The Montreux Album Explained

The Montreux Album
Type:	studio
Artist:	Smokie
Cover:	Smokie - The Montreux Album.jpg
Border:	yes
Released:	12 September 1978
Recorded:	6–24 February 1978
Studio:	Mountain Studios (Montreux, Switzerland)
Genre:	Pop rock country rock
Label:	RAK
Producer:	Mike Chapman
Prev Title:	Bright Lights & Back Alleys
Prev Year:	1977
Next Title:	The Other Side of the Road
Next Year:	1979

The Montreux Album is the fifth studio album by the English rock band Smokie, released in 1978. Recorded primarily at Mountain Studios in Montreux (hence the album's title) between 6 and 24 February 1978, it was the band's last album to be made in partnership with Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman.

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's 1978 and 2016 liner notes.

Smokie

• Chris Norman – lead vocals, backing vocals, lead and rhythm guitars, keyboards, synthesizers
• Alan Silson – lead vocals (on "You Took Me by Surprise"), backing vocals, acoustic and electric lead guitars
• Terry Uttley – lead vocals (on "Light Up My Life"), backing vocals, bass guitar
• Pete Spencer – lead vocals (on "Petesey's Song"), backing vocals, drums and percussion, tenor saxophone (on "No More Letters")

Technical personnel

• Mike Chapman – production
• Pete Coleman – engineering
• Ian Cooper – mixing (at Whitney Recording Studios, Glendale, California, in March 1978) and mastering (at Utopia Studios, London, England)
• Richard Gray – sleeve design
• Gered Mankowitz – art direction and photography

Remastering

• Tim Turan at Turan Audio – 2007 remastering
• MM Sound Digital Mastering Studios – 2016 remastering

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1978)! scope="col"

Peak position
Australian Albums (Kent Music Report)^[1]	26

Year-end charts

Chart (1979)! scope="col"

Position
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)^[2]	43

References

Notes"For a Few Dollars More" was recorded in 24–26 August 1977 at Bovema Studios (Heemstede, Holland).

Citations

External links

• Discography 1975–1982

Notes and References

1. Book: Kent, David. David Kent (historian). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. illustrated. Australian Chart Book. St Ives, N.S.W.. 1993. 0-646-11917-6. 279.
2. Web site: Top 100 Album-Jahrescharts. 1979. GfK Entertainment Charts. de. 2 April 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20211108121805/https://www.offiziellecharts.de/charts/album-jahr/for-date-1979. 8 November 2021.