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At the same time, the Italian-American aggregation,\u003ci\u003e Change\u003c\/i\u003e, broke-out from the clubs and into the charts worldwide, with their sublime, slick and classy productions, which also featured and introduced the wider-world to Luther Vandross. 2020 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor this 40th Anniversary edition, \u003ci\u003eThe Wanderer\u003c\/i\u003e has been re-evaluated and now fuses-together 1980 with 2020, showcasing the strength of the album’s songs, with brand new remixes by the Italian production team behind Change and Artist \/ Producer \/ Remixer Le Flex. After years of silence, in 2018 Mauro Malavasi and Davide Romani resurrected \u003ci\u003eChange\u003c\/i\u003e with an album that retained their classic sound but with a contemporary twist, produced and mixed with the inhouse production team, Figo Sound, who were invited to remix two of Donna’s tracks. 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A few tracks were familiar to Donna and non-Donna fans, as they had been released in the early 1980s; ‘Highway Runner’ (“Fast Times At Ridgemont High” OST) and ‘Romeo’ (“Flashdance” OST). “Flashdance” also included the ballad ‘Lady, Lady, Lady’ which was performed by original Brooklyn Dreams singer Joe “Bean” Esposito, who appears on the duet ‘I Believe (In You)’. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFast-forward 40 years and I'm a Rainbow receives a fresh coat of paint, giving credence to the songs’ great lyrics and compositions that they richly deserved at the time. \u003ci\u003eI'm A Rainbow - Recovered and Recoloured\u003c\/i\u003e has been slimmed-down to a compact 10-track album and completely re-imagined by a host of international producers, from North and South America, Europe and Scandinavia. 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