Anthony was a founder member of the British Rock band Genesis. Ant was born in December 1951 in London. In 1965 Ant found himself at Charterhouse Public School. It was here that he met up with Peter Gabriel, Mike Rutherford and Tony Banks. It was also at Charterhouse that the pre Genesis band Anon got together and performed at a concert playing three Rolling Stones songs. At this time there were two bands at Charterhouse The Anon and The Garden Wall. In 1967 various factions of both bands joined forces and became one band. This band was to go on to become Genesis.

Anthony recorded the albums From Genesis To Revelation and Trespass and also performed a great many gigs with the band before deciding to leave the band following a particularly bad bout of stage fright and also suffering a debilitating bout of bronchial pneumonia.

It was between the years 1970 and the release of his debut album The Geese And The Ghost in 1977 that many fans lost sight of Anthony Phillips. In actual fact much of the material that would make up the Geese And The Ghost and also the later Tarka album would be written during this time. Anthony also felt he needed to improve his arranging skills and musical education and learnt to sight-read music. It was also during this time that Ant continued writing with Mike Rutherford and recordings were made of songs like Silver Song, which included Mike Rutherford and also Phil Collins. Some of these early recordings and demos from this period can be found on the album The Archive Collection Volume One. Much of the first two albums and even material that would go on to be released on The Private Parts And Pieces series.

As many fans of Anthony Phillips will know Ant has spent a great many years recording music for film and television programmes and much of this music is extremely popular both with Ant's fan base and beyond.

Sail The World was originally released in 1994 and features music composed and recorded by Ant for the television coverage of the Whitbread Round The World Yacht Race. The album has been unavailable for some time and has now been re mastered to form part of the current series of Anthony Phillips reissues.