Phil Collins - Face Value (2016) [Hi-Res]

Phil Collins revisits a career that can boast over 100 million sales and numerous worldwide #1 albums with the new HighResAudio retrospective reissue campaign of which various of his albums will be issued as high-resolution remastered editions.

Entirely curated and compiled by Collins himself, his idea for the concept is to examine how his songs have evolved over time, with the majority of the additional content throughout the series focused on live versions of the tracks. By contrasting the original studio versions of the material with later performances, the series demonstrates how Collins' songs take on a life of their own once they're freed from the confines of the studio.

Phil Collins has won seven Grammy Awards, an Academy Award, and two Golden Globes for his solo work. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Genesis in 2010. Collins is one of only three recording artists who have sold over 100 million albums worldwide both as solo artists and as a principal member of a band.

Collins had spent ten years with Genesis before releasing his debut solo album in 1981. Face Value shot straight to #7 in the US and transformed him to a solo star. The international best selling album includes one of his biggest and most enduring hits, the masterfully executed, 'In the Air Tonight,' as well as other US or UK charted singles, 'I Missed Again' and 'If Leaving Me Is Easy.' He wrote ten of the album's twelve tracks.

He brought much experience to the studio, collaborating with excellent musicians creating fresh, brilliant sounds. Eric Clapton, Genesis touring guitarist/bass player Daryl Steurmer, the Earth Wind and Fire horn section and famed British sax player Ronnie Scott giving a Motown feel.

Collins saw the potential to fuse synth-pop, soul, soft rock and world music at the same time, and still with enough weight to maintain a sense of balance to the musicality. Hugh Pagham engineered the album with Collins.

The production of this album, by Collins and assisted by Hugh Padgham, is masterful and supremely tasteful.

This is the only Phil Collins album to include a hidden track, a 20 second snippet of 'Over The Rainbow' can be heard, though the volume is very low, at the tail end of the Beatles' 'Tomorrow Never Knows' as a tribute to John Lennon, who died in the same time period that the album was being completed.

Digitally remastered in 2015