Flag (Yello album)

Flag
Studio album by Yello
Released	November 1, 1988
Genre	Synthpop
Length	49:01
Label	Mercury (original US release) Fontana (original UK & European release) Vertigo (2005 CD reissue)
Producer	Yello
Yello chronology
One Second (1987) Flag (1988) Baby (1991)

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Flag is Yello's sixth original album, released in 1988 and featuring the eight-minute tour-de-force, "The Race", the edited version of which reached number 7 in the UK Singles Chart in August of that year. "The Race" was famously used for many years as a trailer for Eurosport as well as the opening theme to the US quiz show It's Academic.^[2][3] An early cut of the album was used as the soundtrack for the film Nuns on the Run. The album also features the song, "Otto di Catania", which is sung in Italian by Yello front man Dieter Meier.

Track listing

• All Songs Written By Dieter Meier & Boris Blank. (Datasound, in Association with Axxis Musikverlag GmbH, subpublished by Warner-Chappell Music)

1. "Tied Up" 6:05
2. "Of Course I'm Lying" 5:56
3. "3rd Of June" 4:50
4. "Blazing Saddles" 3:53
5. "The Race" 8:08
6. "Alhambra" 3:38
7. "Otto Di Catania" 3:20
8. "Tied Up In Red" (CD bonus track) 8:23
9. "Tied Up In Gear" 3:58
10. "The Race (Break Light Mix)" *
11. "Wall Street Bongo" *
12. "The Race (12" Mix)" *

(*) Bonus tracks on the 2005 remastered release

Chart performance

Singles - The Official UK Singles Chart / Millward Brown (United Kingdom)

Personnel

• Dieter Meier, Boris Blank: Vocals
• Billy Mackenzie: Backing Vocals
• Leos Gerteis: Clarinet
• Chico Hablas: Guitars
• Beat Ash: Drums, Percussion

Production

• Arranged, Produced, Engineered & Mixed By Yello
• Mastered By Kevin Metcalfe

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