demonstrated unconvincing and prematurely doomed Flaming Youngsters’s profession. The group was efficiently disbanded when Collins effectively auditioned for Genesis in 1970.