01	Blood And Honey						04:48
	02	Alphabet (Prelude In C By J. S. Bach)						04:01
	03	These Boots Are Made For Walkin'						03:11
	04	Tomorrow						04:11
	05	Pretty Boys						02:54
	06	Queen Of China-Town						04:13
	07	Alligator						04:32
	08	The Lady In Black						03:36
	09	I Am A Photograph						04:26
	10	Blue Tango						02:43

I Am a Photograph is the debut album by French singer Amanda Lear, released in April 1977 by West German label Ariola Records. It contains the European hit singles "La Bagarre" (1975), "Blood and Honey" (1976), "Tomorrow", "Alphabet" and "Blue Tango." Later editions of the album also feature the single "Queen of Chinatown" and then replaced "La Bagarre" or "She's Got the Devil in Her Eyes."

The rights to the Ariola-Eurodisc back catalogue are currently held by Sony BMG Music Entertainment. I Am a Photograph was released as a mid-priced compilation CD combined with 1978's Sweet Revenge or 1981's Incognito in Russia in 2001, but remains unreleased on compact disc in the rest of the world.


Track listing
[edit] Side A

"Blood and Honey" (Anthony Monn, Amanda Lear) - 4:50
"Alphabet (Prelude in C By J.S. Bach)" (a.k.a. "My Alphabet") (Johann Sebastian Bach, Charly Ricanek, Anthony Monn, Amanda Lear) - 4:00
"These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" (Lee Hazlewood) - 3:18
"Tomorrow" (Rainer Pietsch, Amanda Lear) - 4:10
"Pretty Boys" (Anthony Monn, Amanda Lear) - 2:55

[edit] Side B

"Alligator" (Rainer Pietsch, Amanda Lear) - 4:35
"The Lady in Black" (Anthony Monn, Amanda Lear) - 3:30
"I Am a Photograph" (Anthony Monn, Amanda Lear) - 4:21
"La Bagarre" (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller) - 3:27
"Blue Tango" (Leroy Anderson, Amanda Lear) - 2:40

[edit] Reception

In Allmusic's review of the album Michael Freedberg writes: "Lear, previously known as a Roxy Music album cover model and a protege of Salvador Dali, appears here as a cabaret countess. She enunciates sexually naughty suggestions in a smoke-and-velvet rasp. Her best subversions hit a dancer's most salacious fantasies dead on. Most of these songs support their studied lewdness with absurdly different music, creating tangible friction (e.g., "Alligator" — funk bottom, frothy violins on top) that makes Lear's tape-loop voice feel even naughtier. All of Lear's tempos assault disco norms, either as sleaze or ultra-fast high-energy. An album not to be missed."
[edit] Personnel

Amanda Lear - lead vocals
Claudia Schwarz - backing vocals
Gitta Walther - backing vocals
Renate Maurer - backing vocals
Gary Unwin - bass guitar
Martin Harrison - drums
Mats Bjorklund - guitar
Giuseppe Solera - horns
Hermann Breuer - horns
Howard Katz - horns
Lee Harper - horns
Paul Niezgoda - horns
Rudi Fuessers - horns
Charly Ricanek - keyboards
Harold Faltermeyer - keyboards, synthesizer (Moog)
Pit Troja - percussion
Bavarian Strings - strings

[edit] Production

Anthony Monn - record producer, musical arranger
Charly Ricanek - musical arranger (tracks: A1, A2, A5, B1, B4)
Peter Ludemann - sound engineer
Recorded at Ariola & Arco Studios, Munich
Album cover design: Ariola-Eurodisc Studios