Singles discography

Also scroll down to "Formerly planned releases" and "Other releases" sections.

Specifications about a release behind a slash (such as "7" / 12" (b: ...)" or "7" / 12" (limited)", etc.) refer only to this release, not to both formats.

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"I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" [as Léne Lovich]

7"
a: "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus"
b: "The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas to You)" / "Happy Christmas"


Solo single while Lene was part of The Diversions.

"Happy Christmas": First composition by Lene Lovich and Les Chappell on disc (see upcoming detailed overview of all songs).

UK (12 November 1976)

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"I Think We're Alone Now"

7"
a: "I Think We're Alone Now"
b: "Lucky Number" (prior to album recording)

7"

a: "I Think We're Alone Now" (Japanese version)

b: "Lucky Number" (prior to album recording)

UK (14 July 1978); also promo

South Africa (1979)

Spain (1979); also promo

"I Think We're Alone Now" (Japanese version): UK (July 1978); limited

"I Think We're Alone Now" (Japanese version): Also released on various CDs.

"Lucky Number" (prior to album recording): Also released on "Toy Box" 4-CD set (2023).

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"Lucky Number" (single remix)

Single remix of album recording, as subsequently released on "Stateless" (second and third releases) (see albums discography for different releases of "Stateless").

7"
a: "Lucky Number"
b: "Home" (original mix, as released on "Stateless" (first release, and subsequently on second release))

12"
a: "Lucky Number"
b: "Home" (original mix) / "Lucky Number" (Version)

7" (US)
a: "Lucky Number"
b: "Lucky Number" (extended version ("Slavic Dance Version"))

"Lucky Number" (Version): Instrumental version with some vocals.

"Lucky Number" (extended version) called "Slavic Dance Version" on US release, "Dance Version" on Canadian release (see below).

See below for 12" releases of "Lucky Number" (extended version) (Canada, France, US (two promo releases)).

UK (26 January 1979); 7" / 12" ((? 02 February) 1979); 7" also promo ((? 19 January) 1979)

Australia (March 1979); 7"

Belgium; 7" / 12" (b: "Home")

Canada (1979); 12" (a: "Lucky Number" (extended version ("Dance Version")) // b: "Say When" (remix, as released on "Stateless" (third release)) / "Home" (remix, as released on "Stateless" (third release)))

France; 7" (b: "I Think We're Alone Now") / 12" (test pressing 29 May 1979; not actual release date) (a: "Lucky Number" (extended version (not mentioned on disc or sleeve)) // b: "I Think We're Alone Now" / "Home" (original mix))

Germany; 7" / 12"

Greece; 7" / 12" (b: "Home")

Italy (early 1980); 7" (b: "Home" (remix, as released on "Stateless" (third release))); also promo

Japan; 7"

Mexico (1980); 7" / 12" (b: "Home")

Netherlands (10 March 1979); 7" / 12"

New Zealand; 7" / 12"

Portugal; 7" / 12"

Spain; 7" / 12"; 7" also promo

US (June 1979); 7" (see above) / 12" (promo; a: "Lucky Number" (extended version ("Slavic Dance Version")) // b: "Lucky Number" / "Lucky Number" (Version)) / 12" (promo; a: "Lucky Number" (extended version ("Slavic Dance Version")) // b: "Home" (remix, as released on "Stateless" (third release)) / "I Think We're Alone Now"); 7" also promo

"Lucky Number" (Version), (extended version): Also released on "Toy Box" 4-CD set (2023).

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"Say When" (remix)

Remixed for "Stateless" (third release) (released after "Say When" single; see albums discography).

7"
a: "Say When"
b: "One Lonely Heart"

12"
a: "Say When"
b: "One Lonely Heart" / "Big Bird"

"One Lonely Heart", "Big Bird" recorded in late March 1979.

UK (11 May 1979); 7" / 12"; 7" also promo (single-sided) ((? 04 May) 1979)

Australia (August 1979); 7" / 12" (limited)

Belgium; 7" (b: "One Lonely Heart" / "Big Bird")

France; 7"

Germany; 7"

Italy (August 1979); 7" (b: "Home" (original mix, as released on "Stateless" (first and second releases (both unreleased in Italy; see albums discography)))); also promo

Netherlands (19 May 1979); 7" / 12"

New Zealand; 7" (b: "I Think We're Alone Now")

Spain; 7"; also promo

"One Lonely Heart", "Big Bird": Also released on various CDs.

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"Bird Song"

7"

a: "Bird Song"

b: "Trixi"

12"

a: "Bird Song"

b: "Too Tender (To Touch)" (remix, as released on "Stateless" (third release)) / "Trixi"

UK (28 September 1979); 7" / 12"; 7" also promo / 12" also promo (very limited; single-sided; picture disc)

Australia (November 1979); 7"

Belgium; 7" (b: "Too Tender (To Touch)" / "Trixi")

Germany; 7" / 12" (b: "Too Tender (To Touch)"

France; 7" / 12"

Japan (May 1980); 7" / 12" (b: "Trixi"); 7" also promo

Netherlands (06 October 1979); 7"

Scandinavia; 7" / 12"

Spain; 7"; also promo

"Trixi": Also released on various CDs.

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"Angels"

7"

a: "Angels"

b: "The Fly"

12"

a: "Angels"

b: "The Fall" / "The Fly"


"The Fall" mixed on 04 February 1980.

UK (18 January 1980); 7" / 12" (February 1980); 7" also promo

Australia (October 1980); 7"

Belgium; 7"; translucent orange vinyl

Japan; 7"

Netherlands (26 January 1980); 7"

New Zealand; 7"

Portugal; 7"

Spain; 7"; also promo

"The Fly", "The Fall": Also released on various CDs.

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"What Will I Do Without You" (single version)

Different recording than album version.

double 7"

1 a: "What Will I Do Without You"
1 b: "Joan"
2 a: "Monkey Talk" (live) / "The Night" (live)
2 b: "Too Tender (To Touch)" (live) / "You Can't Kill Me" (live)

Recorded in 1979.

Disc 2: Live at the Lyceum/London, 03 February 1980. Produced and mixed by Bazza.

UK (14 March 1980); double 7"; disc 1 also jukebox promo

Australia (April 1980); 7" (disc 1) / double 7" (limited)

France; double 7"

Germany (April 1980); 7" (a: "What Will I Do Without You" / "The Night" (live) // b: "You Can't Kill Me" (live) / "Monkey Talk" (live)) / double 7" (limited, 300 copies)

Italy; double 7"

Netherlands (05 April 1980); double 7"

Portugal; 7" (a: "What Will I Do Without You" / "The Night" (live) // b: "Too Tender (To Touch)" (live) / "You Can't Kill Me" (live))

Also released on "Hotel Blue" compilation album (vinyl) (Italy (1982)) and "Toy Box" 4-CD set (2023).

Live tracks from disc 2: Also released on "Toy Box" 4-CD set (2023).

See also "Other releases" section for "What Will I Do Without You" (album version).

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"The Night" (remix)

7"

a: "The Night"
b: "Monkey Talk" (live)


"The Night" remixed on 05 February 1980 for single release.

"Monkey Talk" (live) as released on "What Will I Do Without You" double 7".

US (March 1980 (acetate pressing 12 March 1980; not actual release date)); also promo (a: "The Night" (remix) // b: "The Night" (remix))

Also released on "Toy Box" 4-CD set (2023).

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"New Toy"

7"
a: "New Toy"
b: "Cats Away" (single mix)

Wrong speed for "Cats Away" on German 7" release, due to pressing error. The record itself plays at 45 rpm, but the speed of the b-side track is like playing a 33 rpm record at 45 rpm.

cassette

a: "New Toy" / "Cats Away" (single mix)

b: "New Toy" (Extended Version) / "Cats Away" (single mix)

12"
a: "New Toy" (Extended Version)
b: "Cats Away" (single mix)

12" (EP) (Japan)

1: "New Toy" / "Lucky Number" (extended version ("Disco Version")) / "Bird Song" (edited intro)

2: "Cats Away" (single mix) / "Joan" / "Details" (first version)

Listed separately because this is the only vinyl release of "Details" (first version) in good audio quality. "Details" (first version) has been previously released on the "Riding High" soundtrack album (see "Other recordings" page) in low-standard audio quality.

See also upcoming screen/soundtracks/acting overview for "Details" (first version - instrumental), and upcoming detailed overview of all songs.

"Lucky Number" (extended version) (as released in 1979) called "Disco Version" on this release.

This EP (released in spring 1981) and two other 12" EPs also called "New Toy" (see below) are often incorrectly regarded as variations of the actual "New Toy" EP (see albums discography), to which they are in fact NOT related.

Those three EPs were released by local record labels without input from Lene or Stiff Records, while the actual "New Toy" EP (Epic Records, US, July 1981; also released in Canada and Australia) was an official new release which appeared for completely different reasons than these three others, and separate from the "New Toy" single release (see No Man's Land Rumours and Mysteries page).

-The Japanese "New Toy" six-track 12" EP (see above) is not a variation of the actual "New Toy" EP, but a different format of the "New Toy" single release. It was issued by the local record label instead of releasing "New Toy" in usual 7" / 12" single format.

At the time of its release (spring 1981) there had been no plans yet for the actual "New Toy" EP on Epic Records in America (July 1981).

-The Australian limited "New Toy" six-track 12" EP (see below) is not a variation of the actual "New Toy" EP, but a different format of the "New Toy" single release.

At the time of its release (spring 1981) there had been no plans yet for the actual "New Toy" EP on Epic Records in America (July 1981), which was also released in Australia later in the same year.

-The French "New Toy" five-track compilation 12" EP (see "Other releases" section) was released by the local record label in France in late 1982 or 1983, and is also unrelated to the actual "New Toy" EP.

Also, these three releases are not related to one another.

"Cats Away" (single mix) different to later released "New Toy" EP mix; see albums discography.

UK (13 February 1981); 7" / cassette (February 1981) (limited) / 12" (March 1981); 7" also promo (around early February 1981)

Australia (April 1981); 7" / 12" (EP; limited; 1: "New Toy" (Extended Version) / "Cats Away" (single mix) // 2: "Monkey Talk" (live) / "The Night" (live) / "Too Tender (To Touch)" (live) / "You Can't Kill Me" (live) (live recordings from "What Will I Do Without You" double 7"; see above))

Belgium; 7" / 12"

France; 7" / 12" (limited)

Germany; 7" (see above about wrong speed for b-side track) / 12"; 7" also promo

Italy; 7"

Japan (late March or April 1981); 12" (EP) (see above)

Mexico; 12"

Netherlands (14 March 1981); 7"

New Zealand; 7"

Spain; 7"; also promo

US; 12" (promo; a: "New Toy" (Extended Version) // b: "New Toy" (not listed on sleeve) / "Cats Away" (single mix)) (see also "Formerly planned releases" section) / 12" (promo; a: "New Toy" (Extended Version) // b: "New Toy")

Yugoslavia; 7"

"New Toy" (Extended Version), "Details" (first version), "Bird Song" (edited intro): Also released on "Toy Box" 4-CD set (2023).

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"Blue Hotel" (single recording)

Different song than earlier written and recorded - but later released - same-titled song from "No Man's Land".

7" (Italy)
a: "Blue Hotel"
b: "Details" (re-recording) (as previously released on "New Toy" EP; see albums discography)

7" (Germany)
a: "Blue Hotel"
b: "O Seasons O Castles" (complete)

"O Seasons O Castles" recorded around early 1982.

German single listed separately because it is one of two releases on which "O Seasons O Castles" was originally available in its complete form (see also entry for "Maria").

(Mix for French TV film "Rock" on all CD releases except "Toy Box" (see below). Differences to mix from vinyl singles: about 20 seconds shorter and one vocal sound by Lene omitted.)

Italy (January or February 1982)

Germany ((? around May) 1983); blue vinyl; also promo (blue vinyl)

"Blue Hotel" (single recording): Also released on "Hotel Blue" compilation album (vinyl) (Italy (1982)) and various CDs.

"O Seasons O Castles" (complete): Also released on "Toy Box" 4-CD set (2023).

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"It's You, Only You (Mein Schmerz)"

12" (US, Canada)
a: "It's You, Only You (Mein Schmerz)" (Extended Dance Mix)
b: "It's You, Only You (Mein Schmerz)" (Version)

7"
a: "It's You, Only You (Mein Schmerz)" (single mix)
b: "Blue"

12" (UK)
a: "It's You, Only You (Mein Schmerz)" (Remixed Extended 12" Version)
b: "Blue" / "It's You, Only You (Mein Schmerz)" (Version) (not listed on label or sleeve)

12" (Mexico)
a: "It's You, Only You (Mein Schmerz)" (Remixed Extended 12" Version (about 27 seconds longer than on UK release))
b: "Blue" / "It's You, Only You (Mein Schmerz)" (Version) (not listed on label or sleeve)

Single mix: Different to album mix.

Extended Dance Mix, Version: Mixed by Bob Clearmountain, Dick Wingate, Jane Brinton.

Remixed Extended 12" Version: Mixed by Lene Lovich, Les Chappell.

Version: Instrumental version with some vocals.

US (20 October 1982); 12" / 7" (January 1983); 7" also promo (a: "It's You, Only You (Mein Schmerz)" (single mix) // b: "It's You, Only You (Mein Schmerz)" (single mix))

UK (22 October 1982); 7" (with limited picture disc edition (29 October 1982)) / 12"; 7" also promo

Australia (January 1983); 7" (limited)

Belgium; 7"

Canada (1982); 12" / 7" (1983)

Germany; 7"; also promo

Japan (1983); 7" (b: "Faces"); also promo

Mexico (1983); 12" (see above for difference to UK release)

Netherlands (22 December 1982); 7"

Portugal (1983); 7"

Scandinavia (November 1982); 7"

South Africa; 7"

Spain; 7"; also promo

"It's You, Only You (Mein Schmerz)" (single mix): Also released on "Flex... plus" album (CD) (US (1991)).

"It's You, Only You (Mein Schmerz)" (Extended Dance Mix), (Version), (Remixed Extended Version): Also released on "Toy Box" 4-CD set (2023).

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"Blue Hotel" (from "No Man's Land")

Different song than later written and recorded - but earlier released - same-titled single recording (see above).

12"
a: "Blue Hotel" (Dance Mix)
b: "Blue Hotel"

7"

a: "Blue Hotel"

b: "Savages" (album version)

"Blue Hotel" (Dance Mix): Mixed by Jane Brinton, John Morales, Sergio Muntibai on 02 March 1983.

US (March 1983); 12" / 7" (April 1983); 12" also promo / 7" also promo (a: "Blue Hotel" // b: "Blue Hotel")

"Blue Hotel" (Dance Mix): Also released on "Toy Box" 4-CD set (2023).

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"Maria"

7" (Australia)
a: "Maria"
b: "O Seasons O Castles" (complete)

Initially planned for UK release (see "Formerly planned releases" section).

"O Seasons O Castles" recorded around early 1982.

Listed separately because the Australian release is one of two releases on which "O Seasons O Castles" was originally available in its complete form (see also entry for "Blue Hotel" (single recording)).

(Mix for French TV film "Rock" on all CD releases except "Toy Box" (see below). Differences to mix from vinyl singles: about 20 seconds shorter and one vocal sound by Lene omitted.)

Australia (late April or early May 1983)

Italy (around May 1983); 7" (b: "It's You, Only You (Mein Schmerz)") / 12" (promo; a: "Maria" // b: "It's You, Only You (Mein Schmerz)"); 7" also promo

Spain (May 1983); 7" (b: "Savages" (album version)); also promo

"O Seasons O Castles" (complete): Also released on "Toy Box" 4-CD set (2023).

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"Don't Kill the Animals" (single re-recording) [Lene Lovich / Nina Hagen]

7"
a: "Don't Kill the Animals"
b: "Don't Kill the Animals" (Instrumental - single edit)

12"
a: "Don't Kill the Animals" (Disco Version)
b: "Don't Kill the Animals" (Instrumental) / "Don't Kill the Animals"


Disco Version: Extended version.

Instrumental, Instrumental - single edit: Instrumental version with some vocals.

Released prior to original recording (called Rescue Version; see "Other recordings" page).

Germany (autumn 1986); 7" / 12"

France; 7" / 12"

South Africa; 7" / 12"

Spain; 7" / 12"

UK (06 January 1987); 7" / 12"

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"Wonderland" (single re-recording)

12"
a: "Wonderland" (New York Dance Mix) / "Wonderland" (New York Dance Mix - radio edit)

b: "Wonderland" (London Dance Mix) / "Wonderland" (London Dance Mix - radio edit)

cassette

a: "Wonderland" (New York Dance Mix - radio edit) / "Wonderland" (New York Dance Mix)

b: "Wonderland" (London Dance Mix - radio edit) / "Wonderland" (London Dance Mix)

CD

"Wonderland" (New York Dance Mix) / "Wonderland" (New York Dance Mix - radio edit) / "Wonderland" (London Dance Mix) / "Wonderland" (London Dance Mix - radio edit)

New York Dance Mix, New York Dance Mix - radio edit: Additional production and remix by Yvonne Turner, Goh Hotoda. Programmed by Alan Friedman.

London Dance Mix, London Dance Mix - radio edit: Remix by Lene Lovich, Les Chappell. Additional bass by Mark White.

New York Dance Mix - radio edit contains additional vocal elements.

Recorded in 1988 or early 1989; released prior to earlier recorded album version (see albums discography).

See also "Other recordings" page for further remixes.

US (around summer 1989); 12" / cassette (limited)

Australia; 12"

Canada; 12"

Germany; CD

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"Make Believe" (single mix)

7"
a: "Make Believe"
b: "Shadow Walk"


Transposed verses compared to album version (see albums discography).

Australia (April 1990); limited; also promo

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"Shapeshifter" [Lene Lovich / Comical Brothers]

Fragmentary versions of track from "Shadows and Dust" album, prior to its release (see albums discography).

CD
"Shapeshifter" (Comicals Mix) / "Shapeshifter" (I Could Be You Mix) / "Shapeshifter" (Subsonic Legacy Mix)

Based around loop by Comical Brothers (see upcoming detailed overview of all songs).

Track 1 mixed by Comical Brothers. Track 2 mixed by Lene Lovich and Les Chappell. Track 3 mixed by Subsonic Legacy (no input from original artists).

(12 December 1999; from UK)

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"The Wicked Witch" [Latz / Lene Lovich]

10" (EP)
a: "The Wicked Witch" (Monitor Mix) / (Latz: "Survive the Machines" (The Wicked Mix))
b: "Home" / (Latz: "Towers")


"The Wicked Witch", "Home" - vocals and "additional construction" by Lene Lovich, Les Chappell

"The Wicked Witch": Song title by Latz (inspired from film "The Wizard of Oz", 1939); lyrics by Lene Lovich.

"The Wicked Witch" (Monitor Mix) previously available on "Dracfest tape" (September 1997; see "Other recordings" page).

"The Wicked Witch" recorded and mixed by Lene Lovich and Les Chappell) in 1994. "Home" recorded in 1995 and mixed in late 1996.

See also "Other recordings'' page for "The Wicked Witch" (album mix) and upcoming detailed overview of all songs.

(01 April 2000; from Germany); limited (523 copies); clear vinyl

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"Savages" [Lene Lovich Band]


Recorded some years before release.

online release (04 January 2019)

Also released on "Wild at Heart: Locked in the Dressing Room" sampler album (vinyl) (early 2021) (see "Other recordings" page).

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Formerly planned releases:


"Home" (original mix, as released on "Stateless" (first release))

7"
a: "Home"
b: "Writing on the Wall" (original mix, as released on "Stateless" (first release))


Withdrawn.

UK (November 1978 (single-sided test pressing marked 11 September 1978, prior to album release))

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"The Night" (remix)

As released on US single (see main section).

Intended for release by Stiff Records, but withdrawn because Lene opted for "What Will I Do Without You" (single version) instead.

UK (March 1980)

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"New Toy"

12"
a: "New Toy" (Extended Version)
b: "New Toy" / "Cats Away" (single mix)

Withdrawn because Epic Records decided to release "New Toy" (EP) instead (see albums discography).

See also main section for US promo release.

US (March 1981)

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"Never Never Land"

Intended for release by Lene, but Stiff Records boss Dave Robinson was not interested.

UK (1981)

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"Sister Video"

Intended for release by Lene.

(1983)

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"Maria"

7"
a: "Maria"
b: "Savages" or "O Seasons O Castles" (complete)

Withdrawn.

See also main section for releases in Australia, Italy, Spain.

For "O Seasons O Castles" (complete), see also entries for "Blue Hotel" (single recording) and "Maria" at main section.

UK (06 May 1983)

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"Walk Like an Egyptian"

See upcoming detailed overview of all songs.

(1985)

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"Hold on to Love"

One source claims this release was intended to be a remix. However, this is unconfirmed; perhaps it was just a single edit of the album recording.

Withdrawn.

Australia (October or November 1990)

See also "Other releases" section for "Hold on to Love" (as released on "March").

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Other releases:

12" (album length) (promo)

"Lene Lovich speaks" (interview)

UK (1979)

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"Home" (single edit)

Single edit of remix from "Stateless" (third release).

7"
a: "Home"
b: "Writing on the Wall" (remix, as released on "Stateless" (second and third releases))

US (August 1979); also promo (a: "Home" (single edit) // b: "Home" (single edit))

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"Writing on the Wall"

Remix, as released on "Stateless" (second and third releases).

acetate 7"

single-sided

US (1979)

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12" (album length) (promo)

"Interview"

Canada (1980)

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7" (flexi-disc) (promo)

"What Will I Do Without You" (album version) (extract) / "Bird Song" (extract) / "The Night" (album version) (extract)

Track 1 segues into track 2; track 2 segues into track 3.

US (1980)

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"What Will I Do Without You" (album version)

12" (promo)

a: "What Will I Do Without You"

b: "Angels" / "The Night" (album version)

US (1980)

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"Lucky Number"

7" (promo)

a: "Lucky Number"

b: "What Will I Do Without You" (album version)

Canada (1980)

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"What Will I Do Without You" (album version) / "Lucky Number"

7"
a: "What Will I Do Without You"
b: "Lucky Number"

Yugoslavia ((? April) 1980)

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"1980 Global Assault"

10" (EP) (promo)

a: "Monkey Talk" (live) / "The Night" (live) / "Too Tender (To Touch)" (live)

b: "Angels" (live) / "Lucky Number" (live) / "Home" (live)

a: Live at the Lyceum/London, 03 February 1980 (as released on "What Will I Do Without You" single). Produced and mixed by Bazza.

b: Live at Paradise Theater/Boston, 15 March 1980. Mixed by Barry Taylor, Dick Wingate.

US (1980)

b: Also released on "Toy Box" 4-CD set (2023).

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"Lucky Number"

7"
a: "Lucky Number"
b: "New Toy"

Released when "Lucky Number" was used on TV commercial for KP Nuts.

UK (21 May 1982); also promo

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"New Toy"

12" (EP)
a: "New Toy" / "Lucky Number" / "Say When"
b: "It's You, Only You (Mein Schmerz)" / "Bird Song"

See note at entry for "New Toy" at main section.

France (late 1982 or 1983)

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"Lucky Number" / "Blue Hotel"

7"
a: "Lucky Number"
b: "Blue Hotel" (from "No Man's Land")

Spain (1984)

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"Lucky Number" / "Bird Song"

7"
a: "Lucky Number"
b: "Bird Song"

Philippines (1984)

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"Lucky Number" (extended version (not mentioned on disc or sleeve))

As released in 1979 (see main section).

12"
a: "Lucky Number"
b: "New Toy"

Released as part of CBS Special Products series.

US (early 1988)

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"Blue Hotel" (Dance Mix) / "It's You, Only You (Mein Schmerz)" (Extended Dance Mix)

"Blue Hotel" (Dance Mix) as released in 1983; "It's You, Only You (Mein Schmerz)" (Extended Dance Mix) as released in 1982 (see main section).

12"
a: "Blue Hotel"
b: "It's You, Only You (Mein Schmerz)"

Released as part of Mixed Masters series.

US (February 1988)

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"Hold on to Love"

7"
a: "Hold on to Love"
b: "Natural Beauty"

cassette

a: "Hold on to Love" / "Natural Beauty"

b: "Hold on to Love" / "Natural Beauty"

See also "Formerly planned releases" section.

Australia (October 1990 or 12 November 1990); cassette limited; 7" also promo

Illinois Entertainer (30 December 2005)

Hi, My Name Is Lene

IE: Your new album, Shadows And Dust, is infused with supernatural themes.

LL: We deal with the real world everyday. It gets a little tedious [laughs]. I've always been interested in unnatural and spooky things. I'm not really so much into horror for the sake of people dying and blood and gore and that sort of thing. I've always loved stories and myths and legends and anything that has a science fiction or fantasy element to it.

IE: What is the secret to the longstanding creative collaboration between you and your husband, Les Chappell?

LL: I suppose that to a great degree we like similar things and we have similar standards. We won't stop until we get it right. If one of us is losing a little bit of energy, then we have the other to say [laughs], "This isn't really right. We have to go to the next stage."

IE: One question on everyone's mind is about the more than 15-year gap between the release of March and Shadows And Dust. Did motherhood play a part in your absence?

LL: Of course, I don't know how people can do such an important job and also do other jobs. I can't see how it can be done. It also came at a time when the music business was not so much fun for me. So, it was not a difficult decision for me.

IE: As an artist and performer, to what would you attribute your longevity?

LL: I think you have to continuously excite yourself [laughs], if that doesn't sound too rude. You have to want to do it for some other reason apart from making a living. That's not been the main thing [for me]. The main thing is to create something that's never been before. To make something exciting happen.

Record (US; 5/1983)

It's one thing for an artist to finance a record, but when an artist lays out thousands of dollars for a world tour of sorts, that, as the expression has it, is a whole 'nother smoke.

Yet Lene Lovich is opening up her own purse to pay for a four-month jaunt through North America, Australia, Japan, Thailand and India. [Note: Concerts in Thailand, India (Bombay), Hong Kong were scheduled, but eventually did not take place. There had also been plans for 1983 concerts in Yugoslavia, Rome, UK, but these did not happen either.]

"I've always been attracted to self-made people," Lovich says by way of explaining her strategy. "I'm self-made myself. You know my record label (Stiff) has no more offices here, so I'm totally independent, and it's up to me to take care of things. Right now, I'm here because I want to play in America, I want to thrill myself with music. There's no other reason to be in this business, is there?"

Lovich, who hasn't appeared in the States in some eighteen months, is, by economic necessity, keeping her shows simple.

"We don't do videos, slides, special effects," she explains, "it's a very direct, personal show. I want the audience to know me, and I want to see their faces."

Her current band - guitarist Les Chappell (her writing partner), bassist Ron Francois, drummer Steve Goulding (from The Rumour) and keyboardists Ben Barson and Lindon Connah - is strongly rhythm-oriented, while Lovich's vocals continue, in the artist's words, to "pick up certain frequencies and bear down on them."

She seems reasonably happy with the response to her recent LP, No Man's Land, and expects the tour to revive interest in the record, but the best she is hoping for "is not to lose money".

"What's important," Lovich says, "is that I plan to stay around, and at this point I've never felt more ambitious about the future, never felt more on top of things. I remember as a child growing up in a non-artistic family and being told I couldn't sing. But I kept at it. It's important for all of us to make something happen, to make our mark on the world."

On the Street (Australia; 25 April 1990)

"My brain is a little scrambled, but you have to expect that after a while."

That's how Lene Lovich explains the way she answered the phone like I was a plumber who she called to fix the toilet about three years ago.

We finally establish that work in a completely different sewer and want to know where the wayward and witful surveyor of techno-goth classics such as Lucky Number, New Toy and Bird Song has been for the last year or six.

"It's been frustrating," she sighs in an accent which droops somewhere from mainland Europe between Yugoslavia and Essex. "I've been really close to despair and going crazy.

"I really enjoyed being on Stiff Records in the early days. But they were only concerned with the British charts and commercial success within that small market. They completely ignored anything else happening in the rest of the world. And then they started to ignore my artistic progression."

Actually they told Ms Lovich she could realize anything she liked, as long as it is a cover of a Motown song. And so a cold war began. She kept bringing in new songs. They kept saying no. When the company finally segregated into bankrupt heap, she found the chaos she needed to escape.

Of course, Lene wasn't completely submerged in the primeval slime of this time. You might remember a towering babble of a song she recorded with Nina Hagen, concering the plight of the animals in this human zoo of the world. Lene explains how that all came about.

"Nina came up to my house to record a demo of a completely different song, and she asked me if I was interested in writing a song about animal liberation. I'd always been sympathetic to the cause, but I'd never actually done anything about it.

"I think a lot of people are in that position. All I needed was information, and that's what Nina gave me. Then I was able to make an educated decision about it."

Since that collaboration, Lene has upheld the animal rights issue with a passion. She recently took part in the second Rock Against Fur show in New York, along with The Sugarcubes and Psychedelic Furs, and had a part in a film called "Meathead", along with Captain Sensible. According to Lene, the Captain plays a "demonic Ronald McDonald type of character".

She was cast in a stage show based on the life of Mata Hari, and completed the soundtrack to a musical based on Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher".

With long-time companion/collaborator Les Chappell (remember the bald buy in sunglasses from those old film clips?), Lene has also been raising two kids, Tarzana and Valhalla. If you think naming offspring like an Italian vine swinger and a Glebe cinema show Lene is a bit "cosmic", then you've just won yourself a Kewpie doll.

"I wasn't really that optimistic for a while there," she says. "I really did think the world was going to end in 1984. Then I just got this strong message that the world was going to carry on.

"I feel strongly about the whole reincarnation aspect of things. Apart from wanting it to be good for my children, I want it to be good for myself when I come back."

So you think you'll come back in another form?

"I'm not really sure about coming back as a worm or something like that! I think worms might come back as other worms..."

Lene then told me about regression experiments she went through. "I wanted to find out about anything in a recent life that might have been a musical influence on me."

She warned me against the idea. Apparently it's the most horrible memories that linger close to the surface, and you've got a 90 per cent chance of tuning into an absolute nightmare of a time. She locked into one particularly bad episode and just kept getting it on action replay.

"I think maybe we're not meant to remember much about our past lives. Although it's within us, it's on the back shelf. It's not good to dwell on the past. We're here for this life and we're supposed to be moving forward."

IGNORE [Talk of moving forward brings us nearly to the subject of Lene's new album, "March". The conquering glory of the returning queen? Not quite. "Rage" rattles along nicely with a fuel-injected drum pattern and all the right sequencers, but it has to do battles with lines such as "Got to make an effort for the innocent child, the shape of tomorrow is not so nice". Fine sentiments, but so is the American Constitution.]

"Nightshift" features those famous bat squeaks from the woman with vocal chords made of pure elastic, while "Hold on to Love", with its throbbing bass and ice-cool vocals, should be offered to Grace Jones immediately to provide Les and Lene with the budget for their next five albums.

Still, there's always that voice which can leap from whooping banshee to guttural wildcat in a single bound.

But the most pressing interview question must be saved for the last. What did Lene think of Tiffany's version of "I Think We're Alone Now"?

"Well, to be honest, I liked my version better, but perhaps I'm just being biased. It's a great song - I think anybody can do it."

Perhaps Tiff might have made a go at tackling "Bird Song" on the next record?

"Now that would be interesting!" Lene Lovich laughs. "Wouldn't that be fun?"

Beat Instrumental (about saxophone playing) (UK; 12/1979-01/1980)

"Well, it sort of started as an accident really," says Stiff recording artist Lene Lovich when saxophone is introduced into the conversation. "I was at art school for a while and didn't really get on with the other students, so I was always making excuses to skip off. And in the end I found out I'd made friends with a lot of theatre people."
Eventually Lene was offered a chance to appear in a mixed media show by band-leader Bob Flag, whose acquaintance she'd made when the pair of them found themselves selling old clothes side by side in a London street market. "He was a sax player and he said he'd teach me just parrot fashion."

Lene wasn't a total novice with musical instruments, it transpires. "I'd learned a few chords on guitar and tried violin, but never with much success. I think a lot of people get put off because they start off on the wrong instrument," says Lene, emphasising that she only found true happiness once she discovered the joys of sax. "I couldn't really play so I bought one of these tune-a-day books, but I never got past that first page. I never did rehearse much. I'm just not into sitting in a room, I guess.

"I started out on alto but quickly changed to tenor - partly through lack of ability," Lene adds with a self-deprecating laugh. "Tenor's a much more all-round instrument, really good for rhythm. I really loved all the old soul stuff, Stax, Motown and so on, where the sax parts are just punctuation marks really."
Pretty soon, Lene was part of an all-girl cabaret act. "But it all collapsed after a few weeks. We had this booking on the Greek island of Rhodes but it took so long to get there, travelling overland, that the trumpeter just lost her lip.
"An additional complication was that the promoter had received this picture of me doing Oriental dance and so he expected me to do that as well as play and I wasn't prepared to do that any more.
"I did some more bits and pieces including more theatre shows but for most of it I felt like I wasn't really playing at all," says Lene of the dim period between starting and becoming her present, increasingly successful self.

Cut to instrument details section: "The guy that first taught me played a Selmer Mk 6 and was very adamant about it being the best sax in the world. At the time I had an alto that was an American Martin, but I switched to a Selmer 6 as advised and stuck to it. I just like the way the keys are laid out and the actual sound of this particular sax. I've never wanted to change."

Mouth-pieces are a source of constant experiment, says Lene. "I don't like it too close because I've built up a much tougher embouchure than I had when I started: I need something I can get more of an edge into."
Her current model's a Berg-Larson, "which isn't made anymore as far as I know. They do a stainless steel one and you can get a much harder sound, but this one does give you a little bit of mellowness as well.
"Every three months or so I try one of those plastic mouthpieces but I guess you get more power with metal. Perhaps if my technique was better I'd feel differently.
"Also, with the kind of gigs we play, there's always a chance of being knocked about when people climb onstage and so on. So in that sense I'd prefer plastic; you wouldn't get quite so much of a bang that way."

Amplification? "It's difficult to find a bug that'll give you a true sax sound. There was one bug I tried that had a little piece of chewing gum that you stuck onto the reed. Barcus Berry, I think. The problem is they're very easy to break if you like to move around onstage.
"With reeds, it's very important to pick one that suits your mouthpiece and your style of playing. I've ended up settling for Rice Royal.
"Reeds are a shocking price now, and they're so fragile. When I'm buying new reeds I always ask to choose them myself because a lot of times you'll ask for a 3 and end up with something more like a 4 or a 2. You can alter them with reed clippers but it's very hit or miss. You can also use very fine sandpaper on them but I usually end up making a mess if I try and adjust a reed that way.
"So I like to pick them out myself. I don't like it if a reed's got too many heavy lines. Also I like to see a good heart, a nice even moon shape and a nice even curve."

Getting a good sax sound in the studio can be a problem, Lene agrees. "It's difficult to get a good sound. And tone is much more important to me than technique - I'm not that much into a syrupy, romantic sound from a sax - I don't particularly like Stan Getz. Junior Walker stands out for putting feeling into his playing. For me, he combines tone and technique better than anybody.
"Modern studios, they have all these EQs and things so all I can hope for is to play a bit then go back and listen to it, and just keep trying until it's right."

General playing for Lene's very black and white: "I just like to go for a very natural sound or its complete opposite, say play alongside a synthesizer, for example. And then it doesn't matter if people realise there's a sax playing along or not.
"But when I want them to know it's sax, then I really want them to know," she says emphatically.

Albums discography (includes overview of "Stateless" releases)

"Stateless"

Scroll down for the story behind the different releases of "Stateless".

(Note: Lene's first album has obviously improved a lot when it was remixed not long after its original release. Because the original mix still has a certain charm of its own and also some notable elements are not there on the remix, these elements will be listed on a separate page soon.)

"Stateless" (first release)

1:
"Lucky Number"
"Sleeping Beauty"
"Home"
"Too Tender (To Touch)"
"Say When"

2:
"Tonight"
"Writing on the Wall"
"Telepathy"
"Momentary Breakdown"
"One in a 1,000,000"
"I Think We're Alone Now"


Guide vocals on "Sleeping Beauty", "Too Tender (To Touch)", "Say When", "Momentary Breakdown" (see below for story behind the different "Stateless" releases).

Same cover as second release.

Grey labels for UK release (yellow labels for second UK release; see below).

"Stateless" (second release)

1:
"Lucky Number" (single remix)
"Sleeping Beauty"
"Home"
"Too Tender (To Touch)"
"Say When" (difference in the mix to first release, on first instrumental break)

2:
"Tonight" (remix)
"Writing on the Wall" (remix)
"Telepathy" (remix)
"Momentary Breakdown" (remix)
"One in a 1,000,000"
"I Think We're Alone Now"


Remixed tracks: "Lucky Number" (remix for single release, prior to remixes of other tracks), "Tonight", "Writing on the Wall", "Telepathy", "Momentary Breakdown".
"Lucky Number": Re-recorded vocals (vocals on first release are not guide vocals). "Momentary Breakdown": Guide vocals replaced by proper vocals.

"Sleeping Beauty", "Home", "Too Tender (To Touch)", "Say When", "One in a 1,000,000", "I Think We're Alone Now" same as on first release (except the above-mentioned difference on "Say When").

Same cover as first release.

Yellow labels for UK release (grey labels for first UK release; see above).

Cover of "Stateless" (third release) used for some UK cassette editions of second release (see below for story behind the different "Stateless" releases).

Because an error had occurred at the pressing plant, a number of UK pressings were in fact "Stateless" (first release), despite the information on the sleeve designating them to be the second release.



"Stateless" (third release) (proper remix album)

1:
"Home" (remix)
"Sleeping Beauty" (remix)
"Lucky Number" (single remix)
"Too Tender (To Touch)" (remix)
"Say When" (remix)

2:
"Writing on the Wall" (remix)
"Telepathy" (remix)
"Momentary Breakdown" (remix)
"I Think We're Alone Now"
"One in a 1,000,000"
"Tonight" (remix)


Additional remixed tracks: "Home", "Sleeping Beauty", "Too Tender (To Touch)", "Say When".

"Sleeping Beauty", "Too Tender (To Touch)", "Say When": Guide vocals replaced by proper vocals.

"Lucky Number", "Writing on the Wall", "Telepathy", "Momentary Breakdown", "Tonight" same as on second release.
"I Think We're Alone Now", "One in a 1,000,000" same as on first and second releases.

Different cover than first and second releases.

French release: Initial pressings had the third release's running order, but still used the first album cover (from the album's first and second releases). The third release's standard edition (with the different cover) was used for later pressings of the French release.

Drop-out at the beginning of "Lucky Number" removed during remasterings for the releases on Flex Music (2014) and "Toy Box" 4-CD set (2023).

All CD releases of "Stateless" are the third release, no matter which cover or running order they have (first and third releases both included on the "Toy Box" 4-CD set).

"Stateless":

"Lucky Number": Re-recording (first recording released on b-side of "I Think We're Alone Now" single; see singles discography).

Recorded in July and August 1978.

Credits:
(Additional information from interview with Lene in Look-In magazine, early 1979)
"I did play a little violin on the album. Also some tuned percussion - glockenspiel and tubular bells. That's the sort of music I like. You create that sound however you can get it - if it needs a teapot, then use a teapot. We tore apart a telephone and used the bell on some numbers."

(From original album credits, with additional information from Lene's liner notes of Japanese CD re-issue (2001))

Lene Lovich: vocals, saxophone, violin, tuned percussion, unearthly noises
Les Chappell: guitars, EMS synthesizer, percussions, backing vocals
Bobby Irwin: trap drums, percussion, backing vocals
Ron Francois: bass, percussion, backing vocals
Nick Plytas: keyboards (Hammond organ, piano)
Jeff Smith: Polyphonic synthesizer, solina
Don Snow: piano solo on "Too Tender" ("Stateless" third release)

Vic Young: bass on "I Think We're Alone Now"

A Stateless Production for Oval
 (From Lene's liner notes of Japanese CD re-issue (2001): "Produced by The Stateless for Oval")
Recorded at Pathway, Eden and Wessex Studios
Engineered: Pete Fox, Aldo Bocca, Roger Bechirian, Jeremy Green
Mixed: Roger Bechirian
Remix: Roger Bechirian (remixed tracks on second release and third release)
Post-production and remix on "Lucky Number" supervised by Dave Robinson
Cover photos: Brian Griffin
Design and cover art: Chris Morton
 First sleeve: Cover photos by Keith Collie. Inner photos by Glad Rocksoffski
Special thanks to Charlie Gillett, Gordon Nelki and Dave Robinson
An Oval Vision

First release:

UK (06 October 1978); issued on red vinyl, picture disc, black vinyl

France (test pressing 05 December 1978; not actual release date)

Germany

Japan (1979)

Also released on "Stateless" 2-CDr set (CDr 1: third release; CDr 2: first release (running order of third release (as originally intended))) (very limited) (2014) and "Toy Box" 4-CD set (original running order of first release) (2023).

All other CD releases of "Stateless" are the third release, no matter which cover or running order they have.

Second release:

UK (20 February 1979); with limited edition on genuine black vinyl; replaced first release

Australia (April 1979); with limited edition on transparent pale yellow vinyl

Belgium

Germany; replaced first release

Israel

Netherlands; with limited edition on transparent red vinyl

New Zealand

Portugal

Spain

Venezuela (1982)

Third release:

US (June 1979); with very limited edition on red/black marbled vinyl

Canada

France (possibly released prior to US release (not confirmed); see third release section above for specifications); replaced first release (second release was not released in France)

Germany; with limited editions on transparent green vinyl and turquois vinyl; replaced second release

Greece

Hong Kong

Italy

Mexico (1981)

Portugal; replaced second release

Scandinavia

South Africa

Spain; replaced second release

UK (1983); replaced second release

Yugoslavia (1980)

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Story behind the different releases of "Stateless"

The first edition of Lene's first album, which was recorded in July and August 1978, was rush-released by Stiff Records on 06 October 1978 in order to coincide with the Be Stiff tour.

The mixing (which likely took place in September 1978) did not turn out very well because of the record's hasty release, and there are guide vocals instead of proper vocals on some of the songs ("Sleeping Beauty", "Too Tender (To Touch)", "Say When", "Momentary Breakdown"; see above).

While Dave Robinson (boss of Stiff Records) did not interfere with the actual content of the album or recording, there was not enough time of consideration for the album's running order and sleeve because he was urging to have the album released in time for the upcoming tour.

A revised running order was eventually used for the third release. This new release also used a different album sleeve. According to Lene, she does like both sleeves.

"I Think We're Alone Now" (recorded at Pathway Studios before Lene got signed with Stiff Records) is the actual demo that was recorded when Lene was with Oval Exiles (only some percussion has been added to that demo recording later at the actual album recording sessions). It is the reason why there is a different bass player for this song than on the rest of the album.

When it was decided that "Lucky Number" would be released as a single, the track was remixed and re-sung around December 1978 (released on 26 January 1979).

It was around this occasion or shortly afterwards (around December 1978 and/or early 1979) that most of the songs from the album were remixed for its upcoming release in America. Lene did not really like the idea at first, because she saw the album as a "document" of what they had been capable of at the time, but in the end she considered the remix work as a chance to eliminate the shortcomings of the original mix.

"I Think We're Alone Now" and "One in a 1,000,000" were not remixed as Lene regarded these songs' mixes as good enough as they are.

For the proper remix album ("Stateless" (third release)), see below.

Dave Robinson from Stiff Records, however, could not leave it alone. Instead of re-releasing the album with all remixed tracks, he put out a different edition of "Stateless" in February 1979, following the release of "Lucky Number" (before that single became a success).

Apart from the single remix of "Lucky Number", only four additional remixes have been included on this second release ("Writing on the Wall", "Telepathy", "Momentary Breakdown", "Tonight"). On "Say When", there is a slight difference to the first release on the first instrumental break. This is likely a different mix from the original recording sessions.

Running order and album cover were kept from the first release.

Perhaps Dave Robinson decided to put out this second release of "Stateless" at some point in the middle of the remixing sessions and just grabbed the remixes that have already been finished, instead of waiting for the remixes of the remaining four tracks to be completed ("Sleeping Beauty", "Home", "Too Tender (To Touch)", "Say When").

It is also possible that all remixing work had actually been completed by that time, but Dave Robinson did not use the remixes of these four tracks simply at whim or random.

The proper remix album with all remixes, now with a revised running order and different album cover, was released on Epic Records in America in June 1979 and subsequently in various other countries (in the UK not before 1983).

However, the remixed album might have been released in France earlier than in America (unconfirmed), albeit with the first album cover (with the third release's running order). "Stateless" (second release) had not been released in France.

The third release's standard edition (with the different cover) was used for later pressings of the French release.

Again, this reflects the general chaos of the release policy at Stiff Records.

The vocals for "Lucky Number" on the first release are apparently not guide vocals, as Lene remembers it to be the only song for which she has actually "re-recorded" the vocals.

As for the songs which had only guide vocals on the original mix, there is some confusion whether the proper vocals for these songs had actually been recorded during the original sessions but remained unused in the overall chaos of the rushed release,

or (more likely) if they were recorded during the remixing.

The remixed version of "Say When" has been released on single in the UK and some other countries (not in America) before the proper remix album came out (except maybe in France; see above).

All CD releases of "Stateless" are the third release (the proper remix album), no matter which cover or running order they have, with the exceptions of a very limited CDr edition of the first release on Flex Music (2014) and the "Toy Box" 4-CD set (2023).

One very noticeable mastering flaw on the remix of "Lucky Number" (drop-out at the beginning) was removed when the recording has been remastered by Jude Rawlins (of Lene Lovich Band) for release on Flex Music (2014). It was also removed during remastering for the release on the "Toy Box" 4-CD set.

More confusion from Stiff Records:

For the second release and the proper remix album (which both came out in 1979), the editions of various (but not all) countries have the year of release for "Stateless" (first release) printed on them ("1978").

The track duration times stated on the label of some countries' editions inaccurately suggest them to be the first release, although they are actually the second release or the proper remix album (the remixes of "Lucky Number", "Sleeping Beauty", "Writing on the Wall" are notably shorter than the original mixes).

Because an error had occurred at the pressing plant, a number of UK pressings of "Stateless" (second release) were in fact "Stateless" (first release), despite the information on the sleeve designating them to be the second release.

The entry for "Stateless" on Discogs.com mentions that some songs have not been remixed but actually been re-recorded. This is inaccurate, as none of the songs are re-recordings. Like it is common with remixing, some newly-recorded elements have been added, and, as mentioned above, the guide vocals used for some tracks on the original mix have been replaced by proper vocals.

Also, the above-mentioned slight difference on "Say When" on the second release is most probably not the result of slight remixing (as stated on Discogs.com and elsewhere), but more likely a previously unused variation from the original recording's mixing session.

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"Flex"

1:
"Bird Song"
"What Will I Do Without You"
"Angels"
"The Night"
"You Can't Kill Me"

2:
"Egghead"
"Wonderful One"
"Monkey Talk"
"Joan"
"The Freeze"

"Monkey Talk": Re-recording (first version released on "Can't Start Dancin'" sampler album; see "Other recordings" page).

Lene and Les Chappell decided to use a recording studio in Holland instead of England, mainly in order to make Dave Robinson stay away from the recording sessions.

Red margin on sleeve for US and Canada releases.

Different cover for US cassette release.

Recorded in August 1979.

Credits:
Lene: "We experimented constantly, using a lot of non-instruments."

(Original album credits)
Lene Lovich: - Voices; - Saxophones.
Les Chappell: - Guitars; - Synthesizer; - Other Voices.
Justin Hildreth: - Drums.
Mark Hayward-Chaplin: - Bass.
Dean Klevatt: Nick Plytas: - Keyboards
Additional voices: - Lene: Les: Justin: Mark: Dean: Roger: Chris Judge Smith.
Recorded at: Wisseloord Studios: Hilversum: Holland
Engineered by: Peter Bord
Produced by: Lene Lovich: Les Chappell: Roger Bechirian: Alan Winstanley.
Cover Art by: C . More . Tone
Photographs by: Brian Griffin
Thanks to: All the stiff people Guinness: for the cover location Bruce Kirkland, for being on the case.
An Oval Vision

(Additional information from Lene's liner notes for 2001 Japanese CD re-issue)
Lene Lovich: supersonic sounds
Les Chappell: programming
Recorded and mixed at Wisseloord Studios, Hilversum/Holland

UK (18 January 1980)

US (February 1980)

Australia

Belgium

Canada

France

Germany; with limited editions on light green vinyl, pink marbled vinyl and maroon vinyl

Greece

Italy

Japan

Netherlands

New Zealand

Portugal

Scandinavia

South Africa

Spain

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"New Toy" (EP), "No Man's Land"

(Note: There are many rumours circulating around Lene's third album. One of these rumours is that Lene has remixed the album or re-recorded songs at the wish of her record company in order to make the recordings more commercial,

or that the tracks on the "New Toy" EP reflect what Lene had in mind for the album, while the album itself does not.

All of this is incorrect.

These misunderstandings mainly go back to liner notes of CD re-releases, which did not tell all the details but only some part of this complicated story, and have been taken too literally by many people.

In addition to this, liner notes or news items often tend to get elaborated by those who write them.

Also, these misunderstandings partly originate in the fact that Lene did not always tell every single detail about the story to interviewers, or because not everything that she said was actually printed.

The above-mentioned unfounded statements about remixing or re-recording have also been made in an article on an early-1980s Stiff Records fanzine sheet, written by somebody who was not well informed for the same reasons.

See No Man's Land Rumours and Mysteries page for information, based on various interviews.)

"New Toy" (12"; EP)

1:
"New Toy"
"Savages"
"Special Star"

2:
"Never Never Land"

"Cats Away"

"Details"

"Cats Away": Different mix than on previously released b-side of "New Toy" single.

"Details": Re-recording (first version was released on "Riding High" soundtrack album and on Japanese "New Toy" six-track 12" EP (prior to actual "New Toy" EP and unrelated to it); see "Other recordings" page and singles discography).

See also upcoming screen/soundtrack/acting overview for "Details" (first version - instrumental).

Originally recorded in order to be released as part of "No Man's Land". The decision to release this EP made room for more tracks on the album itself.

Recorded at Sound-Suite/London, late 1980 (perhaps continuing into early 1981).

Credits:
Lene Lovich: saxophone, trumpet
Les Chappell: guitar, synthesizer, programming
Jeff Smith: synthesizer
Mark Hayward-Chaplin: bass
Justin Hildreth: drums
Dean Klevatt: piano
Thomas Dolby: synthesizer on "New Toy" (perhaps also on other tracks, but unlikely)

US (July 1981)

Australia

Canada

Also released on "Flex...plus" album (CD) (original running order) (US (1991)) and "Toy Box" 4-CD set (not in original running order) (2023).

Note: This release is the actual "New Toy" EP. Three other 12" EPs also called "New Toy" (see singles discography) are often incorrectly regarded as variations of this release, to which they are in fact NOT releated.

Those three EPs were released by local record labels without input from Lene or Stiff Records, while the actual "New Toy" EP (Epic Records, US (July 1981); also released in Canada and Australia) was an official new release that appeared for completely different reasons than these three others, and separate from the "New Toy" single release (see No Man's Land Rumours and Mysteries page).

-The Japanese "New Toy" six-track 12" EP (see entry for "New Toy" at singles discography) is not a variation of the actual "New Toy" EP, but a different format of the "New Toy" single release. It was issued by the local record label instead of releasing "New Toy" in usual 7" / 12" single format.

At the time of its release (spring 1981) there had been no plans yet for the actual "New Toy" EP on Epic Records in America (July 1981).

-The Australian limited "New Toy" six-track 12" EP (see entry for "New Toy" at singles discography) is not a variation of the actual "New Toy" EP, but a different format of the "New Toy" single release. 

At the time of its release (spring 1981) there had been no plans yet for the actual "New Toy" EP on Epic Records in America (July 1981), which was also released in Australia later in the same year.

-The French "New Toy" five-track compilation 12" EP (see "Other releases" section at singles discography) was released by the local record label in France in late 1982 or 1983, and is also unrelated to the actual "New Toy" EP.

Also, these three releases are not related to one another.

 

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"No Man's Land"

1:
"It's You, Only You (Mein Schmerz)"

"Blue Hotel"

"Faces"
"Walking Low"
"Special Star"

2:
"Sister Video"
"Maria"
"Savages"
"Rocky Road"

"It's You, Only You (Mein Schmerz)": Album mix (different to previously released 7" single mix; see singles discography).

"Blue Hotel": Original recording (different song than later written and recorded - but earlier released - same-titled song for Sanremo Festival performance; see singles discography).

"Special Star": Re-recording (first version released on "New Toy" EP).

"Savages": Different mix than on "New Toy" EP.

First intended running order:
side 1: "It's You, Only You (Mein Schmerz)" / "Maria" / "Savages" / "Walking Low" / "Special Star"
side 2: "Sister Video" / "Blue Hotel" / "Faces" / "Rocky Road"

Different cover for US and Canada releases.

First recordings at Sound-Suite/London, late 1980 (perhaps continuing into early 1981), followed by scattered recording and mixing sessions in 1981 (perhaps continuing into 1982).

Most CD releases of "No Man's Land" and compilations that include "Rocky Road" omit the instrumental part at the end of the song, except "Grandes Exitos" / "The Hong Kong Collection", "The Stiff Years Volume Two", "No Man's Land" (CDr / digital download; Flex Music release), "No Man's Land" (Japan (2014)) (?), "Toy Box".

Credits:
Voices: Lene Lovich, Les Chappell
Guitar: Les Chappell
Synthesizer: Les Chappell, Jeff Smith
Bass: Mark Hayward-Chaplin
Drums: Bogdan Wiczling, Justin Hildreth
Piano: Dean Klevatt
Saxophone & Trumpet: Lene Lovich

"Rocky Road": Thomas Dolby on synthesizer appears courtesy of Venice in Peril Records
"Sister Video": Jimmie O'Neill rhythm synthesizer and vocals

Recorded with:
Damian Korner, John Walls, Bryan Evans, Alvin Clark, Peter Rackham, Gordon Fordyce, Martin Rushent, Steve Nye
Recorded/mixed at:
Konk, Wessex, Good Earth, Sound Suite, Basing Street, Genetic, Air
Remixed by:
Bob Clearmountain with Lene Lovich, Les Chappell and Dick Wingate at the Power Station, New York

Photography: Les Chappell

(Additional information from Japanese LP release)
Recording engineers:
"Faces", "Walking Low", "Savages": Alvin Clarke, Peter Rackham [Sound-Suite]
"Blue Hotel": Gordon Fordyce [Good Earth]
"Special Star", "Maria": Martin Rushent [Genetic]
"It's You, Only You (Mein Schmerz)", "Sister Video", "Rocky Road": Steve Nye [Air]

Mixing engineers:
"Faces", "Walking Low", "Special Star": John Walls [Wessex]
"Blue Hotel", "Maria", "Savages", "Rocky Road": Damian Korner [Konk and Basing Street (?)]
"It's You, Only You (Mein Schmerz)", "Sister Video": Bryan Evans [Good Earth]

US (29 October 1982)

UK (12 November 1982); with limited edition on clear vinyl

Australia

Belgium

Canada

Finland

France

Germany

Greece

Israel

Italy

Japan (1983)

Mexico

Netherlands

New Zealand

Portugal

Scandinavia

South Africa

Yugoslavia (1983)

See above for specifications about "Rocky Road" on CD releases.

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"March"

"Life"
"Wonderland"

"Nightshift"
"Hold on to Love"
"Rage"
"Natural Beauty"
"Make Believe"
"Shadow Walk"
"Vertigo"
"Sharman"

cassette

1: "Life" / "Wonderland" / "Nightshift" / "Hold on to Love" / "Rage"

2: "Natural Beauty" / "Make Believe" / "Shadow Walk" / "Vertigo" / "Sharman"

vinyl

1: "Life" / "Wonderland" / "Hold on to Love" / "Rage"

2: "Natural Beauty" / "Make Believe" / "Nightshift" / "Sharman"

"Wonderland": Original recording (different to previously released single re-recording; see singles discography).

In an attempt to produce the album, Lene and Les Chappell have made sort of work-in-progress demo recordings of "Nightshift", "Natural Beauty", "Shadow Walk", "Vertigo" with engineer Mike Thorne in New York around early April 1985. Certain elements recorded at these sessions have been used for the proper recordings at Lene's home.

Recorded at RPM Sound Studios (New York), spring 1985; Lene's home (Norfolk/England), around 1985-1987 (perhaps continuing into 1988).

Credits:
Produced by: Les Chappell and Lene Lovich
Executive Producers: Douglas Lichterman & Tom Milmore
Recorded at: H.O.M.E. Norfolk, England
Mixed at: The Country House, Suffolk, England
Assistant engineers: Mark Reynolds & Mark Gilbert

Lene Lovich: lead voice, saxophone, trumpet, violin
Les Chappell: voice, all other instruments

with Mark Chaplin, bass guitar on "Vertigo", "Sharman" and "Nightshift",
and Gavin Harrison, additional percussion on "Vertigo"

Art Direction by Patrick Roques
Photography by Joseph Astor

Our special thanks go to Douglas Lichterman for making this record a reality.
More thanks to Jeff and Nancy Campbell, Thomas Dolby,
Candice Hanson, Dan Mathews, Lauren and Kris Nelson,
Mary and Loz Netto, Jenny and Gordon Reid, Mike and Leona Sinclair,
David Solari, Marsha Vlasik, Bo Ban, Bryan Cronin,
and Nina Lichterman

This album is dedicated to Tarzana and Valhalla

[H.O.M.E. (Headquarters of Musical Evolution) - home studio of Lene Lovich and Les Chappell.
The Country House - studio of Lene's friend Mary Bird.
Jeff Campbell, Kris Nelson, ?  - members of band Tanz Waffen, who were Lene's tour band in America in 1988, 1989 and 1990 (and for one concert in 1987); they did also play their own set on these tours.
Dan Matthews - Peta executive
Douglas Lichterman - main executive of Pathfinder Records]

US (December 1989); CD

Australia; CD / vinyl

Canada; CD

Germany (1991); CD

Greece (1990); vinyl

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"Shadows and Dust"

"Ghost Story"
"Sanctuary"
"Shapeshifter"

"Remember"
"Gothica"
"Craze"
"The Insect Eater"
"Little Rivers"

"The Wicked Witch"

"Light"

"Shapeshifter": Album version (see singles discography for previously released fragmentary versions).

"The Insect Eater": Album recording (see below for demo recording on "Dracfest tape").

"The Wicked Witch": Lene's own version of previously released collaboration song with Latz (see singles discography and "Other recordings" page).

The running order is different to the track listing on the sleeve because Lene decided to change the running order when the discs were already pressed. First intended (and actual) running order:
"Craze" / "Shapeshifter" / "Sanctuary" / "Remember" / "Gothica" / "Ghost Story" / "The Insect Eater" / "Little Rivers" / "The Wicked Witch" / "Light"

The album title was first mentioned in summer 2002. Previously mentioned titles have been "Gothica" (written on "Dracfest tape", September 1997; see below) and "13 Ghosts" (written on announcement for Brighton concert, May 1998).
In 1998, the album was said to contain thirteen songs (therefore "13 Ghosts"). In July 2002, Lene mentioned that they had nine songs for the album and want to record three more songs. In the end there was one more song - either "Ghost Story" (first heard at New York concert, 31 October 2003) or "Sanctuary" (unknown until album release).

("Dracfest tape": Privately distributed audio cassette (September 1997) which contains the studio versions (as released before) of the songs that she was to play at Dracfest (Whitby/England, 24 September 1997; Lene also played two other UK shows around this one).
Of the two songs which were not yet released, the cassette contains "The Wicked Witch" (Monitor Mix) (as properly released in March 2000; see singles discography and "Other recordings" page) and "The Insect Eater" (demo recording). "The Wicked Witch" is inaccurately labelled "demo recording" on this cassette.)

Recorded at Lene's home, Norfolk/England, mid/late 1990s to 2002. Mixed at Mike Thorne's studio, New York.

Credits:
Produced by Lene Lovich and Les Chappell with Mike Thorne
Recorded in Norfolk, England
Additional recording at the Stereo Society, New York

   Lead vocal, voices, saxophone by Lene Lovich
   Music played by Les Chappell, backing vocals by Les Chappell
   Occasional bass and synthesizer by Mike Thorne

UK transfer and additional recording by James Rosenthal at the Stereo Society, New York

Mixed by Lene Lovich, Les Chappell and Mike Thorne at the Stereo Society, New York

Mastered by Joe Lambert at Classic Sound, New York

Photography by Les Chappell
Cover design by Michael Bulgrin
Alien sculpture by Will Wright (contact: sutregibbon@hotmail.com)

All songs written by Lene Lovich/Les Chappell except:
Track 07 by Heathcote Williams/Julian Standen/Max Reinsch/Lene Lovich/Les Chappell
Track 09 by Lene Lovich/Les Chappell and Bulgrin/Mennicken (Latz at www.bulgrin.de)
Track 03 - thanks for the loop Max and Simo at www.mezzowave.net

   All songs published by Homesongs (M.C.P.S.) 2004 except:
   Track 07 Homesongs (MCPS)/Williams/Standen/Reinsch
   Track 09 Homesongs (MCPS)/Edition Angry Fish Music-Freibank

Production coordination: Amy Caramente

Special thanks to Mike Thorne and Leila Shakkour

Thanks to Chris Good at the Blue Hotel (website: www.bluehotel.co.uk [now defunct])

Contact Lene Lovich: BM LENE LOVICH, London WC1N 3XX UK [now www.lenelovich.net]

[Max and Simo: Comical Brothers - provided the loop around which the music of "Shapeshifter" is based.]

(13 September 2005 (12 September 2005 at record release concert))

1980 tour - Lene's diary

[From Lene's self-published fanzine "Monkey Talk" (summer 1980).
Specifications and commentaries in square brackets by myself.

[Further gigs in 1980:

Liverpool, University of Liverpool, 7th January 1980 (unconfirmed)
Canning Town (East London), Bridge House Pub, 15th August 1980
Nottingham, Theatre Royal, 19th (or maybe 18th) August 1980 (broadcast on Anglia Television in 1981; planned for DVD release by Lene Lovich Band)]

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IRELAND 80
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1980...is here...

where were you on New Year's Eve ? We were lying low in Yorkshire listening close to the boats on the Humber making their salute... I thought this is the calm before the storm - the bloody great tornado !

January... Ireland... we rush in and out and in to Belfast... like fools dodging raindrops, we try to avoid the trouble... but somewhere there's a great survival here... good vibrations... 102 Gt. Victoria Street, Belfast BT1 7BE... Terri Hooley - this is what we want...
Dublin stands deep... rooted... you can't knock it... and the Guiness IS great... ticket prices are too high... I'm really burning... still they came - for us and The Attrix ... no synics or sods ... this audience know how to play ... them and us, we played together...
Galway is good for us... gypsy horse... Mike and Phil snap and chat... life is full of surprises... seems like wherever you go Roogalator got there first...
Limerick... the Supremes cancel... girls, if you only knew the aggravation and prejudice flying around that gig, you would have told the idiots to shove it up their narrow minds and sit on it... maybe you did! ... hot time at the student centre... the whole town turned out...
Tralee kids say we're the best thing since Eric Clapton (?) ... Mike sits on mixing desk in a vain attempt to stop it from dancing... no way... the floor's jumping...
Cork's jinxed... no juice... the crowd hangs on... no... yes... no... something technical... power struggle...everyone's edgy... they hang from the ceiling... they can't breathe... they're getting bored - they must be... everything stops and starts and stops again... o.k.?... yes... we go... it was fine... the best you could expect...everyone was knackered but we gave all we got...
palm trees DO grow in Ireland, Justin... seems you can't put on a real Irish tour without a real Irish promoter - how many did you count Murphy ? ? ? ... looks like The Attrix are destined for better things (sorry about the tee shirts)... God bless the Hot Press... you never know who's watching... Colom... send us some snaps !

[Humber: Large estuary at confluence of Ouse and Trent rivers into the North Sea, on which the city of Hull is located (Lene grew up in Hull in the 1960s; also hometown of Les Chappell).]

[Terri Hooley: Prominent figure in Ulster punk scene; record shop and label owner. Has "discovered" the Undertones.]

[The Atrix: Irish band (1978-80s); lead singer John Borrowman (d. 1998) has also published books of poetry.]

[Gypsy horse: Type of Irish domestic horse.]

[Roogalator: Pub rock band from London (1972-78). Three of its past members would later play for Lene - Bobbi Irwin, Nick Plytas, Justin Hildreth.]

[Tralee: County town in south-west Ireland.]

[Hot Press: Irish music magazine (featured two interviews with Lene in 1979 and 1980).]

LENE'S DIARY.
-intimate details-
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So you thought Lene Lovich had disappeared -read on: "It soon became 1980 - time for the global assault. The prelude was a two-week rehearsal period (with the band) and the release of a second album - "Flex". Our objective ? An international profile. The trend was set when our "warm up" Ireland tour grew into an extensive 8-day blitz (The Supremes cancelled in Limerick due to OUR sellout business !) A stormy return on the Irish Sea and it's out to promote "Flex" on the mainland - shop P.A.'s, radio & T.V. appearances - Scotland to Plymouth. We take up the story in London, Feb 1st - read on if you have the stamina !!"


February

Fri 1 - VISIT CBS FACTORY - ON AIR LBC - FLY TO MANCHESTER (TV SHOW) RETURN TO LONDON

Sat 2 - CAR TO PORTSMOUTH - LUNCHTIME ON AIR - RADIO VICTORY - CHECK OUT ANTIQUE SHOPS

Sun 3 - PLAY SOLD OUT LYCEUM GIG WITH HOLLY & THE ITALIANS, BODYSNATCHERS, MODERN BEATS

Mon 4 - IN THE STUDIO - REMIX "THE FALL" FOR A B-SIDE

Tues 5 - IN THE STUDIO - REMIX "THE NIGHT" FOR USA SINGLE

Wed 6 - DAY OFF - THANKYOU - SCRAMBLE TOGETHER CLOTHES FOR TOUR PERIOD

Thurs 7 - DAY OFF - PAY RENT - TELEPHONE ETC. - HOUSE CAT, GARAGE CAR ETC. ETC.

Fri 8 - DENTIST - TO HEATHROW WITH NUMB MOUTH - FLY TO ROME - OVERNIGHT
Sat 9 - ON TO GREECE - PHOTOS ON ACROPOLIS - PRESS CONFERENCE - TO THE BOUZOUKIS

[Bouzoukias: Nightclubs that feature Greek popular music.]

Sun 10 - TAPE 2ND ONLY ROCK SHOW IN ATHENS - FLY TO LONDON VIA VENNIA

[Television appearance; actual Athens concert took place in April.] / [Vienna (Austria).]

Mon 11 - IN THE STUDIO - MIX "DETAILS" FOR EDDIE KIDD FILM SOUNDTRACK - "HEAVY METAL"

[See non-album tracks page for "Details" [first version]. Recording date unknown. "Heavy Metal" (filmed in autumn 1979) was renamed "Riding High" before its release.]

Tues 12 - ALL DAY IN STUDIO THEN TO MUSIC WEEK AWARDS: TOP FEMALE SINGLES ARTIST '79

Wed 13 - TO HEATHROW - FLY TO MADRID TO TAPE NATIONAL TV SHOW - SPANISH TV

Thurs 14 - FLY TO LONDON - AMERICA IN 2 DAYS. "GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER"

["Guess Who's Coming to Dinner": 1960s film.]

Fri 15 - BACKLINE EQUIPMENT TO VANCOUVER - FINAL FAREWELLS

Sat 16 - DEPART HEATHROW WITH BAND & CREW. SIMON (LIGHTS) SICK ON PERSON IN NEXT SEAT.

Sun 17 - NIGHT OFF IN VANCOUVER - MEET COOK & JONES IN HOTEL LIFT.

[Steve Cook and Paul Jones from Sex Pistols.]

Mon 18 - PLAY SELL OUT FIRST OF 2 NIGHTS IN 1200 CAPACITY COMMODORE BALLROOM

Tues 19 - PLAY 2ND NIGHT SELL OUT CFOX BROADCAST LIVE - AUDIENCE IN ORBIT

Wed 20 - TO SAN FRANCISCO - NIGHT AROUND CLUBS - JOIN FINGERPRINTZ ONSTAGE FOR "SAY WHEN"

[Jimmie O'Neill: Singer and songwriter for Fingerprintz (and later The Silencers); has written "Say When" (before he became a band member of Fingerprintz). Has also written Lene's songs "Telepathy", "Never Never Land", "Sister Video".]

Thurs 21 - PLAY SELL OUT BERKLEY UNIVERSITY - MARTY BALIN IN ATTENDANCE. YEA ?

[Marty Balin: Singer and songwriter for Jefferson Airplane.]

Fri 22 - PLAY TWO NIGHT SELL OUT COMMENCES AT MABUHAY CLUB - FRENZY

Sat 23 - PLAY SECRET MEETING WITH "RESIDENTS" BEFORE MABUHAY - RUN OUT OF ENCORES

[The meeting with the Residents happened on their wish, in order to record the song "Picnic Boy" with Lene on vocals (released on "The Commercial Album" by The Residents in October 1980).]

Sun 24 - PLAY FLY TO LOS ANGELES. FIRST OF 2 NIGHT SELL OUT AT THE WHISKY.

Mon 25 - PLAY DEVO, THE ORCHIDS, ALICE COOPER, VAN HALEN (WHO?) IN ATTENDANCE - TWO SHOWS.

Tues 26 - PLAY ON CAMPUS AT U.C.L.A. - SOLD OUT THE BLACKBOARDS JUNGLE - GOT LOST.

Wed 27 - FLY TO ATLANTA - PARTY ALL NIGHT IN DON DEMPSEY'S SUITE AT HILTON.

[Donald Dempsey (1932-2005): Recording executive; at the time general manager for Epic (Lene's American record company).]

Thurs 28 - PLAY SELL OUT AGORA.BALLROOM WITH "ROMANTICS" - WILD TIME IN THE SOUTH.

Fri 29 - PLAY FLY TO TORONTO - 2 SELL OUTS AT "EL MACOMBO" - FREEZING COLD.

March

Sat 1 - PLAY 2ND NIGHT AT EL MACOMBO - STIFFMATES "MADNESS" IN HOTEL

[One of the two concerts at El Mocambo was recorded for television broadcast.]

Sun 2 - PLAY HOME TOWN IN DETROIT - GREAT NIGHT AT BOOKIES. PEARL THERE

Mon 3 - DAY OFF - VISIT WITH FAMILY - BAND GO ON TO CHICAGO - DEJA VU TIME

Tues 4 - PLAY PARK WEST IN CHICAGO SELLS OUT - APPLE DUMPLING GANG RIDES AGAIN

Wed 5 - PLAY "BEGINNINGS" IN SCHAUMBERG - SOME LIKE IT HOT

[Schaumburg: Located in Chicago area.]

Thurs 6 - PLAY FLY TO CLEVELAND - GIG IN PEACHES RECORD STORE - FUN

Fri 7 - PLAY CAMPUS GIG IN BUFFALO - A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE

Sat 8 - PLAY ALBANY SELL OUT - THE COMPUTER WORE TENNIS SHOES.

Sun 9 - OFF TO NEW HAVEN - BOREDOM LEADS TO BRUCE WOOLEY HOME PORN MOVIES

[Bruce Woolley: Musician, co-writer of "Video Killed the Radio Star". "Bruce Woolley and The Camera Club" were on the bill with Lene on most dates of the American tour. The Camera Club included Lene's future collaborator Thomas Dolby on keyboards until shortly after the tour.]

Mon 10 - PLAY TOADS CLUB NEW HAVEN - ONLY GIG ON TOUR NOT SOLD OUT.

Tues 11 - NIGHT OFF IN NEW YORK - Z RECORDS NIGHT AT HURRAH - LATE NIGHT.

[Lene had just learned the gigs at the Hurrah (New York City) were going to be recorded by "Z" company. The actual gigs took place on 21st and 22nd March. "Monkey Talk" from one of these gigs was released on a DVD compilation in 2007. It was also planned to release the complete concert on DVD; this didn't happen so far.]

Wed 12 - PLAY RUTGERS UNIVERSITY SELL OUT - REINCARNATION OF PETER PROUD.

[Located in New Brunswick/NJ (New York area).]

Thurs 13 - PLAY AMHERST CAMPUS GIG - SOLD OUT AND SNOWED IN

[Located in central Massachusetts.]

Fri 14 - PLAY FIRST OF 3 NIGHT (4 SHOWS) SELL OUT - PARADIS THEATRE BOSTON

Sat 15 - PLAY WBCN CELEBRATES 12 YEARS OF ROCK WITH LIVE BROADCAST.

Sun 16 - PLAY BOSTON BELONGS TO US - THE CARS AT ALL THREE NIGHTS.

Mon 17 - DAY OFF - TRAVEL TO PHILADELPHIA - NOW ON AUTOMATIC PILOT

Tues 18 - PLAY SPLIT LIP ON MICROPHONE AT HOT CLUB - CRAZY RUSH.

Wed 19 - PLAY CLASH, G.PARKER, TALKING HEADS JOIN POSERS AT MUDD CLUB

Thurs 20 - PLAY POLICE ESCORT AND A HELICOPTER TO LONG ISLAND CAMPUS SELL OUT.

[Stony Brook/NY]

Fri 21 - PLAY START OFF TWO NIGHT SELL OUT AT HURRAH - PARTY TIME

Sat 22 - PLAY UNIDENTIFIED FLYING ODDBALL NOW DOCTORS IN ATTENDANCE.

Sun 23 - EXIT NEW YORK TO HEATHROW - BLACK CABS LOOK GREAT.

Mon 24 - BAND IN HIDING - LONDON WEATHER A GOOD STEADIER - CAT FINE.

Tues 25 - BODY STARTING TO HEAL - INN OF SIXTH HAPPINESS.

Wed 26 - CREW LOAD ARTIC WITH 25 TONS OF EQUIPMENT TO START AGAIN.

Thurs 27 - REPLACE CLOTHING FOR EIGHT WEEK EUROPEAN TOUR.

Fri 28 - DEPART FOR RAMSGATE FOR CHANNEL CROSSING - SICKNESS PREVAILS - PARIS.

Sat 29 - PLAY DOUBLE HEADLINE SELL OUT STIFF PACKAGE WITH MADNESS.

Sun 30 - NIGHT OFF IN PARIS - JOIN SELECTER ON STAGE - FUN GIG.

[A recording of that Selecter gig will hopefully emerge someday.]

Mon 31 - PLAY FRENCH PROVINCIALS START IN LE MANS - GREAT BRANDY.

April

Tues 1 - PLAY FOLLOWING JOE JACKSON THROUGH FRANCE - TONIGHT IN RENNES.

Wed 2 - PLAY ROUEN AT STUDIO 44 - NOTABLE FOR BEING A TOTALLY UNMEMORABLE GIG.

Thurs 3 - PLAY NORTH TO PLAY LILLE - DOORS HANDLES STOLEN FROM BAND BUS

Fri 4 - PLAY GOOD VIBES ON GOOD FRIDAY IN LIÈGE - BELGIUM

Sat 5 - PLAY DEINZE OUTSIDE GENT - PLAY WITH THE HEADBOYS - ORIGINAL MIRRORS IN HOTEL.

Sun 6 - PLAY EXIT BELGIUM WITH SHOW IN HERENHAUT - LICENCE PLATE STOLEN OFF BAND BUS.

[Herenthout: Small town in Belgium.]

Mon 7 - NIGHT OFF IN AMSTERDAM - TOUR PARTY GO CRAZY - CREW STOCKS UP.

Tues 8 - PLAY AMSTERDAM - GREAT SHOW - METEORS SUPPORT - HUGO'S BIRTHDAY - OVERNIGHT TO BERLIN.

[Hugo Sinzheimer: Singer for Dutch band The Meteors (not the British band of the same name). Lene met them during the filming of "Cha Cha" in Amsterdam (1979) and later recorded a cover of their song "It's You, Only You (Mein Schmerz)".]

Wed 9 - PLAY SOLD OUT FIRST GERMAN SHOW IN BERLIN'S 1800 METROPOLE - VERY CHIC

[A second Berlin gig was scheduled at Neue Welt, shortly after the Metropol gig (rumour?).]

Thurs 10 - PLAY BREMEN - TENSE MOMENTS EXITING EAST GERMANY

Fri 11 - PLAY AGAIN OPERATING ON AUTOMATIC PILOT FOR BIELEFELD GIG - CREW EMPTY MINIBARS.

Sat 12 - PLAY HAMBURG AUDIMAX - JUDAS PRIEST PLAY SMALLER MARKTHALLE - AUDIENCE ECSTATIC.

Sun 13 - PLAY WIESBADEN WARTBURG - DRESSING ROOMS UP THREE FLIGHTS OF STAIRS - KNACKERED

Mon 14 - PLAY KÖLN (COLOGNE) STADTHALLE - WRECKLESS ERIC ON ALL GERMAN DATES - FUN.

Tues 15 - PLAY MÜNCHEN (MUNICH) - WE OUTDRAW URIAH HEEP PLAYING SAME NIGHT - SUCCESS ?

Wed 16 - TOUR PARTY NOW IN SERIOUS TROUBLE DUE TO OVERWORK - CELEBRATES NIGHT OFF BY STAYING UP ALL NIGHT

Thurs 17 - STUPIDITY, TODAY PASSES WITHOUT INCIDENT (OR CONCIOUSNESS).

Fri 18 - DRIVE ON TO VIENNA - BREAK WINDSCREEN IN BUS AND MISS SIGHTS OF THE ALPS - HEAVY COLD.

Sat 19 - PLAY VIENNA SPORTSHALL - AUSTRIA ASLEEP WHILE WE WERE THERE.

[Concert hall at Vienna resort location. Lene also played at the same venue on her tour with Nina Hagen in 1986.]

Sun 20 - PLAY EISENSTADT - LEAST SUCCESSFUL ATTENDANCE ON TOUR - OVERNIGHT TO YUGOSLAVIA.

[The gig was supposed to take place in Graz (second largest city of Austria) but was re-scheduled to the small town of Eisenstadt near the border to Hungary.]

Mon 21 - PLAY LJUBLJANA - 4500 SELL OUT - WE ARE STARS IN YUGOSLAVIA - CROWD GREAT.

[Ljubljana (German: Laibach): Capital of Slovenia.]

Tues 22 - PLAY ZAGREB - 3000 GO WILD - JOINED BY RECORD MIRROR AND CREEM WRITERS

Wed 23 - PLAY BELGRADE - 3500 IN CHAOS - FIREWORKS IN HALL MAKE CREW & POLICE NERVOUS.

[Recorded and broadcast on Yugoslavian national television.]

Thurs 24 - PLAY NIS - IN SOUTH OF YUGOSLAVIA - DEATH TYPE ROADS SEE US STOPPED BY POLICE - TRICKY

[Niš; pronounced [Ni:sh]: City in Serbia.]

Fri 25 - EXIT YUGOSLAVIA ON EVE OF TITO'S DEATH - RELIEF - GLORIOUS SCENERY ON 900 KM DRIVE TO ATHENS.

Sat 26 - PLAY SELL OUT SPORTS HALL 3000 PLUS - MORE OUTSIDE - 2ND ROCK SHOW IN TEN YEARS

Sun 27 - RETSINA RULES - TOTALLY UNRULY EXIT BY BOAT FOR ITALY - GREECE MEMORABLE

[Retsina: Greek resinated wine]

Mon 28 - AFTER DAY OF SUNNING ON DECK IN MEDITERANNEAN ITALIAN CUSTOMS PUT DOGS INTO OUR BUSES.

Tues 29 - PLAY BARI - SOUTH OF ITALY - 1ST ROCK SHOW IN 4 YEARS - ITALY'S OLDEST OPERA HOUSE

Wed 30 - PLAY ROME - 4500 SELL OUT - 2000 RIOT OUTSIDE - 2 CARS BURNT - POLICE USE TEAR GAS.

May

Thurs 1 - PLAY WE MAKE NATIONAL NEWS AFTER ROME RIOT - SELL OUT FERENCE (FLORENCE) TENT.

[Riots around the gig made the news in Italy. When asked about it in Rome in December 2014, Lene did not remember this incident at all.]

Fri 2 - PLAY BOLOGNA - THE DAMNED PLAY 30 KMS AWAY - NO PROBLEMS.

Sat 3 - BACK TO THE ROME HILTON - REHEARSE FOR T.V. APPEARANCE - CREW HOLIDAY IN RIMINI

Sun 4 - NATIONAL LIVE TV APPEARANCE - WATCH ELVIS COSTELLO ON "DISCO RING" SAME DAY.

Mon 5 - MD - PLAY NORTH TO FORLI - FANS BESIEGE HOTEL.

Tues 6 - PLAY MILANO - 5000 WITH 2000 OUTSIDE - MUCH AGGRO INSIDE & OUTSIDE HALL.

Wed 7 - PLAY GENOA - CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS TOWN - CREW AND BAND BUS COLLIDE.

Thurs 8 - PLAY VARESE - TIRES SLASHED ON OUR MERCEDES HIRE CAR - LEAVE ITALY QUICKLY.

Fri 9 - TO ZÜRICH - BUSTED ON ITALIAN BORDER FOR CURRENCY INFRINGEMENT - TRUCK BREAKDOWN - GIG BLOWN

Sat 10 - PLAY ZÜRICH - RESCHEDULED GIG - GREAT SHOW BUT BLOW OUT 5TH FRANCE GIG

Sun 11 - PLAY LYON WINTER PALACE - OVERNIGHT TO MONTPELIER - END UP IN MARSEILLES

Mon 12 - PLAY MONTPELLIER - SALVAGES OUR OPINION OF FRANCE - GREAT AUDIENCE.

Tues 13 - TRAVEL TO SPAIN - STOP FOR FISH & CHIPS AND PINT OF WATNEYS ON COSTA DEL SOL.

Wed 14 - PLAY - PLAY BARCELONA - 3000 SPANIARDS AND 500 POLICE ENJOY SHOW. IGGY POP IN TOWN.

Thurs 15 - TRAVEL TO PORTUGAL. POLICE STOPS BUS AT 3 A.M. DOING 90MPH. BORDER CLOSED - SLEEP THERE.

Fri 16 - CONTINUE TO OPORTO - WINDING ROADS. SAMPLE PORT IN SMALL TOWNS - ANOTHER CENTURY.

Sat 17 - PLAY SELL OUT 5000 SPORTS HALL - 2000 OUTSIDE - SUPERSTAR RECEPTION.

Sun 18 - PLAY LISBON - FINAL SHOW - LARGEST SELL OUT OF 10,000 - 3,000 OUTSIDE - FINALE.

Mon 19 - CRASH OUT ON BEACH AT CASCARS - REMEMBER VERY LITTLE - BLISS.

[Cascais: Major seaside destination in Lisbon area at Portuguese Riviera.]

Tues 20 - BAND DEPART FOR ALGARVE VILLA FOR HOLIDAY - CREW TOUR REALITY.

THE REST DOESN'T MATTER EXCEPT TO SAY THANKYOU TO ALL THOSE THAT HELPED.
WE'LL SEE YOU ALL NEXT TIME ROUND WITH A NEW ALBUM AND YES, WE WILL BE COMING TO JAPAN & AUSTRALIA.

SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR ON THE ROAD PERSONNEL: -
MIKE SINCLAIR: SOUND MIXER, CREW BOSS - GERRY FRADLEY: MONITOR MIXING - STEVE 'RODENT' BETA: SOUND ASSISTANT - SIMON MILES: LIGHTING DESIGNER, OPERATOR - STEVE MOLES: LIGHTING ASSISTANT - HERCULES: LIGHTS IN THE U.S.A. - JOHN PATTERSON: STAGE CREW - RUSS D'ATH: STAGE CREW, DRIVER - COLIN 'BEV' BEVERAGE: DRIVER IN EUROPE - OZZIE & IRISH JOHN: CREW MEMBERS ON IRISH TOUR - RICK SALES: U.S.A. TOUR MANAGER - BRUCE KIRKLAND: EUROPE TOUR MANAGER.