Artist: Phil Collins
Title: Face Value Classic Album
Catalogue No.: EREDV072
Format: DVD PAL, Region 2
Release Date: 24/09/2001


Phil Collins first enjoyed international success as the drummer with Genesis, and then subsequently as lead singer when Peter Gabriel left the band.In 1981 however, Face value launched him as a solo artist and remains in many ways his most exciting and unusual music offering. Face Value was immediately a worldwide hit, entering the British Charts at no.1 spending almost six years in the top 75, and selling in excess of 12 million copies. The album went on to make the US. Top Ten earning a gold disc. Face Value also gave birth to several hit singles including the atmospheric 'In The Air Tonight', 'I Missed Again', and 'If Leaving Me Is Easy'. This documentary includes several previously unseen performances as well as rare home movies, archive of the studio sessions where Phil Collins worked closely with engineer Hugh Padgham and the Earth Wind and Fire horn section; unique photographs and documents from Phil's own private archive and insights into the music from an eclectic range of musicians on the album alongside engineer Hugh Padgham who returns to the original multi-track master tapes of Face Value.