Lodger - The Album
Songs (Time)
All tracks written by David Bowie except Fantastic
Voyage, African Night Flight, Red Sails, Look Back In
Anger and Boys Keep Swinging lyrics by
Bowie, music by Bowie and Eno, and D.J. lyrics
by Bowie, music by Bowie, Eno and Alomar, and Red
Money lyrics by Bowie, music by Bowie and Alomar.
- Fantastic Voyage (2:55)
- African Night Flight (2:54)
- Move On (3:16)
- Yassassin (Turkish for: Long Live) (4:10)
- Red Sails (3:43)
- D.J. (3:59)
- Look Back In Anger (3:08)
- Boys Keep Swinging (3:17)
- Repetition (2:59)
- Red Money (4:17)
Bonus tracks on RykoDisc release
- I Pray, Olé (3:59) Previously unreleased track
recorded 1979
- Look Back In Anger (6:59) New version recorded
1988
- Release details
- Original release by RCA May 18, 1979
- Rerelease on CD by RykoDisc 1991 with bonus tracks
- Producer
- David Bowie and Tony Visconti
- Musicians
- Lodger was an experimental album with different musicians playing on
each track. They are listed below.
Musicians
- Fantastic Voyage
- David Bowie: piano, vocals, backing vocals
- Dennis Davis: percussion
- George Murray: bass
- Sean Mayes: piano
- Simon House, Adrian Belew: mandolin
- Tony Visconti: mandolin, backing vocals
- Eno: ambient drone
- African Night Flight
- David Bowie: piano, vocals
- Dennis Davis: percussion
- George Murray: bass
- Carlos Alomar: guitar
- Sean Mayes: piano
- Eno: prepared piano and cricket menace
- Move On
- David Bowie: vocals, backing vocals
- Carlos Alomar: rhythm guitar
- Adrian Belew: rhythm guitar
- Dennis Davis: percussion
- George Murray: bass
- Sean Mayes: piano
- Tony Visconti: rhythm guitar, backing vocals
- Yassassin (Turkish for: Long Live)
- David Bowie: vocals, synthesizer
- Dennis Davis: drums
- George Murray: bass
- Carlos Alomar: guitar
- Tony Visconti: guitar
- Simon House: violin
- Everyone: backing vocals
- Red Sails
- David Bowie: vocals
- Dennis Davis: drums
- George Murray: bass
- Carlos Alomar: guitar
- Adrian Belew: guitar
- Eno: synthesizers and guitar treatments
- Stan: saxophone
- Simon House: violin
- Sean Mayes: piano
- D.J.
- David Bowie: vocals, piano and chamberlain
- Carlos Alomar: guitar
- Adrian Belew: guitar
- Dennis Davis: drums
- George Murray: bass
- Look Back In Anger
- David Bowie: vocals, guitar, backing vocals
- Dennis Davis: percussion
- George Murray: bass
- Carlos Alomar: guitar
- Sean Mayes: piano
- Eno: synthesizer, horse trumpet, eroica horn
- Tony Visconti: backing vocals
- Boys Keep Swinging
- David Bowie: vocals, guitar, backing vocals
- Carlos Alomar: drums
- Adrian Belew: guitar
- Dennis Davis: bass
- Tony Visconti: bass, backing vocals
- Simon House : violin
- Eno: piano
- Repetition
- David Bowie: vocals
- Dennis Davis: drums
- George Murray: bass
- Carlos Alomar: guitar
- Simon House : violin
- Adrian Belew: guitar
- Roger Powell: synthesizer
- Red Money
- David Bowie: vocals, guitar, backing vocals
- Dennis Davis: drums
- George Murray: bass
- Carlos Alomar: guitar
- Adrian Belew: guitar
- Roger Powell: synthesizer
- Tony Visconti: backing vocals
Bonus track details
I Pray Ole written by David Bowie.
- I Pray Ole
- David Bowie: vocals, guitar
- Dennis Davis: drums
- George Murray: bass
- Brian Eno: synthesizer
- Look Back In Anger
- David Bowie: vocals
- Erdal Kizilcay: drums and bass
- Reeves Gabrels: guitar
Trivia
- The final of the Berlin albums. Note the juxtaposition of performers on
the various tracks, particularly Boys Keep Swinging
where Carlos plays drums and Dennis plays bass.
- Note that Adrian Belew later played for Trent Reznor's
Nine Inch Nails in the early 90's.
- Chart Performance:
| Country | Date | Peak # | # of weeks |
| UK | June 9, 1979 | 4 | 17 |
| US | ? | 20 | 15 |
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