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The Singles - Phil Collins /‎ Atlantic 2x ‎Audio CD 2016 / 81227945930

Name: The Singles - Phil Collins /‎ Atlantic 2x ‎Audio CD 2016 / 81227945930
SKU: 081227945930
Price: 65.99 USD
Availability: InStock

UPC 081227945930

Product Details:

Label: Atlantic ‎– 81227945930

Format: 2 × CD, Compilation

Country: Europe

Released: 11 Nov 2016

Genre: Rock, Pop

Style: Pop Rock, Ballad

Description:

The Singles is a compilation album by English drummer Phil Collins. It was released on 14 October 2016 through Atlantic Records and Warner Music.^[2] The album is Collins' third career-spanning collection—after ...Hits (1998) and Love Songs: A Compilation... Old and New (2004)—and came at the end of his Take a Look at Me Now series, which saw him remaster and reissue his entire back catalogue dating back to 1981's Face Value.^[3]^[4] The compilation is made up of most of the hit singles from Collins' solo career, as well as lesser known singles. The album was released in two versions, a standard 2-CD edition and a deluxe 3-CD edition.

Editorial Review:

Phil Collins certainly has enough hits to fill out a double-disc compilation -- in the U.K. he had 25 Top 40 singles and he reached the Billboard Top 40 21 times in the U.S., with many of them overlapping -- but the 2016 set The Singles doesn't march through these hits in chronological order. Opening with "Easy Lover," his 1985 duet with Earth, Wind & Fire's Philip Bailey, this 33-track compilation happily hopscotches through the years. Such non-chronological sequencing does mean certain hits are saved for the greatest emotional impact -- naturally, "Take Me Home" closes out the proceedings -- but it also focuses attention on songs that weren't blockbusters, whether it's such meditative turn-of-the-'90s adult contemporary hits as "That's Just the Way It Is" or the brooding early single "Thru These Walls." Ultimately, this forced perspective is why The Singles is something more than just a collection of big hits: it helps illustrate that Collins' solo catalog ran deeper than "In the Air Tonight," "You Can't Hurry Love," "Sussudio," "One More Night," "Against All Odds," and "Another Day in Paradise." ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Tracklist:

1-1	Easy Lover Written-By – Nathan East, Phil CollinsWritten-By, Vocals [Duet] – Philip Bailey	5:03
1-2	Two Hearts Written-By – Lamont Dozier, Phil Collins	3:24
1-3	Sussudio	4:23
1-4	I Missed Again	3:44
1-5	Wear My Hat	4:42
1-6	Don't Lose My Number	4:48
1-7	You Can't Hurry Love Written-By – Holland-Dozier-Holland	2:54
1-8	Something Happened On The Way To Heaven Written-By – Daryl Stuermer, Phil Collins	4:51
1-9	We Wait And We Wonder	7:00
1-10	Can't Stop Loving You Written-By – Billy Nicholls	4:16
1-11	Dance Into The Light	4:23
1-12	It's In Your Eyes	3:04
1-13	Hang In Long Enough	4:44
1-14	Thru These Walls	5:04
1-15	I Wish It Would Rain Down	5:28
1-16	Both Sides Of The Story	6:42
1-17	(Love Is Like A) Heatwave Written-By – Holland-Dozier-Holland	2:52
2-1	Going Back Written-By – Carole King, Gerry Goffin	4:38
2-2	In The Air Tonight	5:35
2-3	Against All Odds	3:26
2-4	If Leaving Me Is Easy	4:56
2-5	One More Night	4:48
2-6	Separate Lives Written-By – Stephen Bishop	4:08
2-7	A Groovy Kind Of Love Written-By – Carole Bayer, Toni Wine	3:30
2-8	That's Just The Way It Is	5:20
2-9	Do You Remember?	4:36
2-10	Everyday	5:43
2-11	True Colors Written-By – Billy Steinberg, Tom Kelly	4:34
2-12	You'll Be In My Heart	4:17
2-13	The Least You Can Do Written-By – Daryl Stuermer, Phil Collins	4:22
2-14	Look Through My Eyes	4:00
2-15	Another Day In Paradise	5:23
2-16	Take Me Home Backing Vocals [Uncredited] – Sting	5:53

About the Artist:

Philip David Charles Collins LVO (born 30 January 1951) is an English drummer, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, and actor, best known as the drummer/singer of the rock band Genesis and for his solo career. Between 1982 and 1990, Collins scored three UK and seven US number-one singles in his solo career. When his work with Genesis, his work with other artists, as well as his solo career is totalled, he had more US Top 40 singles than any other artist during the 1980s. His most successful singles from the period include "In the Air Tonight", "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)", "One More Night", "Sussudio", "Two Hearts", "A Groovy Kind of Love" (featured in the film Buster), "I Wish It Would Rain Down" and "Another Day in Paradise".

Born and raised in west London, Collins played drums from the age of five and completed drama school training, which secured him various roles as a child actor. 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 began a solo career in the 1980s, initially inspired by his marital breakdown and love of soul music, releasing a series of successful albums, including Face Value (1981), No Jacket Required (1985), and ...But Seriously (1989). Collins became "one of the most successful pop and adult contemporary singers of the '80s and beyond". He also became known for a distinctive gated reverb drum sound on many of his recordings. In 1996, Collins left Genesis to focus on solo work; this included writing songs for Disney’s Tarzan (1999) for which he received an Oscar for Best Original Song for “You'll Be in My Heart”. He rejoined Genesis for their Turn It On Again Tour in 2007. Following a five-year retirement to focus on his family life, Collins released an autobiography in 2016 and completed his Not Dead Yet Tour in 2019.

Collins's discography includes eight studio albums that have sold 33.5 million certified units in the US and an estimated 150 million worldwide, making him one of the world's best-selling artists. He is one of only three recording artists, along with Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson, who have sold over 100 million records worldwide both as solo artists and separately as principal members of a band. He has received eight Grammy Awards, six Brit Awards (winning Best British Male Artist three times), two Golden Globe Awards, one Academy Award, and a Disney Legend Award. He was awarded six Ivor Novello Awards from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors, including the International Achievement Award. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1999, and was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2003 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Genesis in 2010. He has also been recognised by music publications with induction into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 2012, and the Classic Drummer Hall of Fame in 2013.

More Details:

Artwork – Darren Evans (2)
Photography By – Alastair Thain, Allan Ballard, John Stoddart (2), Patrick Balls
Remastered By – Miles Showell, Nick Davis
Written-By – Phil Collins

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