Source: Wikipedia. Commentary (music and lyrics not included). Pages: 23. Chapters: Self Control, The Power of Love, Forever Young, Gloria, How Am I Supposed to Live Without You, Will You Love Me Tomorrow, Show Me Heaven, I Found Someone, Der Kommissar, Ti amo, The Name Game, Turn the Beat Around, Shattered Glass, Unison, Dim All the Lights, Solitaire, Squeeze Box, How Can I Help You Say Goodbye, Moonlight on Water, Foolish Lullaby, Whatever I Do, The Lucky One, Looking Out for Number One, Spanish Eddie, Hard Enough Getting Over You, Come into My Life, Mama, Let Me In, Mangwane Mpulele. Excerpt: "Self Control" is the name of an international hit song recorded in 1984 by Laura Branigan, as well as the album on which it appears. The song was recorded that same year with the same English lyrics by Italian singer Raf, who co-wrote the song with Giancarlo Bigazzi and Steve Piccolo. Branigan's version first hit #1 in Germany on June 15, 1984. Raf's version first hit #1 in Italy on June 23, 1984. Branigan's version was the most popular song across Europe during much of the summer of 1984 and was the song of the year in Switzerland. Branigan's version peaked at #4 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart and also went to number two on the dance chart. The song has become one of the defining pop songs of the 1980s, with a number of remakes recorded each year. Notable covers include Puerto Rican singer Ricky Martin in 1993, a hit dance remake by Branigan in 2004 and two 2006 versions that hit the Top 5 in various European enclaves, by Danish dance group Infernal and Spanish singer Soraya Arnelas. Branigan's first major hit had also been co-written by Bigazzi. "Gloria" (1982) was an English-language song written over a 1979 Italian song recorded by Umberto Tozzi. The following year Branigan recorded another new English song written over a Tozzi and Bigazzi song, "Mama", which was an album track on 1983's Branigan 2. Branigan chose two more Italian songs for her third album: one, "Ti Amo", featured new lyrics by Diane Warren over a song originally written by Tozzi and Bigazzi that had been a 1977 single for Tozzi. The other would become the title track to the album and her biggest international hit. "Self Control" was the only one of the four Italian songs recorded by Branigan which had been written with English lyrics, and Branigan chose to record the song as written. Also unlike the other songs, Branigan's version was contemporaneous with that of its co-writer. The Branigan recording was arranged by Giorgio Moroder protégé Harold Faltermeyer with Robbie Buchanan and produce