
No Jacket Required is the third solo studio album by English drummer and singer-songwriter Phil Collins. It was originally released on January 25, 1985. It features guest backing vocalists, including Helen Terry, Peter Gabriel (Collins’s former Genesis bandmate) and Sting. Some of the songs, like “Don’t Lose My Number” and “Sussudio”, were based around improvisation. Other songs, like “Long Long Way to Go”, had a political message. “One More Night”, “Sussudio”, “Don’t Lose My Number” and “Take Me Home” were released as singles, with corresponding music videos. All four singles were top-ten hits on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, with “Sussudio” and “One More Night” reaching number one. The three singles that were released in the UK all reached the top 20 on the UK charts. Many of the songs, including “Take Me Home” and “Long Long Way to Go”, have been featured in episodes of Miami Vice and Cold Case, and “The Man with the Horn” was re-written and re-recorded for the episode “Phil the Shill”. “We Said Hello Goodbye” was remixed for the film Playing for Keeps.
- “Sussudio” 4:23
- “Only You Know and I Know” 4:20
- “Long Long Way to Go” 4:20
- “I Don’t Wanna Know” 4:12
- “One More Night” 4:47
- “Don’t Lose My Number” 4:46
- “Who Said I Would” 4:01
- “Doesn’t Anybody Stay Together Anymore” 4:18
- “Inside Out” 5:14
- “Take Me Home” 5:51
- “We Said Hello Goodbye” 4:15
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 – saxophone (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)