''Lio'', also known as ''Premier Album'', is the debut album by Belgian pop singer

Lio Vanda Maria Ribeiro Furtado Tavares de Vasconcelos (born 17 June 1962), known professionally as Lio, is a Portuguese-Belgian singer and actress who was a pop icon in France and Belgium during the 1980s. Life and career Vanda Maria Ribeiro Furt ...

. It features the hit singles " Amoureux solitaires", "Amicalement votre" and her signature song "

Le Banana Split "Le Banana Split" is the debut single by Belgian pop singer Lio. It was a very big hit when it was first released in 1979, selling 700,000 copies. It is considered today Lio's signature song. Background "Le Banana Split" was remixed in 1995 an ...

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The album was originally released by the record company Ariola (Benelux and Spain), and Arabella (France) in 1980. It was re-released by

Warner Music Group Warner Music Group Corp. ( d.b.a. Warner Music Group, commonly abbreviated as WMG) is an American multinational entertainment and record label conglomerate headquartered in New York City. It is one of the " big three" recording companies and t ...

in 1996. Finally, a second re-issue by

Ze Records ZE Records was originally a New York-based record label, started in 1978 by Michael Zilkha and Michel Esteban. It was reestablished by Esteban in 2003. History Michael Zilkha (b. 1954) is a British-born Oxford graduate of Iraqi descent, the s ...

followed in 2005 with four bonus tracks, including the extended version of the main hit single "Le Banana Split", "Teenager" (the b-side of "Le Banana Split") and the Spanish version of the single "Amoureux solitaires".

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According to Lio's autobiography ''Pop Model'',Lio & Gilles Verlant, ''Pop Model'', Editions Flammarion, 2004 it was her lyricist Jacques Duvall who translated the lyrics of "Lonely Lovers", the original English-language song by French punk band Stinky Toys which became "Amoureux solitaires". However, if composer-guitarist

Jacno Jacno (3 July 1957 in Paris – 6 November 2009) was a French musician. Born as Denis Quilliard, he was a founding member of the first French punk band The Stinky Toys. In the early 1980s, after the group disbanded, he teamed up with former S ...

approved the cover, singer-lyricist

Elli Medeiros Elli Medeiros (born 18 January 1956) is a Uruguayan-French singer and actress. Career Stinky Toys Originally from Uruguay, Medeiros moved to Paris, France, at the age of 14, dropped out of high school a couple of years later and joined the ...

didn't. In the end, Duvall couldn't have his name in the official credits of the song and didn't get any royalties for it.

Personnel

* Coordinator eissue Co-ordination Liner Notes, Design igipak & Booklet Design– Michel Esteban * Design riginal Art Cover Design– Marc Borgers * Photography hotos Booklet– Guido Marco * Producer – Dan Lacksman (tracks: 1 to 5, 7 to 16), Marc Moulin (tracks: 1 to 5, 7 to 16) * Recorded By – Alan Ward * Remastered By – Charlus de la Salle

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