{"id":550319,"date":"2026-07-20T09:38:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T09:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/550319\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T09:38:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T09:38:27","slug":"about-face-phil-collins-debut-expanded-on-vinyl-remixed-for-blu-ray-for-45th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/550319\/","title":{"rendered":"About ‘Face’: Phil Collins’ Debut Expanded on Vinyl, Remixed for Blu-ray for 45th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Did he miss again? Hardly. To celebrate the 45th anniversary of his debut album, Phil Collins will release a new deluxe vinyl version of 1981\u2019s Face Value featuring all the material from the original 2016 deluxe edition<\/a> and more \u2013 including some long unavailable and previously unreleased material.<\/p>\n

Available September 18 and following the example of similar box sets for\u00a0No Jacket Required<\/a>\u00a0(1985) and\u00a0Both Sides <\/a>(1993),\u00a0Face Value (Full Value)\u00a0offers a half-speed pressing of the original album\u2019s 2015 remaster cut by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios, plus three additional LPs including the 12 live tracks and demo recordings from the \u201cExtra Values\u201d live disc issued as part of a reissue campaign on CD a decade ago \u2013 plus another 13 cuts that\u00a0weren\u2019t on that deluxe set. Those baker\u2019s dozen include additional demos, remixes, live cuts and even outtake versions of the album\u2019s closing covers of The Beatles\u2019 \u201cTomorrow Never Knows\u201d and \u201cOver the Rainbow.\u201d By our count, four of the tracks are being released for the first time anywhere, with several others \u2013 including a 1982 performance at the charity gig The Secret Policeman\u2019s Other Ball and a pair of demos released digitally as part of Collins\u2019 fan club \u2013 coming back into physical print for the first time in years. The LPs, packaged in their own individual sleeves inside a hard slipcover box featuring the original album art in a blue hue, will be further accompanied by a 20-page booklet featuring liner notes by Tom Doyle, who sat with Collins for a new interview featured in the package.<\/p>\n

As with\u00a0No Jacket, a new Blu-ray Audio disc will be released the same day, featuring the original album in its original stereo mix, alongside new stereo, 5.1 surround and Dolby Atmos mixes prepared by acclaimed engineer Steven Wilson. If the release plan for Face Value\u00a0is similar, the stereo mixes and material not previously included in the 2016 reissue will be available digitally over time. (As such, an unreleased 1982 live performance of album cut \u201cYou Know What I Mean\u201d is now available to stream or download.)<\/p>\n

When\u00a0Face Value\u00a0arrived in 1981, Collins was already a prolific figure in British music. A former child actor, he joined progressive rock group Genesis as its drummer in 1970 and, following the 1975 departure of original vocalist Peter Gabriel, made an unlikely transition to fronting the band as well as playing percussion; during this time, the group\u2019s sound changed from full prog to elements of mainstream rock and pop. By 1980, Genesis scored their first chart-topping album in the U.K.,\u00a0Duke, which also peaked at No. 11 in America; Collins had also branched out into other studio work, drumming with fusion group Brand X as well as solo albums by John Martyn and former bandmate Gabriel.<\/p>\n

But all was hardly well for the hardworking musician. In 1980, his five-year marriage to Andrea Bertorelli ended in divorce, a move which gutted him and influenced a batch of raw solo demos he\u2019d assemble away from Genesis. Working with producer Hugh Padgham, who engineered Gabriel\u2019s third solo album in 1980 and pioneered a new \u201cgated reverb\u201d drum sound for Collins, Face Value built on those solo demos with overdubs from the likes of guitarists Darryl Stuermer (who\u2019d become Phil\u2019s right hand on tour and a live member of Genesis after guitarist Steve Hackett departed) and Eric Clapton, violinist L. Shankar and \u2013 perhaps most notably \u2013 Earth, Wind & Fire\u2019s Phenix Horns trio, a mainstay of Collins and Genesis\u2019 sound in the \u201980s.<\/p>\n

Kicked off by the five-and-a-half-minute epic \u201cIn the Air Tonight\u201d \u2013 a raw portrait of Collins\u2019 post-divorce psyche that was misinterpreted to literally be about Phil exposing a man who didn\u2019t stop another from drowning \u2013\u00a0Face Value established Phil Collins as a new star for a new decade. The album topped the U.K. charts and peaked in the Top 10 in America, with \u201cIn the Air Tonight\u201d reaching U.K. No. 2 and \u201cI Missed Again\u201d hitting the Top 20 on both sides of the Atlantic. Collins would balance an increasingly mainstream solo presence and leadership of Genesis through the \u201980s and early \u201990s, becoming one of the most oddly ubiquitous pop stars on the planet by 1985. Largely removed from the hype,\u00a0Face Value remains a powerful, emotional statement from a male singer with resonance for decades, from the iconic \u201cIn the Air\u201d drum break to the album\u2019s influence on fellow divorcee Anni-Frid Lyngstad of ABBA, who recruited Collins to produce her 1982 masterpiece\u00a0Something\u2019s Going On, issued under the name Frida.<\/p>\n

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While Collins hasn\u2019t issued any original solo material since 2003, nor solo records since a 2010 Motown covers project, he remains perhaps more respected now than he ever was in his heyday. He returned to Genesis for reunion tours in 2007 and 2021-2022, though the latter featured his son Nic on drums, as a lifetime of heavy-duty performance and nerve damage has rendered him with limited mobility. (Indeed, in a career-spanning BBC interview earlier this year<\/a>, the 75-year-old Collins admitted he was receiving around-the-clock care for his health issues.) But that influence continues to loom: this fall, he\u2019ll be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist<\/a>, having entered with Genesis in 2010.<\/p>\n

Details for\u00a0Face Value (Full Value)\u00a0can be accessed below, along with pre-order links for both the box set and the Blu-ray. (As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases.)<\/p>\n

Face Value (Full Value)\u00a0(Atlantic\/Rhino, 2026)<\/p>\n

4LP: Amazon U.S.<\/a> \/ Amazon U.K.<\/a> \/ Amazon Canada<\/a>
BD: Amazon U.S.<\/a> \/ Amazon U.K.<\/a> \/ Amazon Canada<\/a><\/p>\n

LP 1: Original album (2015 remaster)\u00a0(released as Virgin V2185 (U.K.)\/Atlantic SD 16029 (U.S.), 1981)<\/p>\n

Side A<\/p>\n

In the Air Tonight
\nThis Must Be Love
\nBehind the Lines
\nThe Roof is Leaking
\nDroned
\nHand in Hand<\/p>\n

Side B<\/p>\n

I Missed Again
\nYou Know What I Mean
\nThunder and Lightning
\nI\u2019m Not Moving
\nIf Leaving Me is Easy
\nTomorrow Never Knows<\/p>\n

LP 2 (live tracks previously released on\u00a0Face Value (Deluxe Edition) \u2013 Atlantic\/Warner Music PCCD 81 (U.K.)\/R2 550171 (U.S.), 2016)<\/p>\n

Side C<\/p>\n

Misunderstanding (Live @ Staples Center, Los Angeles, CA \u2013 8\/31\/2004)
\nIf Leaving Me is Easy (Live @ Berkeley Community Theatre, San Francisco, CA \u2013 12\/16\/1982)
\nIn the Air Tonight (Live @ Palais Omnisports de Bercy, Paris, France \u2013 12\/9\/1997)
\nBehind the Lines (Live @ Reunion Arena, Dallas, TX \u2013 5\/29\/1985)<\/p>\n

Side D<\/p>\n

Hand in Hand (Live @ Palais Omnisports de Bercy, Paris, France \u2013 12\/9\/1997)
\nI Missed Again (Live @ Palais Omnisports de Bercy, Paris, France \u2013 6\/15\/2004)
\n\u2026And So to F\u2026 (Live @ Perkins Palace, Pasadena, CA \u2013 12\/19\/1982)<\/p>\n

LP 3<\/p>\n

Side E<\/p>\n

In the Air Tonight (Live @ The Secret Policeman\u2019s Other Ball, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, England \u2013 9\/10-11\/1981) (from\u00a0The Secret Policeman\u2019s Other Ball (The Music)\u00a0\u2013 Springtime HAHA 6004 (U.K.), 1982)
\nThe Roof is Leaking (Live @ The Secret Policeman\u2019s Other Ball, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, England \u2013 9\/10-11\/1981) (from\u00a0The Secret Policeman\u2019s Other Ball (The Music)\u00a0\u2013 Springtime HAHA 6004 (U.K.), 1982)
\nThis Must Be Love (Live @ Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre, Irvine, CA \u2013 6\/2-3\/1985) *
\nYou Know What I Mean (Live @ Perkins Palace, Pasadena, CA \u2013 12\/19\/1982) *<\/p>\n

Side F<\/p>\n

In the Air Tonight (Ben Liebrand Extended Version) (Virgin U.K. 12\u2033 A-side VST 102, 1988)
\nThe Roof is Leaking (Nicka\u2019s Stella Polaris Interpretation) (from\u00a0Stella Polaris \u2013 The X, Stella Polaris Music STELLA 010CD (DK), 2014)
\nTomorrow Never Knows (Outtake) *
\nOver the Rainbow (Full Version) *<\/p>\n

LP 4<\/p>\n

Side G\u00a0(previously released on\u00a0Face Value (Deluxe Edition) \u2013\u00a0Atlantic\/Warner Music PCCD 81 (U.K.)\/R2 550171 (U.S.), 2016)<\/p>\n

The Roof is Leaking
\nThis Must Be Love
\nPlease Don\u2019t Ask
\nMisunderstanding
\nAgainst All Odds<\/p>\n

Side H<\/p>\n

Please Don\u2019t Break My Heart (released as Phil Collins fan club MP3 download, 2010\/2011)
\nIf Leaving Me is Easy (B-side to \u201cIf Leaving Me is Easy\u201d U.K. single \u2013 Virgin VS423, 1981)
\nI Missed Again\u00a0(B-side to \u201cIf Leaving Me is Easy\u201d U.K. single \u2013 Virgin VS423, 1981)
\nIn the Air Tonight\u00a0(B-side to \u201cIf Leaving Me is Easy\u201d U.K. single \u2013 Virgin VS423, 1981)
\nHand in Hand (released as Phil Collins fan club MP3 download, 2010\/2011)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM Did he miss again? Hardly. To celebrate the 45th anniversary of his debut album,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,409],"class_list":["post-550319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}