No Jacket Required

by Phil Collins

No Jacket Required cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 25 January 1985
  • Label: Virgin
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 50:51
  • Community rating: 2.79/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Phil Collins dominated the mid-80s musical landscape with this incredibly slick, heavily synthesized pop-rock blockbuster. 'No Jacket Required' leans heavily on Roland drum machines and bright horn sections to deliver highly energetic, rhythmically driven dance tracks alongside soaring, intensely passionate ballads. It is a monumental, era-defining commercial triumph that perfectly encapsulates the polished sheen of 80s adult contemporary music.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic, rhythmic, ballad, atmospheric

Tracklist

  1. Sussudio (4:23)
  2. Only You Know and I Know (4:21)
  3. Long Long Way to Go (4:22)
  4. I Don't Wanna Know (4:15)
  5. One More Night (4:48)
  6. Don't Lose My Number (4:48)
  7. Who Said I Would (4:01)
  8. Doesn't Anybody Stay Together Anymore (4:18)
  9. Inside Out (5:15)
  10. Take Me Home (5:53)
  11. We Said Hello Goodbye (4:21)

Credits

  • Phil Collins - primary artist, design [album], producer, written-by, drum machine [roland 909], vocals, vocals, keyboards, bass, drums, drum machine [linn], backing vocals, vocals, keyboards, electronic drums [simmonds], drum machine [roland 808], percussion, vocals, drums, vocals, drum machine [roland 808], keyboards, backing vocals, vocals, keyboards, drums, drum machine [linn], vocals, electronic drums [simmonds], vocoder, kalimba, keyboards [the odd keyboard], vocals, keyboards, drums, drum machine [roland 909]
  • Baker Dave - design [album]
  • Chief Gary - design [album]
  • Hugh Padgham - engineer, producer
  • Jon Jacobs - engineer
  • Steve "Barney" Chase - engineer [assistant]
  • Bob Ludwig - lacquer cut by
  • Peter Ashworth - photography by [cover]
  • Daryl Stuermer - written-by, guitar, guitar, keyboards
  • Tom Tom 84 - arranged by [horns]
  • The Phenix Horns - horns
  • David Frank - keyboards, synthesizer [mini moog bass], drum machine [dmx], keyboards [additional]
  • Sting - backing vocals
  • Leland Sklar - bass, bass [piccolo bass]
  • Gary Barnacle - saxophone, soloist, saxophone
  • Arif Mardin - arranged by [strings]
  • Don Myrick - soloist, saxophone
  • Helen Terry - backing vocals
  • Peter Gabriel - backing vocals

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