After relative success with her debut release, Grace Jones and Tom Moulton delivered a rapid follow-up album to Portfolio (1977).

Fame, recorded in Sigma Sound Studios in Philadelphia, consisted of a set of mainstream-oriented disco tracks and repeated the scheme of the previous album.

[3] The Canadian edition of the original vinyl album included another French language track, "Comme un oiseau qui s'envole", which replaced "All on a Summers Night" and, in most other territories, was issued as the B-side of the single "Do or Die".

On the Japanese version of the album "Comme un oiseau qui s'envole" replaced "Below the Belt", which in turn in Italy was omitted in favour of an Italian song, "Anema e core".

A number of songs from the album, including "Anema e core", have been performed in Italian TV show Stryx, which ran in late 1978.