Olympia is an album by the British singer Bryan Ferry

Bryan Ferry

Bryan Ferry, CBE is an English singer, musician, and songwriter. Ferry came to public prominence in the early 1970s as lead vocalist and principal songwriter with the band Roxy Music, who enjoyed a highly successful career with three number one albums and ten singles entering the top ten charts in...

, released by Virgin Records

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 on 25 October 2010. Co-produced by Ferry and Rhett Davies

Rhett Davies

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, Olympia is Ferry's first album of largely original material since 2002's Frantic

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. The album features a wide range of contributors, including co-songwriter David A. Stewart

David A. Stewart

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 of Eurythmics

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, Brian Eno

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, Phil Manzanera

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Phil Manzanera is a musician and record producer. He is the lead guitarist with Roxy Music. In 2006 Manzanera co-produced David Gilmour's album On An Island and played in Gilmour's band for tours in Europe and North America...

 and Andy Mackay

Andy Mackay

Andrew "Andy" Mackay is an English multi-instrumentalist, best known as a founder member of the art-rock group Roxy Music....

 of Roxy Music

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, the electronic group Groove Armada

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, David Gilmour

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, Marcus Miller

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, Scissor Sisters

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, Nile Rodgers

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, Jonny Greenwood

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 of Radiohead

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, Steve Nieve

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, and Flea

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.

The album features some songs previously recorded by Ferry in collaborations with other artists. "You Can Dance", a version of which appeared as "U Can Dance" on DJ Hell

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's 2009 album Teufelswerk, is the record's first single

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. A version of "Shameless" previously appeared as a collaboration with Groove Armada

Groove Armada

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 on their album Black Light

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-North American track listing:- Singles :- External links :* *...

earlier in 2010.

The album also features covers of Tim Buckley

Tim Buckley

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's "Song To The Siren

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" and Traffic

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's "No Face, No Name, No Number."

The album art features the fashion model Kate Moss

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 and refers to the Édouard Manet

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 1863 painting of the same name.

Track listing

All tracks by Ferry/Stewart

David A. Stewart

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 unless otherwise noted.

1. "You Can Dance" – 4:29
2. "Alphaville" – 4:25
3. "Heartache By Numbers" – 4:56 (Ferry/Scissor Sisters
   Scissor Sisters
   Scissor Sisters are an American band "spawned by the scuzzy, gay nightlife scene of New York" who took their name from a sexual position between two women also known as tribadism...
   
   )
4. "Me Oh My" – 4:40 (Ferry)
5. "Shameless" – 4:36 (Ferry/Cato
   Andy Cato
   Andy Cato is one half of the electronic dance band, Groove Armada, the other half being Tom Findlay. He is also involved with Rachel Foster in Weekend Players, another electronic dance group.-Early life:...
   
   /Findlay
   Groove Armada
   Groove Armada is an English electronic music duo from London, England comprising Andy Cato and Tom Findlay. They are perhaps best known for their singles "I See You Baby" and "Superstylin'"...
   
   )
6. "Song to the Siren
   Song to the Siren (Tim Buckley song)
   "Song to the Siren" is a song written by Tim Buckley and his writing partner Larry Beckett and was first released on Buckley's 1970 album Starsailor...
   
   " – 5:56 (Buckley
   Tim Buckley
   Timothy Charles Buckley III was an American vocalist, and musician. His music and style changed considerably through the years; his first album was mostly folk oriented, but over time his music incorporated jazz, psychedelia, funk, soul, avant-garde and an evolving "voice as instrument," sound...
   
   /Beckett
   Larry Beckett
   Larry Beckett is a poet and songwriter, best known for his collaborations with Tim Buckley in the late-1960s.-Early life:...
   
   )
7. "No Face, No Name, No Number" – 4:40 (Capaldi
   Jim Capaldi
   Nicola James "Jim" Capaldi was an English musician and songwriter. His musical career lasted more than four decades. He co-founded Traffic in Birmingham with Steve Winwood, and the band's psychedelic rock was influential in Britain and the United States...
   
   /Winwood
   Steve Winwood
   Stephen Lawrence "Steve" Winwood is an English international recording artist whose career spans nearly 50 years. He is a songwriter and a musician whose genres include soul music , R&B, rock, blues-rock, pop-rock, and jazz...
   
   )
8. "BF Bass (Ode to Olympia)" – 4:09 (Ferry/Manzanera
   Phil Manzanera
   Phil Manzanera is a musician and record producer. He is the lead guitarist with Roxy Music. In 2006 Manzanera co-produced David Gilmour's album On An Island and played in Gilmour's band for tours in Europe and North America...
   
   )
9. "Reason or Rhyme" – 6:52 (Ferry)
10. "Tender Is the Night" – 4:35

    Extended Edition extra tracks:

11. "Whatever Gets You thru the Night
    Whatever Gets You thru the Night
    "Whatever Gets You Thru the Night" is a song written by John Lennon, released as a single in 1974 on Apple Records, catalogue Apple 1874 in the United States and Apple R5998 in the United Kingdom. It peaked at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #36 on the British singles chart...
    
    " – 3:19 (Lennon
    John Lennon
    John Winston Lennon, MBE was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music...
    
    )
12. "One Night
    One Night (song)
    "One Night" is a song popularized by Elvis Presley. It was issued as a double A-side with "I Got Stung". The single reached number one twice on the UK Singles Chart. In the U.S., "One Night", reached number four on the pop singles chart and number ten on the R&B chart...
    
    " (Bartholomew
    Dave Bartholomew
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    /King/Steiman) – 4:00

Collector's Edition includes a 40-page booklet and second CD:

1. "You Can Dance (Fred Falke Mix)" – 7:08
2. "Alphaville (Time and Space Machine Mix)" – 7:06
3. "Heartache By Numbers (Circus Parade Mix)" – 7:27
4. "Me Oh My (DJ Cleaver Mix)" – 6:42
5. "Shameless (Still Going Mix)" – 8:12
6. "BF Bass (Ode To Olympia) (West End Wolf Mix)" – 9:21
7. "Reason Or Rhyme (Instrumental)" – 6:54