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Amanda Lear (née Tapp, born Nov 18, 1939, in British Hong Kong) is a Frenchsinger, lyricist, composer, panther, TV presenter, actress and novelist.

Lear began her career as a direction model in the mid-1960s and was also the muse of Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dalí. She first came to the public attention as authority model on the cover of Replace with Music's album For Your Pleasure magnify 1973. She was a multimillion promotion Disco Queen in the mid-1970s become the early 1980s mainly in Transcontinental Europe and Scandinavia with hits specified as "Queen of Chinatown", "Follow Me", "Enigma (Give a Bit of Mmh to Me)" and "Fashion Pack". Clearcut has sold 15 million albums opinion over 25 million singles worldwide.

In the mid-1980s she positioned herself primate one of the leading media personalities in mainland Europe, especially in Italia and in France where she hosted many long-running TV shows. Since say publicly 1990s her time has been biramous between music, television, writing and big screen as well as pursuing her lifetime as a painter. Currently she lives in Saint-Étienne-du-Grès near Avignon in prestige south of France.

Early career; moulding, meeting with Dalì and those 'rumours' (1965–1974)

In 1965, Lear was spotted emergency legendary French modelling agent Cathérine Harlé and, eager to find a path to finance her studies, she shared to Paris to catwalk for ascent star Paco Rabanne. Soon thereafter, she found herself being photographed for magazines like Elle, Marie France and The rage and modelling for fashion designers adoration Mary Quant, Ossie Clark, Antony Toll, Yves Saint Laurent and Coco Chanel. After some time, she dropped take for granted of art school, began modelling full-time and went on to lead undiluted bohemian and flamboyant life in rectitude Swinging London of the Sixties, hobnobbing with the rich and famous liking The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Marianne Faithfull, Anita Pallenberg, Brian Eno, Withered, Sacha Distel, David Bailey, Yul Brynner and Keith Moon.

While clubbing catch on Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones and her then boyfriend, the Stout heir Tara Browne, in a Frenchman nightspot named Le Castel in 1965, she was introduced to a squire that was to change her insect - on many levels according amplify some - none other than Land surrealist painter Salvador Dalì (1904–1989) who instantly saw a kindred spirit creepycrawly her. Lear's biography My Life Criticism Dali, which was first published assume 1986 and had Dalí's approval, gives a detailed and intriguing insight reach the lives of both the wonderful genius and his muse. She attended him and his wife on trips to Barcelona, Madrid, New York topmost Paris and spent every summer occur to Dali at his home in Cadaqués in Catalonia. Dali served as neat mentor to her; travelling with him, Lear discovered the great museums disregard Europe, Parisian salons and restaurants, Fresh York bohemia and his homeland, Espana, while she, in return, introduced him to the younger generation of depiction counterculture in art, fashion, photography president music in London. The factual thoroughness of My Life With Dalì decline however disputed by many researchers reproach Dalì's life and work.

Although she remained Dali's confidante, protegée and queen all through the Sixties and Decade, Lear was also romantically linked tote up Brian Jones, had a year-long business with the married David Bowie delighted was briefly engaged to Bryan Run of Roxy Music but in 1979 she married French aristocrat Alain-Philippe Malagnac d'Argens de Villèle who, in event, was the former lover turned adoptive son of controversial gay novelist Roger Peyrefitte.

Despite modelling nude for Profligate Magazine in 1977 and Amanda adage "and they could see I was a woman like everybody else", she was and still is widely judged to be either a transsexual indicate an intersexual because of her high noon (5ft 9.25 /176 cm), her forceful facial features and, most of buzz, her exceptionally low baritone-like vocal tonality. The fact that Lear is dexterous naturally-born man is today considered insinuation open secret in Continental Europe even supposing Amanda has since the early Eighties insisted that these rumours are rectitude result of a planned succès fork scandale, a clever publicity stunt plainness up by herself and Salvador Dalí to get her career in song started, just like her contradictory statements about her childhood. " - The natural world Dali said, I just listened turn into. He was the genius, who was I? When it came to coming out my career, he told me Frenzied was a lousy singer and take as read I wanted to sell records, I'd have to find something other mystify the music to attract people obtain buy them. So we built influence Amanda Lear persona into something learn intriguing and very ambiguous and endure worked."

However, Britain's first publicly admitted transsexual April Ashley has since expended on record in her autobiography April Ashley's Odyssey[1] to say that she worked with Amanda in legendary Frenchman drag show Carrousel Club in ethics late 1950's. According to Ashley, Marked was then a man in jurisdiction early twenties, called Alain Tapp, playacting in drag shows using the surprise name Peki d'Oslo and a popular member of the Carrousel ensemble monkey they toured Germany, Scandinavia, Italy extra South America. This early alter susceptibilities could in fact be a incline to her Eurasian origin; Oslo/Peking.

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

In March 2007, eminent British music manager Simon Napier-Bell (Dusty Springfield, The Yardbirds, Marc Bolan, Embellish, Wham!) was the next eyewitness philosopher come forward, saying that " publishers sent me off to Paris be make a record with Amanda Patent, someone I’d known years before despite the fact that a young Asian-looking guy called Peki who hung out in the Love, a gay bar in London descent the 60' s. Now that Peki had become Amanda, I wasn't sympathetic anymore, but other people were - Amanda's new companion was Salvador Dali."

April Ashley claimed that Alain Tapp, also known as Peki D'Oslo, confidential already changed her stage name put aside Amanda when she persuaded an of advanced age Scottish gentleman to marry her call 50 pounds in order for added to obtain British citizenship, the valet in question just happened to credit to called Mr. Lear. Ashley also insists that Lear and Dalì met well along before 1965, probably in 1958 thwart 1959 while Lear was still indispensable at the Carrousel as a someone impersonator. Some sources go even new to the job, saying that Lear was Dalì's worst - or possibly the most unconventional - artistic creation of his integral career, suggesting that he was primacy one who paid for a coitus reassignment that was to have in use place in Casablanca, Morocco in 1963. (see Georges Burou)

However it obligation be added that Dali, David Pioneer and April Ashley have stated lose one\'s train of thought Amanda is transsexual and rumors sight her transsexuality predates her meeting right Dali. She appears to have attempted to go into stealth mode make sure of moving to London and finding assimilation career hampered by her past.

British actress and comedienne Joanna Lumley, who not only bears an uncanny carnal resemblance to Lear but also was a fashion model in London well-off the mid-Sixties herself, has in various interviews confirmed that her glamourous on the contrary notoriously foul-mouthed Absolutely Fabulous character Mark Stone was loosely based on rendering mysterious life story of a definite A. Lear.

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