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If Leaving Me Is Easy

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"If Leaving Me Is Easy"

SinglebyPhil Collins

from the album Face Value

B-side

"In the Air Tonight"

"I Missed Again"

"If Leaving Me Is Easy" (demo)

Released

May 1981 ^[1]

Recorded

1980

Genre

Soul
R&B

Length

4:56

Label

Virgin (UK)
Atlantic (International)

Songwriter(s)

Phil Collins

Producer(s)

Phil Collins, Hugh Padgham

Phil Collins singles chronology

"I Missed Again"
(1981)

"If Leaving Me Is Easy"
(1981)

"Thru These Walls"
(1982)

Audio

"Phil Collins - If Leaving Me Is Easy (2016 Remaster)"onYouTube

"If Leaving Me Is Easy" is a song by Phil Collins from his 1981 album Face Value. Released as the third single from the album, it reached No. 17 in the UK, but was not released as a single in the United States. The song was also a top 40 hit in Ireland, reaching No. 25. Collins sings in a high falsetto in its chorus. The song was later covered by The Isley Brothers for their 1985 album Masterpiece.

Involvement of Eric Clapton

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This was the first of two Phil Collins singles that featured Eric Clapton. The other single was "I Wish It Would Rain Down" from Collins' final album of the 1980s, ...But Seriously. He also recorded some dobro for "The Roof Is Leaking", which was not used on the final recording.

Live versions

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Collins revealed on the "Making of Face Value" episode of Classic Albums that he decided to stop performing this song live on stage following his 1985 No Jacket Required tour because he disliked the audience yelling and screaming instead of being quiet while he performed this song. According to SongFacts.com,^[2] Collins performed the song on the BBC music show Top of the Pops with a bucket of paint and paintbrush on top of his electric piano, a reference to his first wife's affair with a painter and decorator.