Philip Bailey - Chinese Wall (1984) [Reissue 2017]

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Artist: Philip Bailey
Title: Chinese Wall
Year Of Release: 1984/2017
Label: Music On CD / Sony Music [MOCCD13402]
Genre: Soul, Funk, Pop, R&B
Quality: 320 kbps / FLAC (tracks+cue, log, scans)
Total Time: 50:31
Total Size: 212 mb / 404 mb
WebSite: Album Preview

At the time Philip Bailey persuaded Phil Collins to produce his second solo album, Chinese Wall, Collins was among the hottest pop stars in the world. The advantage to that, of course, is the exposure it affords, and after the merely modest success of his debut solo album, Continuation, Bailey needed the reflected glory. On the other band, it's hard to shine yourself in such a glare, and although Bailey's name was on the gold-selling hit single "Easy Lover," a duet with Collins that helped the album take off, it's Collins' singing and drumming that one remembers. Elsewhere, tunes like "Photogenic Memory" and "Walking On The Chinese Wall" better represent Bailey's ability to handle a variety of material from ballads to techno dance tracks with his elastic falsetto. Still, Chinese Wall was a gold-selling standoff that made Bailey a solo hitmaker without really establishing him on his own.

:: TRACKLIST ::

01.Photogenic Memory (5:26)
02.I Go Crazy (4:49)
03.Walking On The Chinese Wall (5:08)
04.For Every Heart That's Been Broken (4:16)
05.Go (4:30)
06.Easy Lover (5:05)
Vocals [Duet] - Phil Collins
07.Show You The Way To Love (4:43)
08.Time Is A Woman (4:32)
09.Woman (5:05)
10.Children Of The Ghetto (6:49)

Musicians:
Philip Bailey – lead and backing vocals, percussion (10)
Daryl Stuermer – guitar (1-10), guitar solo (4, 6)
Nathan East – bass guitar, bass pedals (4), kalimba (4), keyboards (5)
Lesette Wilson – keyboards, acoustic piano solo (10)
George Massenburg – synthesizer programming
Godfrey Wang – synthesizer programming
Phil Collins – drums (1-9), vocoder (1), LinnDrum (1, 3, 5), Simmons (2, 8, 9), keyboards (3, 6), backing vocals (3, 6, 8), lead vocals (6), percussion (10)
Paulinho da Costa – percussion (7, 10)
Josie James – backing vocals (3, 4, 8)
Carl Carwell – backing vocals (7, 10)
Winston Ford – backing vocals (7, 10)
Nigel Martinez – backing vocals (8)
The Phenix Horns – horns (3, 5, 7, 8, 9)
Don Myrick – saxophone (3, 5, 7, 8, 9), sax solo (5)
Michael Harris – trumpet (3, 5, 7, 8, 9), trumpet solo (9)
Rahmlee Michael Davis – trumpet (3, 5, 7, 8, 9)
Louis Satterfield – trombone (3, 5, 7, 8, 9)
Tom-Tom 84 – horn arrangements (3, 5, 7, 8, 9)
Arif Mardin – string arrangements (5, 7, 9)

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