Release: Act—Snobbery & decay (That’s entertainment)
Act
Snobbery & decay
That’s entertainment
Act
Snobbery & decay
That’s entertainment
Type: Single
Format: 12" gatefold vinyl
Label: Zang Tuum Tumb
Catalogue ref.: 12ZACT28
Series: Action series no. 28
Release date: 4 May 1987
Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Chart position: UK: (Starting 10/5/1987) 80; 68; 60; 77; x; x; 92; 94
Sleeve design: Intact
Photographer: Anton Corbijn; Anwar Hussein
The A Side
The B Side
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Outer sleeve: Front
suave
ACT
present SHOWTIME
act one INTRODUCING ACT, a charmed Zang Tuumb Tumb fantasy. snobbery & Decay is a duet between Claudia Brücken and Thomas Leer. Poison is taken from the Leer-Brücken musical ‘Name Dropping (songs for young sinners)’. (Theme from) Snobbery & Decay is dedicated to Mr. Entertainment, I’d be surprisingly Good For You to the memory of the Duchess of Windsor. Act produced by Stephen Lipson. The Showtime 12" arranged by Act. Orchestral arrangements for Snobbery & Decay and I’d be Surprisingly Good For You by David Bedford. Act photographed by Anton Corbijn. Sleeve designed by Intact. Turban by Graham Smith. Voices and instruments: Martina Martina (as Martina), Carll Sexx, Claudia Brücken, Thomas Leer, Rose ‘Voice’ Franken, Sensation. Special guest: Synclavier. Snobbery & Decay as a single is number 28 in the Action Series. Claudia Brücken wears Chanel. Thomas Leer uses Akai.
Snobbery & Decay
(That’s entertainment..)
Outer sleeve: Gatefold
Snobbery
Eva
Makepeace
Didion
Leigh
Sheperd
Decay
Peron
Dempsey
Dunne
Olivier
Willis
Outer sleeve: Back
OBESSION JUST
LIKE CALVIN KLEIN
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12ZACT 28
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the A side
Snobbery & Decay
(That’s Entertainment)
we are the objects of your suave entrapment
“It’s wonderful what a little determine charm will do,” Coward confided to his diary, and he put it to the test when Vivien Leigh, staying at Coward’s Swiss home in 1959, was deluged with reporters pursuing the story of her rumoured break up with Laurence Olivier. “I received the press politely, gave them a pre-lunch drink, and utterly cowed them with excessive good manners. They were too cowed to ask Vivien a single embarrassing question about the marriage.”
the B side
Poison
I’d Be Surprisingly Good For You
28
Label: Side A
(ZTT logo)
the A side
ACT
Show\time
Snobbery & Decay
(That’s Entertainment)
(Leer-Brücken)
℗ Zang Tuum Tumb 1987
© Zang Tuum Tumb 1987
12ZACT 28
as stereo
in 45rpm
produced: Stephen Lipson
published: Perfect Songs Ltd.
positioned: Act
All rights of the manufacturer and of the owner of the recorded work reserved. Unauthorised public performance broadcasting or copying of this record prohibited.
“living”
(Island logo)
Label: Side B
(ZTT logo)
the B side
ACT
Show\time
Poison
(Leer-Brücken)
published: Perfect Songs Ltd.
℗ Zang Tuum Tumb 1987
© Zang Tuum Tumb 1987
12ZACT 28
as stereo
in 45rpm
I’d Be Surprisingly Good For You
(Lloyd Webber-Rice)
published: Evita Music Ltd.
produced: Stephen Lipson
pretense: Act
All rights of the manufacturer and of the owner of the recorded work reserved. Unauthorised public performance broadcasting or copying of this record prohibited.
“styling”
(Island logo)
Claudia Brücken
Thomas Leer
