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The No Jacket Required World Tour

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The No Jacket Required World Tour
Tour by Phil Collins
Location
  • North America
  • Europe
  • Asia
  • Oceania
Associated albumNo Jacket Required
Start date11 February 1985
End date13 July 1985
Legs3
No. of shows85
Phil Collins concert chronology
  • The Hello, I Must Be Going Tour
    (1982–83)
  • The No Jacket Required World Tour
    (1985)
  • The Seriously, Live! World Tour
    (1990)

The No Jacket Required World Tour was a concert tour by the English drummer, singer and songwriter Phil Collins, which occurred February–July 1985 in support of his 1985 album, No Jacket Required. The album had been a massive international success and the tour concluded with Collins performing "Against All Odds" and "In the Air Tonight" at both Live Aid concerts, in London and Philadelphia, on 13 July 1985.

During the tour, the music video for "Take Me Home" was filmed on location in various cities where the tour was staged. It was directed by Jim Yukich and produced by Paul Flattery. Flattery/Yukich also directed the video for "Don't Lose My Number" which was shot in various locations in Australia and was a parody of music video directors pitching famous or cliché ideas. It won a Billboard Video Award in 1987.

A television special, also directed by Jim Yukich and produced by Paul Flattery, was recorded at Reunion Arena in Dallas on 29 May 1985, and aired on HBO entitled No Jacket Required... Sold Out. The broadcast was released on VHS and LaserDisc in 1985 with extended footage and the title changed to Phil Collins: No Ticket Required. It won an ACE AWARD for best TV Music special in 1986. Another television special was recorded at the Royal Albert Hall in London, England, for a Cinemax show called Album Flash which was also produced by Flattery and directed by Yukich.

Setlist

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Tour dates

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Date City Country Venue Tickets sold / Available Revenue
Europe
11 February 1985 Nottingham England Theatre Royal, Nottingham
12 February 1985 Manchester Manchester Apollo
13 February 1985 Glasgow Scotland The Apollo
15 February 1985 Newcastle England Newcastle City Hall
16 February 1985 Sheffield Sheffield City Hall
17 February 1985 London Royal Albert Hall
18 February 1985
19 February 1985
20 February 1985
21 February 1985
22 February 1985
23 February 1985 Birmingham National Exhibition Centre
25 February 1985 Düsseldorf West Germany Philipshalle
26 February 1985 Brussels Belgium Forest National
27 February 1985 Rotterdam Netherlands Rotterdam Ahoy
1 March 1985 Gothenburg Sweden Scandinavium
2 March 1985 Stockholm Johanneshovs Isstadion
3 March 1985 Copenhagen Denmark Valby-Hallen
4 March 1985 Bremen West Germany Stadthalle
5 March 1985 Paris France Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy
6 March 1985
7 March 1985 Frankfurt West Germany Festhalle Frankfurt
8 March 1985 Munich Rudi-Sedlmayer-Halle
10 March 1985 Zürich Switzerland Hallenstadion
11 March 1985 Stuttgart West Germany Böblingen Sporthalle
13 March 1985 Nantes France Parc des expositions de la Beaujoire
14 March 1985 Bordeaux Patinoire de Mériadeck
15 March 1985 Toulouse Palais des Sports de Toulouse
16 March 1985 Lyon Halle Tony Garnier
17 March 1985 Lausanne Switzerland Halle des Fêtes Beaujoire
Oceania
30 March 1985 Brisbane Australia Brisbane Festival Hall
31 March 1985
3 April 1985 Sydney Sydney Entertainment Centre
4 April 1985
5 April 1985
6 April 1985
7 April 1985
10 April 1985 Melbourne Melbourne Sports and Entertainment Centre
11 April 1985
12 April 1985
13 April 1985
14 April 1985
17 April 1985 Adelaide Memorial Drive Park
20 April 1985 Perth Perth Entertainment Centre
Asia
23 April 1985 Tokyo Japan Nippon Budokan
24 April 1985
25 April 1985 Fukuoka Fukuoka Sunpalace
26 April 1985 Osaka Festival Hall
27 April 1985 Nagoya Nagoya-shi Kōkaidō
North America[1]
12 May 1985 Worcester United States Worcester Centrum 11,401 / 11,401 $162,340
13 May 1985 Montreal Canada Montreal Forum
15 May 1985 New York City United States Radio City Music Hall 17,662 / 17,662 $375,600
16 May 1985
17 May 1985
20 May 1985 Philadelphia The Spectrum 14,975 / 17,000 $249,140
21 May 1985 Hampton Hampton Coliseum 10,544 / 10,544 $182,411
22 May 1985 Greensboro Greensboro Coliseum 12,074 / 12,074 $187,147
23 May 1985 Atlanta Omni Coliseum 16,367 / 16,367 $292,969
24 May 1985 Birmingham Birmingham–Jefferson Convention Complex
25 May 1985 Memphis Mid-South Coliseum 9,750 / 9,750 $144,188
26 May 1985 New Orleans Lakefront Arena 9,678 / 9,678 $173,236
27 May 1985 Houston The Summit 28,650 / 28,650 $512,835
28 May 1985
29 May 1985 Dallas Reunion Arena 15,462 / 15,462 $225,600
30 May 1985 Austin Frank Erwin Center
1 June 1985 Phoenix Compton Terrace Amphitheatre 23,862 / 23,862 $327,213
2 June 1985 Irvine Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre 29,930 / 29,930 $429,150
3 June 1985
4 June 1985 Los Angeles Universal Amphitheatre 18,753 / 18,753 $300,048
5 June 1985
6 June 1985
7 June 1985 Oakland Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Arena 35,948 / 35,948 $575,168
8 June 1985
9 June 1985
11 June 1985 Sacramento California Exposition & State Fair 12,200 / 12,200 $195,200
13 June 1985 Denver McNichols Sports Arena 15,029 / 15,029 $223,772
15 June 1985 Kansas City Kemper Arena 13,707 / 13,707 $187,054
16 June 1985 St. Louis Kiel Auditorium 10,385 / 10,385 $147,377
17 June 1985 Hoffman Estates Poplar Creek Music Theater 50,404 / 50,404 $821,585
18 June 1985
19 June 1985 Lexington Rupp Arena
21 June 1985 Columbia Merriweather Post Pavilion 19,319 / 19,319 $345,810
22 June 1985 Hartford Hartford Civic Center 14,264 / 14,264 $432,503
23 June 1985 Saratoga Springs Saratoga Performing Arts Center 19,000 / 19,000 $327,750
25 June 1985 Richfield Richfield Coliseum
26 June 1985
27 June 1985 Clarkston Pine Knob Music Theatre 15,274 / 15,274 $244,384
29 June 1985 Toronto Canada Exhibition Stadium 49,500 / 49,500 $886,680
1 July 1985 New York City United States Madison Square Garden
2 July 1985
Live Aid
13 July 1985 London England Wembley Stadium
Philadelphia United States John F. Kennedy Stadium

The Live Aid concerts were notable for Collins performing at both the Philadelphia and London shows. Bob Geldof, the organiser of Live Aid, originally asked Collins to be part of Geldof's first charity effort, Band Aid. Collins provided drums and sang backing vocals for Band Aid's 1984 No. 1 UK hit, "Do They Know It's Christmas?".

For Live Aid Collins first performed with Sting at Wembley Stadium. Together they performed "Roxanne", "Driven to Tears", "Against All Odds", "Message in a Bottle", "In the Air Tonight", "Long Long Way To Go", and "Every Breath You Take". After Collins finished performing, he boarded a Concorde flight to the U.S. to enable him to perform at the Philadelphia show. On the plane, he met Cher, and convinced her to be part of the event. Robert Plant had asked Collins if he would perform with Jimmy Page and Tony Thompson and he in a Led Zeppelin reunion of sorts. At the concert he began by playing drums on "Layla", "White Room" and "She's Waiting" for friend Eric Clapton. Collins performed "Against All Odds" and "In the Air Tonight" and finished the night playing drums for Led Zeppelin's aforementioned act.

Personnel

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For the tour, Collins retained his usual cast of musicians, including Chester Thompson, Leland Sklar and Daryl Stuermer.[2] The band was nicknamed the "Hot Tub Club".[3]

References

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  1. ^ The No Jacket Required World Tour
  2. ^ "Phil Collins – On the Road 85 No Jacket Required World Tour". philcollins.co.uk. Archived from the original on 30 April 2008. Retrieved 25 May 2008.
  3. ^ "Phil Collins: A Great Night for the Young Urban Clean-cut Concertgoer". Houston Chronicle. 28 May 1985. Retrieved 30 October 2008.