Portrait of a Star

Tracklist

• 12" Vinyl 1
• 1
  Fantastic Voyage
  2:55
  3.5 ★
• 2
  African Night Flight
  2:54
  2.0 ★
• 3
  Move On
  3:16
  3.2 ★
• 4
  Yassassin
  4:10
  3.0 ★
• 5
  Red Sails
  3:43
  3.4 ★
• 6
  D.J.
  3:59
• 7
  Look Back in Anger
  3:08
• 8
  Boys Keep Swinging
  3:17
  4.1 ★
• 9
  Repetition
  2:59
  3.0 ★
• 10
  Red Money
  4:17
  3.4 ★
• 12" Vinyl 2
• 1
  Beauty and the Beast
  3:32
  3.8 ★
• 2
  Joe the Lion
  3:05
  3.0 ★
• 3
  Heroes
  6:07
  4.6 ★
• 4
  Sons of the Silent Age
  3:15
  4.0 ★
• 5
  Blackout
  3:50
  3.8 ★
• 6
  V‐2 Schneider
  3:10
  3.8 ★
• 7
  Sense of Doubt
  3:57
  3.8 ★
• 8
  Moss Garden
  4:34
• 9
  Neuköln
  4:34
  3.9 ★
• 10
  The Secret Life of Arabia
  3:46
  3.2 ★
• 12" Vinyl 3
• 1
  Speed of Life
  2:45
• 2
  Breaking Glass
  1:49
  3.4 ★
• 3
  What in the World
  2:20
• 4
  Sound and Vision
  3:00
  4.2 ★
• 5
  Always Crashing in the Same Car
  3:26
  3.6 ★
• 6
  Be My Wife
  2:55
  3.6 ★
• 7
  A New Career in a New Town
  2:50
  3.8 ★
• 8
  Warszawa
  6:17
  3.6 ★
• 9
  Art Decade
  3:43
  3.8 ★
• 10
  Weeping Wall
  3:25
  3.4 ★
• 11
  Subterraneans
  5:39
  3.7 ★

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Release credits

• Adrian Belew
  guitar [3, 5, 8-10], mandolin [1]
• Antonia Maass
  background vocals [1, 10]
• Brian Eno
  Minimoog [2, 8-9], analog synthesizer [2.1-7, 2.9-10, 3.5, 3.7-9, 1.2, 1.5, 1.8], arranger [8], background vocals [3.4, 1.2, 1.5], chamberlin [8-9], electronic instruments [1], guitar [3.5, 1.5, 2.1-5, 2.10], instrument [8], piano [1.8, 3.7-9], prepared piano [2]
• Carlos Alomar
  background vocals [4], drums (drum set) [8], guitar [1.1-5, 1.9-10, 3.2, 3.4-7, 3.11, 2.1-6, 2.10]
• Colin Thurston
  engineer [1-7, 9-10]
• David Bowie
  Rhodes piano [11], arranger [2, 4-11], background vocals [2.1-5, 2.10, 1.1-5, 1.8-10, 3.2, 3.4-6, 3.8-9], baritone saxophone [4], chamberlin [2.3-4, 2.7, 2.9, 3.5, 3.7, 3.9-11], drum machine [9], guitar [1.8, 1.10, 3.6, 3.9-10], harmonica [7], lead vocals [3.2, 3.4-6, 3.8, 3.11, 2.1-5, 2.10, 1.1-5, 1.8-10], piano [1.1, 1.8, 2.1-3, 2.5-7, 2.10, 3.7, 3.10-11], producer [2.1-7, 2.9-10, 3.2, 3.4-11, 1.1-5, 1.8-10], string synthesizer [3], synthesizer [2.6, 1.4, 3.10], tenor saxophone [3.11, 2.4, 2.6, 2.9], vibraphone [10], vocal [3.10, 2.6], xylophone [10]
• David Hines
  engineer [11]
• David Richards
  assistant [1-7, 9-10], engineer [1-5, 8-9]
• Dennis Davis
  background vocals [4], congas [10], drums (drum set) [1.1-5, 1.9-10, 2.1-6, 2.10, 3.2, 3.4-7], percussion [1.2, 2.5], tambourine [2.4, 1.4]
• Eduard Meyer
  cello [9], engineer [2, 4-11]
• Eugene Chaplin
  assistant [1.1-5, 1.8-10, 2.1-7, 2.9-10]
• George Murray
  background vocals [4], bass [1-5, 9-10], bass guitar [2, 4-7, 11], electric bass guitar [1-7, 10]
• Gregg Caruso
  assistant [1-5, 8-10]
• J. Peter Robinson
  Rhodes piano [11], analog synthesizer [11], string synthesizer [11]
• Laurent Thibault
  engineer [3.2, 3.4-9, 3.11, 1.10]
• Mary Hopkin
  background vocals [4], lead vocals [4]
• Paul Buckmaster
  keyboard [11], piano [11]
• Ricky Gardiner
  guitar [2, 4-7]
• Robert Fripp
  guitar [1-3, 5]
• Rod O’Brien
  engineer [1-5, 8-10], mix [1-5, 8-10]
• Roger Powell
  analog synthesizer [9-10]
• Roy Young
  farfisa [5-6], piano [4-7]
• Sean Mayes
  piano [1-3, 5, 9]
• Simon House
  background vocals [4], mandolin [1], violin [1, 4-5, 8-9]
• Stan Harrison
  saxophone [5]
• Tony Visconti
  acoustic guitar [4], audio [6], background vocals [1.1, 1.3-5, 1.8, 1.10, 2.1-4], bass [8], engineer [2.1-7, 2.9-10, 1.1-5, 1.8-10, 3.2, 3.4-5, 3.7-11], guitar [1.3, 2.2], mandolin [1], mix [1.1-5, 1.8-10, 3.2, 3.4-11], percussion [3], producer [3.2, 3.4-11, 1.1-5, 1.8-10, 2.1-7, 2.9-10]
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Issues

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  Portrait of a Star

  3x 12" Vinyl
  1982