No Jacket Required is the third solo studio album by English drummer and singer-songwriter Phil Collins. It was released on 18 February 1985 by Virgin Records in the UK and by Atlantic and WEA internationally.
After finishing touring commitments with Genesis and working with Eric Clapton in 1984, Collins resumed his solo career and started work on a new album. He made a conscious decision to write more uptempo and dance-oriented songs, as much of his previous material was influenced by matters surrounding his first divorce. The album features Helen Terry, Peter Gabriel, and Sting as guest backing vocalists. Some songs, like "Don't Lose My Number" and "Sussudio", were based around improvisation, and others, like "Long Long Way to Go", had a political message.
No Jacket Required was received favourably by the majority of critics and was a huge worldwide commercial success, reaching number one in the UK for five consecutive weeks and for seven non-consecutive weeks in the US. It was the second-best-selling album of 1985 in the UK, behind Dire Straits' Brothers in Arms. Some tracks were featured on the television shows Miami Vice and Cold Case, and "The Man with the Horn" was re-written and re-recorded for the episode "Phil the Shill".
In 2001, No Jacket Required was certified Diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America for selling 12 million copies in the US and amassed worldwide sales of over 25 million copies, making it one of the best-selling albums of all time. It won three Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year.
Tracklist:
Side one
1. Sussudio 0:00
2. Only You Know and I Know 4:23
3. Long Long Way to Go 8:44
4. I Don't Wanna Know 13:08
5. One More Night 17:22
Side two
6. Don't Lose My Number 22:14
7. Who Said I Would 27:04
8. Doesn't Anybody Stay Together Anymore 31:05
9. Inside Out 35:23
10. Take Me Home 40:39
Musicians
Phil Collins – vocals, backing vocals, Roland TR-909 (1, 10), keyboards (2, 3, 5–11), bass (2), drums (2, 4, 6–11), LinnDrum (2, 6, 8), Roland TR-808 (3, 5), Simmons electronic drums (credited on 2016 release as 'Simmonds') (3, 7), vocoder (7), kalimba (7)
David Frank – keyboards (1, 7), additional keyboards (6), Minimoog bass (1, 7), Oberheim DMX (1)
Nick Glennie-Smith – keyboards (11)
Daryl Stuermer – guitars (1–10), keyboards (4)
Leland Sklar – bass guitar (3–6, 8–11), piccolo bass (3, 10)
The Phenix Horns, arranged by Tom Tom 84 – horns (1, 2, 7)
Don Myrick – saxophones, sax solo (5, 9)
Louis Satterfield – trombone
Michael Harris – trumpet
Rahmlee Michael Davis – trumpet
Gary Barnacle – sax solo (4, 7)
Arif Mardin – string arrangements (5), orchestral introduction (11)
Sting – backing vocals (3, 10)
Peter Gabriel – backing vocals (10)
Helen Terry – backing vocals (10)
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