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Chinese Wall (album)

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Released
  
October 1984

Chinese Wall (1984)
  
Triumph (1986)

Release date
  
October 1984

Label
  
Columbia Records

Length
  
50:17

Artist
  
Philip Bailey

Producer
  
Phil Collins

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Recorded
  
Townhouse Studios, London, England. The Complex and Ocean Way Recording , Los Angeles.

Genres
  
Soul music, Pop music, Rock music

Similar
  
Philip Bailey albums, Rock music albums

Philip bailey photogenic memory


Chinese Wall is the third solo album by Philip Bailey, released on the Columbia Records label in October 1984. Chinese Wall has been certified gold in the US. The album reached number 22 and number 10 on the Billboard 200 and Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charts respectively. In 1986 the album gave Bailey a Grammy Award nomination for Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male, while "Easy Lover", the duet with Phil Collins (who produced the album), earned a nomination for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals.

Contents

Philip bailey walking on the chinese wall


Personnel

  • Philip Bailey – lead and background vocals, percussion (10)
  • Carl Carwell - background vocals (7, 10)
  • Phil Collins - drums (1-9), vocoder (1), LinnDrum (1, 3, 5), Simmons (2, 8, 9), keyboards (3, 6), backing vocals (3, 6, 8), lead vocals (6), percussion (10)
  • Paulinho da Costa - percussion (7, 10)
  • Rahmlee Michael Davis - trumpet (3, 5, 7, 8, 9)
  • Nathan East - bass guitar, bass pedals (4), kalimba (4), keyboards (5)
  • Winston Ford - background vocals (7, 10)
  • Michael Harris - trumpet (3, 5, 7, 8, 9), trumpet solo (9)
  • Josie James - background vocals (3, 4, 8)
  • Nigel Martinez - background vocals (8)
  • The Phenix Horns - horns (3, 5, 7, 8, 9)
  • Don Myrick - saxophone (3, 5, 7, 8, 9), sax solo (5)
  • Louis Satterfield - trombone (3, 5, 7, 8, 9)
  • Daryl Stuermer - guitar, guitar solo (4, 6)
  • Lesette Wilson - keyboards, piano (10)

    • Production

  • Steve Chase - assistant engineer
  • Judy Clapp - assistant engineer
  • Phil Collins - producer
  • Murray Dvorkin - assistant engineer
  • Arif Mardin - string arrangement (5, 7, 9)
  • George Massenburg - engineer, synthesizer programming
  • Tom Perry - assistant engineer
  • Godfrey Wang - synthesizer programming
  • Tom-Tom 84 - horn arrangement

    • Uses in Other Media

    "Children of the Ghetto" has been featured in the movie Clockers.

    Charts

    Album

    Songs

    1Photogenic Memory5:26
    2I Go Crazy4:50
    3Walking on the Chinese Wall5:09

    References

    Chinese Wall (album) Wikipedia
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