Mirrors (Sandra album)

Mirrors was produced by Michael Cretu and Armand Volker, and continued the synth-pop-oriented style introduced on Sandra's debut album, The Long Play, released the year before. The material was arranged with the use of such synthesizers as Akai S900, PPG, Linn 9000, Prophet 2002, Oberheim Matrix-12, EMS Vocoder, Yamaha DX7 and Roland Super Jupiter. Mirrors saw more songwriting and singing involvement from Hubert Kemmler, who was already a popular singer in Germany under the name of Hubert Kah. The song "Don't Cry (The Breakup of the World)" was written in reaction to the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.

Four singles were released from this album. "Innocent Love" was the lead single and reached the top 10 in multiple European countries, followed by "Hi! Hi! Hi!", which was a top-10 entry in Sandra's native Germany, as well as Greece and Spain. The ballad "Loreen" and the uptempo "Midnight Man" served as the album's third and fourth singles, respectively, and both achieved a moderate success across Europe.

The album charted within the top 20 in Germany, Switzerland, Finland and Norway.

{{Track listing

| headline = Side one

| title1 = The Second Day

| music1 = {{hlist|Michael Cretu|Hubert Kemmler|Klaus Hirschburger}}

| length1 = 0:37

| title2 = Don't Cry (The Breakup of the World)

| lyrics2 = {{hlist|Kemmler|Hirschburger}}

| music2 = {{hlist|Kemmler|Cretu}}

| length2 = 4:49

| title3 = Hi! Hi! Hi!

| lyrics3 = {{hlist|Cretu|Hirschburger}}

| music3 = {{hlist|Cretu|Kemmler}}

| length3 = 4:08

| title4 = Midnight Man

| lyrics4 = {{hlist|Kemmler|Hirschburger}}

| music4 = {{hlist|Kemmler|Cretu}}

| length4 = 3:04

| title5 = You'll Be Mine

| lyrics5 = {{hlist|Cretu|Hirschburger}}

| music5 = {{hlist|Cretu|Kemmler}}

| length5 = 4:33

}}

{{Track listing

| headline = Side two

| total_length = 34:49

| title6 = Innocent Love

| lyrics6 = {{hlist|Susanne Müller|Hirschburger}}

| music6 = {{hlist|Kemmler|Ulrich Herter}}

| length6 = 5:23

| title7 = Two Lovers Tonight

| lyrics7 = {{hlist|Cretu|Hirschburger}}

| music7 = {{hlist|Marc Cassandra|Reinhard Besser}}

| length7 = 3:45

| title8 = Mirror of Love

| lyrics8 = {{hlist|Kemmler|Hirschburger}}

| music8 = {{hlist|Kemmler|Cretu}}

| length8 = 4:13

| title9 = Loreen

| lyrics9 = {{hlist|Frank Peter|Hirschburger}}

| music9 = {{hlist|Peter|Cretu}}

| length9 = 4:17

}}

Note:

• The Canadian edition includes the single version of "(I'll Never Be) Maria Magdalena" as the opening track and combines "The Second Day" and "Don't Cry (The Breakup of the World)" into one track.{{cite AV media notes|title=Mirrors|others=Sandra|year=1986|publisher=10 Records|id=VL 2370}}

Credits adapted from the liner notes of Mirrors.{{cite AV media notes |author=Sandra |author-link=Sandra (singer) |title=Mirrors |type=liner notes |publisher=Virgin Records |year=1986 |id=257 915-225}}

• Sandra – lead vocals
• Michael Cretu – production, arrangements, performance, background vocals
• Armand Volker – production
• Hubert Kemmler – background vocals
• Peter Ries – background vocals
• Tissy Thiers – background vocals
• Timothy Touchton – voice on "The Second Day"
• Mike Schmidt – cover
• Dieter Eikelpoth – photography

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