No Jacket Required

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No Jacket Required is an album by Phil Collins, released in January 1985. It was his third solo album and to date remains his most commercially successful.

Background

The album is named after an incident at The Pump Room restaurant in Chicago, Illinois, when Collins was denied admittance because he did not meet the restaurant's dress code of "jacket required" for dinner. The Maître d' who refused service at the famed "Table Number One" was named George Montgomery, and he passed away in 1992. Restaurant management later sent Collins an apology letter and a complimentary sports coat.

No Jacket Required, a much more commercially pop-oriented record than the dark cynicism of his two previous albums, Face Value and Hello, I Must Be Going! and has none of the political statements which would appear in the forthcoming ...But Seriously. In terms of emotion, it is certainly among the happiest of Phil Collins' efforts. As a result, most of the album is up-tempo with the notable exceptions of "Long, Long Way to Go" and the mega selling ballad "One More Night".

Chart performance

No Jacket Required featured two American number one songs, "Sussudio" and "One More Night". It also contained the top 10 hits "Don't Lose My Number" (#4) and "Take Me Home" (#7). Released around the same time of the album but not part of No Jacket Required was another American number one, "Separate Lives", which appeared on the soundtrack to White Nights. A few weeks after the album's release, another Collins song not on the album, 1984's "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)" was nominated for an Academy Award.

No Jacket Required remains Phil Collins' highest selling album, having been certified Diamond for US sales of over 10 million copies. Twenty years after its release, No Jacket Required remains among the 50 highest selling albums in the United States. It sold nearly 30 million copies worldwide.

The album won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1986.

Track listing

All tracks written by Phil Collins except where stated.

1. "Sussudio" - 4:23
2. "Only You Know and I Know" (Lyrics: Collins/ Music: Daryl Stuermer) - 4:21
3. "Long Long Way to Go" - 4:22
4. "I Don't Wanna Know" (Lyrics: Collins/ Music: Stuermer) - 4:14
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?" (Lyrics: Collins/ Music: Stuermer) - 4:18
9. "Inside Out" -5:15
10. "Take Me Home" - 5:52
11. "We Said Hello Goodbye" - 4:15 (only on compact disc issues)

Arrangements

1. "Sussudio"

• Phil Collins: Roland 909, Vocals
• David Frank: Keyboards, Mini Moog Bass, Oberheim DMX
• Daryl Stuermer: Guitars
• The Phenix Horns: arr. Tom Tom 84

2. "Only You Know And I Know"

• Phil Collins: Vocals, Keyboards, Bass, Drums, Linn Drum Machine
• Daryl Steurmer: Guitars
• The Phenix Horns: arr. by Tom Tom 84

4. "I Don't Wanna Know"

• Phil Collins: Vocals, Drums
• Lee Sklar: Bass
• Daryl Steurmer: Guitars, keyboards
• Gary Barnacle: Saxophone

5. "One More Night"

• Phil Collins: Vocals, Roland 808, keyboards, backing vocals
• Daryl Steurmer: Guitar
• Lee Sklar: Bass
• Don Myrick: Sax Solo
• Strings arranged by Arif Martin

6. "Don't Lose My Number"

• Phil Collins: Vocals, Keyboards, Drums, Linn Drum Machine
• Daryl Steurmer: Guitars
• Lee Sklar: Bass
• David Frank: Additional Keyboards

7. "Who Said I Would"

• Phil Collins: Vocals, Vocoder, Kalimba, the odd keyboard
• David Frank: Keyboards, Mini Moog Bass
• Daryl Steurmer: Guitars
• Gary Barnacle: Sax
• The Phenix Horns arranged by Tom Tom 84

8. "Doesn't Anybody Stay Together Anymore" (4:18)

• Phil Collins: Vocals, Keyboards, Drums
• Daryl Steurmer: Guitars
• Gary Barnacle: Sax

9. "Inside Out"

• Phil Collins: Vocals, Keyboards, Drums
• Daryl Steurmer: Guitars
• Lee Sklar: Bass
• Don Myrick: Sax

10. "Take Me Home"

• Phil Collins: Vocals, Keyboards, Drums, Roland 808
• Daryl Steurmer: Guitars
• Lee Sklar — Bass
• Sting, Peter Gabriel, Helen Terry, Phil Collins: backing vocals

11. "We Said Hello Goodbye"

• Phil Collins: Vocals, Keyboards, Drums
• Lee Sklar: Bass
• Keyboards: Nick Glennie-Smith
• Orchestral Introduction by Arif Mardin

• All songs written by Phil Collins except * written by Phil Collins and Daryl Stuermer.
• All songs published by Phil Collins Ltd/Hit and Run Music (Publishing) Ltd

• Produced by Phil Collins and Hugh Padgham
• Engineered by Hugh Padgham
• Assisted by Steve Chase
• Recorded at the Townhouse, Surrey and Old Croft, Surrey
• Except strings recorded at Air Studios, London, engineered by John Jacobs
• Mixed at the Townhouse digitally.
• Cover photography by Peter Ashworth
• Album designed by Phil Collins

Special thanks to:

• Geoff Banks and Steve Jones for always being there when the fridge was empty
• Geoff Callingham for always being there a little after he was supposed to
• David Frank for assistance beyond the call
• Tom Tom for making sense of all my 'Dat Vats'
• Louise and the girls for feeding us
• Denny and Gracie and all at the Townhouse for being patient
• Ahmet, Neshum, Doug, Perry, Theo, Jeremy and Simon for their enthusiasm
• Stuart Nevison and AMS
• Tony Smith, Carole Willis and all at Hit and Run Music without whom, etc.
• Hugh for being a pillar
• Simon and Joely,

and of course Jill for being so patient

There is no Fairlight on this record

Singles

1. "One More Night"
2. "Sussudio"
3. "Don't Lose My Number"
4. "Take Me Home"

Additional notes

• "We Said Hello, Goodbye (Don't Look Back)", appears only on the CD version of the album. It was originally a B-side for "Don't Lose My Number" and a remix with additional guitars, minus the orchestra was featured in the film Playing for Keeps. The remix is the version that was commonly played on the radio during the height of the No Jacket Required-era.
• Collins' liner notes state "There is no Fairlight on this record." The Fairlight was a popular digital sampler during the time of the release of this album, and this remark was probably a sly comment on its recent prevalence on many recordings.
• There was another Phil Collins CD release called 12"er's which contained extended remixes of many tracks from No Jacket Required.
• In 2003, the hip-hop group Bone Thugs-N-Harmony heavily sampled the song "Take Me Home" for its single "Home", and featured Collins in the video for their version.
• No Jacket Required is also the name for a 12-piece Phil Collins tribute band in the UK.
• The album is referenced by name on comedian Patton Oswalt's albums Feelin' Kinda Patton (2004) and Werewolves and Lollipops (2007).
• The album is discussed and shown in the film American Psycho.