Artist: BRYAN FERRY
Album: BETE NOIRE REMASTERED (CD)

Release date: 1987/ 1999
Media type: CD

Bete Noire is an album by British singer Bryan Ferry, released on Virgin Records in November 1987.

The album was co-produced by Patrick Leonard, and was intended to increase Ferry's commercial stature in the United States. "Kiss and Tell" was his only Top 40 hit in the United States; the song also appears in the film Bright Lights, Big City. Another single from the album, "The Right Stuff", was co-written with Johnny Marr and adapted from an instrumental B-side by The Smiths, "Money Changes Everything".

TRACKLIST:

1."Limbo" (5:00) (Ferry, Patrick Leonard)
2."Kiss and Tell" (4:57) (Ferry)
3."New Town" (4:50) (Ferry)
4."Day For Night" (5:35) (Ferry, Leonard)
5."Zamba" (3:00) (Ferry, Leonard)
6."The Right Stuff" (4:25) (Ferry, Johnny Marr)
7."Seven Deadly Sins" (5:10) (Ferry, Chester Kamen, Guy Pratt)
8."The Name of the Game" (5:28) (Ferry, Leonard)
9."Bкte Noire" (4:53) (Ferry, Leonard)

LINE-UP:

Bryan Ferry: vocals, keyboards
Mario Abramovich: violin
Tawatha Agee: backing vocals
Vinnie Colaiuta: drums
Michelle Cobbs: backing vocals
Paulinho da Costa: percussion
Yanick Etienne: backing vocals
Siedah Garrett: backing vocals
David Gilmour: guitar
Dan Huff: guitar
Paul Johnson: backing vocals
Abraham Laboriel: bass
Patrick Leonard: keyboards
Jose Libertella: bandoneon
Jimmy Maelen: percussion
Johnny Marr: guitar
Marcus Miller: bass
Andy Newmark: drums
Courtney Pine - sax
Guy Pratt: bass
John Robinson: drums
Fonzi Thornton: backing vocals
David Williams: guitar