NO JACKET REQUIRED FOR PHIL COLLINS AND STING HAD A LONG LONG WAY TO GO

LONG LONG WAY TO GO is a totally forgotten about track off the PHIL COLLINS 1985 album NO JACKET REQUIRED, with STING making a guest appearance on the song provided backing vocals.

The biggest criticism you could level against Collins is that most of his solo music outside GENESIS was predominantly somewhat unadventurous, formulic and a weak imitation of the progressive rock he created in GENESIS.

Certainly Collins made a habit of recording his best songs when another big name in music was making a cameo appearance alongside him, the song ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE off his BUT SERIOUSLY... album in 1989 featured DAVID CROSBY of Crosby, Stills and Nash fame on backing vocals and the other great song off BUT SERIOUSLY... , titled I WISH IT WOULD RAIN DOWN, is made great thanks to the searing guitar playing of ERIC CLAPTON.

Not forgetting his 1984 duet with EARTH WIND & FIRE singer PHIL BAILEY titled EASY LOVER, probaly my favourite Collins song. NO JACKET REQUIRED of course scored Collins a couple of trans-Atlantic mega-hits, like SUSSUDIO and ONE MORE NIGHT, with DONT LOSE MY NUMBER and the quite euphoric TAKE ME HOME also putting a dint in the charts in some territories.

LONG LONG WAY TO GO to my knowledge wasn't released as a single, but it was regularly used on the 1980's hit police drama MIAMI VICE, when Crockett and Tubbs were out on the prowl dressed in white suits rounding up deadbeats off the streets of Miami.