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With Love (Amanda Lear Album)
''With Love'' is a studio album by France, French singer Amanda Lear, released in 2006 by Dance Street. The album is a collection of cover version, covers of songs previously performed by other female vocalists. Background The album was recorded at Blue Sound Studio in Levallois-Perret and LR Studio in Villeneuve between May and August 2006. It contains covers of evergreens and jazz standards by the disco diva's own favourite divas, among them Eartha Kitt, Dalida, Peggy Lee, Mae West, Nina Simone, Marlene Dietrich and Juliette Gréco. The album came five years after the album ''Heart (Amanda Lear album), Heart'', on which Lear covered three evergreens: "Hier Encore", "The Look of Love (1967 song), The Look of Love" and "Lili Marleen", and only a year after her covers compilation ''Sings Evergreens''. Lear had also released an all-cover EP in 1985, ''A L (Amanda Lear EP), A L''. The album was released by ZYX Music in Germany in 2007 with a bonus live recording of the track "Johnny ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amanda Lear
Amanda Lear (; born 1939) is a French singer, songwriter, painter, television presenter, actress, and former model. She began her professional career as a fashion model in the mid-1960s, and went on to model for Paco Rabanne, Ossie Clark, and others. She met Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dalí, and remained his closest friend and muse for the next 15 years. Lear first came into the public eye as the cover model for Roxy Music's album ''For Your Pleasure'' in 1973. From the mid-1970s to the early 1980s, she was a million-album-selling disco queen, mainly in Continental Europe and Scandinavia, signed to Ariola Records. Lear's first four albums earned her mainstream popularity, charting in the top 10 of European charts, including the best-selling '' Sweet Revenge'' (1978). Her bigger hits included "Blood and Honey", " Tomorrow", "Queen of Chinatown", " Follow Me", " Enigma (Give a Bit of Mmh to Me)", " The Sphinx", and "Fashion Pack". By the mid-1980s, Lear had become a lead ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
