Incognito (Amanda Lear album)

Incognito
Studio album by Amanda Lear
Released March 1981
(See release history)
Recorded November, 1980 - February, 1981at Arco Studios Munich, Germany
Genre Pop Rock, Euro Disco
Length 32:10
Label Ariola-Eurodisc
Producer Anthony Monn
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Amanda Lear chronology
Diamonds for Breakfast
(1980)		 Incognito
(1981)		 Ieri, Oggi
(1982/83)

Incognito is the fifth studio album by French singer Amanda Lear, released in March, 1981 by West German label Ariola-Eurodisc. The album contains singles "Nymphomania", "Hollywood Is Just A Dream When You're Seventeen", "Love Amnesia", "Red Tape", "New York" and "Égal". Just like 1978's Sweet Revenge, Incognito is to a certain degree a concept album. This nine track set is loosely based on the Christian classification of vices, the seven deadly sins, with Lear adding two vices of her own: bureaucracy and nostalgia. The track "New York" was originally recorded by composer Francis Lai and included on his 1980 album Paris, New York.

The rights to the Ariola-Eurodisc back catalogue are currently held by Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Incognito was released as a mid-priced compilation CD combined with 1977's I Am a Photograph in Russia in 2001, but remains unreleased on compact disc in the rest of the world.

Contents

Track listing

Side A

  1. Laziness: "Hollywood Is Just A Dream When You're Seventeen" (Hanne Haller, Anthony Monn, Amanda Lear) - 4:50
  2. Indifference: "Love Amnesia" (E. Mule) - 3:45
  3. Bureaucracy: "Red Tape" (Anthony Monn, Amanda Lear) - 3:28
  4. Fear: "New York" (Francis Lai, Amanda Lear) - 4:28

Side B

  1. Pride: "Égal" (a.k.a. "Ça M'est Égal") (Anthony Monn, Amanda Lear) - 3:25
  2. Nostalgia: "Berlin Lady" (Peter Dibbens, Mike Stepstone) - 3:22
  3. Greed: "Nymphomania" (P. Macabal, M. Gouty) - 3:27
  4. Envy: "If Was A Boy" (Walter Foini - original lyrics: Alberto Salerno - English lyrics: Amanda Lear) - 3:15
  5. Anger: "Made In France" (P. Jaymes, Amanda Lear) - 2:10

Alternative album editions

Side B

  1. "Igual" (Spanish language version of "Égal") (Anthony Monn, Amanda Lear, Julio César) **
  2. "Dama De Berlin" (Spanish language version of "Berlin Lady") (M. Stepstone, P. Dibbens, Julio César) **
  3. "Ninfomanía" (Spanish language version of "Nymphomania") (P. Macabal, M. Gouty, Julio César) **

Original liner notes

» Walking incognito behind my dark glasses in a future world not so far away I see the deadly sins.
Fighting to survive (it is the law of the jungle) we meet with envy, violence, greed, fear, indifference and even bureaucracy and nostalgia, this favorite sin of mine which helps to accept the future...«
Amanda Lear 1981
»Hell Is Who (Where) You Really Are«
Robert Sheckley

Personnel

Production

Release history

Release format Country Label Cat. No. Release date
Vinyl West Germany Ariola 203 450-320 1981
Cassette West Germany Ariola 403 450-352 1981
Vinyl Italy Ariola ARL 3155 1981
Vinyl Greece Ariola 6483 322 1981
Vinyl Netherlands Ariola 203 450 1981
Vinyl Spain Ariola I-203450 1981
Vinyl Yugoslavia RTB 2220717 1981

Charts

Country Position
Norway 19
Sweden 28

Single releases

7"

Russian "compilation" CD's

NB: Sound quality: vinyl.

Sources and external links