King of the World (album)

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King of the World
Studio album by Sheila and B. Devotion
Released	1980
Recorded	1980
Genre	Disco / Funk / R&B / Jazz / Samba
Length	34:31
Label	Mirage Records / Carrere Records
Producer	Nile Rodgers, Bernard Edwards
Sheila and B. Devotion chronology
Sheila and B. Devotion (1979) King of the World (1980) Little Darlin' (1981)

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 was one of four albums to be 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.

King of the World has been re-released on compact disc by both East-West Music and Rhino Records. A recent deluxe edition issued by Warner Music France includes bonus tracks, however most of these are re-recordings dating from 1998.

[edit] Track listing

All tracks written by Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers.
Side A:

1. "Spacer" - 6:15 Listen (help·info)
2. "Mayday" - 3:44
3. "Charge Plates And Credit Cards" - 4:26
4. "Misery" - 3:02

Side B:

1. "King Of The World" - 4:37
2. "Cover Girls" - 3:17
3. "Your Love Is Good" - 4:38 Listen (help·info)
4. "Don't Go" - 4:32 Listen (help·info)

Bonus tracks French deluxe edition:

1. "Your Love Is Good" (Original US 12" Promo) - 4:50
2. "Spacer" (Lost In Space Mix) - 6:45
3. "Spacer" (Lost In Space Dub Mix) - 6:09
4. "Spacer" (Down To Earth Mix) - 7:29
5. "Spacer" (Remix Radio Edit) - 4:07
6. "Spacer" (DMC Remix) - 7:49

[edit] 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

[edit] Production

• all songs produced by Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards for the CHIC Organization Ltd.
• Bob Clearmountain - sound engineer
• Bill Scheniman - engineer
• Larry Alexander - engineer
• Joe Gastwirt - mastering
• recorded & mixed at Power Station Studio, New York

v • d • e Chic Main albums Chic (1977) · C'est Chic (1978) · Risqué (1979) · Les Plus Grands Succès De Chic: Chic's Greatest Hits (1979) · Real People (1980) · Take It Off (1981) · Soup For One (soundtrack) (1982) · Tongue in Chic (1982) · Believer (1983) · Chic-Ism (1992) · Chic Freak and More Treats (1996) · Live at the Budokan (1999) · A Night in Amsterdam (2006) Produced by Chic Norma Jean Wright: Norma Jean (1978) · Sister Sledge: We Are Family (1979) · Sheila and B. Devotion: King of the World (1980) · Sister Sledge: Love Somebody Today (1980) · Diana Ross: diana (1980) · Deborah Harry: Koo Koo (1981) Main compilations Freak Out: The Greatest Hits of Chic and Sister Sledge (1988) · Megachic: Best of Chic (1990) · Dance, Dance, Dance: The Best of Chic (1991) · The Best of Chic, Volume 2 (1992) · Everybody Dance (1995) · Dance, Dance, Dance & Other Hits (1997) · The Very Best of Chic & Sister Sledge (1999) · The Very Best of Chic (2000) · Good Times: The Very Best of the Hits & the Remixes (Chic & Sister Sledge) (2005) · The Definitive Groove Collection (2006)