(amanda lear on the instantly classic album cover- roxy music- for your pleasure- circa 1973)
in case you didn't know, there is a worldwide amanda lear fetish.... the fetish is catching on.. i won't name any names, but pierce massimo & dra-zen, in zurich, along with scott in NYC, (and of course your truly here in LA) have been longtime obsessives of everything amanda.
check out this very recent pics of her-
Amanda Lear- born November 18, 1939, in British Hong Kong)
Lear began her career as a fashion model in the mid 1960s and was also the muse of Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dalí. She first came to the public's attention as the fetish clad model on the cover of Roxy Music's album For Your Pleasure in 1973. She was a multimillion selling Disco Queen in the mid 1970s to the early 1980s in Continental Europe, with hits such as "Queen of Chinatown", "Follow Me", and "Fashion Pack". Lear has released 60 singles and sold 15 million albums and 30 million singles worldwide.
Lear's early life is unclear, including her birthdate, names and nationalities of her parents, and the location of upbringing. Lear deliberately gives contradictory accounts of her early life. Raised speaking French and English, she learned German, Spanish and Italian in her teens, which she used in her professional life. According to Lear's official biography she relocated to Paris having finished elementary school, to study at L'Académie des Beaux Arts, before joining St. Martins School of Art in London in 1964.
In early 1965, Lear was spotted by Cathérine Harlé, head of a model agency, who offered Lear a contract.
Ian Gibson wrote in his book " The Shameful Life of Salvador Dalí " about facts that she was transsexual and dali has payed for her operation. Even Romy Haag, a famous german Transsexual knew her and in her Biography "Eine Frau und mehr" she wrote that she met Lear once when she was working in the famous trannie Cabaret Caroussel Paris and later on Lear worked together wit Haag in Haag's Cabaret Chez Romy for a little time.
(dali & amanda- circa 1978)
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 late 1965, she was, again according to her official biography, introduced to a man that was to change her life, on many levels according to some. The man was none other than the eccentric Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dalí, the self-proclaimed enfant terrible in the world of art, at the time some forty years her senior. Dalí was not only struck by Lear's looks but also saw a kindred spirit in her; Lear has since described their close and unconventional relationship as a "spiritual marriage". Her biography My Life With Dalí which was first published in French in 1984, and had Dalí's approval, gives a detailed insight into the lives of both the artist and his muse. She accompanied him and his wife on trips to Barcelona, Madrid, New York and Paris and over a period of some fifteen years spent every summer with Dalí at his home at Port Lligat, near Cadaqués in Catalonia. Lear posed for some of Dali's works such as Venus to the Furs and Vogué, took part in several of his film projects and could be seen by his side during press conferences and meetings with the media, events that in the age of flower power characteristically for its time and at this stage of Dali's life often turned into happenings, as spectacular as the art itself, and then frequently with Lear as the central figure. Joining the court of the Dalí's she now also regularly socialized with celebrities.
(david bowie's 1980FLOORSHOW featuring amanda lear, and also my dear friend- the late, great russell clark on sax)
Although she remained Dalí's confidante, protegée and mistress all through the Sixties and Seventies, Lear was also romantically linked to Brian Jones, which resulted in the ironic Rolling Stones track "Miss Amanda Jones", included on 1967 album Between the Buttons. In 1973 Lear was also briefly engaged to Bryan Ferry of Roxy Music, and was that same year famously depicted posing in a skintight leather dress leading a black panther on a leash on the cover of the band's classic rock album For Your Pleasure, an image that has been described as "as famous as the album itself" and which brought Lear plenty of exposure in the world of rock 'n roll. She went on to have a year-long affair with the married David Bowie, with whom she appeared in the live performance of his 1973 hit song "Sorrow" at the 1980 Floor Show stage production which was televised in the United States by NBC for TV series Midnight Special on 16 November 1973, an appearance often referred to as the official launch of Lear's career in music. She also acted as the mistress of ceremonies for the show.
Currently she lives in Saint-Étienne-du-Grès near Avignon in the south of France.
(amanda lear- follow me- circa 1978)
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