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Phil Collins
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Philip David Charles Phil Collins LVO is an English singer, songwriter, instrumentalist, record producer and actor. He is best known as the drummer and lead singer in the rock band Genesis, between 1983 and 1990, Collins scored three UK and seven US number-one singles in his solo career. When his work with Genesis, his work with artists, as well as his solo career is totalled. His most successful singles from the period include In the Air Tonight, Against All Odds, One More Night, Sussudio and Another Day in Paradise. Born and raised in West London, Collins played drums from the age of five and completed drama school training and he then pursued a music career, joining Genesis in 1970 as their drummer and becoming lead singer in 1975 following the departure of Peter Gabriel. Collins became one of the most successful pop and adult contemporary singers of the 80s and he also became known for a distinctive gated reverb drum sound on many of his recordings. After leaving Genesis in 1996, Collins pursued various projects before a return in 2007 for the Turn It On Again Tour. In 2011, he retired to focus on his family life and he announced his return to the music industry in 2015. Collins discography includes eight albums that have sold 33.5 million certified units in the US. He is one of two recording artists, along with Paul McCartney, who have sold over 100 million records worldwide both as solo artists and separately as principal members of a band. He has won seven Grammy Awards, six Brit Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, an Academy Award, and a Disney Legend Award. Philip David Charles Collins was born on 30 January 1951 in Chiswick, west London, England, the son of Winifred M. June, an agent, and Greville Philip Austin Collins. He was given a toy drum kit for Christmas when he was five, Later, his uncle made him a makeshift set that he used regularly. As Collins grew older, these were followed by more complete sets bought by his parents and he practiced by playing with music on the television and radio. Collins studied drum rudiments as a teenager, first learning basic rudiments under Lloyd Ryan, Collins recalled, Rudiments I found very, very helpful – much more helpful than anything else because theyre used all the time. In any kind of funk or jazz drumming, the rudiments are always there and he never learned to read and write conventional musical notation and instead used a system he devised himself. He later regretted this, saying, I never really came to grips with the music, I should have stuck with it. Ive always felt that if I could hum it, I could play it, for me, that was good enough, but that attitude is bad
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Piety Street Recording
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Piety Street Recording is a recording studio at 728 Piety Street in the 9th Ward/Bywater, New Orleans. The building was originally a US post office and later housed the Louisiana Center For Retarded Citizens, after a few short term tenants, the building was purchased in 1999 by producer/engineer/musician Mark Bingham and ex-REM manager Jefferson Holt. In 2001 it was rebuilt as a facility and christened Piety Street with 3 studios. Piety Street has 2 other partners, artist Shawn Hall who acts as manager and producer/engineer John Fischbach. Wesley Fontenot is the chief engineer. The big room features an SSL4064 G+ loaded 48 channels with 30 outboard mic pre-amps, acts who have recorded at Piety Street include, Pretty Lights, Dr. Michael White, Dr. Other artists who have used the Piety Street title on their CDs include James Blood Ulmer, Eric Lindell, and Christina Groth
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Soundtrack
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In movie industry terminology usage, a sound track is an audio recording created or used in film production or post-production. Initially the dialogue, sound effects, and music in a film each has its own track, and these are mixed together to make what is called the composite track. A dubbing track is later created when films are dubbed into another language. This is also known as a M & E track containing all sound elements minus dialogue which is supplied by the foreign distributor in the native language of its territory. The contraction soundtrack came into public consciousness with the advent of so-called soundtrack albums in the late 1940s and these phrases were soon shortened to just original motion picture soundtrack. More accurately, such recordings are made from a music track, because they usually consist of the isolated music from a film, not the composite track with dialogue. The soundtrack to the 1937 Walt Disney film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was the first commercially issued film soundtrack. It was released by RCA Victor Records on multiple 78 RPM discs in January 1938 as Songs from Walt Disneys Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and has since seen numerous expansions and reissues. The first live-action musical film to have a commercially issued soundtrack album was MGM’s 1946 film biography of Show Boat composer Jerome Kern, the album was originally issued as a set of four 10-inch 78-rpm records. Only eight selections from the film were included in this first edition of the album, in order to fit the songs onto the record sides the musical material needed editing and manipulation. Needless to say, it was several generations removed from the original, the playback recordings were purposely recorded very dry, otherwise it would come across as too hollow sounding in large movie theatres. This made these albums sound flat and boxy, the phrase is also sometimes incorrectly used for Broadway cast recordings. While it is correct in some instances to call a soundtrack a cast recording it is never correct to call a cast recording a soundtrack, contributing to the vagueness of the term are projects such as The Sound of Music Live. Which was filmed live on the set for an NBC holiday season special first broadcast in 2013, film score albums did not really become popular until the LP era, although a few were issued in 78-rpm albums. Like the 1967 re-release of the film, this version of the score was artificially enhanced for stereo, in recent years, Rhino Records has released a 2-CD set of the complete Gone With the Wind score, restored to its original mono sound. One of the film scores of all time was John Williams music from the movie Star Wars. Many film score albums go out-of-print after the films finish their theatrical runs, in a few rare instances an entire film dialogue track was issued on records. The 1968 Franco Zeffirelli film of Romeo and Juliet was issued as a 4-LP set, as a single LP with musical and dialogue excerpts, and as an album containing only the films musical score
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Walt Disney Records
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Walt Disney Records is an American record label of the Disney Music Group. The label was founded in 1956 as Disneyland Records, before that time, Disney recordings were licensed to a variety of other labels such as RCA, Decca, Capitol, ABC-Paramount, and United Artists. It was Walt Disney’s brother Roy O. Disney who suggested that Walt Disney Productions form their own record label, Roy enlisted longtime staffer Jimmy Johnson to head this new division. It adopted its current name in 1989, in 1954, the Disneyland Record label was used for a Columbia Records release of Fess Parkers recording of the Ballad of Davy Crockett. The record was a success causing the formation of the record company, the company was founded as Disneyland Records in 1956, serving as the recorded unit subsidiary of Walt Disney Productions. The Disneyland company issued its first album, A Childs Garden of Verses, also, Disneyland Records issued a Parkers Wringle Wrangle single from the Westward Ho the Wagons. Film with in a year of starting operations, the became a hit. This led the company to start recording music from outside the films, however, what ever was released by the company the industry categorized as children. Pricing was directed towards an audience, which was more than standard children fare. The only outside success was Tuttis Trumpets, thus in 1959, the Disneyland label became the childrens label and Buena Vista label for the occasional pop song record. Jimmy Johnson brought in musician Tutti Camarata, founder of Sunset Sound Recorders in Hollywood, to head the Artists, Tuttis connections within the music industry also brought to the label the likes of Mary Martin, Louis Armstrong, Louis Prima, Jerry Colonna, and Phil Harris. It was also Tutti’s idea that the popular Mouseketeer, Annette Funicello, in 1959, the Buena Vista Records label was formed for Funicellos select recordings and for the release of soundtrack albums and other contemporary music. While looking for the material for Annette, Tutti and his team discovered the songwriting duo of Richard M. Sherman. The two were brought to the Disney studio in Burbank where they became the first staff songwriters for the company. The dual label company started its series in 1965. By 1971, Disneyland Records was also called Disneyland/Vista Records, in 1989, Disneyland Records was renamed Walt Disney Records. In addition to the Buena Vista label, the Disney Audio Entertainment, Disney Sound, today, Walt Disney Records selection of products ranges from traditional studio albums and original soundtracks to audiobooks and karaoke albums. It releases music from Walt Disney Pictures feature films, Lucasfilms Star Wars franchise, Disney Channel Original Movies, Walt Disney Theatrical productions and other feature-length productions
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Record producer
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A record producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performers music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album. A producer has many roles during the recording process, the roles of a producer vary. The producer may perform these roles himself, or help select the engineer, the producer may also pay session musicians and engineers and ensure that the entire project is completed within the record companies budget. A record producer or music producer has a broad role in overseeing and managing the recording. Producers also often take on an entrepreneurial role, with responsibility for the budget, schedules, contracts. In the 2010s, the industry has two kinds of producers with different roles, executive producer and music producer. Executive producers oversee project finances while music producers oversee the process of recording songs or albums. In most cases the producer is also a competent arranger, composer. The producer will also liaise with the engineer who concentrates on the technical aspects of recording. Noted producer Phil Ek described his role as the person who creatively guides or directs the process of making a record, indeed, in Bollywood music, the designation actually is music director. The music producers job is to create, shape, and mold a piece of music, at the beginning of record industry, producer role was technically limited to record, in one shot, artists performing live. The role of producers changed progressively over the 1950s and 1960s due to technological developments, the development of multitrack recording caused a major change in the recording process. Before multitracking, all the elements of a song had to be performed simultaneously, all of these singers and musicians had to be assembled in a large studio and the performance had to be recorded. As well, for a song that used 20 instruments, it was no longer necessary to get all the players in the studio at the same time. Examples include the rock sound effects of the 1960s, e. g. playing back the sound of recorded instruments backwards or clanging the tape to produce unique sound effects. These new instruments were electric or electronic, and thus they used instrument amplifiers, new technologies like multitracking changed the goal of recording, A producer could blend together multiple takes and edit together different sections to create the desired sound. For example, in jazz fusion Bandleader-composer Miles Davis album Bitches Brew, producers like Phil Spector and George Martin were soon creating recordings that were, in practical terms, almost impossible to realise in live performance. Producers became creative figures in the studio, other examples of such engineers includes Joe Meek, Teo Macero, Brian Wilson, and Biddu
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Rob Cavallo
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Robert Siers Rob Cavallo is an American record producer, musician and chairman of Warner Bros. He is also a multiple Grammy Award winner, Cavallo plays multiple instruments and has professional credits for his bass, keyboard, organ, piano, guitar and percussion work. Cavallo was born in Washington, DC and moved to Los Angeles and his interest in music began at age 11 after listening to his fathers The Beatles collection. He graduated from the University of Southern California, as a member of the Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity, Cavallo also attended the Dick Grove School of Music. Cavallo worked with George Massenburg at The Complex Recording Studios early in his career and he joined Warner Bros. Records as A&R representative in 1987 and worked with Black Sabbath as one of his first assignments. He also signed both the Goo Goo Dolls and Green Day during his first tenure at Warner Bros, Cavallo became senior vice-president of A&R of Hollywood Records in 1998. He moved to Warner Music Group in 2002 and became chief officer of the company in 2009. Cavallo became chairman of Warner Bros. Records in 2010, Cavallo also co-founded Level 7, a media company, with Broadcom Corporation co-founder Henry T. Nicholas III. Cavallo has produced multiple platinum-selling albums and tracks, Cavallo-produced Fleetwood Mac album Say You Will went gold in the US, Canada and Britain. Dave Matthews Bands Big Whiskey and the Groogrux King debuted at number 1 on the Billboard 200 rankings, phil Collins single Cant Stop Loving You, off the Cavallo-produced album Testify, peaked at number one on the Adult Contemporary chart. Two Cavallo-produced Goo Goo Dolls tracks, Iris and Slide, were included in Billboards top 100 pop songs 1992–2012, Iris was the top pop song from 1992–2012 and Slide was ninth-best according to Billboards list. Cavallo played an important role as A&R Representative for Linkin Parks single Burn It Down which reached the 30th position on the Billboard Hot 100 and was certified as Platinum by RIAA, Billboard Magazine ranked Cavallo number 45 in their 2012 Power 100 rankings. Rob Cavallos legendary Taylor Guitar used on 10 number one songs
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Walt Disney Animation Studios
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Founded on October 16,1923, it is a division of The Walt Disney Studios. The studio has produced 56 feature films, from Snow White and it was founded as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio in 1923 and incorporated as Walt Disney Productions in 1929. The studio was dedicated to producing short films until it expanded into feature production in 1934. In 1983, Walt Disney Productions named its film studio Walt Disney Pictures. In 2006, Walt Disney Feature Animation took on its current name, the studio also pioneered the art of storyboarding, which is now a standard technique used in both animated and live-action filmmaking. Walt Disney Animation Studios continues to produce films using both traditional animation and computer-generated imagery, at the present, Andrew Millstein is the general manager of the studio for day-to-day business affairs, under the direction of Edwin Catmull and John Lasseter who also oversee Pixar. Kansas City, Missouri, natives Walt Disney and Roy O, in February 1924, the studio moved next door to office space of its own at 4649 Kingswell Avenue. Disney refused, and as Universal owned the rights to Oswald rather than Disney, most of Disneys staff was hired away by Mintz to move over, once Disneys Oswald contract was done in mid-1928. The first two Mickey Mouse cartoons, Plane Crazy and The Galloping Gaucho, were previewed in limited engagements during the summer of 1928, the Mickey Mouse series of sound cartoons, distributed by Powers through Celebrity Productions, quickly became the most popular cartoon series in the United States. A second Disney series of cartoons, the Silly Symphonies. Powers in return signed away Ub Iwerks, who began producing cartoons at his own studio, columbia distributed Disneys shorts for two years before the Disney studio entered a new distribution deal with United Artists in 1932. The result was the Silly Symphony Flowers and Trees, the first film released in full Technicolor. Flowers and Trees was a success, and all Silly Symphonies were subsequently produced in Technicolor. In 1934, Walt Disney gathered several key members and announced his plans to make his first feature animated film. In the course of teaching the classes, Graham and the created or formalized many of the techniques and processes that became the key tenets. During the production of Snow White, work had continued on the Mickey Mouse, Mickey Mouse switched to Technicolor in 1935, by which time the series had added several major supporting characters, among them Mickeys dog Pluto and their friends Donald Duck and Goofy. Donald, Goofy, and Pluto would all be appearing in series of their own by 1940, the Silly Symphonies, which garnered seven Academy Awards, ended in 1939. The success of Snow White allowed Disney to build a new, larger studio on Buena Vista Street in Burbank, Walt Disney Productions had its initial public offering on April 2,1940, with Walt Disney as president and chairman and Roy Disney as CEO
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Treasure Planet
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Treasure Planet is a 2002 American animated science fiction film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation, and released by Walt Disney Pictures on November 27,2002. It is the 43rd Disney animated feature film, the film is a science fiction adaptation of Robert Louis Stevensons adventure novel Treasure Island and was the first film to be released simultaneously in regular and IMAX theaters. The film employs a technique of hand-drawn 2D traditional animation set atop 3D computer animation. Treasure Planet features the voices of Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Brian Murray, David Hyde Pierce, Martin Short, Roscoe Lee Browne, Emma Thompson, Laurie Metcalf, the musical score was composed by James Newton Howard, while the songs were written and performed by John Rzeznik. It was nominated for the 2002 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, twelve years later, Jim has grown into an aloof and isolated teenager. He reluctantly helps his mother Sarah run the familys Benbow Inn, one day, a spaceship crashes near the inn. The dying pilot, Billy Bones, gives Jim a sphere, after this, a gang of pirates raid and burn the inn. Jim, his mother, and their dog-like friend Dr. Delbert Doppler flee, at Dopplers study, Jim finds that the sphere is a holographic projector, showing a star map that leads to the location of Treasure Planet. Doppler commissions a ship called the RLS Legacy, on a mission to find Treasure Planet, the ship is commanded by the cat-like Captain Amelia along with her stone-skin and disciplined First Mate, Mr. Arrow. The crew is a bunch, secretly led by the half-robot cook John Silver. Jim is sent down to work in the galley, where he is supervised by Silver and his shape-shifting pet, despite Jims mistrust of Silver, they soon form a tenuous father-son relationship. Flashbacks are shown in Jims youth when his father abandoned him. During the voyage, the ship encounters a supernova, Jim, while securing lifelines of all crew members, saves Silver from falling just in time. The supernova then devolves into a hole, where Arrow falls. The burst of shock waves and maximum engine power enable Amelia to pilot the ship to safety, Amelia mourns the loss of Arrow, and suspects Jim of failing to secure the lifelines. Jim blames himself for the mistake, while in fact Arrows line was cut by a ruthless insectoid crew member named Scroop, as the ship reaches Treasure Planet, Jim overhears that the crew are pirates, and mutiny erupts. Jim, Doppler, Amelia, including Morph abandon the ship, thinking that Jim has the map, Silver had a chance to blast Jim, but hesitates because of his attachment to the boy. The fugitives are shot down by a mutineer during their escape, while exploring Treasure Planets forests, the fugitives meet B. E. N. an abandoned robot, who says he has literally lost his primary memory, and invites them to his place for shelter
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Home on the Range (2004 film)
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Home on the Range is a 2004 American animated musical western comedy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The 45th Disney animated feature film, it was the last 2D animated Disney film released until The Princess and the Frog in 2009. Named after the country song of the same name, Home on the Range features the voices of Roseanne Barr, Judi Dench, Jennifer Tilly, Cuba Gooding Jr. Randy Quaid. The film is set in the Old West, and centers on a trio of dairy cows—brash, adventurous Maggie, prim, proper Mrs. Caloway. The three cows must capture an infamous cattle rustler named Alameda Slim for his bounty in order to save their farm from foreclosure. Aiding them in their quest is Lucky Jack, a feisty, peg-legged rabbit, but a horse named Buck, eagerly working in the service of Rico. Home on the Range was released on April 2,2004 to mixed reviews, Maggie is the only cow left on the Dixon Ranch after Alameda Slim stole all the rest of Mr. Dixons cattle. Dixon sells Maggie to Pearl, a kind and elderly woman who runs a farm called Patch of Heaven. The local Sheriff arrives to tell Pearl that her bank is cracking down on debtors, Pearl has three days to pay the bank $750, or her farm will be sold to the highest bidder. Hearing this, Maggie convinces the other cows on the farm to go to town to attempt winning prize money at a fair, while the cows are in town, a bounty hunter named Rico drops a criminal off and collects the reward. Stating he needs a replacement horse to go after Alameda Slim while his own horse rests, when Maggie find out that the reward for capturing Slim is exactly $750, she convinces the other cows to try to capture him to save Patch of Heaven. That night, they hide among a herd of steers. Before any of them can do anything, Slim begins a yodeling song which sends all the cattle into a trance that causes them to dance madly and follow Slim anywhere. Grace is able to bring Maggie and Mrs. Caloway back to their senses just before Slim closes the path behind him with a rock-slide to stop Rico and his men from chasing him. As Rico discusses with his men what his next move will be, Buck starts talking with Maggie, Grace and this causes Rico to believe Buck is frightened by cows, so he sends Buck back to the Sheriff. Buck escapes, determined to capture Slim for himself to prove his worth, Maggie, Grace, and Mrs. Caloway continue their search for Slim, determined to pass Buck and get to Slim first, but they have a fallout when they lose the trail in a downpour. Mrs. Caloway accuses Maggie of wanting to go after Slim only as a personal vendetta, arguing that she and Grace are better off without Maggie. The three spend the night under a rock, with Maggie deciding to leave the next morning while Grace
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Testify (Phil Collins album)
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Testify is the seventh solo studio album by English singer-songwriter Phil Collins. The album debuted at No.30 on the American Billboard 200 albums chart and it was also the second Collins studio album where no track peaked within the American top 40 singles chart. It was also his lowest charting album in the UK, becoming his solo effort not to reach the Top 5. However, the album achieved success in countries of Continental Europe. It is his album not to be co-produced by Hugh Padgham. Meat Loafs album Couldnt Have Said It Better was originally to be titled Testify, despite the shortage of success the album achieved, his subsequent First Final Farewell Tour proved to be very popular. The album was reissued as an edition on CD, vinyl and digital on 15 April 2016. Testify was crafted over a period at Collins home in Switzerland. Collins worked extensively with computers during production, work that can be throughout the album. After Collins made Dance into the Light without any drum machine, the album begins with an up-tempo Wake Up Call. It was based on a 16-bar doodle Collins wrote, and only began to formalise when he brought it into studio. The title track, the longest and most complex sounding song on the album, is according to Collins one of the most direct, the soulful Its Not Too Late refers to lost faith in dreams – Its never too late to make your dreams come true. Driving Me Crazy is another upbeat track, Collins said the song is about the narrow path between love and dangerous obsession. Come with Me was originally a lullaby Phil sang to his daughter Lily when she was a baby when on tour in 1990, Seriously Live. and the lyrics were developed when Nicholas was born. Collins collaborated with longtime associate, Daryl Stuermer, for The Least You Can Do, providing the lyrics, arrangement and it is followed by Cant Stop Loving You, a cover of Leo Sayers 1978 country hit. Collins heard the song on the radio and brought a modern feel to country song I heard Leo Sayers version of Can’t Stop Loving You on vacation, I have attempted to breathe new life into this song and change its feel. It was the first single off the album, hitting No.1 in the Adult Contemporary Charts, the album ends with Thru My Eyes and You Touch My Heart, another song inspired by his son. The album was released to mixed to negative reviews
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The Platinum Collection (Phil Collins album)
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The Platinum Collection is a three-disc box set by English drummer and singer Phil Collins. It was released in May 2004, there was also a separate version released in Europe, which consisted of Face Value, Both Sides, and Testify. The set consists of all three of Collins #1 albums in the UK, Face Value, No Jacket Required and. But Seriously, the last two also reached #1 in the United States. This Platinum Collection is a collection or records, which has Phil Collins best moments of his solo career starting the 80s. The individual albums featured several of Collins most successful singles, including In the Air Tonight, One More Night, the collection sold approximately 200,000 copies
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Single (music)
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In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a song recording of fewer tracks than an LP record, an album or an EP record. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats, in most cases, a single is a song that is released separately from an album, although it usually also appears on an album. Typically, these are the songs from albums that are released separately for promotional uses such as digital download or commercial radio airplay and are expected to be the most popular, in other cases a recording released as a single may not appear on an album. As digital downloading and audio streaming have become prevalent, it is often possible for every track on an album to also be available separately. Nevertheless, the concept of a single for an album has been retained as an identification of a heavily promoted or more popular song within an album collection. Despite being referred to as a single, singles can include up to as many as three tracks on them. The biggest digital music distributor, iTunes, accepts as many as three tracks less than ten minutes each as a single, as well as popular music player Spotify also following in this trend. Any more than three tracks on a release or longer than thirty minutes in total running time is either an Extended Play or if over six tracks long. The basic specifications of the single were made in the late 19th century. Gramophone discs were manufactured with a range of speeds and in several sizes. By about 1910, however, the 10-inch,78 rpm shellac disc had become the most commonly used format, the inherent technical limitations of the gramophone disc defined the standard format for commercial recordings in the early 20th century.26 rpm. With these factors applied to the 10-inch format, songwriters and performers increasingly tailored their output to fit the new medium, the breakthrough came with Bob Dylans Like a Rolling Stone. Singles have been issued in various formats, including 7-inch, 10-inch, other, less common, formats include singles on digital compact cassette, DVD, and LD, as well as many non-standard sizes of vinyl disc. Some artist release singles on records, a more common in musical subcultures. The most common form of the single is the 45 or 7-inch. The names are derived from its speed,45 rpm. The 7-inch 45 rpm record was released 31 March 1949 by RCA Victor as a smaller, more durable, the first 45 rpm records were monaural, with recordings on both sides of the disc. As stereo recordings became popular in the 1960s, almost all 45 rpm records were produced in stereo by the early 1970s
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No Way Out (Phil Collins song)
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No Way Out is a song by the English singer Phil Collins from the Brother Bear film soundtrack. Two different versions of the song are placed onto the Brother Bear soundtrack, one is 4,18 minutes long and rock-driven, while the other is 2,37 minutes long and a more mellow keyboard-driven version. The scene where the song is heard sees Kenai being forced to tell Koda that he killed his mother when he was a human and he is remorseful but Koda looks horrified and runs away in fear. GenesisNews said the song is a compact. strong balled and reminiscent of older Phil Collins songs such as I Wish It Would Rain Down due to its speed, harmonies and female backing vocals. In the context of the film, No Way Out has been criticized for drowning out the dialogue in the films climactic scene with generic pop lyrics. No Way Out No Way Out No Way Out
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Brother Bear
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Brother Bear is a 2003 American animated adventure comedy-drama film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is the 44th Disney animated feature film, in the film, an Inuit boy named Kenai pursues a bear in revenge for a battle that he provoked in which his oldest brother Sitka is killed. He tracks down the bear and kills it, but the Spirits, angered by this needless death, the film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Feature. A direct-to-video sequel, Brother Bear 2, was released on August 29,2006, the film is set in a post-ice age North America, where the local tribesmen believe all creatures are created through the Spirits, who are said to appear in the form of an aurora. Three brothers return to their tribe in order for Kenai to receive his totem, the particular animal it represents symbolizes what he must achieve to call himself a man. Unlike Sitka, who gained the eagle of guidance, and Denahi and he objects to this, stating that bears are thieves, and believes his point is made a fact when a bear takes some salmon. Kenai and his brothers pursue the bear, but a fight follows on a glacier, during which Sitka gives his life to save his brothers, angered, Kenai heads out to avenge Sitka. He chases the bear up onto a mountain and kills it, the Spirits, represented by Sitkas spirit in the form of a bald eagle, transform Kenai into a bear after the dead bears body evaporates. Denahi arrives, mistaking Kenai as dead, and believing his bear form is responsible, Kenai falls down some rapids, survives, and is healed by Tanana, the shaman of Kenais tribe. She does not speak the language, but advises him to return to the mountain to find Sitka and be turned back to normal. Kenai quickly discovers the wildlife can talk, meeting two brother moose, Rutt and Tuke and he gets caught in a trap, but is freed by an outgoing bear cub named Koda. They make a deal, Kenai will go with Koda to a salmon run. As the two form a sibling-like attachment, Koda reveals that his mother is missing. The two are hunted by Denahi, who is determined to avenge Kenai, unaware that the bear he is pursuing is actually Kenai. Eventually, Kenai and Koda reach the salmon run, where a number of bears live as a family, including the leader Tug. Kenai adjusts to his surroundings and is living with the other bears. During a discussion among the bears, Koda tells a story about his mother fighting human hunters, shocked and horrified, Kenai runs away, but Koda soon finds him. Kenai reveals the truth to Koda, who runs away, grief-stricken, an apologetic Kenai leaves to reach the mountain
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Tina Turner
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Tina Turner, is an American-born Swiss recording artist, dancer, actress, and author, whose career has spanned more than half a century, earning her widespread recognition and numerous awards. Born and raised in the Southeastern United States, Turner obtained Swiss citizenship in 2013 and she began her musical career in the mid-1950s as a featured singer with Ike Turners Kings of Rhythm, first recording in 1958 under the name Little Ann. Her introduction to the public as Tina Turner began in 1960 as a member of the Ike & Tina Turner Revue. Success followed with a string of notable hits credited to the duo, including A Fool in Love, River Deep – Mountain High, Proud Mary, and Nutbush City Limits, a song which she herself wrote. In her autobiography, I, Tina, she revealed several instances of domestic abuse against her by Ike Turner prior to their 1976 split. After her divorce from Ike Turner, she rebuilt her career through live performances, Whats Love Got to Do with It, the lead single won three Grammy Awards including Record of the Year. Whats Love Got to Do with It was later used as the title of a loosely based biographical film adapted from her autobiography, One of the worlds best-selling artists of all time, she has also been referred to as The Queen of Rock n Roll. Turner has been termed the most successful female Rock n Roll artist, receiving eleven Grammy Awards, including eight competitive awards, Turner has also sold more concert tickets than any other solo performer in history. Her combined album and single sales total approximately 180 million copies worldwide and she is noted for her energetic stage presence, powerful vocals, and career longevity. In 2008, Turner returned from semi-retirement to embark on her Tina, Turners tour became one of the highest selling ticketed shows of 2008–09. Rolling Stone Magazine ranked Turner no.63 on their list of 100 greatest artists of all time, in 1991, Turner was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Turner announced in December 2016 that she has been working on Tina, Turner was born Anna Mae Bullock on November 26,1939, in Nutbush, an unincorporated area in Haywood County, Tennessee. Her parents were Zelma Priscilla and Floyd Richard Bullock, Anna Mae was born at Poindexter Farm on Highway 180, where her father worked as an overseer of the sharecroppers. She is of African-American descent, with approximately 33% European and 1% Native American ancestry, Anna Mae had an older sister, Ruby Aillene. As young children, Anna Mae and Aillene were separated when their parents relocated to Knoxville, Tennessee, after the war, the sisters reunited with their parents and moved with them to Knoxville. Two years later, the returned to Nutbush to live in the Flagg Grove community. In 1889, her uncle had sold the land on which the school was built to the school trustees. As a youngster, Anna Mae sang in the choir at Nutbushs Spring Hill Baptist Church
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The Blind Boys of Alabama
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The Blind Boys of Alabama are a five-time Grammy Award-winning gospel group who first sang together in 1939. The Blind Boys have toured for seven decades, and created an extensive discography, the Blind Boys of Alabama sing mainly spiritually uplifting songs, as well as giving encouragement to those with disabilities. In the words of one of the group’s blind members, Ricky Mckinnie and its not about what you cant do. And what we do is sing good gospel music, the Blind Boys of Alabama first sang together in the school chorus in 1939 at the Alabama Institute for the Negro Blind in Talladega, Alabama. The earliest version of the group was known as “The Happyland Jubilee Singers”, the group’s first professional performance was on June 10,1944. In 1945, the members dropped out of school and began touring the gospel circuit, a friendly rivalry sprouted between the two groups and continued henceforth. The two acts soon changed their names to the Five Blind Boys of Alabama and the Five Blind Boys of Mississippi and often toured together, in 1948, The Blind Boys of Alabama recorded their first single, “I Can See Everybody’s Mother But Mine” on the Veejay label. It was a hit and lead to a series of recordings on various record labels, during the 1950s black gospel music was popular, and the Blind Boys were one of the better known groups. Artists from pop and rock genres began to include aspects of black music in their arrangements and black gospel artists began crossing over to pop. During the 1960s and 1970s, soul music gained favor as a new type of black music. As a traditional group, the fortunes of The Blind Boys of Alabama waned during these decades. Soul music was spiritual and socially engaged pop music, and its sales exceeded those of its gospel forerunners. Although soul music became a financially successful route for many gospel artists. In the 1960s, the groups hard-driving gospel sound was imitated by people like Bobby Blue Bland, in 1969, Fountain left the group for a decade to try to make it on his own, and the group re-formed with all the original members in the late 70s. The band also joined the Civil Rights movement during the 1960s, up until this point, the Blind Boys of Alabama had primarily played for black church audiences. The group performed at the Worlds Fair in Knoxville in 1982, at that time the Five Blind Boys of Alabama began appearing collectively as Oedipus in the musical theater production The Gospel at Colonus. The play was acclaimed as a landmark in American Musical History and this production brought the Blind Boys to the attention of a mainstream audience. With this exposure, the Blind Boys began working in several genres, the Blind Boys released an album, Deep River in 1992, which was nominated for a Grammy Award
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Tarzan (1999 film soundtrack)
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Tarzan, An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack is the soundtrack for the 1999 Disney animated film, Tarzan. The songs on the soundtrack were composed by Phil Collins, for his contribution to the soundtrack, Collins received an American Music Award for Favorite Adult Contemporary Artist. Tarzan was the first Disney soundtrack to be recorded in languages for different markets, with Collins recording English, Italian, German, Spanish. Collins was assisted by composer Éric Serra to record and produce French version of the songs, the Tarzan soundtrack was released by Walt Disney Records on May 18,1999. The soundtrack peaked at #5 on the Billboard charts during the week of July 10,1999, the album was a major comeback for Phil Collins, and put him back in the public eye. A promotion was held at the Disney Store, customers who bought the soundtrack received a free and exclusive single of Youll Be in My Heart. The soundtrack itself was labeled limited edition, including a holographic cover, the album has sold 2,586,000 copies in the U. S. as of April 2014. All songs written and composed by Phil Collins, with score composed by Mark Mancina
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Tarzan (1999 film)
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Tarzan is a 1999 American animated adventure film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. Pre-production of Tarzan began in 1995 with Kevin Lima selected as director, following a first draft by Tab Murphy, Bob Tzudiker, Noni White, and Dave Reynolds were brought in to re-construct the third act and add additional humor to the screenplay. English musician Phil Collins was recruited to compose and record songs which were integrated with a score by Mark Mancina, meanwhile, the production team embarked on a research trip to Uganda and Kenya to study the gorillas. Tarzan was released to a reaction from critics who praised the films animation. Against a production budget of $130 million, the film grossed $448, the film has led to many derived works, such as a Broadway adaptation, a television series The Legend of Tarzan, and two direct-to-video films, Tarzan & Jane and Tarzan II. In the 1800s, an English couple and their infant son escape a shipwreck, the couple craft themselves a treehouse from their ships wreckage, but are subsequently killed by Sabor, a leopardess. Kala, a western gorilla who recently lost her own child to Sabor, hears the cries of the orphaned infant. Though she is attacked by Sabor, Kala and the baby manage to escape, Kala takes the baby back to the jungle to raise as her own, an action of which the leader and her mate, Kerchak, grudgingly disapproves. Kala raises the child, naming him Tarzan. Years later, Tarzan begins to befriend other gorillas and animals, including a female gorilla named Terk. Tarzan finds himself treated differently because of his different physique, so he makes great efforts to improve himself, as a young man, Tarzan manages to kill Sabor with a crude spear he made, gaining Kerchaks reluctant respect. The gorilla troops peaceful life is interrupted by the arrival of a team of explorers from England, consisting of Professor Porter, his daughter Jane. The explorers are looking to study gorillas, Jane accidentally becomes separated from the group and chased by a baboon troop, with Tarzan saving her. He recognizes that she is the same as he is, a human. Despite Kerchaks warnings to be wary of the humans, Tarzan continues to return to the camp, where Porter, Clayton and he and Jane begin to fall in love. However, the English explorers have a difficult time convincing Tarzan to lead them to the gorillas, the explorers ship soon returns to retrieve them. Jane asks Tarzan to return them to England, but Tarzan in turn asks Jane to stay with him when Jane says it is unlikely they will ever return. Clayton convinces Tarzan that Jane will stay with him if he leads them to the gorillas
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Walt Disney's Parade of Dreams
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Walt Disneys Parade of Dreams premiered on May 5,2005 as part of the Happiest Homecoming on Earth, celebrating the 50th anniversary of Disneyland in California. The parade includes eight floats which include Getaway to Dreams, Dream of Enchantment, Dream of Laughter, Dream of Another World, Dream of Imagination, Dream of Adventure and it closed in November 2008 before the Holidays at Disneyland. The family journeyed along the route with the Mayor of Main Street and other Disney characters such as Winnie the Pooh, Tigger, Eeyore, Mary Poppins, Bert, Woody, Jessie, Aladdin. The Grand Marshal Pre-Parade Cavalcade featured two banner holders, six dancers, and two rope carriers as well, the song played was The Happiest Place on Earth. On August 17,2008, this pre-parade was cut back to include the Mayor. A pre-parade is a mini-parade with usually one float with the character that promote an upcoming Disney movie. There were four Pre-Parades for Walt Disneys Parade of Dreams, Ratatouille, Enchanted, Prince Caspian, soon the young at heart gathered from around the world, following their dreams to the place where anything is possible. The magic place where dreams come true, Walt Disneys Parade of Dreams is dedicated to children of all ages, and to that special dream that first began when Walt Disney proclaimed To all who come to this happy place, welcome. Gateway to Dreams, Peter Pan is inside a train with Tinkerbell sitting on top of it with the Main Street train station as the backdrop of the unit. The Fairy Godmother of Cinderella, the Blue Fairy from Pinocchio and Flora, Dream of Enchantment, Belle and Beast dance and an Audio-Animatronic Lumiere sings. Cogsworth, Mrs. Potts, and Chip entertain the crowd as well while spoons, forks, knives, salt & pepper shakers, a feather duster and this was Jerry Orbachs last time supplying the voice of Lumiere. Orbach died in December 2004 after he recorded the dialogue for the parade, hanging behind the unit are Russian puppets on bungee cords. The part of the unit that they hang on rises up during the stop to allow the Russian puppets to perform bungee tricks. Other toys include two bell ringers, two ballroom dancers attached to female doll counterparts, a toy drummer, and Bo Peep, other characters include Foulfellow, Gideon, Jiminy Cricket sitting atop a toy block and Cleo swimming around in her fish bowl. Dream of Another World, Ariel sits on top of a giant fountain made of shells, with Part of Your World. This unit also features Audio-Animatronics Sebastian and Flounder, before the unit are dancers decorated like stylized waves, blue and white pearl dancers, and light-colored fish kites. When the Parade returned in 2007 the water fountains on Ariels shell was replaced by plastic tubing. For the parades 2008 run, the fountains returned, a giant Ursula puppet makes potions and cackles to Poor Unfortunate Souls while Flotsam and Jetsam lurk around
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Disneyland
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Disneyland Park, originally Disneyland, is the first of two theme parks built at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California, opened on July 17,1955. It is the theme park designed and built under the direct supervision of Walt Disney. It was originally the attraction on the property, its name was changed to Disneyland Park to distinguish it from the expanding complex in the 1990s. Walt Disney came up with the concept of Disneyland after visiting various amusement parks with his daughters in the 1930s and 1940s. He initially envisioned building a tourist attraction adjacent to his studios in Burbank to entertain fans who wished to visit, however, after hiring a consultant to help him determine an appropriate site for his project, Disney bought a 160-acre site near Anaheim in 1953. Construction began in 1954 and the park was unveiled during a televised press event on the ABC Television Network on July 17,1955. Opened in 2001, Disney California Adventure Park was built on the site of Disneylands original parking lot, Disneyland has a larger cumulative attendance than any other theme park in the world, with over 650 million guests since it opened. In 2013, the park hosted approximately 16.2 million guests, according to a March 2005 Disney report,65,700 jobs are supported by the Disneyland Resort, including about 20,000 direct Disney employees and 3,800 third-party employees. To all who come to this place, Welcome. Here age relives fond memories of the past, and here youth may savor the challenge and promise of the future. Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the facts that have created America, with the hope that it will be a source of joy. The concept for Disneyland began when Walt Disney was visiting Griffith Park in Los Angeles with his daughters Diane and Sharon. While watching them ride the merry-go-round, he came up with the idea of a place where adults and their children could go and have fun together and he may have also been influenced by his fathers memories of the Worlds Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago. Another likely influence was Benton Harbor, Michigans nationally famous House of Davids Eden Springs Park, Disney visited the park and ultimately bought one of the older miniature trains originally used there, the colony had the largest miniature railway setup in the world at the time. His ideas evolved to a play park with a boat ride. The initial concept, the Mickey Mouse Park, started with an 8-acre plot across Riverside Drive and his designers began working on concepts, though the project grew much larger than the land could hold. Disney hired Harrison Price from Stanford Research Institute to gauge the proper area to locate the theme based on the areas potential growth. Based on Prices analysis, Disney acquired 160 acres of groves and walnut trees in Anaheim
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AllMusic
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AllMusic is an online music guide service website. It was launched in 1991 by All Media Guide which later became All Media Network, AllMusic was launched in 1991 by Michael Erlewine of All Media Guide. The aim was to discographic information on every artist whos made a record since Enrico Caruso gave the industry its first big boost and its first reference book was published the following year. When first released onto the Internet, AMG predated the World Wide Web and was first available as a Gopher site, the AMG consumer web properties AllMusic. com, AllMovie. com and AllGame. com were sold by Rovi in July 2013 to All Media Network, LLC. All Media Network, LLC. was formed by the founders of SideReel. com. The following are contributors to AllMusic, as of this date, All Media Network also produced the AllMusic guide series that includes the AllMusic Guide to Rock, the All Music Guide to Jazz and the All Music Guide to the Blues. Vladimir Bogdanov is the president of the series, in August 2007, PC Magazine included AllMusic in its Top 100 Classic Websites list. All Media Network AllGame AllMovie SideReel All Music Guide to the Blues All Music Guide to Jazz Stephen Thomas Erlewine Official website
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Phil Collins discography
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A Grammy and Academy Award-winning solo artist, Collins has sold more than 33 million albums in the United States, and 100 million records worldwide. His second album, Hello, I Must Be Going. was released in 1982, the album peaked at number two in the UK and was certified 3-times Platinum. In 1984 Collins recorded Against All Odds, the shot to number one on the US Billboard Hot 100. He also performed a duet with Philip Bailey, Easy Lover, in 1984 Collins participated in Bob Geldofs Band Aid charity project, and played drums in the Band Aid single Do They Know Its Christmas. In early 1985, Collins released his album, No Jacket Required. He also recorded the song Separate Lives, a duet with Marilyn Martin that reached number one in the US. In 1988 Collins contributed songs to the soundtrack of the movie Buster, in which he starred, Two Hearts, and a cover of A Groovy Kind of Love. In 1989 Collins produced another successful album. But Seriously, featuring the anti-homelessness anthem Another Day in Paradise and his next album, Dance into the Light, was released in 1996 and was even less successful, peaking at number four in the UK and was only certified silver. A greatest hits compilation. Hits, was released in 1998 and was successful, returning Collins to UK number one and multi-platinum status in the UK, the albums sole new track was a cover of the Cyndi Lauper hit True Colors. Collins also wrote and performed songs for the Disney animated films Tarzan, Testify, Collins seventh studio album, was released in 2002. It was a success in Europe, peaking at fifteen in the UK and within the top five in Austria, Germany. After the release of Testify, Collins announced that he was going into semi-retirement, in September 2010, Collins released his eighth studio album, Going Back, after which he went into a 4 year retirement, before returning to the music industry in October 2015. By 2016, Collins remastered and reiussed all his albums and released his third compilation album
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Face Value (album)
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Face Value is the debut solo studio album by British singer-songwriter Phil Collins. It was released in February 1981 on the Virgin label internationally, the album topped the UK Album Chart on its initial release and was well-received by critics. It opens with his debut single In the Air Tonight. The album was reissued, with bonus tracks included, on 29 January 2016, the reissued versions cover art is taken in the same fashion as the originals, except it features a present-day Collins instead. By 1978, Phil Collins had been part of the rock band Genesis for eight years. Collins took over vocals for 1976s A Trick of the Tail, while still featuring the complex progressive rock the group had been recording since its 1970 album Trespass, it also featured a more mainstream sound which attracted a larger audience. Their 1978 album. And Then There Were Three, featured their first crossover hit single, Follow You Follow Me. Collins had been planning to record a solo album for some time. He told Modern Drummer in 1979, One ambition is to do my own album which will have a lot of variety, I write songy stuff, as well as some from the Brand X area. Im also hip to what Eno does - those kind of soundtracks which Ive always been interested in - two or three minutes of just mood, the album, when it does come out, will have a lot of different styles on it. And a world tour across America, Europe, and Japan, Collins first wife filed for divorce in 1979 and left Collins in the home they shared in England by himself. Collins reportedly stayed in his house for working on songs that reflected his personal life. Initially, Collins did not want to them for an album until Atlantic Records, Genesis record label in America. Collins would base the majority of Face Value on the divorce he had endured, some of Collins material that he wrote for Face Value made its way onto Genesis subsequent follow-up, Duke. Collins radio-friendly vocals and increased songwriting contributions helped to make Duke a major success and Genesiss first UK number one album in April 1980. Recording sessions for Face Value took place at the Town House in London between late winter of 1979 and early January 1981, Collins refused to listen to friends who had advised him not to use the horns and they would play a major role for most of his solo career. Assistant recording engineer Nick Launay was hired after Collins was impressed with his work with Public Image Limited, Collins also used another then-controversial method in using drum programming rather than just live drum instrumentation despite his reputation as a drummer. Collins said he wanted to experiment with different sounds and was inspired by the works of his band mate Peter Gabriel. Collins was often part of these sessions, many of the songs arrangements were done by Collins and session arranger Tom Tom 84
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Hello, I Must Be Going! (album)
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Hello, I Must Be Going. is the second solo studio album by English singer-songwriter Phil Collins. The album was released in late 1982 on Virgin in the UK and Ireland, Atlantic in North America, the album was promoted with a tour of the same name. The album brought Collins his first nomination for British Male Artist at the Brit Awards in 1983, nine of the albums ten tracks made some sort of chart worldwide, with a cover version of The Supremes You Cant Hurry Love the albums most significant hit. The dark I Dont Care Anymore reached No.39 in the U. S. giving Collins his first Grammy Award nomination for Best Rock Vocal Performance, the album is named after the Marx Brothers song of the same name, featured in their 1930 movie Animal Crackers. AllMusic critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine said, Phil Collins began to inject his highly melodic pop songwriting with more soul and R&B influences on his solo album, Hello. While some of the material was successful, much of it showed that he was coming to grips with how to incorporate R&B techniques into his style. In Rolling Stone, critic John Milward wrote of the album, Despite its trend-bucking boast of an eight-track recording, in fact, the LP sounds like stripped-down Genesis, ornamental but not too ostentatious. All tracks written by Phil Collins, except You Cant Hurry Love by Holland–Dozier–Holland
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No Jacket Required
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No Jacket Required is the third solo studio album by English singer-songwriter Phil Collins. The album was released on 18 February 1985 on Virgin, Atlantic. It features guest backing vocalists, including Helen Terry, Peter Gabriel, some of the songs, like Dont 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, Dont 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, the three singles that were released in the UK all reached the top 20 on the UK charts. It won three Grammy Awards including for Album of the Year in 1986, Stephen Holden of The New York Times wrote that Collins was quietly revolutionising and expanding the role of the drums in pop record making. Rolling Stone reviewer David Fricke wrote that, Like his 81 and 82 outings, Face Value and Hello, No Jacket Required is not an album that waits to be liked. Collins most commercially successful album, it peaked at number one in several countries, including the US. According to the RIAA, the record sold over million copies in the US, and in the UK. It was the second best-selling album of 1985 in the UK, worldwide, the album has sold over 25 million copies. We Said Hello Goodbye was remixed for the film Playing for Keeps, following the release of the album Collins embarked on the successful No Jacket Required World Tour. At the end of tour, Collins performed at both the London and Philadelphia Live Aid concerts on 13 July 1985. During the tour, Collins recorded the song Separate Lives with Marilyn Martin for the movie White Nights, which was a one hit in the US. Remixes of six songs from the album were included on the 12ers compilation album. Some of the songs from the album emerged from Collins improvisations with a machine, including the singles One More Night. Collins started singing one more night to an attempt of making a similar to The Jacksons. Collins tried to replace the lyric with another phrase but decided to keep that way, another song created mostly through improvisation, Dont Lose My Number, was described by Collins as having been written mostly during the recordings for his first solo album, Face Value. Other songs were written with a personal message
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...But Seriously
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. But Seriously is the fourth solo studio album by English singer-songwriter Phil Collins. It was recorded at The Farm, Surrey, England, and A&M Studios, Los Angeles, United States and it was the best-selling album of 1990 in the UK. It reached number one in the UK and US for fifteen, the album was certified quad- and double platinum in the US and UK respectively. It also produced 5 top-forty singles in both countries, including the US #1/UK #2 Another Day in Paradise, which received the Grammy Award for Record of the Year and it is one of the best selling albums in British and German history. A 2-disc remastered version of the album was released on 10 June 2016 and contains live songs and he also prominently used keyboards and electric piano but fewer synthesizers. The tone of the album is serious, as the title suggests, Collins expanded his focus to the exploration of socio-economic and political themes. There is emotional turmoil underneath the studio production and many of the songs are unambiguous. While incorporating political themes. But Seriously does not abandon the theme of relationships, but unlike some of his earlier work, Collins takes a more mature and reflective approach when looking at the relationships in his life. Another Day in Paradise was released as the single and became the albums biggest international hit. It is a look at the plight of the homeless. The song was inspired by Collins visit to Washington, D. C, there, he was struck with the widespread poverty in which so many people live and the struggles that homeless people face. He was equally struck by the abandonment of these people and the complacency of the city as a whole, Another politically themed song on the album is Colours, which voices Collins condemnation of the segregation and oppression of black and coloured people in South Africa under apartheid. The political theme is evident in the second song on the album Thats Just the Way It Is. The album also features a dramatic, gospel-influenced track, I Wish It Would Rain Down, father to Son is a song in which Collins explores his connection with his own son, Simon. The song has a positive, inspirational tone as he seeks to guide his son some of the trials of life and love. In the UK and the US. But Seriously contained five Top 40 singles, in terms of the number of hit singles from one release. But Seriously remains the most successful album by Phil Collins. Another Day in Paradise reached No.1 I Wish It Would Rain Down reached No.3 Do You Remember. Reached No.4 Something Happened on the Way to Heaven reached No.4 Hang in Long Enough reached No.23 In Canada, Another Day in Paradise, I Wish It Would Rain Down, and Something Happened on the Way to Heaven all reached No
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Both Sides
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Both Sides is the fifth solo studio album by English singer-songwriter Phil Collins. Featuring an adult-oriented soft rock based sound, the release came out in November 1993 and it peaked at No.13 in Australia. A newly remastered, two-disc deluxe edition of the album was released on 29 January 2016, Both Sides was notable for the fact that Collins made it entirely on his own, without usual collaborators producer Hugh Padgham, guitarist Daryl Stuermer, bassist Leland Sklar and the Phenix Horns. After recording demos at home, the album was finished in just six weeks at the Farm with the help of producer/engineer Paul Gomersall, for the first and only time in his career, Collins played all the instruments himself as well as taking care of the primary production duties. In addition, Collins wrote sleeve notes explaining the meaning of each song, Collins claims this album to be his favorite. Both Sides is my album, from a songwriting and creative perspective. It was very much a solo album, I played everything, the songs just streamed out of me, and as a writer thats the kind of thing that you dream of, said Collins in 2016. It was also written in response to the failure of his marriage to second wife Jill Tavelman, personal relationships at that time were tangled, is a better way of saying it, and it all came very spontaneously, he said. As a result, it is seen as his most personal album, in the end I had 17 songs, and kicked out all those that did not fit that mood. As far as performance is concerned this has more heart and soul than anything I have done before, Collins expresses both his feelings and personal problems and addresses political issues over the course of the album. He touches on politics and the cloud of terrorism Britain seems to live under on We Wait and We Wonder. The overall sound of Both Sides marked a return to the dark and melancholy style of his early albums Face Value and Hello, which were largely grounded on the themes of relationship breakdown and loss. Mirroring the circumstances in which albums were conceived, Collins marriage to Jill Tavelman was also failing around the time that Both Sides was written. About the influence of his emotions on his songs he adds, very intimate, very private songs seem to flow easily. I suddenly felt I had a lot to say, Both Sides was met with lukewarm reviews, particularly on adult contemporary radio, being criticised for its over-reliance on slow, dark and downbeat songs. The album was preceded by the track as the first single, reaching No.7 in the UK. The album itself was released weeks later only reaching to No.13 in the U. S. though it went platinum there. Both Sides was a hit in other European countries such as the UK, Germany or Switzerland, reaching No.1 all over Europe, the ballad Everyday, released in early 1994, was another Top 20 hit in the UK, peaking at No
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Dance into the Light
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Dance into the Light is the sixth solo studio album by English singer-songwriter Phil Collins. It was originally released on 21 October 1996 on the label Atlantic and it features guest backing vocalists, including Arnold McCuller, and Amy Keys. It was the first album that Collins released as a solo artist. The album was received negatively by the majority of music critics and it was also a commercial disappointment, and despite hitting No. 23 on the Billboard 200, the album became Collins poorest selling album at the time. Dance into the Light was certified Gold in the U. S. selling 850,000 copies. The album was Collins first to not contain any American Top 40 hits, with the track only reaching No. Collins would not chart again with an American Top 40 single until 1999s Youll Be in My Heart. However, six singles were issued from Dance into the Light, Dance into the Light, Its in Your Eyes, No Matter Who, Wear My Hat, and The Same Moon. The former two singles were the singles to make the Top 40, in the UK. This album also marked the debut of the Vine Street Horns. After the disappointing sales of his album, Both Sides. Dance into the Light was the song from the album to appear on Collins. Hits collection. This was his last album of material released in vinyl format, side one comprising tracks 1–6. All CD versions of the feature the track listing on the back cover split into two sides with separate colours for each, similar to vinyl sides. The booklet also features a different colour scheme for each side of the album, reviewing for AllMusic, critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote of the album his polyrhythms are surprisingly stiff for a drummer, which sinks all of the more experimental tracks. The remainder of the album is pleasant, but offers no distinctive melodies, which means that the albums sounds fine while its on, but leaves nothing behind once its finished. And reviewing for the Entertainment Weekly, critic David Browne wrote of the album, Despite the sonic overhaul, all tracks written by Phil Collins, except where noted. Photography – Gered Mankowitz Michaela Odone – poem for Lorenzo Official Phil Collins website
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Going Back (album)
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Going Back is the eighth solo studio album by English singer-songwriter Phil Collins. It was released on 13 September 2010 in the United Kingdom and 28 September 2010 in the United States, and features covers of 60s Motown and Soul standards. It also was his first full release in eight years, Collins having primarily concentrated on soundtracks, compilations. It is also the album to be solely produced by Collins. Collins has previously recorded and performed covers of Motown songs in his career, most famously, his cover of You Cant Hurry Love reached number one on the UK charts in 1983. There are two editions of the album, one with 18 tracks and a limited Going Back Ultimate Edition 25-track CD/29-song DVD set, amazon. com also has an exclusive CD-R 25-track release. ITunes has an enhanced iTunes LP HD format release featuring 26 audio tracks, the album was promoted with a series of live shows in the summer of 2010. Collins indicated in interviews that Going Back would most likely be his project. This was confirmed in 2011, but 4 years later, in October 2015, a 2-disc reissue of the album entitled The Essential Going Back with an altered track list and live songs was released on 10 June 2016. Collins reported losing his hearing in his ear in 2000. He called it the First Final Farewell Tour, a reference to the multiple farewell tours of other popular artists. Since releasing his solo album Testify in 2002, Collins wrote the music for Brother Bear. He remarked in interviews during this time that he was in semi-retirement. Turn It On Again, The Tour with Genesis in 2007 included Collins on drums and vocals, in September 2009, it was reported that Collins could no longer play drums, due to a recent operation to repair dislocated vertebrae in his neck. However, a statement from Collins on the Genesis band website said, There isnt any drama regarding my disability, somehow, during the last Genesis tour, I dislocated some vertebrae in my upper neck and that affected my hands. After a successful operation on my neck, my hands still cant function normally, maybe in a year or so it will change, but for now it is impossible for me to play drums or piano. I am not in any distressed state, stuff happens in life, despite these statements of retirement and the effects from his spinal operation, it was reported in October 2009 that Collins was to record a Motown covers album. He told a German newspaper, I want the songs to sound exactly like the originals, and my intention was to make an old record, not a new record
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12"ers
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12ers is a compilation album by the English singer-songwriter Phil Collins, the lead vocalist and drummer for the rock band Genesis. The album contains six tracks from his 1985 hit album, No Jacket Required, remixed, all special extended remixes are by John Tokes Potoker, except for One More Night remixed by Hugh Padgham. The remixes on this album were released on various 12-inch LP singles which were taken from the album No Jacket Required. Dont Lose My Number, Take Me Home, Sussudio and One More Night were all released as 12 singles A-sides, only You Know and I Know was released as the B-side of the Separate Lives 12 single. Who Said I Would is exclusive to the CD edition of this compilation, reviewing retrospectively for AllMusic, critic Shawn M. Haney wrote of the album The album is a great way to reflect back on ones wondrous memories of 80s life. This will find the listener in the middle of a musical experience, especially for those who were. All tracks written by Phil Collins, except where noted, all tracks written by Phil Collins, except where noted. Phil Collins - lead and backing vocals, drums, keyboards Daryl Stuermer - guitars John Potoker - drum overdubs, backing vocals 12ers at Discogs
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Hits (Phil Collins album)
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Hits, released in 1998 and again in 2008, following the success of In the Air Tonight on the Cadbury ad campaign, is the first greatest hits album by English singer-songwriter Phil Collins. The collection included fourteen Top 40 hits, including seven American number 1 songs, One new Collins recording, a cover of Cyndi Laupers True Colors, also appeared on the collection and was a popular song on adult contemporary stations. Hits was also the first Phil Collins album to include four songs recorded for motion pictures as well as his popular duet with Philip Bailey. In 1998, the reached number 1 in the United Kingdom. On 4 August 2008, it became the number 1 album on the New Zealand RIANZ album chart. In July 2012, the album re-entered the U. S. charts and it has sold 3,429,000 in the US as of July 2012. There are other greatest hits compilations of Phil Collins songs, most recently, a collection of Collins more romantic songs were released on a two-disc compilation titled Love Songs, A Compilation. 1999s Turn It On Again, The Hits, 2005s Platinum Collection and 2014s R-Kive were greatest hits collections by Collins original group, Genesis. Finally, Collins recorded many of his most popular songs as big band recordings on the album A Hot Night in Paris with The Phil Collins Big Band, the compilations cover features stylized versions of the cover art for Collins first six albums, the collections primary sources of songs. Track 1 features David Crosby on backing vocals, track 2 features Babyface on backing vocals, keyboard and drum programming, and Sheila E on percussion. Track 3 features Philip Bailey on vocals, track 6 features Eric Clapton on guitar. Track 8 features Daryl Stuermer on guitar, track 9 features Marilyn Martin on vocals. Track 16 features Peter Gabriel, Sting, and Helen Terry on backing vocals, the original pressing of the album lists Another Day in Paradise with an incorrect running time of 6,22 and One More Night with a running time of 5,12. This is not the case for the Virgin pressing
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Love Songs: A Compilation... Old and New
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Old and New is a compilation album by English musician Phil Collins. The album was released by Atlantic Recording Corporation and Rhino Entertainment on 28 September 2004, the album was released only a few months after the box set The Platinum Collection, which appeared earlier in the year. The album was compiled of recordings released on albums as well as several previously unreleased songs, including a rehearsal take. The concept of Love Songs had existed since 2000, in that year, Collins and producer Rob Cavallo recorded the songs Cant Stop Loving You, Tears of a Clown and Least You Can Do for inclusion in the compilation. However, the album did not see release and the songs were remixed and included on the 2002 studio album, the songs on Love Songs were compiled by Geoff Callingham with the track listing being approved by Phil Collins. All songs written and composed by Phil Collins, except where indicated, disc one Tearing and Breaking –5,32 A previously unreleased new song, used as the radio promo single for the album. –4,36 From the album. But Seriously, one More Night –4,49 From the album No Jacket Required, and a #1 single in the U. S. in 1985. Against All Odds –3,28 From the Against All Odds Motion Picture Soundtrack, Cant Turn Back the Years –4,38 From the album Both Sides, only released as a promo single in 1994. A Groovy Kind of Love –3,29 From the Buster Soundtrack, everyday –5,42 From the album Both Sides, and a Top 20 hit in the UK in 1994. Dont Let Him Steal Your Heart Away –4,46 From the album Hello, I Must Be Going. please Come Out Tonight –5,47 From the album Both Sides. This Must Be Love –3,36 From the album Face Value and this version is an edited or sped up version. Its in Your Eyes –3,03 From the album Dance Into the Light, Cant Stop Loving You –4,18 From the album Testify, and released as a single in 2002. Disc two Testify –6,31 From the album Testify, youll Be in My Heart –4,17 From the Tarzan Soundtrack, and a Top 20 hit single in the UK in 1999. First time available on a Phil Collins album, if Leaving Me Is Easy –4,55 From the album Face Value, and a UK Top 20 hit single in 1981. Ive Been Trying –5,00 From the album A Tribute to Curtis Mayfield, first time available on a Phil Collins album. Ive Forgotten Everything –4,36 From the album Both Sides and this is a sped-up version of the original album version. Somewhere –4,01 From the album The Songs of West Side Story, first time available on a Phil Collins album. This is the shortened Radio version Edit of the original 5,37 album track, the Least You Can Do –5,22 From the album Testify, and released as a single in 2003
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Buster (soundtrack)
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Buster, The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack for the 1988 British film Buster. The album is essentially a collection of oldies, tucked in between two Phil Collins songs that were recorded for the film, in which he starred. Both were released as singles, and topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart, other new songs include Collins Big Noise and The Four Tops Loco in Acapulco, co-written by Collins. The soundtrack received at the Brit Awards in 1989 the award for British Soundtrack Album, two Hearts and A Groovy Kind of Love were not released on a solo Phil Collins album until 1998s. Hits, however, live versions appeared on his Serious Hits. † Five tracks are preceded by music performed by The London Film Orchestra. - Gerry and The Pacemakers † / I Just Dont Know What to Do with Myself - Dusty Springfield † / Sweets for My Sweet - The Searchers Will You Still Be Waiting. - Anne Dudley A Groovy Kind of Love - Phil Collins Note Keep on Running does not appear on the disc release for legal reasons
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Tarzan (musical)
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Tarzan is based on the Walt Disney Animation Studios film of the same name. The songs are written by Phil Collins with a book by David Henry Hwang, the musical mostly follows the plot of the Disney film, Tarzan is raised by gorillas, meets Jane, a young English naturalist, and falls in love. Janes entourage plans to kill the gorillas, and Tarzans loyalties are tested, the original Broadway production opened in 2006, directed and designed by Bob Crowley with choreography by Meryl Tankard. The production ran for 35 previews and 486 performances, subsequently, the show has been staged in several other countries and by regional theatres. A workshop was held in 2004, with Daniel Manche as the Child Tarzan, Matthew Morrison as the Adult Tarzan, Adam Pascal as Tarzan Storyteller and Laura Bell Bundy as Jane. Bob Crowley designed the sets and costumes and directed the original Broadway production, choreography was by Meryl Tankard, danton Burroughs, grandson of Edgar Rice Burroughs, attended the opening night party, as did Phil Collins. The production was nominated for a Tony award for Best Lighting Design of a Musical, due to poor ticket sales, the show closed on July 8,2007 after 35 previews and 486 performances. The musical follows the plot of the Disney film, with a few minor changes, Terk, who was a female in the film, is a male in the musical. The major character of Tantor the elephant is cut from the musical. Off of the West African coast, a young English couple and their newborn son barely survive a shipwreck and they construct a tree house for their son before being killed by a leopard. In the African Jungle, Kerchak, the leader of a tribe of gorillas admires his new infant son with his mate, the leopard suddenly appears and kidnaps the newborn baby gorilla. Kala goes off to find her son but finds the boy instead. She mothers him and raises him despite Kerchaks refusal to treat Tarzan as his son, Tarzan cannot keep up with the tribe and Kerchak views him as a threat. Tarzan is befriended by the lighthearted Terk, a gorilla who teaches him the ways of the gorillas. Kerchak finds Tarzan constructing a spear and he exiles him from the gorilla tribe, Kala worries for him and goes off to find him. She discovers him despairing by the waters edge, Kala tells him that even though they look different, underneath the skin, they are just the same. Years pass and the boy grows into a young man, athletic. Kala tries to convince Kerchak to accept Tarzan, Kerchak wont change his mind until Tarzan kills the leopard that has been terrorizing the tribe
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Serious Hits... Live!
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Live. is the name of Phil Collins 1990 live album with a CD as well as the DVD video recording of that concert. The songs on the CD version are taken from concerts during the Serious Hits. tour. It was recorded during The Seriously, Live, at the Brit Awards in 1992, the album brought Collins a nomination for British Male Artist. Instead of providing a live experience, they took the approach of putting a hits only selection for the album. The album has a stadium crowd feel quality that various other live albums from the early 1990s had. The live video and DVD version features one entire concert, on the final song of the album, Collins thanks the fans in Chicago. The DVD presents a personal look at his solo concert experience. Something Happened on the Way to Heaven –4,59 Against All Odds –3,28 Who Said I Would –4,28 One More Night –5,49 Dont Lose My Number –4,42 Do You Remember. Recording differs considerably from the version on the album No Jacket Required – having been re-arranged into a ballad style
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A Hot Night in Paris
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A Hot Night in Paris is the only album by The Phil Collins Big Band, released in 1999 by Atlantic Records. Fronted by Genesis lead singer Phil Collins, the album did not contain any singing, instead, the album consisted of big band renditions of primarily Collins and Genesis songs, with Collins remaining at the drums. The album did not chart on the Billboard 200, although it did reach #3 on the album chart. – cover design Sian Rance – illustration It was 1966 when I first heard the Buddy Rich Swinging New Big Band, all the other things I was listening to at the time had to move over and make room for this wonderful noise I had discovered. I went searching for more and discovered Count Basie with Sonny Payne, Harold Jones, then Duke Ellington and so many more. I decided that, one day, Id have to have a go myself, thirty years later I did it. In 1996 I toured Europe with Quincy Jones conducting and Tony Bennett as our guest vocalist, having dived in, I couldnt wait to do it again. In 1998 I took the band out again and toured the USA and we recorded some shows and the result is here to listen to. For me its a labour of love, Im back where I belong, behind the drums, playing music Im proud of with some wonderful musicians. I hope it moves you as it does me, if it does, come and see us sometime. Luv Phil Collins AllMusic Q The Official Phil Collins Website
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The No Jacket Required World Tour
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The No Jacket Required World Tour was a concert tour by the English singer-songwriter Phil Collins, which occurred February–July 1985 in support of his 1985 album, No Jacket Required. For the latter, Sting played guitar and sang backing vocals, 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 did a video for Dont Lose My Number which was shot in various locations in Australia and was a parody of music video directors pitching famous or cliché ideas to him. It won a Billboard Video Award n 1987, a television special, also directed by Jim Yukich and produced by Paul Flattery, was recorded at Reunion Arena in Dallas on May 29,1985 and aired on HBO entitled No Jacket Required. The broadcast was released as a VHS in 1985 with extended footage and it won an ACE AWARD for best TV Music special in 1986. Another television special was recorded for Cinemax for a show entitled Album Flash, taped in London and it was featured on the Finally. First Farewell Tour 2004 DVD filmed in Paris, Long Long Way To Go 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 Geldofs first charity effort, Collins provided drums and sang backing vocals for Band Aids 1984 No.1 UK hit, Do They Know Its 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, at the concert he began by playing drums on Layla, White Room and Shes Waiting for friend Eric Clapton. Collins performed Against All Odds and In the Air Tonight and finished the night playing drums for Led Zeppelins aforementioned act, for the tour, Collins retained his usual cast of musicians, including Chester Thompson, Leland Sklar and Daryl Stuermer. The band was nicknamed the Hot Tub Club
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Seriously, Live! World Tour
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World Tour was a concert tour by the English singer-songwriter Phil Collins, which took place between February 1990 and October 1990, in support of his 1989 album. But Seriously. The success of the album and subsequent tour maintained Collins worldwide popularity as a solo performer, throughout the tour, live performances of Collins songs were recorded for the live album, Serious Hits. The concert in Berlin on 15 July 1990 was filmed and later released on VHS, Betamax, a pay-per view television special was recorded on the final night in Madison Square Garden in New York City. Hand in Hand Hang in Long Enough Against All Odds † Dont Lose My Number Inside Out Do You Remember, brad Cole took over on the keyboards while a trio of backing vocalists joined touring band. During the tour the band was nicknamed The Serious Guys, the Seriousettes and the Phenix Horns
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Both Sides of the World Tour
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Despite the lukewarm reception the album received upon its release, the tour was a huge success, regularly selling out venues across the world. The tour lasted 13 months, which was the longest time Phil Collins has performed on the road, solo, as part of Genesis or his involvement with Brand X and Flaming Youth. It was also the first time Collins played a tour singing without Chester Thompson on drums since Genesis A Trick of the Tail Tour in 1976. The setlist for the tour was separated into two parts, the first part, Black & White, consisted of songs from the Both Sides album, and other dark, personal songs. The second part, Colours, had the more upbeat songs Collins wrote during the 1980s. It was thought after the final London dates in December 1994 the tour was over, however, Collins decided to continue after taking a break. The final leg of the tour, named The Far Side of the World resumed on 17 March in Johannesburg which was one of several cities Collins performed in for the first time, the tour eventually concluded in Fukuoka on 17 May 1995. The concert in Fukuoka, Japan on 7 May 1995 was recorded and released as a bootleg DVD in 2008, a fly-on-the-wall-style documentary, mostly filmed on camcorder, titled A Closer Look was also released and sold at concerts. The proceeds from this went to charities that helped the homeless
