''Forever Glam!'' is a

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by French singer

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released in 2005 by Edina Music.

Background

The CD was released only in France, distributed by Nocturne. While numerous CD collections of Amanda Lear music had been released before, ''Forever Glam!'' is notable for being the first compilation to be officially approved of and promoted by the singer herself. The album marked the beginning of Lear's creative collaboration with Alain Mendiburu who would produce or co-produce most of her records since then. Nearly all tracks are arranged chronologically, representing every stage of Lear's musical career. Besides most of her best known songs from the 1970s, combined with selected tracks from the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, ''Forever Glam!'' includes two new recordings, which had both been released as singles; "Martini Disease", a duet with Italian indie band Jetlag on which Lear recites

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, and her English-French language take on

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's 1978 hit " Copacabana". The compilation also contains three tracks that have never been available on CD before; the evergreens " As Time Goes By" and "Bye Bye Baby", recorded for the 1985 EP '' A L'', as well as the rare 1984 single " Assassino". Included is also Lear's recording of

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", remixed by DJ Eric D. Clark, previously not available on any of her solo albums. The photographs used on the cover were taken by Denis Taranto, and date back to 1979 when one of the images from the session was used on the cover of the single "

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Track listing

#"Martini Disease" (With Jet Lag) (Emilio Cozzi, Jacopo Rondinelli, Livio Magnini) – 3:25 #"

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" (Anthony Monn, Amanda Lear) – 4:11 #" Follow Me" (Anthony Monn, Amanda Lear) – 3:50 #"

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" (Long Version) (Anthony Monn, Amanda Lear) – 5:09 #" Fabulous Lover Love Me" (

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, Amanda Lear) – 4:13 #" Assassino" (

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, Luigi Lopez, Amanda Lear) – 3:51 #"I'm a Mystery" (Seraphim, Amanda Lear, Roland Vincent) – 4:36 #"Scuola d'amore" (Daiano, Amanda Lear) – 4:30 #" As Time Goes By" (

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) – 3:25 #"Bye Bye Baby" (

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) – 3:00 #"Loving" (David Laloue, Amanda Lear) – 3:38 #"On the Air Tonight" (

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) – 3:29 #" The Sphinx '98" (Anthony Monn, Amanda Lear) – 4:39 #"

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) – 3:36 #"Do U Wanna See It" (

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, Thierry Willems, Amanda Lear) – 3:51 #" I Just Wanna Dance Again" (Pumpin' Dolls Mix) (Laurent Wolf, Thierry Willems) – 3:50 #"

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" ( Charles Fox, Paul Williams) – 3:13 #" Copacabana" (

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Personnel

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* Alain-Rudy-Buman – liner notes * Yvon Chateigner – production * Alain Mendiburu – production * C. Ricchi-Fedeli – assistance with liner notes * Denis Taranto – photography

Release history

References

External links

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