Amanda Lear
Amanda Lear, 1979 portrait
Background information
Birth name	Amanda Tapp (?)
Born	18 November 1946 (1946-11-18) (age 60) (?)
Origin	France UK
Genre(s)	Pop, Rock, Disco, Jazz, Easy listening
Occupation(s)	Singer, composer, lyricist, model, actress, novelist, artist, television presenter, gay icon
Years active	1965 - present
Label(s)	Creole Records, Polydor, Ariola Records, RCA Victor, Chrysalis Records, Carrere, ZYX Music, Sony BMG etc.
Associated acts	Giorgio Moroder, Boney M., Silver Convention, Marlene Dietrich, David Bowie, The Rolling Stones, Bryan Ferry, Roxy Music
Website	http://amandalear.tripod.com

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Amanda Lear is a French model, adult model, polyglot, painter, novelist, actress, media personality, composer, lyricist, singer and gay icon who was a Disco Queen in Continental Europe, the Eastern Bloc and most other parts of the world in the mid 1970s to the early 1980s. She first came to the public's attention as the fetishistically clad model on the cover of Roxy Music's album For Your Pleasure in 1973.
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Biography

Early life

Amanda Lear was born to a British Naval officer on leave in Hong Kong and a mother of Mongolian-Chinese origin.^{[citation needed]} Soon after her birth, her parents separated and Lear was raised by her mother in Nice, in the south of France. In addition to having two mother tongues by birth, French and English, she showed a talent for languages at an early age and also learnt German, Spanish and Italian in her teens, which she used later in her professional life. At the age of sixteen, she relocated to Paris to study at L'Academie des Beaux Arts before joining St. Martins School of Art in London in 1964. (Confessions Orbitales, Radio Europe 1, 2003)^{[citation needed]} Time Zone CET (GMT +1) Coordinates Administration Country Region Provence-Alpes-Côte dAzur Department Alpes-Maritimes (06) Intercommunality Community of Agglomeration Nice Côte dAzur Mayor Jacques Peyrat (UMP) (since 1995) Statistics Land area¹ 71. ...

The truth about Lear's date of birth, the names and nationalities of her parents and the location of her upbringing has been a matter of speculation and debate in both France, Germany and Italy since the early 1980s. All through her career, Lear has deliberately made a point of providing the media with different, contradictory accounts of her early life; her mother's origin has previously been English, French, Vietnamese, Mongolian, Russian and/or Chinese. Her father has been at times English, Russian, French and Indonesian, sometimes serving in the British Navy, other times the French. Her place of birth has ranged from Switzerland, Hanoi, Saigon to Hong Kong and her date of birth from 1936^{[citation needed]} to 1946.^[1]

Early career; modelling, meeting with Dalì and those 'rumours' (1965 - 1974)

Amanda Lear on the cover of Roxy Music's 1973 album For Your Pleasure

In 1965, Lear was spotted by legendary French modelling agent Cathérine Harlé and, eager to find a way to finance her studies, she returned to Paris to catwalk for rising star Paco Rabanne. Soon thereafter, she found herself being photographed for magazines like Elle, Marie France and Vogue and modelling for fashion designers like Mary Quant, Ossie Clark, Anthony Price, Yves Saint Laurent and Coco Chanel. After some time, she dropped out of art school, began modelling full-time and went on to lead a bohemian and flamboyant life in the Swinging London of the Sixties, hobnobbing with the rich and famous like The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Marianne Faithfull, Anita Pallenberg, Brian Eno, Twiggy, Sacha Distel, David Bailey, Yul Brynner and Keith Moon.
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While clubbing with Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones and her then boyfriend, the Guinness heir Tara Browne, in a Parisian nightspot named Le Castel in 1965, she was introduced to a man that was to change her life - on many levels according to some - none other than Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dalì (1904-1989) who instantly saw a kindred spirit in her. Lear's biography My Life With Dali, which was first published in 1986 and had Dalí's approval, gives a detailed and intriguing insight into the lives of both the great genius and his muse. She accompanied him and his wife on trips to Barcelona, Madrid, New York and Paris and spent every summer with Dali at his home in Cadaqués in Catalonia. Dali served as a mentor to her; travelling with him, Lear discovered the great museums of Europe, Parisian salons and restaurants, New York bohemia and his homeland, Spain, while she, in return, introduced him to the younger generation of the counterculture in art, fashion, photography and music in London. The factual accuracy of My Life With Dalì is however disputed by many researchers^{[attribution needed]} of Dalì's life and work. For other persons named Brian Jones, see Brian Jones (disambiguation). ... This article is about the rock band. ... Guinness logo Guinness is Good for You - Irish language advertisement. ... Tara Browne (March 4, 1945 – December 18, 1966) was a young London socialite and issue of peerage as a member of the Irish aristocratic family of Oranmore & Browne, whose untimely death in 1966 was immortalized in song by John Lennon of The Beatles. ... Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí Domènech Marquis of Pubol (May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989), popularly known as Salvador Dalí, was a Spanish artist and one of the most important painters of the 20th century. ... In Greek mythology, the Muses (Greek , Mousai: perhaps from the Proto-Indo-European root *men- think[1]) are a number of goddesses or spirits who embody the arts and inspire the creation process with their graces through remembered and improvised song and stage, writing, traditional music and dance. ... In sociology, counterculture is a term used to describe the values and norms of behavior of a cultural group, or subculture, that run counter to those of the social mainstream of the day, the cultural equivalent of political opposition. ...

Although she remained Dali's confidante, protegée and mistress all through the Sixties and Seventies, Lear was also romantically linked to Brian Jones, had a year-long affair with the married David Bowie and was briefly engaged to Bryan Ferry of Roxy Music but in 1979 she married French aristocrat Alain-Philippe Malagnac d'Argens de Villele who, in fact, was the former lover turned adopted son of controversial gay novelist Roger Peyrefitte. For other persons named Brian Jones, see Brian Jones (disambiguation). ... David Bowie (IPA: []) (born David Robert Jones on 1947 January 8) is an English singer, songwriter, actor, multi-instrumentalist, producer, arranger and audio engineer. ... Bryan Ferry (born 26 September 1945 in Washington, Sunderland) is an English singer, musician, songwriter and occasional actor famed for his suave visual and vocal style, who came to public prominence in the 1970s as lead vocalist and principal songwriter with Roxy Music. ... Roxy Music are an English art rock group founded in the early 1970s by art school graduate Bryan Ferry (vocals and keyboards). ... Also: 1979 by Smashing Pumpkins. ... Alain-Philippe Malagnac dArgens de Villele (1952?–2000) was a French aristocrat primarily known for being the lover of French writer Roger Peyrefitte, with their relationship also being a subject in several of the latters works. ... Roger Peyrefitte (August 17, 1907 – November 5, 2000) was a French diplomat and writer. ...

Despite modelling nude for Playboy Magazine in 1977 and Amanda saying "and they could see I was a woman like everybody else"^[2], she was and still is widely rumoured to be either a transsexual or an intersexual because of her height (6ft/183 cm), her masculine facial features and, most of all, her exceptionally low baritone-like vocal timbre. The fact that Lear is a naturally-born man is today considered an open secret in Continental Europe although Amanda has since the early 1980s insisted that these rumours are the result of a planned succès de scandale, a clever publicity stunt thought up by herself and Salvador Dalí to get her career in music started, just like her contradictory statements about her childhood. " - Everything Dali said, I just listened to. He was the genius, who was I? When it came to launching my career, he told me I was a lousy singer and if I wanted to sell records, I'd have to find something other than the music to attract people to buy them. So we built the Amanda Lear persona into something very intriguing and very ambiguous and it worked."^[2] Playboy is an adult entertainment magazine, or pornography magazine, founded in 1953 by Hugh Hefner, which has grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc. ... A transsexual (sometimes transexual) person establishes a permanent identity with the opposite gender to their assigned (usually at birth) sex. ... An intersexual or intersex person (or animal of any unisexual species) is one who is born with genitalia and/or secondary sexual characteristics of indeterminate sex, or which combine features of both sexes. ... Baritone (French: ; German: ; Italian: ) is most commonly the type of male voice that lies between bass and tenor. ... This page is a candidate to be moved to Wiktionary. ... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ... The media itself often stage stunts for movies and television shows. ... Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquis of Pubol (May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989), was a Spanish surrealist painter born in Figueres, Catalonia (Spain). ...

1976 single "La Bagarre", a French language version of debut single "Trouble".

However, Britain's first publicly confessed transsexual April Ashley has since gone on record in her autobiography April Ashley's Odyssey [7] to say that she worked with Amanda in legendary Parisian drag show Carrousel Club in the late 1950's. According to Ashley, Lear was then a man in his early twenties, called Alain Tapp, performing in drag shows using the stage name Peki d'Oslo and a regular member of the Carrousel ensemble as they toured Germany, Scandinavia, Italy and South America. This early alter ego could in fact be a reference to her Eurasian origin; Oslo/Peking. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... ‎‎April Ashley (born George Jamieson on April 25, 1935) is an English model and restaurant hostess. ... Drag queens Luc DArcy and Jerry Cyr and friend at Montreals 2003 Divers/Cité pride parade. ... Eurasian, in English vernacular, is a term that refers to those of mixed European and Asian ancestry, regardless of continent of origin. ...

These claims were later confirmed by famous German transsexual singer, actress and nightclub owner Romy Haag in her 1999 autobiography Eine Frau Und Mehr (translated as A Woman And Then Some). Just like Ashley, Haag describes that she first met Lear under the name Peki d'Oslo at the Carrousel and that the two also worked together at Romy's famous nightclub Chez Romy Haag in Berlin, in the early seventies. Romy Haag, photo: Tom Ordelman. ...

In March 2007, renowned British music manager Simon Napier-Bell (Dusty Springfield, The Yardbirds, Marc Bolan, Japan, Wham!) was the next eyewitness to come forward, saying that "...my publishers sent me off to Paris to make a record with Amanda Lear, someone I’d known years before as a young Asian-looking guy called Peki who hung out in the Gigolo, a gay bar in London in the 60' s. Now that Peki had become Amanda, I wasn't interested anymore, but other people were - Amanda's new companion was Salvador Dali." (simonnapierbell.com, 2007-03-12 [8]) In the music business, Simon Napier-Bell (born 1939) has been bandboy, manager, producer, songwriter, journalist and author. ... Dusty Springfield OBE (16 April 1939–2 March 1999) was a popular English singer whose career spanned four decades. ... Not to be confused with Yard Birds. ... Marc Bolan (born Mark Feld; 30 September 1947 - 16 September 1977), was an English singer, songwriter and guitarist whose hit singles, fashion sensibilities and stage presence with T Rex in the early 1970s helped cultivate the glam rock era and made him one of the most recognisable stars in British... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

The name Amanda Lear is also generally believed to be an alias, a drag queen name and a conjunction of the English words 'A man' and the last name of her mentor and father figure Salvador 'Dalì', while others believe it to be the French 'L'amant Dalì', the lover of Dalì.^{[citation needed]} April Ashley has presented a slightly different and much simpler explanation; Alain Tapp a.k.a. Peki D'Oslo had already changed her stage name to Amanda when she persuaded an elderly Scottish gentleman to marry her for 50 pounds in order for her to obtain British citizenship, the gentleman in question just happened to be called Mr. Lear. Ashley also insists that Lear and Dalì met long before 1965, probably in 1958 or 1959 while Lear was still working at the Carrousel as a female impersonator. Some sources go even further, saying that Lear was Dalì's greatest - or possibly the most bizarre - artistic creation of his whole career, suggesting that he was the one who paid for a sex reassignment that was to have taken place in Casablanca, Morocco in 1963. (see Georges Burou) Well-known drag artist Lypsinka. ... ‎‎April Ashley (born George Jamieson on April 25, 1935) is an English model and restaurant hostess. ... Georges Burou (circa 1917–1987) was a Moroccan gynecologist who is widely credited with innovating modern sex reassignment surgery for transwomen. ...

However it should be added that Dali, David Bowie and April Ashley have stated that Amanda is transsexual and rumors of her transsexuality predates her meeting with Dali. She appears to have attempted to go into stealth mode after moving to London and finding her career hampered by her past. ‎‎April Ashley (born George Jamieson on April 25, 1935) is an English model and restaurant hostess. ...

British actress and comedienne Joanna Lumley, who not only bears an uncanny physical resemblance to Lear but also was a fashion model in London in the mid-Sixties herself, has in several interviews confirmed that her glamourous but notoriously foul-mouthed Absolutely Fabulous character Patsy Stone was loosely based on the mysterious life story of a certain A. Lear. (see Absolutely Fabulous, Series 2, Episode 3: Morocco) [9] Joanna Lamond Lumley, OBE (born 1 May 1946) is an English actress and former model who is best known for her roles in The New Avengers, Absolutely Fabulous, Sapphire and Steel and Sensitive Skin. ... Absolutely Fabulous is a British sitcom written by and starring Jennifer Saunders, and co-starring Joanna Lumley, Julia Sawalha and June Whitfield. ...

International disco career (1976 - 1983)

'I Am A Photograph'

1977 album I Am A Photograph, re-release

In 1975, disillusioned by a shallow but surprisingly conservative fashion industry and encouraged by boyfriend Bowie, Amanda decided to launch a career in music. The debut single "La Bagarre'" released on Polydor was a French language cover of Elvis Presley's 1958 classic "Trouble" and became a minor disco hit in West Germany in 1976 - catching the attention of singer, composer and producer Anthony Monn (born March 17, 1944) and label Ariola-Eurodisc. Her first full-length release I Am A Photograph was recorded in Munich, with most songs composed by Monn and arranger Rainer Pietsch and Amanda herself providing the English lyrics. The title track was naturally a tongue in cheek reference to her previous profession, but Lear's selfpenned, witty, provocative and sometimes even disturbing lyrics made it perfectly clear that there's more to this glam model than meets the eye - much more. The album included her first paneuropean hit "Blood And Honey", lyrically paraphrasing Dalì's 1941 painting La Miel Es Más Dulce Que La Sangre (Honey Is Sweeter Than Blood), follow-up single "Tomorrow" as well as cover versions of Nancy Sinatra's "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'" and Leroy Anderson's "Blue Tango'", all of which have become repertoire standards. I Am A Photograph's mixture of lush disco, schlager, kitsch and camp, topped with Amanda's deep half-spoken, half-sung vocals was a winning combination. The album spun off four Top 10 singles in Italy and stayed on the West German albums chart for thirty-three weeks alone. The second edition of I Am A Photograph, which also contained German Top 5 hit "Queen Of Chinatown", sported a free fold-out poster picturing a topless Amanda smiling towards the camera. Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ... I Am A Photograph is an album by Amanda Lear, first released on West German label Ariola Records in early 1977, including hit singles La Bagarre, Blood And Honey, Tomorrow, Blue Tango and later editions also Queen Of Chinatown. The current owners of the Ariola-Eurodisc back catalogue are Sony... See also: 1970s in music. ... David Bowie (IPA: []) (born David Robert Jones on 1947 January 8) is an English singer, songwriter, actor, multi-instrumentalist, producer, arranger and audio engineer. ... Polydor Records is a record label once headquartered in Germany. ... “Elvis” redirects here. ... See also: 1970s in music. ... Anthony Monn a. ... Ariola Records (also known as Ariola and Ariola-Eurodisc) is a German record label, as of the late 80s a daughter label of BMG which in return has become a part of international media conglomerate Sony BMG Music Entertainment. ... I Am A Photograph is an album by Amanda Lear, first released on West German label Ariola Records in early 1977, including hit singles La Bagarre, Blood And Honey, Tomorrow, Blue Tango and later editions also Queen Of Chinatown. The current owners of the Ariola-Eurodisc back catalogue are Sony... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... These Boots Are Made for Walkin is a pop song composed by Lee Hazlewood and first recorded by Nancy Sinatra. ... The Best of Leroy Anderson: Sleigh Ride Leroy Anderson (June 29, 1908 – May 18, 1975) was best known as an American composer of short, light concert music pieces, many of which were introduced by the Boston Pops Orchestra under the direction of Arthur Fiedler. ... Schlager (German Schlager, literally hitter or, more loosely translated, a hit) is a style of popular music that is prevalent in northern Europe, in particular Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Scandinavia, Latvia and Lithuania, but also to a lesser extent in France, Belgium and the Netherlands. ... Kitsch is a term of German origin that has been used to categorize art that is considered an inferior copy of an existing style. ... Camp is an aesthetic in which something has appeal because of its bad taste or ironic value. ...

'Sweet Revenge'

1978 album Sweet Revenge

In 1978, Amanda continued her line of disco hits with Sweet Revenge, an album that opens with a side-long concept medley retelling the story of a girl who sells her soul to The Devil to gain fame and fortune. The first single to be lifted off Sweet Revenge, the dark and seductive "Follow Me", powered by Lear's characteristic deep and recitative voice, was an instant smash hit all over Europe, topped the West German singles chart and has since served as her signature tune. The album went on to sell in excess of four million copies and charted in forty-one countries, including Chile, South Africa, India and Thailand where it stayed on the charts for sixteen weeks, spawning further European hit singles like "Gold", "Run Baby Run" and "Enigma (Give A Bit Of Mmmmh To Me)". Again, all of these tracks were songwriting contributions by Lear herself and this in combination with a larger-than-life image very much the creation of herself made her one of the few artists of the Eurodisco era whose star power was far stronger than the music itself - all according to plan - and the Amanda Lear persona left an impact on European pop culture that has lasted for three decades.
" - Sweet Revenge is of course the album I'm most proud of. I put so much of myself into it. I wrote the lyrics, created the double cover, chose the pictures. I tried to tell a story. So, at least for me, it is the best one." (Acme Celeb Interview) Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ... Sweet Revenge is an album by Amanda Lear, first released on West German label Ariola Records in early 1978, including hit singles Follow Me, Enigma (Give A Bit Of Mmh To Me), Gold and Run Baby Run. The current owners of the Ariola-Eurodisc back catalogue are Sony BMG Music... See also: 1970s in music. ... Sweet Revenge is an album by Amanda Lear, first released on West German label Ariola Records in early 1978, including hit singles Follow Me, Enigma (Give A Bit Of Mmh To Me), Gold and Run Baby Run. The current owners of the Ariola-Eurodisc back catalogue are Sony BMG Music... The Devil is the name given to a supernatural entity who, in most Western religions, is the central embodiment of evil. ...

'Never Trust A Pretty Face'

1979 album Never Trust A Pretty Face

Later in 1978 Lear and Monn teamed up for Never Trust A Pretty Face, an album that includes a discofied reimagining of "Lili Marleen'", a wartime classic that Lear managed to make her own and has since re-recorded in 1993 and 2001. " - In Germany I succeeded because they'd been waiting for someone like Marlene Dietrich to come along ever since the war. They obviously needed a drunken, nightclubbing vamp so that's what I gave them." While Amanda herself may consider the best-selling Sweet Revenge her proudest moment, fans and critics alike usually rate Never Trust A Pretty Face as the artistic highpoint of her international career. It is often cited as a landmark in the history of "The sound of Munich" - groundbreaking Giorgio Moroder/Donna Summer collaborations included. Never Trust A Pretty Face was in fact recorded in Moroder's legendary Musicland Studios with the assistance of British arranger Keith Forsey. The album features a variety of genre exercises like the clever title track ballad (A pretty face/a rotten heart/I warned you from the start), "Forget It" (He doesn't like art/he doesn't like gays - forget it), the cabaret-esque "Miroirs", futuristic electro disco like "Black Holes" and "Intellectually" - but most importantly hit single "Fashion Pack (Studio 54)". The lyrics of this Eurodisco classic actually ridicule the decadent behaviour of the rich and famous and especially New York's disco glitterati at the time, offering some serious namedropping in the process; Liza (Minnelli), Francesco (Scavullo), (John) Travolta, Andy (Warhol), Margaux (Hemingway), Bianca (Jagger), Paloma (Picasso) etc. - most likely all of them friends or acquaintances of Lear's, but she had obviously already 'been there and done that'. Another hit and standout track is the suggestive "The Sphinx" which Amanda has since named as her personal favourite among her own recordings. She also very effectively continued to play on her 'devil in disguise' persona with the Never Trust A Pretty Face album sleeve portraying her as a mythological creature in the Egyptian desert, smiling broadly, with beautiful angel's wings - but also with a snake's tail... Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ... See also Amanda Lear discography. ... See also Amanda Lear discography. ... Lili Marleen is a famous German song which ironically became very popular on both sides during World War II. A Lili Marleen and Lale Andersen memorial in Langeoog The words were written in 1915 during World War I by Hans Leip (1893-1983), a school teacher from Hamburg who had... Marlene Dietrich IPA: ; (December 27, 1901 – May 6, 1992) was a German-born American actress, singer, and entertainer. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Donna Summer (born LaDonna Adrian Gaines, on December 31, 1948) is a legendary American singer, songwriter, and artist, best known for a string of dance hits in the 1970s that earned her the title Queen of Disco and as one of the few disco-based artists to have longevity on... Musicland Studios was a recording studio based in Munich, Germany. ... Keith Forsey (born on January 22, 1948 in London, England, UK) // In 1988 Keith Forsey won the ASCAP Award for Most Performed Songs from Motion Pictures for: Beverly Hills Cop II (1987) Shared with: Harold Faltermeyer Bob Seger In 1984, Keith Forsey won an Oscar for Best Music, Original Song... Electro house (also known as dirty house, electrotech, and often shortened to electro) is a subgenre of house music that rose to become one of the most prominent genres of electronic dance music in 2004-today. ... This article is about the music genre. ... The original Studio 54 logo. ... Liza Minnelli (born March 12, 1946 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actress and singer. ... Francesco Scavullo (January 16, 1921 - January 6, 2004) was a fashion photographer known popularly for his covers of Cosmopolitan Magazine and his portraits of celebrities. ... John Joseph Travolta (born February 18, 1954) is a two-time Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe Award-winning American actor, dancer, and singer. ... Andrew Warhola (August 6, 1928 — February 22, 1987), better known as Andy Warhol, was an American artist who became a central figure in the movement known as Pop art. ... Margaux Louise Hemingway (February 16, 1955 – July 1, 1996) was a film actress and model who appeared in several movies. ... Bianca Jagger at the Dropping Knowledge projects Table of Free Voices in Berlin, September 2006 Bianca Jagger (born Bianca Pérez Morena de Macías on May 2, 1950, in Managua, Nicaragua) is a social and human rights advocate. ... Paloma Picasso (b. ...

'Diamonds For Breakfast'

1980 album Diamonds For Breakfast with artwork by Pierre & Gilles.

In late 1979, Lear recorded Diamonds For Breakfast which became her commercial breakthrough on the Scandinavian market (#4 Sweden, April '80), producing hits like "Fabulous Lover Love Me", "Diamonds", "When" and the autoerotic "Ho Fatto L'Amore Con Me" (translated as "I Made Love To Myself"). The album abandoned the Munich disco sound with its lush strings and brass arrangements in favour of an electronic new-wave rock style, most likely in accordance with Amanda's own taste in music. She may very well be the reigning White Queen of Disco but personally she didn't care all that much for the genre. " - I really wanted to be the new Tina Turner, a rough rock singer, she's still my all-time favourite rockstar" (Confessions Orbitales, Radio Europe 1, 2003), and Diamonds For Breakfast was a step in that direction. Lear spent most of 1980 on promotional tours for the album and its many accompanying single releases all over Europe, from Greece in the south to Finland in the north. Lead single "Fabulous Lover, Lover Me" famously includes the lines "The surgeons built me so well/that nobody could tell/that I once was somebody else" which is as close to a confession of a former identity as Lear has come - before or since. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Diamonds For Breakfast is an album by Amanda Lear, first released on West German label Ariola Records in early 1980, including hit singles Fabulous Lover Love Me, Diamonds, Ho Fatto LAmore Con Me and When. The current owners of the Ariola back catalogue are Sony BMG Music Entertainment - the... Pierre et Gilles, Pierre Commoy and Gilles Blanchard, are gay French artistic and romantic partners. ... See also: Musical groups established in 1979 Record labels established in 1979 1979 in music (UK) 1970s in music // Stevie Wonder uses digital audio recording technology in recording his album Journey through the Secret Life of Plants. ... Diamonds For Breakfast is an album by Amanda Lear, first released on West German label Ariola Records in early 1980, including hit singles Fabulous Lover Love Me, Diamonds, Ho Fatto LAmore Con Me and When. The current owners of the Ariola back catalogue are Sony BMG Music Entertainment - the... Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock) November 26, 1939) is an 11 time Grammy Award-winning (sharing three), American Singer, Dancer, Record Producer, Executive Producer, Film Producer, Actress, Writer, Performer, Songwriter, Author and occasional Painter whose career has spanned from 1956 to present. ... See also: Musical groups established in 1980 Record labels established in 1980 list of years in music // January 1 - The year starts off with a strong disco backlash, which causes the majority of musicians to abandon the use of real instruments in an attempt to distant themselves from anything associated...

'Incognito'

The Lear/Monn success saga neared its end with 1981's Incognito, at which point Amanda herself had become increasingly uncomfortable with the expectations and pressures of the music business in general - and her own record label in particular. " - The Germans told me 'We're going to conquer the world!' and I don't regret working with a German record company at all, because for my career it was great, but they wanted to control me, direct me and restrict me. They wanted absolute discipline and that's not the life for me, so after a few years of that I wanted out." (Confessions Orbitales, Radio Europe 1, 2003) In 1980, at the artistic and commercial peak of her career, but with the disco backlash taking its toll, she had also tentatively started recording tracks for a forthcoming album with producer Trevor Horn (The Buggles, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Grace Jones, Seal etc.) in London. Ariola did not approve of this and in no uncertain terms made it clear that Lear was to return to Munich and provide the company and the market with another Monn product. The result of these sessions was Incognito which included minor European hits like "Nymphomania", "Égal" and "New York" but paradoxally turned out to be her breakthrough album in South America, with three tracks especially recorded in Spanish. See also: Musical groups established in 1981 Record labels established in 1981 list of years in music // January 10 - Revival of the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta The Pirates of Penzance opens at Broadways Uris Theatre, starring Linda Ronstadt and Rex Smith February 14 - Billy Idol leaves the band Generation... Incognito is an album by Amanda Lear, first released on West German label Ariola Records in March 1981, including singles Nymphomania, Hollywood Is Just A Dream When Youre Seventeen, Love Amnesia, Red Tape, New York and Égal. The current owners of the Ariola-Eurodisc back catalogue are Sony BMG... Trevor Charles Horn, born July 15, 1949 in Durham, England, is a British pop music record producer, songwriter and musician. ... Buggles (the official version of the band name, used on their albums, singles, and publicity material, omits the prefix The) were a New Wave band formed in 1977 consisting of Trevor Horn, born 1949 in Durham (bass guitar, guitar, percussion, and vocals), Geoff Downes, born 1952 in Stockport, Cheshire (percussion... Frankie Goes to Hollywood (FGTH) was a UK New wave band that was popular in early 1980s. ... Grace Jones (born Grace Mendoza on May 19, 1948, in Spanish Town, Jamaica) is a model, singer and actress. ... // Look up seal in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

1981 album Incognito

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'Tam-Tam'

Lear's international career momentum was however slowing and came to an end in 1983 as she delivered her final album to the Ariola label - under contractual obligation. Unlike previous efforts, Tam-Tam was recorded with Italian collaborators and neither the songs nor the production were anywhere near the high standards of the Munich recordings with Monn in charge. Tam-Tam subsequently passed unnoticed by both the European and the international record buying public - which may very well have been a blessing in disguise for Lear, considering her frosty relationship with Ariola and changing music style. Around the same time, she publicly began denouncing her earlier musical output, and as usual she didn't mince her words: " - The music was crap - but at least I tried to write some clever lyrics." Instead she went on to launch a very successful and lucrative career as a TV presenter with the aid of media mogul and future prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, soon becoming something of household name in what has since turned out to be her second home country, Italy. Tam-Tam is an album by Amanda Lear, first released on West German label Ariola Records in December of 1983. ...   (born September 29, 1936) is an Italian politician, entrepreneur, and media proprietor. ...

Post-disco career; writing, art, television, movies, comeback attempts (1982 - 1999)

1995 album Alter Ego - self portrait

After having worked four years as a prime-time TV entertainer for Italian RAI Lear returned to music. Secret Passion was an album made in Los Angeles and Rome for French label Carrere, a post-disco High Energy - New Wave affair, ready to be launched in January of 1987 (see 1987 in music). It featured a cover of the Troggs' "Wild Thing" and was not only intended to be her comeback in Europe, South America and Japan, this time on her own terms, but also hopefully her breakthrough in English speaking territories like the States, Canada and the United Kingdom, which were more or less the only markets that hadn't succombed to her charms during the Ariola years. However disaster struck; just as Amanda was getting ready to start promoting the album she was seriously injured in a near fatal car accident and had to spend months in convalescence. The album subsequently went nowhere on either side of the Atlantic or anywhere else but this incident became the starting point of another phase in her career, this time as a writer. While in hospital, Amanda had begun writing her first novel called The Immortal, a slightly surrealistic tale describing the torments of a woman doomed to eternal youth and beauty, watching everyone else growing older and eventually losing all her loved ones, while being unable to stop the merciless passing of time.... Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ... This article is about the Amanda Lear album. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Secret Passion is an album by Amanda Lear, first released on label Carrere in early 1987. ... See also: Musical groups established in 1987 Record labels established in 1987 // January 3 - Aretha Franklin becomes the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. ... The Troggs, a successful English rock band of the 1960s, had a number of hits in Britain and America. ...

Lear sporadically returned to recording in the late eighties and nineties and released singles and albums in Italy, France and Germany, none of them producing that elusive international comeback hit. Instead she focussed on her career in television and movies, also mainly in these countries, as well as pursuing what she still describes as her greatest passion: art. From the mid eighties, she has exhibited in major galleries all over Europe and also in the United States and during the last ten years her time has been largely spent painting, exhibiting and lecturing on Dalì.

Recent career; musical comeback, disco revival and public recognition (2000 - 2007)

2005 compilation Forever Glam! - The Best of 1976-2005

In 2001, a year after having tragically lost her husband of twenty-one years in a much publicised accident, she threw herself back into work and released the aptly titled album Heart. While most of her recordings during the Eighties and Nineties, with a few exceptions, may have been perceived as somewhat uninspired, all too often suffering from low-budget production and primarily catering to her ever loyal cult following, Heart was a major change and progression. It was obvious that this was a serious effort with Lear's own heart and soul involved and both time and money invested in the project by record company Le Marais Prod. The album offered club-friendly tracks like "I Just Wanna Dance Again", remixed by the likes of French electro-house DJ Laurent Wolf [10], Pumpin' Dolls [11] and Junior Vasquez and cult Seventies TV theme song "The Love Boat", both issued as singles. As a contrast, Heart also contained intimate and gently orchestrated interpretations of personal favourites like Charles Aznavour/Dusty Springfield's bittersweet ballad "Hier Encore (Yesterday When I Was Young)" as well as Springfield/Burt Bacharach's 1967 classic "The Look Of Love", along with a political reading of "Lili Marleen", provided with updated lyrics by original composer Norbert Schultze. Phoenix Lear had risen from the ashes yet again, Heart was a return to form and turned out to be her best-selling album since the late Seventies in both France and Germany and has been re-released under the titles Tendance and Love Boat. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Forever Glam! - The Best Of 1976-2005 is a greatest hits compilation by French singer Amanda Lear first released in France in November of 2005. ... See also: 2001 in music (UK) Musical groups established in 2001 Record labels established in 2001 // January 1 Comeback of Guns N Roses in House of Blues Hum disbands. ... Heart is a studio album by French singer Amanda Lear, first issued in late 2001 - her first full-length release since 1995s Alter Ego, and also her first ever album to be recorded entirely in France. ... Electro house (also known as dirty house, electrotech, and often shortened to electro) is a subgenre of house music that rose to become one of the most prominent genres of electronic dance music in 2004-today. ... For other uses, see House (disambiguation). ... DJ or dj may stand for Disc jockey, dinner jacket The DeadJournal website, or Djibouti. ... Laurent Wolf is a french Tribal-house producer and DJ. He is the author of several compilations that contain his own tracks and also his remixes. ... Junior Vasquez is a famous New York club DJ and remixer/producer. ... The Love Boat was an American television series set on a cruise ship, which aired on the ABC Television Network from 1977 until 1986. ... Charles Aznavour (Armenian: Շառլ Ազնավուր; born May 22, 1924) is an Armenian-French singer, songwriter, actor and public activist. ... Dusty Springfield OBE (16 April 1939–2 March 1999) was a popular English singer whose career spanned four decades. ... This biographical article needs additional references for verification. ... The Look Of Love is a popular song. ... Lili Marleen is a famous German song which ironically became very popular on both sides during World War II. A Lili Marleen and Lale Andersen memorial in Langeoog The words were written in 1915 during World War I by Hans Leip (1893-1983), a school teacher from Hamburg who had... Norbert Schultze (January 26, 1911 - October 14, 2002) Name in art of Norbert Arnold Wilhelm Richard. ... The phoenix from the Aberdeen Bestiary. ... Tendance is a studio album by French singer Amanda Lear issued by Sony Music Germany in 2003. ... Heart is a studio album by French singer Amanda Lear, first issued in late 2001 - her first full-length release since 1995s Alter Ego, and also her first ever album to be recorded entirely in France. ...

In 2002, Amanda met Italian actor and model Manuel Casella, thirty (thirty-five? forty?) years her junior. He has been her 'longtime companion' ever since and the couple have been featured prominently in the pages of the tabloid press in both France and Italy.

Lear is renowned as much for her scathing wit as her reputation as a man magnet, which has made her a regular and appreciated guest on various French talkshows for the past fifteen years. She is a regular guest on French satirical radio show Les Grosses Tetes hosted by well known radio celebrity Philippe Bouvard on RTL where other guests sometimes do refer comically to her former gender as male which she usually ignores (as heard on the 13 September 2007 show). She is well-spoken, opinionated, provocative - 'drôlissime'. She has her very own take on concepts like 'truth' and 'reality'. She is equipped with a razorsharp tongue but luckily also with a disarmingly charming smile. She occasionally embarrassess or upsets other guests but rarely fails to entertain the audiences. For example, in 2002, Lear told New York's Paper Magazine about a run-in she had with German supermodel Claudia Schiffer a few years before. A Hollywood movie producer had optioned Lear's book My Life With Dali and wanted Schiffer to play Lear. "I ran into Claudia at a restaurant," Lear recalls. "She said, 'I love your book! Who wrote it for you?' I said, 'I did, darling. Who read it to you?' So that was the end of that. They never made the movie." Claudia Schiffer (born August 25, 1970[2]) is a German supermodel and actress, who reached the height of her popularity during the 1990s. ... ...

2006 album With Love

In 2005, Italian dance act The Housekeepers scored a European club hit with "Go Down", a reworking of Amanda's 1977 hit "Queen Of Chinatown". The original recording was also sampled and remixed that year by Hungarian DJ Sterbinzsky featuring Zola and the track, and most often its driving bassline, is now regularly being re-sampled in various dance, house and techno remixes. In 2004, another Seventies recording, "Enigma (Give A Bit Of Mmmh To Me)", had been used in TV ads for chocolate bar Kinder Bueno in Eastern Europe which resulted in it becoming something of a cult hit again and appearing on a number of European singles chart compilations, nearly three decades after its original release. Later, Spanish actor and singer Pedro Marín had a hit with a rock version of Lear's 1978 single "Run Baby Run" which became the inspiration for a full-length tribute album entitled Diamonds - Pedro Marín Canta Amanda Lear.
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With the disco revival obviously still going strong and Lear celebrating thirty years in the music business, November 2005 saw the release of the first CD compilation to be both authorised and promoted by Lear herself; Forever Glam! - The Best Of 1976-2005. In 2006, German label Sony BMG followed suit with their comprehensive three disc box set The Sphinx - Das Beste Aus Den Jahren 1976-1983. This digitally remastered forty-two track collection was eagerly awaited by many fans since the original Ariola albums, with the exception of Sweet Revenge, never have been re-released in their entirety on compact disc - at least not officially. In the liner note interview of the latter, Lear expresses a new-found acceptance and appreciation of her disco past. " - It surprises me that the younger generations keep re-discovering this type of music, over and over again. They really seem to like these old recordings, still after such a long time. Perhaps they weren't so bad after all." Forever Glam! - The Best Of 1976-2005 is a greatest hits compilation by French singer Amanda Lear first released in France in November of 2005. ... See also: 2006 in music (UK) Musical groups established in 2006 Record labels established in 2006 Ti // January – James Nicholl, drummer of Pay*Ola became ill and was admitted to hospital. ... The Sphinx - Das Beste Aus Den Jahren 1976-1983 is a three disc box set by French singer Amanda Lear released in Germany in 2006. ...

In July 2006, Amanda Lear received the prestigious award Chevalier dans l'Ordre National des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministre Of Culture Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres in recognition of her contributions to French arts and sciences - the name appearing on the honour's list was 'Mme Amanda TAPP dite Amanda LEAR'. [12]) The Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Order of Arts and Literature) is an Order of France, established on May 2, 1957 by the Minister of Culture, and confirmed as part of lOrdre National du Mérite by President Charles de Gaulle in 1963. ...

On 30th October 2006, the album With Love was released in France by label Dance Street. This tribute is an extension of the ballads included on 2001's Heart as it exclusively covers evergreens and jazz standards by the diva's own favourite divas, among them "C'est Magnifique" (Eartha Kitt), "Is That All There Is?" (Peggy Lee), "Whatever Lola Wants" (Sarah Vaughan), "Love For Sale" (Hildegard Knef) and "My Baby Just Cares For Me" (Nina Simone). With Love received favourable reviews by French music critics and was released in the rest of Europe by label ZYX Music in early 2007 . With Love is a cover album by French singer Amanda Lear, first released in France in October 2006, and launched in the rest of Europe in early 2007. ... Eartha Kitt (born Eartha Mae Keith on January 17, 1927),[1] is an American actress, singer, and cabaret star. ... This page meets Wikipedias criteria for speedy deletion. ... Peggy Lee (May 26, 1920 – January 21, 2002) was an American jazz and traditional pop singer and songwriter and Oscar-nominated performer. ... Sarah Lois Vaughan (nicknamed Sassy and The Divine One) (March 27, 1924, Newark, New Jersey – April 3, 1990, Los Angeles, California) was an American jazz singer, described as one of the greatest singers of the 20th century [1]. // Sarah Vaughans father, Asbury Jake Vaughan, was a carpenter and amateur... Cover of Hildegard Knefs 1967 album Halt mich fest Hildegard Knef at the 2001 Berlinale (photo by Michael Weiner) Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Hildegard Knef Hildegard Frieda Albertine Knef (December 28, 1925 - February 1, 2002) was a German actress, singer and writer. ... Eunice Kathleen Waymon, better known by her stage name Nina Simone (February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003), was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger and civil rights activist. ... See also: 2007 in British music 2007 in hip hop Musical groups established in 2007 Record labels established in 2007 // January George Shearing is knighted for services to music in the Queens New Year Honours List. ...

Summary

Amanda Lear has recorded 13 studio albums to date and has also released more than 50 singles. She has sold approximately 15 million albums and 25-30 million singles worldwide. A studio album is a collection of previously unreleased, studio-recorded tracks by a recording artist. ...

Amanda Lear currently resides in Saint-Etienne-du-Grès near Avignon in the south of France. Saint-Étienne-du-Grès is a commune of the Bouches-du-Rhône département, in southern France. ... City flag City coat of arms Location Coordinates Time Zone CET (GMT +1) Administration Country France Région Provence-Alpes-Côte dAzur Département Vaucluse (préfecture) Arrondissement Avignon Canton Chief town of 4 cantons Intercommunality Communauté dagglomération du Grand Avignon Mayor Marie-Josée Roig...

Discography

Main article: Amanda Lear discography

2006 Sony BMG 3 CD boxed set The Sphinx, covering most of Lears Ariola recordings during the years 1976-1983. ...

Filmography

• 1967: Ne Jouez Pas Avec Les Martiens by Henri Lanoë.
• 1969: Der Kommissar - Keiner hörte den Schuß (model).
• 1978: Follie Di Notte by Joe D'Amato (host & performer).
• 1978: Zio Adolfo, In Arte Führer by Franco Castellano and Giuseppe Moccia (the singer).
• 1985: Grottenolm (Dr. Ludmilla Nerovna).
• 1993: Piazza Di Spagna by Florestano Vancini.
• 1993: Une Femme Pour Moi (Françoise).
• 1996: L'amour Est A Réinventer - Dix Histoires D'Amour Au Temps Du SIDA by Merzak Allouache, (segment "Dans La Décapotable").
• 1998: Les Années Bleues by Jean-François Porry.
• 1998: Bimboland by Ariel Zeitoun (Gina).
• 2002: Le Défi a.k.a. Dance Challenge by Blanca Li (Birgit).
• 2004: The Incredibles (voice of character 'Edna Mode' in French and Italian versions).
• 2005: Gigolo by Bastian Schweitzer (the woman).
• 2007: Oliviero Rising by Riki Roseo (Antonietta).
• 2007: Un Amour De Fantôme.
• 2007: Starfuckers by Julien War (in production).

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Bibliography

• 1986: My Life With Dalì a.k.a. The Persistence Of Memory (original French title Dalì Et Moi) (Biography) Beaufort Books, Inc. ISBN 0825303737.
• 1987: The Immortal (original French title L'Immortel) (Novel) Carrere France.
• 2004: My Life With Dalì (updated and expanded re-issue). ISBN 0863690955.
• 2006: Between Dream And Reality (Collected art) ISBN 978-3-8334-5185-0.

References

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Sources & external links

• amandalear.tripod.com
• Ian Gibson: Biography The Shameful Life of Salvador Dali, W.W. Norton co., NY, 1997. ISBN 0393046249.
• April Ashley: Autobiography April Ashley's Odyssey. ISBN 0-224-01849-3
• April Ashley: Updated autobiography The First Lady John Blake Publishing Ltd, 2006, ISBN 1-84454-231-9.
• Romy Haag: Autobiography Eine Frau Und Mehr. Quadriga Germany, 1999, ISBN 3886793281.
• All Music Guide. [13]
• Discogs.com. [14]
• Rate Your Music. [15]
• Sony BMG Music Entertainment [16]
• Ariola Germany [17]
• ZYX Music Germany [18]
• Dance Street Records Germany [19]
• Bide Et Musique [20]
• Joanna Lumley interview, Advocate 1996. [21]
• The Internet Movie Database [22]
• Gracenote CD Information Database [23]
• Freedb CD Information Database [24]
• Romy Haag official home page [25]
• April Ashley official home page [26]
• Simon Napier-Bell official home page [27]
• Italian fan site [28]
• Diaryscape biography & picture gallery. [29]
• Rate Your Music biography & discography [30]
• Spanish language article by Carla Antonelli on Amanda and Salvador Dalí, with rare photos. [31]
• 2000 Biography, Umelec magazine. [32]
• 2001 interview with The Telegraph, UK. [33]
• 2002 interview with Night Magazine, US. [34]
• 2002 interview with Zing Magazine, US. [35]
• Great Celeb biography. [36]
• Second Type Women, biography and photo gallery. Amanda Lear
• Italian Dago Spia article on early career. [37]
• Amanda Lear discussion group on Yahoo [38]
• Amanda Lear discussion group on MSN [39]
• Discography, site Eurodancehits. eurodancehits.com
• Biography, site Eurodancehits. [40]