Amanda Lear discography
Amanda Lear discography consists of eighteen full-length studio albums, thirty-eight compilation albums, two extended plays and seventy-three singles. She has also released one video album and numerous music videos. Background. Lear achieved the greatest international success between 1976 and 1983 when she was signed to West German label Ariola Records. The six Ariola albums were all released in Continental Europe as well as Scandinavia, Japan, South America and some parts of the former Eastern Bloc. Lear was in fact one of the very few Western artists in the 1970s to have her music officially  released in the Soviet Union, on state-owned label Melodiya. Following her initial signing to Ariola, various other labels were used to distribute her records in other nations, for example Chrysalis Records in the United States, Les Disques Direction Records, Siamese Records and Inter Global Records/Epic Records in Canada, RCA Victor in Australasia and South America, Columbia Records/Nippon Columbia in Japan, Eurodisc and Arabella in France, Epic Records in Greece and Cyprus, PGP-RTB in Yugoslavia, and Polydor, RCA Victor and Ariola in Italy. In other European countries like Sweden, albums and singles were first imported West German  Ariola pressings. With Lear achieving mainstream success in Sweden in 1980 with album "Diamonds for Breakfast", the Scandinavian Ariola distributor, CBS Records, did however start manufacturing its own pressings of both albums and singles to meet with public demand. They also issued singles like "When" in 1980 and "Nymphomania" in 1981, targeted for the Scandinavian market specifically, although these tracks were never A-side releases in West Germany or any other territory. Despite full-page ads by US licensee Chrysalis Records in "Billboard" magazine for "Sweet Revenge", her personal connections with Bowie and Roxy Music, a feature in Andy Warhol 's "Interview" magazine with photos by Karl Stoecker (the photographer who shot the cover of Roxy Music's "For Your Pleasure") and a two-month long promotional tour in the United States in early 1979 that included appearances at discothèques and gay clubs like New York's Paradise Garage, The Saint and The Loft, Lear's commercial success in North America was moderate. Her career as a recording artist in the United Kingdom was similarly lacklustre. Despite promotional gimmicks like red vinyl 12" singles and the "Never Trust a Pretty Face" album being released as a limited edition picture disc , "the English remained immune to the effect of Amanda Lear", as she has herself described it. In 1982, Lear took legal action against Ariola-Eurodisc in order to be released from her recording contract on the grounds of artistic differences. The lawsuit was unsuccessful and she remained with the label as stipulated in the original deal until the end of 1983, resulting in single "Incredibilmente donna" and album "Tam-Tam" being recorded in Italy and double A-side single "Love Your Body"/"Darkness and Light" with Anthony Monn's sound engineer Peter Lüdemann. The relationship between Lear, Monn and her former  record company was to stay strained all the way into the late 1990s. Since parting with Ariola-Eurodisc, as of the late eighties a daughter label of BMG-Ariola and eventually absorbed into what is now Sony Music, Lear has been signed to the following labels: