Attitudes (Demis Roussos album)

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Attitudes
Demis Roussos - Attitudes.jpg
Studio album by
Released1982
Genre Pop
Length37:47
Label Mercury
Producer Rainer Pietsch
Demis Roussos chronology
Man of the World
(1980)
Attitudes
(1982)
Demis
(1982)
Singles from Attitudes
  1. "Follow Me"
    Released: 1982

Attitudes is the seventeenth studio album by Greek singer Demis Roussos, released in 1982, by Mercury Records.

Contents

Track listing

Attitudes– Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Follow Me"7:25
2."Pretender"Wayne Hunt5:03
3."Planet Earth is Blue"5:48
Total length:18:16
Attitudes– Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Deepest of All"
  • Susan Black
  • Jim Taylor
3:05
2."Take My Hand"
  • Danny Everitt
  • Engelbert Simons
  • Klaus Gehrke
4:24
3."Flaming Star"
  • Wolff-Ekkehardt Stein
  • Wolfgang Jass
4:08
4."The House of the Rising Sun" 7:54
Total length:19:31

Personnel

Credits adopted from the album's liner notes. [1]

Musicians

Production

Charts

Chart (1982/83)Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report) [2] 44

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References

  1. Attitudes (LP, Vinyl, CD). Demis Roussos. Mercury Records. 1982. 6302 226.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  2. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 259. ISBN   0-646-11917-6.