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So Lucky (Renée Geyer album)

album by Renée Geyer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 9, 2025
Entity authorityQ7549379 ↗
Source-derived summary

So Lucky is the seventh studio album by Australian musician Renée Geyer. The album was released in November 1981 and includes Geyer's highest charting single "Say I Love You" which peaked at number 5 in Australia and number 1 in New Zealand.

The album was released by Portrait Records in the United States of America in 1982 under the title Reneé Geyer. The songs were re-ordered. It was her second album released in that territory following the Polydor Records' Moving Along in 1977, which was also titled Reneé Geyer.

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The public source identifies “So Lucky (Renée Geyer album)” as album by Renée Geyer. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Lucky, Renée and Geyer.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1981, 1982, 1977—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1981. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Lucky, Renée and Geyer providing the first useful test.
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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 9, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7549379. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1981, 1982 and 1977.

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This entry incorporates text from “So Lucky (Renée Geyer album)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.