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Artist: Phil Collins

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• Personnel includes: Phil Collins, Eric Clapton, Stephen Bishop, Shankar, Daryl Steurmer, Earth Wind & Fire Horns.
  
• Personnel includes: Phil Collins (vocals, drums); Daryl Steurmer, Stephen Bishop, Shankar.
  
• Atlantic's Gold Standard Audiophile Compact Discs are gold-plated CDs that boast 20-bit digital reproduction technology for improved dynamics. Each reissue comes in a mini-box that includes the CD jewel box plus a 24-page color booklet featuring new liner notes, photographs and the complete original album artwork.
  
• FACE VALUE contains videos, live performances and home movies principally centered on the making of the 1981 album of the same name.
  
• The risk that Phil Collins took in displaying painful lyrics at an obviously harrowing time could have been taken as self-indulgence, but 18 years on this album is still seen as his best and most assured. The Genesis drummer displayed dynamic arrangements ('In The Air Tonight'), melancholy piano ('You Know What I Mean') and Philadelphia soul ('I Missed Again'), and wrapped up with a cover of 'Tomorrow Never Knows' at which even John Lennon would have tipped his hat. After this album Collins embarked on an extraordinarily busy career that included a rejuvenated Genesis, film roles and huge solo success. This will always be the album closest to his heart, with the paint pot on the piano.
  

Q (11/96, p.64) - 3 Stars - Good - "...He never bettered the monumental 'In The Air Tonight'..."

CMJ (1/5/04, p.8) - Ranked #3 in CMJ's "Top 20 Most-Played Albums of 1981".

CMJ (1/5/04, p.8) - Ranked #3 in CMJ's "Top 20 Most-Played Albums of 1981".

Country:	USA
Studio/Live:	Mixed
Release Date:	1 January, 1984
Guest Artist:	Eric Clapton; Earth, Wind and Fire Horns; Daryl Stuermer