Living in a Fantasy

Released

August 22, 1980

Recorded

1979-80

Length

38:51

Leo Sayer chronology

Here
(1979)

Living in a Fantasy
(1980)

World Radio
(1982)

Living in a Fantasy is the eighth album by the English singer-songwriter, Leo Sayer, and was released in August 1980.

Although the album was not a huge commercial success, the single that it spawned, a cover version of Bobby Vee's "More Than I Can Say", spent five weeks at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in December 1980 and January 1981. Sayer's version of the song was certified a gold record by the RIAA. It also spent three weeks at #1 on the Billboard adult contemporary chart. In the UK, the song peaked at #2 on the UK Singles Chart, while it spent two weeks atop the Kent Music Report in Australia. Sayer has stated that while looking for an "oldie" to record for Living in a Fantasy, he saw a TV commercial for a greatest hits compilation album by Vee, and chose the song on the spot: "We went into a record store that afternoon, bought the record and had the song recorded that night."