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| Producer = | This album = ''Face Value'' (1981) | Next album = ''Hello, I Must Be Going!'' (1982) | Misc = }} ''Face Value'' is the debut solo studio album by English recording artist Phil Collins, released in February 1981 on the Virgin label internationally and Atlantic Records in North America. It was released in the UK 11 days after his 30th birthday. The album includes the hit single, "In the Air Tonight", whose dark mood was inspired by the fallout of Collins' first marriage with his wife Andrea. This album and ''Both Sides'' will be reissued, with bonus tracks included, on 29 January 2016. The reissued version's cover art is taken in the same fashion as the original's, except it features a present-day Collins instead. ==Conception== By 1978, Phil Collins had been part of Genesis for eight years. After spending the first five of those years as a drummer, he reluctantly accepted the role of frontman of the group following original vocalist Peter Gabriel's departure shortly after the release of their conceptual progressive rock album, ''The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway''. The first album where Collins took over was 1976's ''A Trick of the Tail'', which while still featuring the same type of progressive rock that the group had been recording since its 1970 album ''Trespass'', also featured several ballads and softer rockers. Their 1978 album, ''...And Then There Were Three...'', featured their first crossover hit, "Follow You Follow Me". The song and the subsequent album were the beginning of the group's breakaway from their progressive rock past into a more commercial, radio-friendly pop sound which alienated some fans of their older style, but brought them to the attention of a much larger audience. Collins had been planning to record a solo album for some time. He told ''Modern Drummer'' in 1979: Following ''...And Then There Were Three...'' and a world tour across America, Europe, and Japan, Collins took a leave of absence from the group to deal with his troubled family life. Collins' first wife filed for divorce in 1979 and left Collins in the home they shared in England by himself. Collins reportedly stayed in his house for weeks working on songs that reflected his personal life. Initially, Collins did not want to record them for an album until Atlantic Records, Genesis' record label in America, and Virgin Records, his label overseas, offered him a solo contract. Collins would base the majority of ''Face Value'' on the divorce he had endured. During the conception of the album, Collins had forged a close friendship with John Martyn and contributed towards his 1980 album ''Grace and Danger'', which contained a similar narrative relating to divorce and relationship breakdown. Some of Collins' material that he wrote for ''Face Value'' made its way onto Genesis' subsequent follow-up, ''Duke''. Collins' radio-friendly vocals and increased songwriting contributions helped to make ''Duke'' a major commercial success and Genesis's first UK number one album in April 1980. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Face Value (album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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