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| ==Personnel== | |||
| * Sheila - ] | |||
| * Alfa Anderson - ] | |||
| * Fonzi Thornton - backing vocals | |||
| * Luci Martin - backing vocals | |||
| * Michelle Cobbs - backing vocals | |||
| * Bernard Edwards - ] | |||
| ⚫ | * Tony Thompson - ] | ||
| ⚫ | * ] - ] | ||
| * Andy Schwartz - ], ] | |||
| * Raymond Jones - keyboards, Fender Rhodes | |||
| * Sammy Figueroa - ] | |||
| * Cheryl Hong (The Chic Strings) - ] | |||
| * Karen Milne (The Chic Strings) - strings | |||
| * Marianne Carroll (The Chic Strings) - strings | |||
| * Gene Orloff - ] | |||
| ==Production== | ==Production== | ||
| * Bernard Edwards - ] for Chic Organization Ltd. | * ] - ] for Chic Organization Ltd. | ||
| * Nile Rodgers - producer for Chic Organization Ltd. |
* ] - producer for Chic Organization Ltd. | ||
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* ] - ] | ||
| * Bill Scheniman - engineer | |||
| * Conductor - Gene Orloff | |||
| * Joe Gastwirt - ] | |||
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| * All songs recorded & mixed at Power Station Studios, New York | |||
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| * Keyboards - Andy Schwartz, Raymond Jones | |||
| * Strings - Cheryl Hong, Karen Milne, Valerie Haywood | |||
| * Backing vocals - Alfa Anderson, Fonzi Thornton, Luci Martin, Michelle Cobbs | |||
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King of the World is a 1980 album by French singer Sheila, released under the name Sheila and B. Devotion. The album which was both written and produced by Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers of American R&B band Chic includes the hit single "Spacer" which reached #18 on the UK charts in late 1979 and was a Top 10 hit in most of Europe, selling 5 million copies worldwide, and was twenty years later to be sampled by Swedish band Alcazar for their 2000 hit "Crying At The Discotheque" (#13 UK).
King of the World is one of four albums written and produced by Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers in 1980, the other three being Sister Sledge's Love Somebody Today, Chic's fourth studio album Real People and Diana Ross' multiplatinum selling diana which includes "Upside Down", "I'm Coming Out" and "My Old Piano".
The King of the World album was re-released on compact disc by East-West Music (Warner Music) in 1996.
Track listing
Side A:
- "Spacer" (Edwards, Rodgers) - 6:15 Audio file "Sheila and B. Devotion - Spacer.ogg" not found
- "Mayday"(Edwards, Rodgers) - 3:44
- "Charge Plates And Credit Cards" (Edwards, Rodgers) - 4:26
- "Misery" (Edwards, Rodgers) - 3:02
Side B:
- "King Of The World" (Edwards, Rodgers) - 4:37
- "Cover Girls" (Edwards, Rodgers) - 3:17
- "Your Love Is Good" (Edwards, Rodgers) - 4:50
- "Don't Go" (Edwards, Rodgers) - 4:32
Personnel
- Sheila - lead vocals
- Alfa Anderson - backing vocals
- Fonzi Thornton - backing vocals
- Luci Martin - backing vocals
- Michelle Cobbs - backing vocals
- Bernard Edwards - bass guitar
- Tony Thompson - drums
- Nile Rodgers - guitar
- Andy Schwartz - keyboards, Fender Rhodes
- Raymond Jones - keyboards, Fender Rhodes
- Sammy Figueroa - percussion
- Cheryl Hong (The Chic Strings) - strings
- Karen Milne (The Chic Strings) - strings
- Marianne Carroll (The Chic Strings) - strings
- Gene Orloff - concert master
Production
- Bernard Edwards - producer for Chic Organization Ltd.
- Nile Rodgers - producer for Chic Organization Ltd.
- Bob Clearmountain - sound engineer
- Bill Scheniman - engineer
- Joe Gastwirt - mastering
- All songs recorded & mixed at Power Station Studios, New York