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Phil Collins' upcoming eighth studio album, titled Going Back, is due to be released on 13 September 2010. It will feature covers of 60's Motown & Soul classics. It is also to be his first full solo release in eight years, having primarily concentrated on soundtracks, compilations, and his extensive touring as a solo artist and with Genesis.
Collins has previously recorded and performed covers of Motown songs in his career. Most famously, his cover of "You Can't Hurry Love" reached No.1 on the UK charts in 1982. In addition, "The Tears of a Clown" appeared as a B-side on the 2003 single "The Least
Phil Collins' upcoming eighth studio album, titled Going Back, is due to be released on 13 September 2010. It will feature covers of 60's Motown & Soul classics. It is also to be his first full solo release in eight years, having primarily concentrated on soundtracks, compilations, and his extensive touring as a solo artist and with Genesis.
Collins has previously recorded and performed covers of Motown songs in his career. Most famously, his cover of "You Can't Hurry Love" reached No.1 on the UK charts in 1982. In addition, "The Tears of a Clown" appeared as a B-side on the 2003 single "The Least You Can Do", and a live version of "My Girl" appeared on the 2004 album Love Songs: A Compilation... Old and New. Two editions of the album will be released, one with 18 tracks and limited special edition with all 29 songs Collins recorded. The album will be promoted with a series of live shows in the summer of 2010.
Background:
Collins reported losing his hearing in his right ear in 2000, and in 2003 announced his last solo tour. He called it the "First Final Farewell Tour", a tongue-in-cheek reference to the multiple farewell tours of other popular artists.
Since releasing his seventh solo album Testify in 2002, Collins wrote the music to Brother Bear & a Broadway production of Tarzan. He remarked in several interviews during this time that he was in semi-retirement and even retired from recording music at one stage. The Turn It On Again Tour with Genesis in 2007 included Phil on drums and vocals, but involved no new music or songwriting.
In September 2009, it was reported that Collins could no longer play drums, due to a recent operation to repair dislocated vertebrae in his neck. However, a statement from Collins on the Genesis band website said, "There isn't any drama regarding my 'disability' and playing drums. Somehow during the last Genesis tour I dislocated some vertebrae in my upper neck and that affected my hands. After a successful operation on my neck, my hands still can't function normally. Maybe in a year or so it will change, but for now it is impossible for me to play drums or piano. I am not in any 'distressed' state, stuff happens in life."
Despite these statements of retirement and the effects from his spinal operation, it was reported in October 2009 that Collins was to record a Motown covers album. He told a German newspaper, "I want the songs to sound exactly like the originals", and that the album would feature up to 30 songs.
Production:
At the press release, Collins said the idea behind the album was "not to bring anything ānewā to these already great records, but to try to recreate the sounds and feelings that I had when I first heard them. My intention was to make an āoldā record, not a ānewā record".
In the summer of 2009, Daryl Stuermer hinted Collins was in the studio working on an album. He was asked to send a transcript of a Temptations song for the album. [8].
Bob Babbitt, Eddie Willis and Ray Monette were the musicians during recording. The three were a part of the famous The Funk Brothers, session musicians who played on several Motown recordings from 1959 until 1972. Recording took place in Switzerland and work began on overdubbing 25 songs for the album on 11th January and finished on the 20th January. Phil said of having the Funk Brothers available to play on the album, "To be able to have three of the surviving Funk Brothers play on all the tracks was unbelievable. There was one moment when they were tracking 'Heat Wave' that I experienced a wave of happiness and wonder that this was actually happening to me!".
In January 2010, Chester Thompson said that the album had been completed and would be released some time soon. He also revealed that Collins managed to play the drums on the album despite the adverse effects of his recent spinal operation. Phil confirmed he has had to tape drumsticks to his hands in order to play. Bob Babbitt on his forum stated that the album would be released in September, and has confirmed that a filmed showcase will take place in Europe and the US during the summer.
Speaking at the 2010 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony, where Genesis were inductees, Phil said of the album: "You know, I mean, I started it for fun, really, and just chose all the Motown songs, the darker songs that I liked, the lesser known ones. And I ended up with about 40 of them and finished, Iāve actually finished about 29 of them".
Promotion:
On 10 April 2010 the Phil Collins website was back up and running in anticipation of the album. The site was previously shut down in 2008. A release date of 13 September 2010 has also been reported. The first release of the recordings, "Too Many Fish In The Sea" was given free to new users who signed up to the relaunched website. The title track, "Going Back" started to receive airplay in May and was streamed online on Collins' website soon after.
Collins will perform a series of live shows building up to the release of the album. However, these shows are not part of an upcoming world tour and will be exclusively devoted to the music from the new album. The first of these shows were announced on the 14th April, Up Close & Personal: Phil Collins Plays 60's Motown & Soul", will take place at New York's Roseland Ballroom for 3 nights from June 22nd to June 25th. On the 29th April, it was confirmed that Collins was to be part of the opening night of 2010 Montreux Jazz Festival. 2 days later, it was announced that Phil Collins would perform a one-off show in London on June 28, 2010. This show will be broadcast live on ITV1. Bob Babbitt confirmed that a live DVD of the last night of the concerts in New York will be recorded.
Date Venue/Title City Country
June 20 Electric Factory Philadelphia United States
June 21 Electric Factory Philadelphia United States
June 23 Roseland Ballroom New York United States
June 24 Roseland Ballroom New York United States
June 25 Roseland Ballroom New York United States
June 28 Phil Collins...For One Night Only London England
July 1 Montreux Jazz Festival Montreux Switzerland
Track Listing:
No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. "Girl (Why You Wanna Make Me Blue)" Norman Whitfield, Edward Holland, Jr.
2. "Uptight (Everything's Alright)" Stevie Wonder, Sylvia Moy, Henry Cosby
3. "Blame It on the Sun" Wonder, Syreeta Wright
4. "Never Dreamed You'd Leave in Summer" Wonder, Wright
5. "(Love Is Like a) Heat Wave" HollandāDozierāHolland
6. "In My Lonely Room" HollandāDozierāHolland
7. "Jimmy Mack" HollandāDozierāHolland
8. "Standing in the Shadows of Love" HollandāDozierāHolland
9. "Something about You" HollandāDozierāHolland
10. "Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever" Ivy Jo Hunter, Wonder
11. "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" Whitfield, Barrett Strong
12. "Some of Your Loving"
13. "Talking about My Baby"
14. "Do I Love You?"
15. "Going to a Go-Go" Smokey Robinson, Pete Moore, Bobby Rogers, Marvin Tarplin
16. "Love Is Here and Now You're Gone" HollandāDozierāHolland
17. "Take Me in Your Arms (Rock Me a Little While)" HollandāDozierāHolland
18. "Goin' Back" Gerry Goffin, Carole King
Personnel:
* Phil Collins - vocals, drums
* Ray Monette - guitar
* Eddie Willis - guitar
* Bob Babbitt - bass guitar
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Manufacturer: Atlantic
Release date: 28 September 2010
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