Phil Collins No Jacket Required… Sold Out:

Home Box Office (HBO) Cable TV Broadcast and FM Stereo Simulcast

Recorded live at The Reunion Arena, Dallas, Texas:
29 May 1985

Original Airdate – 28 September 1985

FM Stereo Simulcast

While this Guide has primarily focused on pre-FM versions of Phil’s performances, (and will continue to do so) I feel this FM simulcast should be added as it is an excellent documentation of what it’s like to attend a Phil Collins concert.

As mentioned above, there are no pre-FM recordings from this tour, which I find very confusing given Phil’s popularity at the time. In 1985, Phil was at the height of his fame and very much in the public eye, having just released his most successful album to date, NO JACKET REQUIRED, (released on 18 February 1985) having filmed an episode for the hit television series MIAMI VICE, (although that episode wouldn’t air until December of 1985) and having just completed a massive tour with Genesis. (All this before his much talked about, two continent hopping LIVE AID performances, which you can view pictures of in the gallery.)

In fact, this lack of material in pre-FM form is even harder to digest when one considers the fact that both the King Biscuit and Westwood One companies recorded performances by Genesis on their 1983/84 and 1986/87 tours, which bookended Phil’s ’85 outings. (Shows at the Philadelphia Spectrum and the Los Angeles Forum were recorded and sent to radio stations on vinyl during the MAMA tour, and shows at the Los Angeles Forum were captured and produced during the INVISIBLE TOUCH tour, copies of which can be found on LP and later on compact discs.) So the idea that said labels would choose to completely ignore the NO JACKET REQUIRED tour is unfathomable.

What appears to have occurred is that those labels chose to broadcast previously recorded concerts from Phil’s first solo tour (detailed HERE) throughout the 1985 NO JACKET Tour as a means of advertising the tour itself. This instead of actually capturing any shows for broadcast. There were also a great number of interview specials which were broadcast throughout 1985, and those can be found HERE.

It appears that the closest thing to a professional recording of a show from this tour is the official VHS release PHIL COLLINS: NO TICKET REQUIRED, which captured a portion of the show from The Reunion Arena in Dallas, Texas. This video originated as an HBO special, directed by Jim Yukich and produced by Paul Flattery, and was originally entitled NO JACKET REQUIRED… SOLD OUT. The broadcast was later released on VHS  and LaserDisc with extended footage and the title changed to PHIL COLLINS: NO TICKET REQUIRED. It won a Cable Ace Award for best TV Music special in 1986, and was simulcast in stereo via radio stations in the United States at that time of its original airing. It later turned up as a DVD version released in Brazil.

The original broadcast date, as listed, is derived from a magazine promotional advertisement produced by Westwood One. While HBO did broadcast songs from this night, their broadcast is incomplete and only lasted one hour. Obviously, since the show did not run until September of that year, the broadcast and simulcast did not occur live as it happened. HBO simply recorded the entire performance, then edited it down for broadcast and simulcast at a later date. I do recall watching and even recording both the HBO broadcast and the FM stereo simulcast, but those tapes are long since lost. Incomplete capture. From my personal collection.

Complete track listing can be found here:

HBO Simulcast

King Biscuit Flower Hour – Alone At Last:

D.I.R. Broadcasting Networks Records

Recorded live at The Royal Albert Hall, London, England:
*22 February 1985 &
9 February 1986

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Perkins Palace, Pasadena, California:
19 December 1982

Original Broadcast – Week of 13 December 1987

pre-FM Single Compact Disc

Aside from the King Biscuit Genesis special from 1987, which included tracks from the famous L.A. Forum show on the INVISIBLE TOUCH Tour (info on which can be found HERE) this disc is one of my most coveted possessions.

Originally broadcast in 1987, this King Biscuit show was and is one of my all time favorites. I still have the cassette tape which I used to record this show when it first aired. I finally found the original transcription disc on eBay, and snatched it up right away.

This show was one of the first King Biscuit shows broadcast on compact disc rather than vinyl, and it brings together Collins, Chrissie Hynde and David Gilmour for a radio special which highlights live performances from the three artists separate from their respective bands. I have done extensive research to identify the recording dates and venues for these songs, as these details are never revealed by series regular Bill Minkin.

The Gilmour and Hynde tracks were taken from a one-off benefit concert recorded at the Albert Hall in February of 1986, and are also featured on an earlier Biscuit show from March of ’87. That show can be seen HERE. (More details can also be found HERE.)

Two of the Collins tracks, Inside Out and Who Said I Would?  appear to have been culled from a never released (or “hidden”) show recorded on Phil’s NO JACKET REQUIRED Tour, hence the inclusion of this show here.  Collins did not appear at the above mentioned benefit show, thus his tracks are not from that show. These two tracks could not have been recorded on any other tour given that their original versions appear on the NO JACKET REQUIRED album, which was released on 25 January 1985. Since this show aired in December of 1987, and Phil was on tour with Genesis throughout 1986 and ’87, the NO JACKET Tour must be the source for these two songs. (As mentioned above, there has been speculation about a “hidden” video of a show recorded at The Royal Albert Hall on this tour, as well as the idea that the songs were captured on 22 February 1985 at the RAH. This last statement is based on listening to audience recordings from that night. Either way, no other professional radio broadcast recording from that night or that tour have surfaced. I have therefore listed the recording date with an asterisk * for now.) The tracks You Can’t Hurry Love and It Don’t Matter To Me  are definitely derived from the abundantly used Perkins Palace show from 1982. 

Of note is the fact the the disc itself lists all three artists on the face, however, Gilmour’s name is misspelled as Gilmore.

As mentioned above, this show was one of the first broadcasts to utilize the compact disc format, however, it was not the first. That distinction belongs to an Eric Clapton show, information on which can be found HERE. 

For many years, I was under the false impression that this show was a one-off King Biscuit special, and was not repeated after its initial broadcast. I then discovered a version of this exact show from 1994 on eBay. Information on that copy is listed below.

Incomplete capture. From my personal collection.

Complete track listing can be found here:

Alone At Last ’87 on Discogs

This is a rebroadcast disc of the original Alone At Last show from 1987, which is listed above.

Once again, the show brings together Phil Collins, Chrissie Hynde and David Gilmour for a radio special which highlights live performances from the three artists separate from their respective bands. Everything about this show is exactly the same as the prior incarnation (with the exception of the commercial blocks, obviously).  This particular broadcast version also boasts a “Future Classic Artists” segment at the end with two songs from the band God Street Wine.

Again, the date and venue for the two NO JACKET REQUIRED Tour tracks is speculative and based on examination of audience recordings.

This disc also corrects the misspelling of Gilmour’s name as it was presented on the ’87 version of this show.

Incomplete capture. From my personal collection.

This item is not currently listed on Discogs.

That’s it for Phil’s ’85 No Jacket Tour. Click HERE for Prince’s Trust charity gig radio shows.