PHIL COLLINS – NO JACKET REQUIRED LP – Nr MINT A1/B2 UK 1985 GENESIS

Phil Collins – No Jacket Required
(Virgin Records  1985  V2345)
Matrix No’s: A1/B2 – UK Pressing

Sleeve in Nr MINT/Excellent+ condition
– some light rubbing along bottom edge & thumbnail crease at opening edge, bottom right
Inner Sleeve in Nr MINT condition

Vinyl in Nr MINT condition
(there are some light surface marks visible on the vinyl when held up to the light but they don’t affect the sound quality)

Philip David Charles “Phil” Collins LVO (born 30 January 1951) is an English singer, songwriter, instrumentalist, record producer and actor. He is best known as the drummer and lead singer in the rock band Genesis and as a solo artist. Between 1983 and 1990, Collins scored three UK and seven US number-one singles in his solo career. When his work with Genesis, his work with other artists, as well as his solo career is totalled, Collins had more US Top 40 singles than any other artist during the 1980s. His most successful singles from the period include “In the Air Tonight”, “Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)”, “One More Night”, “Sussudio” and “Another Day in Paradise”.

Born and raised in West London, Collins played drums from the age of five and completed drama school training, which secured him various roles as a child actor. He then pursued a music career, joining Genesis in 1970 as their drummer and becoming lead singer in 1975 following the departure of Peter Gabriel. Collins began a solo career in the 1980s, initially inspired by his marital breakdown and love of soul music, releasing a series of successful albums, including Face Value (1981), No Jacket Required (1985), and …But Seriously (1989). Collins became “one of the most successful pop and adult contemporary singers of the ’80s and beyond”. He also became known for a distinctive gated reverb drum sound on many of his recordings. After leaving Genesis in 1996, Collins pursued various solo projects before a return in 2007 for the Turn It On Again Tour. In 2011, he retired to focus on his family life, but continued to write songs. He announced his return to the music industry in 2015. He will perform live for the first time in 10 years with a European tour in July 2017, including a five night residency at the Royal Albert Hall in London, and his biggest ever solo show in Hyde Park, London.

Collins’ discography includes eight studio albums that have sold 33.5 million certified units in the US and an estimated 150 million worldwide, making him one of the world’s best-selling artists. He is one of three recording artists, along with Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson, who have sold over 100 million records worldwide both as solo artists and separately as principal members of a band. He has won seven Grammy Awards, six Brit Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, an Academy Award, and a Disney Legend Award. In 1999, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2003, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Genesis in 2010, the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 2012, and the Classic Drummer Hall of Fame in 2013. Despite his commercial success and his status as a respected and influential drummer, music critics are divided in their opinion of his work and he has publicly received both criticism and praise from other prominent music artists.

No Jacket Required is the third solo album by English singer-songwriter Phil Collins, released on 25 January 1985. The album was named after an incident at The Pump Room in Chicago, where Collins was denied admittance to the establishment because of his attire. No Jacket Required features guest vocalists, including Helen Terry, Peter Gabriel and Sting. Some of the songs, like “Don’t Lose My Number” and “Sussudio”, were based around improvisation (although some would argue that “Sussudio” was based around Prince & The Revolution‘s seminal 1982 single “1999”). Other songs, like “Long Long Way to Go”, had a political message. “One More Night”, “Sussudio”, “Don’t Lose My Number”, and “Take Me Home” were released as singles, with corresponding music videos. All four singles were top-ten hits in the Billboard Hot 100, with “Sussudio” and “One More Night” reaching number one. The three singles that were released in the UK all reached the top 20 on the UK charts.

The album was positively received and won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1985. Stephen Holden of The New York Times said that Collins was “quietly revolutionising and expanding the role of the drums in pop record making”. Rolling Stone reviewer David Fricke said that, “Like his ’81 and ’82 outings, Face Value and Hello, I Must Be Going!, No Jacket Required is not an album that waits to be liked”. Collins’ most commercially successful album, No Jacket Required went to number one in several countries, including the United States (where it was at the top of the charts for seven weeks), United Kingdom and Canada. The record has been certified diamond in the US by the Recording Industry Association of America, and has sold over two million copies in the UK, being certified for 6x platinum.

Many of the songs, including “Take Me Home”, and “Long Long Way to Go”, have been used in episodes of Miami Vice and Cold Case, and “The Man with the Horn” was re-written and re-recorded for the episode “Phil the Shill”. “We Said Hello Goodbye” was re-recorded for the movie Playing for Keeps.

Following the release of the album Collins embarked on the successful No Jacket Required World Tour. At the end of the tour, Collins received critical acclaim for performing at both the London and Philadelphia Live Aid concerts on 13 July 1985. During the tour, Collins recorded a song with Marilyn Martin for the movie White Nights, called “Separate Lives”, which was a number one hit in the US, and a top ten hit in the UK. Remixes of six songs from the album were later included on the 12″ers compilation.

Track listing

All songs written by Phil Collins, except where noted.

1. “Sussudio” – 4:23
2. “Only You Know and I Know” (Lyrics: Collins, Music: Daryl Stuermer) – 4:20
3. “Long Long Way to Go” – 4:20
4. “I Don’t Wanna Know” (Lyrics: Collins, Music: Stuermer) – 4:12
5. “One More Night” – 4:47
6. “Don’t Lose My Number” – 4:46
7. “Who Said I Would” – 4:01
8. “Doesn’t Anybody Stay Together Anymore” (Lyrics: Collins, Music: Stuermer) – 4:18
9. “Inside Out” – 5:14
10. “Take Me Home” – 5:51

Personnel

Musicians

• Phil Collins – vocals on all songs, drums on 2–10, percussion, keyboards on 2, Roland 808, Roland 909, Linn drum machine, Simmons, vocoder, kalimba, backing vocals on 3, 10, bass on 2
• David Frank – keyboards on 1, 7, Mini Moog Bass on 1, 7, Oberheim DMX on 1, 7
• Daryl Stuermer – guitars on 1–10, keyboards on 4
• Lee Sklar – bass on 3–6, 8–11
• The Phenix Horns, arranged by Tom Tom 84
• Gary Barnacle – saxophone on 4, 7, 8
• Don Myrick – saxophone on 5, 9
• Arif Mardin – strings arrangement on 5, orchestral introduction on 11
• Sting – backing vocals on 3, 10
• Peter Gabriel, Helen Terry – backing vocals on 10
• Nick Glennie-Smith – keyboards on 11