Cher (1987 album)
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Additional notes
  • "I Found Someone" was originally recorded by Laura Branigan
    Laura Branigan
    Laura Ann Branigan was an American singer-songwriter and actress of Italian and Irish ancestry. She is best known in the United States for her 1982 Platinum-certified hit "Gloria" and in Europe for the number-one single "Self Control"...

     and appears on her 1985 album Hold Me.
  • "Bang-Bang" was previously recorded for Cher's second studio album The Sonny Side of Chér
    The Sonny Side of Cher
    -Credits:*Cher - lead vocals*Sonny Bono - record producer*Harold Battiste - musical arranger*Larry Levine - sound engineer*Stan Ross - sound engineer*Woody Woodward - art direction-Chart positions:...

    in 1966.

Personnel & Production

  • Tracks 1 & 10 Arranged & Produced By Michael Bolton for MBO Productions, with additional production on track 10 by Albhy Galuten
    Albhy Galuten
    Albhy Galuten is a Grammy Award-winning American record producer, composer, musician, orchestrator and technology executive.He produced 18 number 1 singles with songs and albums selling over 100,000,000 copies...

    . Recorded By Michael Christopher; mixed by David Thoener. John McCurry, Steve Lukather
    Steve Lukather
    Steve "Luke" Lukather is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, arranger, and record producer best known for his work with the rock band Toto. Lukather has played with many artists, released several solo albums, and worked as a composer, arranger, and session guitarist on more than 1,500 albums...

    , Ira Siegel: Guitars; Doug Katsaros, Jeff Bova, Phillip Ashley: Keyboards; Will Lee
    Will Lee
    Will Lee was an American actor best known for playing the store proprietor Mr. Hooper on Sesame Street, from the show's debut in 1969 until his death in 1982.-Early career:...

    : Bass; Chris Parker, Albhy Galuten: Drums, Percussion; Patty Darcy, Vicki Sue Robinson
    Vicki Sue Robinson
    Vicki Sue Robinson was an American theatre and film actress and singer, closely associated with the disco era of late 1970s pop music; she is most famous for her 1976 hit, "Turn the Beat Around."-Early life and career:...

    : Vocal Backing. Track 1 recorded at Power Station & A&M Studios; mixed at The Record Plant. Track 10 recorded at Power Station, Oceanway Studios & Soundtrack Studios; mixed at The Record Plant.
  • Tracks 2 & 3 Arranged & Produced By Desmond Child, Jon Bon Jovi & Richie Sambora. Recorded By Sir Arthur Payson at Electric Lady
    Electric Lady Studios
    Electric Lady Studios, at 52 West 8th Street, in New York City's Greenwich Village, is a recording studio originally built by Jimi Hendrix and designed by John Storyk in 1970...

    , The Hit Factory, Bearsville Studios, A&M Studios & Giant Sound, with additional recording on track 3 by Rob Jacobs & Shelly Yakus
    Shelly Yakus
    Shelly Yakus is considered as one of the best engineers and mixers in the music industry. Formerly chief engineer and vice president of A&M Records, Yakus' engineering work has help sell in excess of one hundred million records, equaling over one billion dollars in sales...

    . Mixed By Bob Rock
    Bob Rock
    Robert Jens Rock, , is a Canadian musician, sound engineer, and record producer best known for producing bands such as Aerosmith, The Cult, Bon Jovi, Mötley Crüe, 311, Metallica, Our Lady Peace, The Offspring and most recently Bush.-Payola$ and Rock and Hyde:Rock began his music career in Langford,...

     at Little Mountain Sound. Jon Bon Jovi, Bernie Shanahan, Desmond Child, Joe Lynn Turner
    Joe Lynn Turner
    Joe Lynn Turner , is an American rock singer, known for his works with Rainbow, Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force, Deep Purple. From the late 1990s, he continued to perform in a large number of solo albums and other studio projects...

    , Louis Merlino, Michael Bolton
    Michael Bolton
    Michael Bolton is an American singer and songwriter. Bolton originally performed in the hard rock and heavy metal genres from the mid 1970s to the mid 1980s, both on his early solo albums and those recorded as the frontman of the band Blackjack...

    , Myriam Valle: Vocal Backing; Richie Sambora: Guitars, Vocal Backing; David Bryan: Keyboards; Chuck Kentis: Additional Keyboards; Holly Knight: Vocal Backing & Additional Keyboards; Alec John Such: Bass; Tico Torres: Drums, Percussion.
  • Tracks 4-6 & 9 Arranged & Produced By Desmond Child. Recorded By Sir Arthur Payson at Bearsville Studios & The Hit Factory; assisted by Gene Parciasepe; Mixed By David Thoener at Bearsville Studios, except track 9 (mixed at The Record Plant). John McCurry, John Putnam: Guitars; Chuck Kentis, Gregg Mangiafico: Keyboards, Synthesizers; Bette Sussman: Acoustic Piano on tracks 4 & 5; Seth Glassman: Bass on track 4; John Siegler: Bass on track 5; Tony Levin
    Tony Levin
    Tony Levin is an American progressive rock musician, specializing in bass guitar, Chapman stick and upright bass ....

    : Bass on track 9; Jerry Marotta, Jimmy Bralower: Drums, Percussion; Bernie Shanahan, Desmond Child, Elaine Caswell, Joe Lynn Turner, Louis Merlino, Myriam Valle, Bonnie Tyler
    Bonnie Tyler
    Bonnie Tyler is a Welsh singer, most notable for her hits in the 1970s and 1980s including "It's a Heartache", "Holding Out for a Hero" and "Total Eclipse of the Heart".-Early life:...

    , Darlene Love
    Darlene Love
    Darlene Love is an American popular music singer and actress. She gained prominence in the 1960s for the song "He's a Rebel," a #1 American single in 1962, and was part of the Phil Spector stable that produced a celebrated Christmas album in 1963....

    : Vocal Backing
  • Track 7 Arranged & Produced By Peter Asher. Recorded & Mixed by Frank Wolf. Recorded at Schnee Studios, The Complex & Record One; mixed at The Complex. Mike Landau, Waddy Wachtel: Guitars; Bob Mann: Lead Guitar
    Lead guitar
    Lead guitar is a guitar part which plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure...

    ; Bill Payne: Keyboards; Larry Klein: Bass; Carlos Vega: Drums; Peter Asher, Mike Fisher: Percussion; Arnold McCuller,. Rosemary Butler: Vocal Backing
  • Track 8 Arranged & Produced By Jon Lind. Recorded By Csaba Petocz & Daren Klein at The Grey Room & One on One Studios. Mixed By David Thoener at The Record Plant. Michael Thompson: Guitars; John Van Tongeren: Synthesizers, Synthesized Bass; Mark Morgan: Synthesized Organ; Jimmy Haslip: Electric Bass; Craig Krampf: Drums, Drum Programming; Maurice White
    Maurice White
    Maurice White is a Grammy Award–winning American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, arranger. He is the older brother of Verdine White and Fred White and the leader and founder of the band Earth, Wind & Fire...

    : Vocal Vamping; Debra Dobkin, Julia & Maxine Waters: Vocal Backing

Charts

Country/Region Peak
position
Canadian Albums Chart 39
Swedish Album Chart 44
UK Albums Chart
UK Albums Chart
The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart...

26
United States Billboard 200
Billboard 200
The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...

32

Certifications

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