''Tendance'' (

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singer Amanda Lear's studio album ''

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''. The album was released in 2003 by Le Marais Prod. and

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Background

''Tendance'' is an expanded re-release of the 2001 studio album ''

'', taking its title from one of the songs, which in turn was named after a fashion and trends show hosted by Lear on French channel

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. Because of re-titling and significant changes to the track listing, ''Tendance'' is considered a separate release in Amanda Lear discography. This edition omits "Manuel do guerreido da luz" but adds three other tracks: the oriental

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of the single " Love Boat", entitled "Rainbow Love Boat", her 2002 duet with Belgian boyband Get Ready!, " Beats of Love", a

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of the 1984 hit single by Belgian band Nacht und Nebel, and "Cocktail d'amore", the theme tune to Lear's 2002 Italian TV series of the same name, a top-rated nostalgic show celebrating music of the 1980s on which she interviewed some of Italy's most famous stars. The tracks "Cocktail d'amore" and "L'importante è finire" were originally written by

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for Stefania Rotolo and Mina, respectively. Malgioglio then recorded his versions of both songs on his 1983 album ''Bellissime'' which also included "Ho fatto l'amore con me", a song he had written for Lear's 1980 album '' Diamonds for Breakfast''. ''Tendance'' also features the English version of the track "Vol de nuit", re-titled "Travel by Night", and the Pumpin' Dolls remix of the single "I Just Wanna Dance Again", which had been used in the music video for the song. The album retains the cover picture and artwork of the second edition of ''Heart''. The album was re-released on digital platforms in September 2019, excluding three bonus tracks from the original CD edition, but adding the unreleased song "Phoenix" as well as the French version of "Travel by Night".

Track listing

Original release

# " Love Boat" ( Charles Fox, Paul Williams) – 3:11 # "Do U Wanna See It?" (

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, Thierry Willems, Amanda Lear) – 3:51 # "Tendance" (FX Costello, Thierry Willems, Amanda Lear) – 4:16 # "

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" ( Norbert Schultze,

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) – 3:47 # " Hier encore (Yesterday When I Was Young)" ( Charles Aznavour,

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) – 3:55 # "Porque me gusta" (FX Costello, Natacha Amal, Amanda Lear) – 4:00 # "I Just Wanna Dance Again" (Pumpin' Dolls Radio Edit) (Laurent Wolf, Thierry Willems) – 3:52 # "Travel by Night" (FX Costello, Thierry Willems, Laurent Ries) – 4:17 # "L'Invitation au voyage" (FX Costello,

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) – 3:59 # " The Look of Love" (

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, Hal David) – 4:02 # "L'importante è finire" (

, Alberto Anelli) – 3:18 # "Rainbow Love Boat" (Oriental Mix) (FX Costello, Thierry Willems, Amanda Lear) – 4:56 # "Cocktail d'amore" (Original Mix 2002) (Cristiano Malgioglio, Corrado Castellari, Marcello Mancini) – 4:14 # " Beats of Love" (Radio Edit) (With Get Ready!) (Patrick Marina Nebel) – 3:40

Digital edition

# " Love Boat" ( Charles Fox, Paul Williams) – 3:12 # "Do U Wanna See It?" (

, Thierry Willems, Amanda Lear) – 3:51 # "Tendance" (FX Costello, Thierry Willems, Amanda Lear) – 4:15 # "

" ( Norbert Schultze,

) – 3:48 # " Hier encore" ( Charles Aznavour,

) – 3:54 # "Porque me gusta" (FX Costello, Natacha Amal, Amanda Lear) – 4:00 # "I Just Wanna Dance Again" (Pumpin' Dolls Radio Edit) (Laurent Wolf, Thierry Willems) – 3:51 # "Vol de nuit" (FX Costello, Thierry Willems) – 4:19 # " The Look of Love" (

, Hal David) – 4:02 # "L'Invitation au voyage" (FX Costello,

) – 3:58 # "L'importante è finire" (

, Alberto Anelli) – 3:20 # "Phoenix" (Amanda Lear, FX Costello) – 4:50 # "Travel by Night" (FX Costello, Thierry Willems, Laurent Ries) – 4:17

Personnel

* Amanda Lear –

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*Patrick Bacqueville –

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*Nicolas Baudino –

flute The flute is a family of classical music instrument in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, meaning they make sound by vibrating a column of air. However, unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is a reedless ...

saxophone The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed on a mouthpiece vibrates to pr ...

*François Biesan –

trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitched one octave below the standard ...

*Farhat Bouallagui –

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 ...

*Christophe Challut – hair styling *Christophe Dubois –

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*Judith Flessel-Toto –

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 ...

*Sandrine Foguère – backing vocals *FX Costello –

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, backing vocals *Get Ready! – lead vocals in " Beats of Love" *Cécile Maestre – backing vocals *Stefano Meghenzani –

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accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed ...

*Bernard Ortoli –

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 ...

*Denis Taranto – photography *

– record producer

Release history

References

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