Face Value
Studio album by Phil Collins
Released	February 1981
Recorded	August 1980 to January, 1981
Genre	Soft Rock
Length	47:22
Label	Virgin Records (UK) Atlantic Records (US)
Producer(s)	Phil Collins & Hugh Padgham
Professional reviews
All Music Guide Review
Phil Collins chronology
- -	Face Value (1981)	Hello, I Must Be Going! (1982)

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Face Value was also the first time that Phil Collins had creative control over an album. Before this when he was with Genesis, Phil had to make decisions with the band. Philip David Charles Collins (born January 30, 1951 in Chiswick, London) is an English rock and pop musician. ... Genesis is a Grammy Award winning English progressive rock band formed in 1967. ...

Like the following album, 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. Hello, I Must Be Going! is an album by Phil Collins, released in 1982 (1982 in music). ...

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. I Missed Again is a song from the Phil Collins album, Face Value. This song is the seventh song on the CD and the first song on the second side on the record. ... If Leaving Me Is Easy, is a song by Phil Collins from his 1981 album Face Value. Its also the final song from the album to become a single, reaching #17 in the UK, but was never relesed as a single in the United States. ...

Miscellanea

• This is the only album that has Collins' face in just black and white.
• This is the only Phil Collins album to have a hidden track on it.
• This is the album with the most covers on it (2), Cover versions on Face Value are: "Behind the Lines" and "Tomorrow Never Knows", not including the brief hidden track of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow". The remake of "Behind the Lines" came to pass during the sessions for the Genesis album Duke as the band played the song back at a fast speed and the track resembled a disco number and Phil recorded it as a disco-ish song complete with the Earth, Wind and Fire horn section.
• This is the only time that Phil Collins ever has a theme of 1970s music in his songs including Behind the Lines, I Missed Again, and I'm Not Moving

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Hidden Track info

At the end of the song Tomorrow Never Knows which is the last track of the album, if one turns up the volume to a mid-high level, Collins can be heard singing Somewhere over the Rainbow, with an echo, clearly revealing the hidden clip was made in-studio. The hidden secret starts at 4:14 and ends at 4:43. The total track is 4:46. Tomorrow Never Knows is the final track of The Beatles 1966 studio album Revolver, but it was the first to be recorded for the album. ...

Track listing

1. "In the Air Tonight"
2. "This Must Be Love"
3. "Behind the Lines"
4. "The Roof is Leaking"
5. "Droned"
6. "Hand in Hand"
7. "I Missed Again"
8. "You Know What I Mean"
9. "Thunder and Lightning"
10. "I'm Not Moving"
11. "If Leaving Me Is Easy"
12. "Tomorrow Never Knows"
13. "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" (unlisted)

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