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singer Amanda Lear, released in May 2016 by the independent label Boomlover.

Background

The album was recorded at Studio Richer in Paris from September 2015 to February 2016. Stylistically, it is a diverse collection of ballads and uptempo pop/dance tracks. It includes some new material written by Lear herself and her collaborators Gaël Brusseleers and Bob Landser, alongside the re-recordings of her 70s hits "

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's " Smile",

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's " Can't Take My Eyes Off You" and the Village People's " Macho Man", among others. The physical edition came with a DVD of Amanda performing selected songs from the album. Lear announced the album's release date on her social media in March 2016. The Italian ballad "Prima del tuo cuore" recorded with Gianluca De Rubertis (with whom Lear had collaborated on the song "Mai più" the previous year) was released as the lead single in late April 2016. The second single was "The Best Is Yet to Come", released shortly before the album in May 2016. "Catwalk" was chosen as the third single, released in early 2017, accompanied by multiple remixes. The album was a minor chart success in Italy and France.

Track listing

Physical edition

CD # " Let Me Entertain You" (

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) – 2:59 # "Good to Be Bad" (Ken Lowe, Claire Dewey) – 3:36 # "Si tu savais ma belle" (Alain Largouadette) – 3:14 # "Couleurs" (Gael Brusseleers, Bob Landser, Amanda Lear) – 3:01 # "

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) – 2:36 # "La Rumeur" (Stéphane Corbin,

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) – 2:51 # "Moi je t'aime aujourd'hui" (Gael Brusseleers, Bob Landser, Amanda Lear) – 2:43 # "The Best Is Yet to Come" (Gael Brusseleers, Bob Landser, Amanda Lear) – 3:45 # "Catwalk (A Model)" (Gael Brusseleers, Bob Landser, Amanda Lear) – 3:32 # "

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) – 3:39 # " Macho Man" (

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, Peter Whitehead) – 3:27 # "

" (Anthony Monn, Amanda Lear) – 4:07 # "The Actress" (Gael Brusseleers, Bob Landser, Amanda Lear) – 3:17 # "Prima del tuo cuore" (feat. Gianluca De Rubertis) (Gianluca de Rubertis) – 3:07 # "

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) – 2:00 # "For Me Formidable" (Jacques Plante, Charles Aznavour) – 2:22 # " Smile" (

, Geoffrey Parsons, John Turner) – 3:18 DVD # "Let Me Entertain You" # "Good to Be Bad" # "Si tu savais ma belle" # "Couleurs" # "Mad About the Boy" # "La Rumeur" # "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" # "Catwalk (A Model)" # "For Me Formidable" # "Fashion Pack" # "Smile" # "The Best Is Yet to Come"

Digital edition

# " Let Me Entertain You" (

) – 2:59 # "Good to Be Bad" (Ken Lowe, Claire Dewey) – 3:36 # "Si tu savais ma belle" (Alain Largouadette) – 3:14 # "Couleurs" (Gael Brusseleers, Bob Landser, Amanda Lear) – 3:01 # "

" (

) – 2:36 # "Moi je t'aime aujourd'hui" (Gael Brusseleers, Bob Landser, Amanda Lear) – 2:43 # "The Best Is Yet to Come" (Gael Brusseleers, Bob Landser, Amanda Lear) – 3:45 # "Catwalk (A Model)" (Radio Edit) (Gael Brusseleers, Bob Landser, Amanda Lear) – 3:32 # "

" (

, Amanda Lear) – 4:23 # " Can't Take My Eyes Off You" (Edit Version) (

) – 3:39 # " Macho Man" (Edit Version) (

, Peter Whitehead) – 3:27 # "

" (Anthony Monn, Amanda Lear) – 4:07 # "The Actress" (Gael Brusseleers, Bob Landser, Amanda Lear) – 3:17 # "Prima del tuo cuore" (feat. Gianluca De Rubertis) (Gianluca de Rubertis) – 3:07 # "La Rumeur" (Stéphane Corbin,

) – 2:51 # "

" ( Sacha Distel,

) – 2:00 # "For Me Formidable" (Jacques Plante, Charles Aznavour) – 2:22 # " Smile" (

, Geoffrey Parsons, John Turner) – 3:18 # "Catwalk (A Model)" (Club Edit) (Gael Brusseleers, Bob Landser, Amanda Lear) – 3:54 # "The Best Is Yet to Come" (B*Gold Remix) (Gael Brusseleers, Bob Landser, Amanda Lear) – 6:03

Personnel

* Amanda Lear –

lead vocals The lead vocalist in popular music is typically the member of a group or band whose voice is the most prominent melody in a performance where multiple voices may be heard. The lead singer sets their voice against the accompaniment parts of t ...

* Sébastien Arrighi – musical arranger (tracks: 6, 8, 10–13) * Thomas Bouzy –

violin The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular ...

* Gaël Brusseleers – musical arranger (tracks: 7, 9, 14), programming, mixing * Matteo Buzzanca – musical arranger (track 15) * Stephane Corbin –

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

* Gianluca De Rubertis – lead vocals (track 15), piano * Giuliano Dottori –

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

* Pascal Druelle – photography * Thibault Guérin – artwork * Sedrick Hamilton – voice * Mélina Jacob –

backing vocals A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are use ...

* Benjamin Joubert – mastering * Bob Landser – musical arranger (tracks: 1–5, 16–18), backing vocals,

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, guitar,

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percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...

, piano * Fanny Leveque – violin * Alain Mendiburu –

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* Elena Mineva – violin * Manon Philippe – violin * Maxime Quenesson –

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* Klaus Roethlisberger – photography * Hsing-Han Tsai – cello * Anne-Sophie Versnaeyen – musical arranger (tracks: 6, 8, 10–13)

Chart performance

Release history

References

External links

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