Phil Collins- No Jacket Required 40th Anniversary 2-3

Even four decades after release, Phil Collins’ third solo album, No Jacket Required, is formidable because of  how artistically satisfying it remains as well as how commercially successful it quickly became. And Collins was so prolific in this period, writing so many memorable melodies and identifiable lyrics for a massive mainstream audience including “Sussudio”, “Only You Know and I Know”, “One More Night”, “Don’t Lose My Number”, “Inside Out”, and the anthem “Take Me Home”, that it took the almost doubled capacity of the just-developed new musical format then, the compact disc, to hold it all.

Phil Collins joins me In the Studio the week of February 3 to serve up musical fine dining on No Jacket Required ‘s fortieth anniversary. -Redbeard