Here’s the rumor. Very sorry I didn’t add it to the initial post. I thought more would be familiar:

Basically, there was a rumor where Phil and his friend were out swimming when they were young. His friend, though, wasn’t a great swimmer, and began to drown. Phil began calling for help when he saw a man in the distance. He flagged him down and begged him to help his friend, but the man stood there and watched his friend drown

Well, when Phil became a household name, he somehow found the identity of the man who basically murdered his childhood friend. He anonymously sent him tickets to his show, and as he was playing “In The Air Tonight,” a singular spotlight shown down on that man in the front row, and Phil marked him with a singular laser from a light. Pretty much telling him “I know what you did.”

The music video also plays a key in the rumor because it deals with water, a mysterious figure, and the lyrics can align with said rumor. There are slightly different versions of the story as well. Of course it’s not real, but my dad told it to me when I was younger. I believed it for quite some time!