STUCK IN THE VINYL AGAIN - PHIL COLLINS - FACE VALUE

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Good morning faithful readers and welcome back to the Sunday edition of Stuck In The Vinyl Again . In addition to Sunday it is also the 71st Birthday of London born drummer, singer-songwriter, record producer, and actor, Philip David Charles Collins LVO, known simply the world over as Phil Collins. Happy Birthday Phil ! To mark the occasion, we  spotlight the former Genesis drummer's debut solo album, Face Value. Face Value was released  February 13, 1981 on the Atlantic label and produced by Phil Collins and Hugh Padgham. It peaked at #7 on the Billboard 200 and in Spain, #5 in Norway, #4 in New Zealand, #e in Austria, #2 in Australia, Germany, and Switzerland, and #1 in the UK, Canada, and Sweden. The LP, certified 5X Platinum in the US, spawned 5 singles ;  "In The Air Tonight" (#19 Hot 100, #7 Spain, #6 New Zealand, #2 UK, Mainstream Rock, Canada, the Netherlands, Ireland, #1 Germany, Austria, France, Sweden, Switzerland), "I Missed Again" (#88 Australia, #35 New Zealand, #28 the Netherlands, #23 Germany, #19 Hot 100, #14 UK, #12 Ireland, #8 Mainstream Rock, #6 Canada), "If Leaving Me Is Easy" (#61 Germany, #25 Ireland, #17 UK), "Behind The Lines" (#58 Mainstream Rock) and  "Thunder and Lightning" (did not chart). 

1. "In the Air Tonight" 5:34

2. "This Must Be Love" 3:55

3. "Behind the Lines" lyrics by Mike Rutherford; music by Tony Banks, Collins and Rutherford 3:53

4. "The Roof Is Leaking" 3:16

5. "Droned" 2:49

6. "Hand in Hand" 5:20

Side two

7. "I Missed Again" 3:41

8. "You Know What I Mean" 2:33

9. "Thunder and Lightning" 4:12

10. "I'm Not Moving" 2:33

11. "If Leaving Me Is Easy" 4:54

12. "Tomorrow Never Knows" John Lennon, Paul McCartney 4:15

13. "Over the Rainbow" (unlisted track)  lyrics by E.Y. Harburg; music by Harold Arlen 0:37

Phil Collins – vocals, drums, Roland VP-330 vocoder (1, 6, 10), CR-78 drum machine (1, 6, 12), Prophet-5 synthesizer (1, 2, 5–7, 10–12), Fender Rhodes (1, 2, 9, 11), percussion (2, 10), piano (4–8, 10), handclaps (5, 9), congas (5), marimba (6), acoustic guitar (13)

Daryl Stuermer – guitars (1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 9, 11, 12), banjo (4), 12-string guitar (5)

Eric Clapton – guitar (4, 11)

Joe Partridge – slide guitar (4)

John Giblin – bass guitar (1, 9, 10, 12)

Alphonso Johnson – bass (2, 3, 6, 7, 11)

L. Shankar – violin (1, 5, 7, 12), tamboura (5), "voice drums" (5)

J. Peter Robinson – Prophet-5 (3)

Stephen Bishop – background vocals (2)

Arif Mardin – string arrangements (8, 11)

EWF Horns – horns

Don Myrick – tenor saxophone (3, 6, 7, 9, 12), alto sax solo (11)

Louis Satterfield – trombone (3, 6, 7, 9, 12)

Rahmlee Michael Davis and Michael Harris – trumpets (3, 6, 7, 9, 12), flugelhorns (11)

Ronnie Scott – tenor saxophone solo (7)

Music preparation – Maurice Spears

Other background vocals on tracks 6 and 12 by several children's choirs in Los Angeles

Strings on tracks 8 and 11 conducted by Martyn Ford

Violins – Gavyn Wright (leader), Bill Benhem, Bruce Dukov, David Woodcock, Liz Edwards, Irvine Arditti, Ken Sillitoe, Peter Oxen and Richard Studt

Viola – Roger Best, Brian Hawkins and Simon Whistler

Cello – Tony Pleeth, Clive Anstee and Nigel Warren-Green

Double bass – Chris Laurence

Production

Phil Collins – producer
Hugh Padgham – assistant producer. engineer
Nick Launay – assistant engineer (London)
Karen Siegel – assistant engineer (Los Angeles)
Trevor Key – photography