Poet Amanda Lear (ПOET Аманда Лир, translated: Amanda Lear Sings) is a compilation album of recordings by French singer Amanda Lear, released in the former U.S.S.R. by state-owned label Melodiya in 1990. The LP comprises material from Lear's three studio albums Never Trust a Pretty Face (1979) Sweet Revenge (1978) and I Am A Photograph (1977), the only track from Never Trust a Pretty Face not to be approved of the Russian authorities and included on Poet Amanda Lear was - not very surprisingly - the German wartime classic "Lili Marleen". While several other flexi discs with Lear were released in both the Soviet Union and other parts of the Eastern Bloc during the 1980s, the Poet Amanda Lear compilation was one of the few releases to actually be pressed on vinyl and to be released with a proper picture sleeve. This particular pressing of the album, C60-13935-6, was made in 1990 at Melodiya's record plant in Riga, now the capital of Latvia, but it had been released as early as 1985 in other parts of the USSR.
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