No Jacket Required (2025 Mix/Remastered) Phil Collins

• 1 Sussudio (2025 Mix) 04:24
• 2 Only You Know and I Know (2025 Mix) 04:21
• 3 Long Long Way to Go (2025 Mix) 04:22
• 4 I Don't Wanna Know (2025 Mix) 04:15
• 5 One More Night (2025 Mix) 04:50
• 6 Don't Lose My Number (2025 Mix) 04:48
• 7 Who Said I Would (2025 Mix) 04:01
• 8 Doesn't Anybody Stay Together Anymore (2025 Mix) 04:18
• 9 Inside Out (2025 Mix) 05:15
• 10 Take Me Home (2025 Mix) 05:51
• Total Runtime 46:25

Info for No Jacket Required (2025 Mix/Remastered)

40th Anniversary Edition: "No Jacket Required", released in 1985, was Phil Collins' third solo album, and mixed his trademark emotional ballads alongside strong funk and R&B influences. The album's hit singles -- "Sussudio," "One More Night," "Don't Lose My Number," and "Take Me Home" -- would also become staples of his live shows in the years that followed. No Jacket Required was a resounding global hit, reaching #1 in 11 countries, including the UK, US, Australia, Canada, Germany, Spain, and Sweden. The album received three GRAMMY® Awards: Best Album, Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, and Producer of the Year for Collins. It has sold over 25 million copies to date, is RIAA-certified Diamond in the US, has reached 6x platinum in the UK, and won two Brit Awards — Album of the Year and Best Male Solo Artist. It was the second-best-selling album of 1985 in the UK and spent five consecutive weeks at #1 there. “Sussudio” and “One More Night” were both US #1 singles. The No Jacket Required World Tour played 85 shows in 12 countries and concluded with two special performances at Live Aid on July 13, at Wembley Stadium in London and John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia on the same day.

"After the one-two punch of Phil Collins' first two solo albums, Face Value and Hello, I Must Be Going!, plus the hits he was concurrently having with Genesis, it might seem like he was primed for an artistic and commercial drop-off. Instead, he responded with the biggest album of his career. No Jacket Required topped the charts in the U.S. and U.K., won a Grammy for Album of the Year, and spawned four Top Ten singles, including two number ones in "Sussudio" and "One More Night." It was such a monster success that it made Collins one of the biggest stars on the planet, something that a few years before seemed unlikely if not impossible. The reason why No Jacket was such a smash is simple: it combined the aching honesty of Face Value with the pop smarts of Hello, added some seriously focused songwriting, then coated it all in slick digital production that sounded great on the radio. Collins' gift for a huge hook came through most obviously on the Prince-inspired "Sussudio," where he turns nonsense into something almost profound, but also on tracks like the big rocker "I Don't Wanna Know" and the soulful "Inside Out," which featured some of his trademark gated drum bashing. His knack for spilling his guts in heartbreaking everyman fashion hits a new high on "One More Night," one of the most affecting ballads of the '80s. When he combines the hooks and the heartbreak, it comes together brilliantly. "Take Me Home" is a wrenching, soaring song that inspires singalongs and teardrops; "Doesn't Anybody Stay Together Anymore" has the perfect combo of big drums, the catchy chorus, and the weary heart. Add in flashy radio monsters like "Don't Lose My Number" and "Only You Know and I Know" that retain the horn-heavy sound of his earlier work while adding up-to-date keyboards, the even more Prince-inspired "Who Said I Would," and the closing piano ballad "We Said Hello Goodbye," and No Jacket Required ends up earning all the sales and accolades it got. Collins was at the top of his considerable game, the sound was state of the art, and there were more classic songs on one record than most pop stars could put together in an entire career. Too bad its chart and airwave dominance was so great that it inspired something of a backlash, one Collins never really recovered from despite having more hits in the future. While Face Value is still his solo masterpiece due to the raw emotion it transmits, No Jacket Required comes very, very close to topping it." (Tim Sendra, AMG)

Phil Collins, vocals, backing vocals, Roland TR-909 (tracks 1, 10), keyboards (tracks 2, 3, 5–11), bass (track 2), drums (tracks 2, 4, 6–11), Linn Drum (tracks 2, 6, 8), Roland TR-808 (tracks 3, 5), Simmons electronic drums (tracks 3, 7), vocoder (track 7), kalimba (track 7)
David Frank, keyboards (tracks 1, 7), Minimoog bass (tracks 1, 7), Oberheim DMX (track 1), additional keyboards (track 6)
Nick Glennie-Smith, keyboards (track 11)
Daryl Stuermer, guitars (tracks 1–10), keyboards (track 4)
Leland Sklar, bass (tracks 3–6, 8–11), piccolo bass (tracks 3, 10)
The Phenix Horns, arranged by Tom Tom 84 – horns (tracks 1, 2, 7)
Don Myrick, saxophones, sax solo (tracks 5, 9)
Louis Satterfield, trombone
Michael Harris, trumpet
Rahmlee Michael Davis, trumpet
Gary Barnacle, saxophone solo (tracks 4, 7)
Arif Mardin, string arrangements (track 5), orchestral introduction (track 11)
Sting, backing vocals (tracks 3, 10)
Peter Gabriel, backing vocals (track 10)
Helen Terry, backing vocals (track 10)

Recorded May–December 1984 at The Townhouse, London; Old Croft, Shalford, Surrey
Produced by Phil Collins, Hugh Padgham

Digitally remastered

Phil Collins
ascent to the status of one of the most successful pop and adult contemporary singers of the '80s and beyond was probably as much of a surprise to him as it was to many others. Balding and diminutive, Collins was almost 30 years old when his first solo single, "In the Air Tonight," became a number two hit in his native U.K. (the song was a Top 20 hit in the U.S.). Between 1984 and 1990, Collins had a string of 13 straight U.S. Top Ten hits.

Long before any of that happened, however, Collins was a child actor/singer who appeared as the Artful Dodger in the London production of Oliver! in 1964. (He also has a cameo in A Hard Day's Night, among other films.) He got his first break in music at the end of his teens, when he was chosen to be a replacement drummer in the British art rock band Genesis in 1970. (Collins maintained a separate jazz career with the band Brand X as well.)

Genesis was fronted by singer Peter Gabriel. They had achieved a moderate level of success in the U.K. and the U.S., with elaborate concept albums, before Gabriel abruptly left in 1974. Genesis auditioned 400 singers without success, then decided to let Collins have a go. The result was a gradual simplifying of Genesis' sound and an increasing focus on Collins' expressive, throaty voice. And Then There Were Three... went gold in 1978, and Duke was even more successful.

Collins made his debut solo album, Face Value, in 1981, which turned out to be a bigger hit than any Genesis album. It concentrated on Collins' voice, often in stark, haunting contexts such as the piano-and-drum dirge "In the Air Tonight," which sounded like something from John Lennon's debut solo album, John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band.

During the '80s, Collins was enormously successful in balancing his continuing solo work with his membership in Genesis. In 1992, Genesis released We Can't Dance and began an extensive tour. Upon its completion Collins released Both Sides in 1993, and the record became his first album not to produce a major hit single or go multi-platinum. In 1995, he announced that he was leaving Genesis permanently. The following year, he released Dance into the Light. Although the album was a flop, its subsequent supporting tour was a success.

The Hits collection followed in 1998, and a year later Collins made his first big-band record, Hot Night in Paris. The song cycle Testify arrived in 2002, and his next studio-recorded solo release was 2010's Going Back, which saw Collins revisiting the Motown hits that so influenced him and featuring three of the surviving Funk Brothers — guitarists Eddie Willis and Ray Monette and bassist Bob Babbitt.

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