The Sphinx (song)
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| "The Sphinx" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single by Amanda Lear | ||||
| from the album Never Trust a Pretty Face | ||||
| B-side | "Hollywood Flashback" | |||
| Released | 1978 | |||
| Recorded | 1978 | |||
| Genre | Disco | |||
| Length | 4:25 | |||
| Label | Ariola | |||
| Songwriter | Amanda Lear | |||
| Producer | Anthony Monn | |||
| Amanda Lear singles chronology | ||||
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"The Sphinx" is a song by French singer Amanda Lear released in 1978 by Ariola Records as the single from her third album Never Trust a Pretty Face.
The song was composed and produced by Anthony Monn, and marked a change in Lear's repertoire as her first downtempo disco ballad. The melancholic Lear-penned lyrics, in which the singer compares herself to the mythical Sphinx, tell about "the desire to remain a mystery".[1] The singer has reflected that "The Sphinx" is the best song she wrote.[2][3]
"The Sphinx" was released as the advance single from the singer's third studio album Never Trust a Pretty Face in late 1978. The single B-side was "Hollywood Flashback", the closing track on her previous album, Sweet Revenge. The song was a moderate chart success, reaching the top 20 across Europe, and remains one of Lear's biggest hits of the disco era.
Lear re-recorded the song for the 1998 album Back in Your Arms, and included the new version on her greatest hits compilation Forever Glam! in 2005.
Track listing
- 7" Single[4]
- A. "The Sphinx" – 4:25
- B. "Hollywood Flashback" – 4:31
- 12" Single
- A. "The Sphinx" – 5:13
- B. "Hollywood Flashback" – 4:31
