PHIL COLLINS / STING / PETER GABRIEL Platinum Disc x2

	£		122
	$		162

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS THE REAL THING AND NOT JUST SOMETHING THAT SOMEONE HAS COBBLED TOGETHER!!! - THE REASON IT HAS TURNED UP IN STROUD IN SLEEPY GLOUCESTERSHIRE AMONGST THE HILLS AND THE SHEEP IS THAT THAT IS WHERE HUGH PADGHAM HAS TURNED UP AS WELL - GOOGLE HIM & SEE WHAT AN AMAZING ARRAY OF TALENTED ARTISTS HE HAS WORKED WITH!!!

PHIL COLLINS

No Jacket Required

Sting & Peter Gabriel Guest Artists

Warner-Pioneer Japan 2xPlatinum Disc awarded to Hugh Padgham - the co-Producer of the album with Phil Collins.

This unique award is presented in a mahogany stained solid oak frame which can either be hung on a wall or stood up on an hinged support. It contains 2xPlatinum copies of the Japanese vinyl pressing of the album "No Jacket Required" - with the label no P13077 and matrix number "P-13077-1" TO on the visible side.

There is also an engraved metal plaque - (see photo) and a miniature version of the original  album artwork.

These items are fixed to a layer of blue velveteen cloth which is itself layed on a further wooden board. The frame has a fitted glass front. 

SOME STUFF ABOUT THE ALBUM

No Jacket Required is an album by Phil Collins, released in 1985. It was his third solo record. He was 33 years old when he released the album.

No Jacket Required, a much more commercially pop-oriented record than the dark cynicism of his two previous albums, Face Value and Hello, I Must Be Going! with none of the political statements which would appear in the forthcoming ...But Seriously, won Album of the Year at the Grammy Awards of 1990. In terms of emotion, it is certainly among the happiest of Phil Collins' efforts. As a result, much of the album is up-tempo. Some notable exceptions are "Long, Long Way To Go" and the mega selling ballad "One More Night".

There are two guest appearances on the album, firstly Sting on "Long Long Way To Go" and Collins' ex-Genesis bandmate Peter Gabriel (and Sting) on "Take Me Home".

No Jacket Required featured two American number one songs, "Sussudio" and "One More Night". It also contained the top 10 hits "Don't Lose My Number" (#4) and "Take Me Home" (#7). Released around the same time of the album but not part of No Jacket Required was another American number one, "Separate Lives", which appeared on the soundtrack to White Nights.

No Jacket Required remains Phil Collins' highest selling album, having been certified Diamond for US sales of over 10 million copies. Twenty years after its release, No Jacket Required remains among the 50 highest selling albums in the United States.

The album name came after Collins was refused entry at a Chicago restaurant because he was under the dress code.

The album won the Grammy Award for Album Of The Year in 1986.

SOME STUFF ABOUT THE RECIPIENT

Hugh Padgham is a record producer and audio engineer. Although he makes no claims to having any musical talent, he has become one of the world's most successful and influential producers. He has won a string of awards for his production and a 1992 poll in Mix magazine voted him one of the world's Top Ten Most Influential Producers.

Padgham started out as a tape-operator at Advision Studios, working in recording sessions for Yes and Emerson, Lake and Palmer. From there he went to Landsowne Studios and moved from tape-operator/assistant engineer to head engineer. In 1978, Padgham got a job at The Townhouse, where he engineered and/or produced acts including XTC, Peter Gabriel, and Phil Collins.

Padgham is credited with creating the 'gated' drum sound used so prominently on Phil Collins' single In The Air Tonight, and which became the template for much of the of recorded pop drum sound of the 1980s. The effect is believed to have first been used on the 1980 third self-titled solo album by Peter Gabriel, which Padgham engineered and on which Collins played. At this time, Padgham was working regularly as the recording engineer for noted UK producer Steve Lillywhite, and they collaborated on many well-known albums and singles in the early 1980s.

Padgham's 'gated drum' effect is created by adding a large amount of heavily compressed room ambience to the original drum sound, and then feeding that reverb signal through an electronic device known as a noise gate. This unit can be programmed to cut off any signal fed through it, either after a specified time interval (in this case, some tens of milliseconds), or when the incoming signal falls below a preset volume threshold. The result is the arresting 'gated reverb' effect, in which the reverberation cuts off abruptly, rather than fading away.

Padgham's previous work with Gabriel and Collins led to a long and enormously successful collaboration with Genesis in the 1980s, which produced a string of hit albums and singles including Genesis and Invisible Touch.

SOME STUFF ABOUT CONDITION

There are some minor faults with this item. There is some light scratching and bumping of the frame. The label is a bit "bobbly" - see photo.

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