Artist: PHIL COLLINS
Album: FACE VALUE (CD)

Year: 1981
Media type: CD

Face Value is the title of Phil Collins' debut solo album, released in February 1981. The album includes one of Collins' biggest, and perhaps most enduring hits, "In the Air Tonight". The album itself reached #1 in the UK, Canada, and many European countries, also meeting the U.S. Top 10.

Like the album that followed, Hello, I Must Be Going!, most of the songs on Face Value are based on the pain and anger Collins felt while he was going through his divorce.

Other singles didn't have the same chart success as "In the Air Tonight", they were: "I Missed Again", which reached No. 14 in the UK and No. 19 in the USA. Also "If Leaving Me Is Easy" was released as a single, reaching No. 17 in the UK, but was never released as a single in the USA.

This is the only Phil Collins album to include a hidden track.

One of the songs not included on this album, was a track titled "How can you just sit there?", which was the working title for the song that later became, "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)". Phil had stated in an interview in 1985 that the reason why the song was left off the album was that he felt the album had "too many ballads".

All tracks written by Phil Collins except as indicated.

TRACKLIST:

1."In the Air Tonight" 5:32
Phil Collins: Roland Drum Machine, vocals, drums, Prophet, Fender Rhodes, Vocoder
John Giblin: Bass
Daryl Stuermer: guitars
Shankar: Violins

2."This Must Be Love" 3:55
PC: Percussion, Vocal, Prophet, Fender
Stephen Bishop: Backing Vocals
Alphonso Johnson: Bass
Daryl: Guitar

3."Behind the Lines" 3:53 (Tony Banks, Phil Collins, Mike Rutherford)
PC: Vocals, Drums
Alphonso Johnson: Bass
Daryl: Guitar
Don Myrick: Tenor saxophone
Louis Satterfield: Trombone
Rahmlee Michael Davis and Michael Harris: Trumpets
J. Peter Robinson: Prophet

4.The Roof Is Leaking 3:16
PC: Piano, Vocals
Daryl: Banjo
Eric Clapton: Slide Guitar

5."Droned" 2:55
PC: Piano, Prophet, Congas, Voice, Claps
Shankar: Violins, Tamboura, "Voice Drums"
Daryl: 12-String Guitar

6."Hand In Hand" 5:12
PC: Roland D.M, Prophet, Piano, Drums, Marimba, Voice, Vocoder
Alphonso Johnson: Bass
Daryl: Guitar
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Don Myrick: Tenor
Louis Satterfield: Trombone
Rahmlee and Michael: Trumpets

7."I Missed Again" 3:41
PC: Piano, Vocals, Drums, Prophet
Alphonso Johnson: Bass
Daryl: Guitar
Don Myrick: Tenor
Louis Satterfield: Trumbone
Rahmlee and Michael: Trumpets
Ronnie Scott: Tenor Solo
Shankar: Violins

8."You Know What I Mean" 2:33
PC: Vocals, Piano
String arrangement: Arif Mardin

9."Thunder and Lightning" 4:12
PC: Piano, Fender Rhodes, Drums, Vocals, Claps
John Giblin: Bass
Daryl: Guitar
Don Myrick: Tenor
Louis Satterfield: Trombone
Rahmlee and Michael: Trumpets

10."I'm Not Moving" 2:33
PC: Piano, Drums, Vocals, Prophet, Vocoder, Percussion
John Giblin: Bass

11."If Leaving Me Is Easy" 4:54
PC: Fender Rhodes, Drums, Vocals, Prophet
Alphonso Johnson: Bass
Eric Clapton: Guitar
Daryl: Guitar
Don Myrick: Alto Sax
Rahmlee and Michael: Flugelhorns
String arrangement: Arif Mardin

12."Tomorrow Never Knows" 4:46 (John Lennon, Paul McCartney)
PC: Vocals, Roland D.M, Drums, Prophets
John Giblin: Bass