Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi! Songwriting Credits by Enigma

Authorship here sits about as close to a solo credit as a pop record gets. Michael Cretu takes music and lyrics on nine of the twelve tracks by himself, and David Fairstein turns up on three of them, "Beyond the Invisible", "The Roundabout" and "Prism of Life", as a lyricist only. Fairstein has no music credit anywhere on the album, so every composition on it belongs to one person. What the credit line leaves out is the sampled material. The sleeve licenses a Pierre Kaelin Gregorian chant recording from Tudor Records, the Latvian collection "Lettonie: Musiques des Rites Solaires" by Rasa Ensemble Riga, and "Vocal and Instrumental Music of Mongolia", and it names no writer or performer from any of the three as an author. Wikipedia points to two further uncredited sources, mission control dialogue from the film 2001: A Space Odyssey on the opening track and Jeff Wayne's "Horsell Common and the Heat Ray" running under "T.N.T. for the Brain". Genius shows Cretu alone as writer, composer and lyricist on both tracks that carry those samples. Publishing runs entirely through Enigma Songs and Mambo Music.