No Jacket Required
No Jacket Required is the third solo album by British singer Phil Collins. It appeared at the beginning of 1985. Besides the successor ... But Seriously from 1989, it is Collins ' best-known and most successful solo album. It is considered synonymous with the music of the 1980s due to the very time -oriented music. All four singles reached the coupled in the U.S., the top 10, two of them even reached the first place of the local billboard charts.
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Production
As Collins ' first two solo albums were produced together with Hugh Padgham also No Jacket Required Collins. It was recorded from May to December 1984. Some of the songs included on the album were partly through improvisation. Guest musicians were able to Sting at Long Long Way to Go and Peter Gabriel, former band - mate at Genesis, are obtained in the song Take Me Home. The album was offered in 1985 in parallel with the release on LP and CD, this contains, in contrast to the record's release in addition the song We Said Hello Goodbye. In the same year Collins published with Separate Lives, a duet with Marilyn Martin, another number-one hit in the United States. The title appeared on the soundtrack to the film White Nights - The Night of the decision and was taken while on tour of Collins.
Music style
No Jacket Required is oriented commercial compared to the previous albums. The songs are more poporientiert and lack of cynical undertone of the earlier works. In contrast to his first two albums, it contains neither an instrumental nor cover versions of songs by other artists. While Collins specially processed to Face Value, but partly also on Hello, I Must Be Going!, The divorce from his wife at the time, No Jacket Required as a whole provides a more optimistic mood than its two predecessors.
Achievements
The album reached immediately in the U.S., UK and Germany number one in the charts and sold even faster than Michael Jackson's Thriller. Furthermore, the album was number 1 in countries such as Canada, Switzerland and Sweden. With Sussudio and One More Night he recorded two number one hits in the U.S., which this year managed any other artist. The album was honored in 1986 with three Grammy Awards, only two nominations it did not ultimately lead to the award. In the U.S., it reached a Diamond Record for over 10 million albums sold. In Germany it reached triple platinum status ( 1.5 million).
Tour
The No Jacket Required World Tour '85 began on 11 February 1985 in Nottingham (England) and led the singers in Europe, Asia and North America. Collins played on this tour also five concerts in Germany. Overall, the five - month tour included more than 80 concerts. The conclusion of this tour was the performance on July 13, 1985 at the Live Aid concert in London. The set list included not only songs from the previously published solo albums Collins ' songs and his band Genesis (eg Abacab ) and various cover versions (eg People Get Ready by The Impressions ). Furthermore, nearly all the songs on the album No Jacket Required performed live in this tour.
Title list
- Bonus track, which is only included on the CD.
Charts
Album
U.S. # 1 (7 weeks ), GB # 1 ( 5 weeks), D # 1 ( 9 weeks)
Singles
- Sussudio (U.S. # 1 ( 1 week), 12 GB #, D # 17)
- One more night ( U.S. # 1 (2 weeks ), GB # 4, D # 10)
- Take Me Home ( U.S. # 7, UK # 19)
- Do not Lose My Number ( U.S. # 4)
Prices
- Grammy Award: Album of the Year ( No Jacket Required )
- Grammy Award: Best Male Vocal Performance - Pop ( No Jacket Required )
- Grammy Award: Producer of the Year ( No Jacket Required ), with Hugh Padgham
- American Music Award nominations: - favortite Album ( Pop / Rock ) ( No Jacket Required )
- American Music Award nominations - favorite Male Artist ( Pop / Rock ) ( No Jacket Required )
Quotes
" You know, I was happy with Jill, my present wife, married, but I got divorced, my manager got a divorce, a couple of good friends got divorced and I just thought ," What 's the matter remains because no longer together? " From this, the song was born. "
" You know, I was very happily married to Jill, my present wife, When I wrote it, but I had been divorced, my manager was getting divorced, a couple of good friends were getting divorced, and I thought, What's going on? Does not anybody stay together anymore? The song came from that. "
"His effortless bribery by the leap from serene white R & B to some strange, unexpected melodies is instinctive commercially, but never acts contrived. "
"His effortless graft of bright white- R & B bounce to quirky, unexpected melodies is instinctively feels overly commercial but never contrived. "
Remix Album
Published in 1987 Collins with 12 "ers a remix album, which contains six of the eleven songs of No Jacket Required in remixed and extended so-called 12 inch versions. Except for One More Night, which was edited by Hugh Padgham itself, come all remixes of this album by John Potoker. versions it contains four have already been published on the corresponding singles, while the remixes of who Said I Would and Only You know and I Know are published for the first time on this album.