Editing Amanda Lear

{{Short description|French singer, actress, television presenter}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2023}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| name            = Amanda Lear
| image           = Amanda Lear 2010 a.jpg
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| caption         = Lear in 2010
| birth_name      = Amanda Tap(p)<ref name="culture.gouv.fr"/><ref name="FamilySearch"/>
| alias           =
| birth_date      = 18 June or 18 November 1939–1950
| birth_place     = [[Ho Chi Minh City|Saigon]], [[French Indochina]]<ref name="Suigo"/><ref>{{cite web|language=it|url=https://www.ilcorrieredellacitta.com/news/amanda-lear-chi-e-eta-carriera-curiosita-e-vita-privata.html|title=Amanda Lear: chi è, età, carriera, curiosità e vita privata|date=11 April 2020|website=ilcorrieredellacitta.com|author=Federica Rosato|access-date=15 January 2021|archive-date=22 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210122002456/https://www.ilcorrieredellacitta.com/news/amanda-lear-chi-e-eta-carriera-curiosita-e-vita-privata.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="Guilbert">{{cite book|first1=Georges-Claude|last1=Guilbert|author-link=Georges Claude Guilbert|title=Gay Icons : The (Mostly) Female Entertainers Gay Men Love|location=Jefferson, North Carolina|publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc.|year=2018|page=101|lccn=2018019336}}</ref><ref name="Duchamp">{{cite book|language=fr|first1=Marcel|last1=Duchamp|title=Marcel Duchamp & [et] Salvador Dalí|location=Paris (Baby), Bordeaux|publisher=association pour l'étude de Marcel Duchamp|number=5|year=2003|page=18|oclc=718104990|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wmfrAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Amanda+Lear+est+n%C3%A9%22+%22vers+1939%22+%22de+parents+franco-asiatiques%22}}</ref><ref name="Jukebox magazine"/><ref name="drole"/><br/>{{small|(present-day Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)}}{{efn|According to other sources, she was born in [[Hong Kong]]<ref name="AllMusic"/> or [[Hanoi]].<ref name="www.guardian.co.uk"/><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.arte-magazin.de/sphinx-mit-sex-appeal/ |title=Sphinx mit Sex-Appeal |publisher=arte-magazin.de |author=Oliver de Weert |year=2022 |language=de |access-date=2024-02-24}}</ref>}}
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| death_date      =
| death_place     =
| genre           = {{hlist|[[Pop music|Pop]]|[[dance music|dance]]|[[Euro disco]]|[[pop rock]]|[[New wave music|new wave]]|[[Eurodance]]|[[jazz]]}}
| occupation      = {{hlist |Singer |lyricist |painter |television personality |actress |model}}
| instrument      = Vocals
| years_active    = 1965–present
| label           = {{hlist |[[Ariola Records]] |Five Records |[[Carrere Records]] |[[Casa Ricordi|Ricordi International]] |Chène Music |[[ZYX Music]] |Le Marais Productions |Edina Music |Just Good Music for Your Ears |Little Boom Records}}
| associated_acts = [[Salvador Dalí]]
| website         = {{URL|http://www.amandalear.com/}}
}}

'''Amanda Lear''' ({{née|'''Tap''' or '''Tapp'''}};<ref name="culture.gouv.fr"/><ref name="FamilySearch"/> born 18 June or 18 November 1939 or 1941<ref name="AllMusic"/> or 1946<ref>{{cite web |url=https://lescharts.com/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Amanda+Lear |title=Discographie Amanda Lear |publisher=lescharts.com |access-date=2024-03-21 |language=fr}}</ref><ref name="skug"/> or 1950<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.amandalear.com/biography/ |title=Biography — Amanda Lear |publisher=amandalear.com |access-date=2024-02-09}}</ref>) is a French singer, songwriter, painter, television presenter, actress and former model.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Iq5QJa2oqA | title=Amanda Lear | website=[[YouTube]] | date=8 November 2012 }}</ref>

She began her professional career as a fashion model in the mid-1960s and went on to model for [[Paco Rabanne]], [[Ossie Clark]] and others. She met Spanish [[surrealism|surrealist]] painter [[Salvador Dalí]] and remained his closest friend and [[Muses|muse]] for almost 20 years. Lear first came into the public eye as the cover model for [[Roxy Music]]'s album ''[[For Your Pleasure]]'' in 1973. From the mid-1970s to the early 1980s, she was a million-album-selling disco star signed to [[Ariola Records]], primarily impacting continental Europe and Scandinavia. Lear's first four albums earned her mainstream popularity, charting in the top 10 of European charts, including the best-selling ''[[Sweet Revenge (Amanda Lear album)|Sweet Revenge]]'' (1978). Her bigger hits included "[[Blood and Honey]]", "[[Tomorrow (Amanda Lear song)|Tomorrow]]", "[[Queen of Chinatown]]", "[[Follow Me (Amanda Lear song)|Follow Me]]", "[[Enigma (Give a Bit of Mmh to Me)]]", "[[The Sphinx (song)|The Sphinx]]", and "[[Fashion Pack]]".

By the mid-1980s, Lear had become a leading media personality in Italy, hosting many popular TV shows. Although television took priority over musical activity,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gqonline.it/cont/020mus/030sta/0204/0800/iindex.asp |title=Le trasformazioni di Amanda |author=Monica Romanò |year=2002 |publisher=gqonline.it |access-date=2018-12-28 |language=it |url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030402074853/http://www.gqonline.it/cont/020mus/030sta/0204/0800/iindex.asp |archive-date=2003-04-02}}</ref> she continued to record, experimenting with different genres and trying to revive her career by re-recording and remixing earlier hits to various levels of success. Lear has also developed a successful career in painting,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.queer.de/detail.php?article_id=6405 |title=Amanda Lear zeigt ihre Malerei |author=Carsten Weidemann |date=15 February 2007 |publisher=queer.de |access-date=2018-12-28 |language=de}}</ref> which she has long described as her biggest passion,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thegroundmag.com/amanda-lear-an-interview-with/ |title=An Interview with Amanda Lear |first=Marco |last=Pantella |date=22 October 2014 |magazine=The Ground |access-date=14 July 2018 |url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180714164824/http://www.thegroundmag.com/amanda-lear-an-interview-with/ |archive-date=14 July 2018}}</ref> and regularly exhibited her works in galleries across Europe and beyond since the early 1980s.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.eventiesagre.it/Eventi_Mostre/18010_Sogni+Miti+Colori.html |title=Eventi Mostre. Sogni Miti Colori 07/06/2008-30/06/2008 Pietrasanta (LU), Toscana |website=Eventi e sagre.it |language=it |access-date=28 February 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.spoletoarte.it/index.php/11-eventi/157-a-londra-le-esclusive-opere-di-amanda-lear-in-mostra-con-artisti-talentuosi |title=A Londra le esclusive opere di Amanda Lear in mostra con artisti talentuosi |date=10 May 2017 |website=Spoleto Arte.it |language=it |access-date=15 July 2018}}</ref> She has also written a number of books, including ''[[My Life with Dalí]]''.

Since the 1990s, her time has been divided among music, television, movies and painting. Despite regular album releases, she failed to achieve major success in the charts with her music, but her television career has remained stellar and she has hosted numerous primetime TV shows, mostly in Italy and France, occasionally making guest appearances in TV series. She has performed acting and dubbing roles in independent as well as in major film productions. In the late 2000s, Lear reinvented herself as a theatrical actress, performing in long-running stage plays in France. To date, she allegedly has sold over 27 million records worldwide.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.repubblica.it/spettacoli/people/2016/07/28/news/la_regina_lear_che_orrore_la_disco_music_quanta_robaccia_ho_fatto_ma_non_ho_piu_rimpianti_-144971054/ |title=La regina Lear: "Che orrore la disco music, quanta robaccia ho fatto ma non-ho più rimpianti" |first=Arianna |last=Finos |date=28 July 2016 |newspaper=[[la Repubblica]] |access-date=23 July 2018 |language=it}}</ref> Lear is also a widely recognized gay icon.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.puretrend.com/article/amanda-lear-l-icone-disco-en-10-infos-croustillantes_a89395/1 |title=Amanda Lear : l'icône disco en 10 infos croustillantes |date=27 June 2014 |website=Puretrend.com |access-date=15 July 2018 |language=fr}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.innastrona.pl/lifestyle_ludzie_amanda.phtml |title=Amanda Lear is back! |year=2003 |publisher=innastrona.pl |language=pl |access-date=29 December 2018 |url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060902190825/http://www.innastrona.pl/lifestyle_ludzie_amanda.phtml |archive-date=2 September 2006}}</ref>

==Early life==
Lear's origins are unclear, with the singer providing different information about her background and keeping her birth year a secret from her long-term husband [[Alain-Philippe Malagnac d'Argens de Villèle|Alain-Philippe]].<ref name="www.telegraph.co.uk">{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4721185/Why-would-I-want-to-kill-my-husband.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4721185/Why-would-I-want-to-kill-my-husband.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Why would I want to kill my husband? |first=Christa |last=D'Souza |date=23 January 2001 |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |access-date=16 March 2013}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Contested facts include her birth date and place, the gender she was [[sex assignment|assigned at birth]], names and nationalities of her parents and the location of her upbringing. Most sources claim 18 June 1939,<ref name="IMDb">{{cite news|publisher=IMDb|title=Amanda Lear|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0495166/}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|website=Rotten Tomatoes|title=Amanda Lear|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/amanda_lear}}</ref> including [[Bibliothèque nationale de France]]<ref>{{cite news|url=http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb13896436c/|work=BnF : Bibliothèque nationale de France – catalogue général|title=Lear, Amanda (1939-....) pseudonyme forme internationale|number=Notice n° : FRBNF13896436|date=22 March 2007}}</ref> or 18 November 1939 to be her birth date, including [[GEMA (German organization)|GEMA]]. Her birth year, though, has variously been given as 1941,<ref name="www.guardian.co.uk"/> 1946<ref name="skug">{{cite web |url=https://skug.at/amanda-lear-in-every-dreamhome-a-heartache/ |title=Amanda Lear - In Every Dreamhome A Heartache |first=Didi |last=Neidhart |date=24 February 2002 |website=Skug.at |language=de |access-date=16 July 2018}}</ref> and 1950. During a 2010 interview with French newspaper ''[[Libération]]'', Lear presented her identity card to the journalist, which read: "born 18 November 1950 in Saigon".<ref name="drole">{{cite news |last=Dahan |first=Eric |date=16 August 2010 |title=Drôle de dame |trans-title=Funny lady |url=https://next.liberation.fr/culture/2010/08/16/drole-de-dame_672204 |url-status=live |language=fr |newspaper=[[Libération]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231223141024/https://www.liberation.fr/culture/2010/08/16/drole-de-dame_672204/ |archive-date=23 December 2023 |access-date=23 December 2023}}</ref> Georges Claude Guilbert claims, "Most biographers believe she was born in 1939, whatever she might declare to the contrary."<ref name="Guilbert"/>

As for her birthplace, Saigon and British Hong Kong seemed to be the most credible,<ref name="www.telegraph.co.uk"/> but Lear claimed origins in Singapore, Switzerland and even Transylvania. According to her book ''My Life with Dalí,'' she was the only child of her parents, who later divorced.{{sfnp|Lear|1985|p=10}} Most sources, including Lear's 1965 wedding certificate from the [[Chelsea, London|Chelsea]] registry office,<ref name="Gibson">{{cite book |last=Gibson |first=Ian |author-link=Ian Gibson (author) |title=The Shameful Life of Salvador Dalí |year=1998 |publisher=[[W.W. Norton & Company]] |location=New York City |isbn=0-393-04624-9 |chapter=14: Amanda Lear and Other Extravagances |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/shamefullifeofsa00gibs }}</ref> confirm that her father was a French army officer and that her surname at that time was Tap.<ref name="FamilySearch">{{cite book|title=General Register Office for England and Wales|date=1837–2005|page=1452|volume=5A|version=4|location=Chelsea, London, General Register Office, Southport, England|url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV63-JZFS}} {{Blockquote|text=Name: Amanda Tap; Event Type: Marriage Registration; Event Place: Chelsea, London, England; Registration District: Chelsea; County: London; Registration Year: 1965; Registration Quarter: Oct-Nov-Dec; Page: 1452; Affiliate Line Number: 167; Volume: 5A; Spouse Name (available after 1911): Lear; Possible Spouse: Morgan P Lear.}}</ref><ref name="freebmd">{{Cite web|url=https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=6biOgip%2BincvuzoSod1VpQ&scan=1|title=Index entry|date=December 1965|access-date=2 March 2020|work=FreeBMD|publisher=ONS}} ANC-05/1965M4-L-0513.jpg For the original file : click on the icon "View the original" {{Blockquote|text=Tap, Amanda Lear Chelsea 5A 1452.}}</ref><ref name="Gibson"/><ref name="Carla Antonelli 2003"/><ref>{{cite book|first1=Duncan|last1=Fallowell|author-link1=Duncan Fallowell|first2=April|last2=Ashley|author-link2=April Ashley|title=April Ashley's Odyssey|location=London, UK|publisher=[[Jonathan Cape]]|year=1982|lccn=82145047|oclc=9491739|url=http://www.antijen.org/Aprilv1/|isbn=0224018493|access-date=16 October 2019|archive-date=18 November 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191118004812/http://www.antijen.org/Aprilv1/|url-status=dead}}</ref> According to the [[French Republic]], her birth surname was Tapp.<ref name="culture.gouv.fr">{{cite web |url=http://www2.culture.gouv.fr/culture/artsetlettres/juillet2006.html |title=Nominations dans l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres de juillet 2006 |website=[[Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication]] |language=fr |access-date=6 June 2010}}</ref><ref name="Vabres">{{Cite book|date=24 July 2006|author=[[Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres]]|publisher=[[French Republic]]|location=[[Ministry of Culture (France)]]|title=Arrêté portant promotion ou nomination dans l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres|url=http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/artsetlettres/juillet2006.html|access-date=2 March 2020}} {{Blockquote|text=Mme Amanda Tapp dite Amanda Lear, chanteuse, animatrice, artiste-peintre}}</ref> In a 1976 interview with [[Carmen Thomas]] for a German television show, Lear stated that her father was British, her mother was Russian and that they both had died.<ref name="3nach9">{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0rqZ90rTjI  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/f0rqZ90rTjI| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|title=Amanda Lear - Interview "3nach9" (29 May 1976) |author=Webtélé Amanda Lear |date=28 April 2011 |via=YouTube |language=en, de |access-date=25 August 2012}}{{cbignore}}</ref> However, Lear later stated in a 1978 interview that she had a younger brother, her mother was [[Mongols|Mongolian]] and they were both living together in a small town in the [[Pyrenees]] on the French-Spanish border.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1978-11-12 |title=" Amanda Lear - " Sono figlia di Maria " " |work=[[TV Sorrisi e Canzoni]]}}</ref> In 2021, she confirmed she was born in Saigon.<ref name="Suigo">{{cite news|language=fr|format=audio|title=Amanda Lear à contre-emploi sur les planches dans "Qu'est-il arrivé à Bette Davis et Joan Crawford" : "C'est une thérapie pour moi"|date=20 September 2021|author=Élodie Suigo|publisher=[[France Info]]|url =https://www.francetvinfo.fr/replay-radio/le-monde-d-elodie/amanda-lear-a-contre-emploi-sur-les-planches-dans-quest-il-arrive-a-bette-davis-et-joan-crawford-c-est-une-therapie-pour-moi_4761521.html}}</ref>

Lear allegedly grew up in the South of France and in Switzerland,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lyonclubbing.com/html/people/indexpeople.php3?action=afficher&no=76&annee=2002 |title=Amanda Lear réveille Lyon ! Le 17 Octobre 2002 |website=Lyon Clubbing.com |language=French |access-date=15 July 2018 |url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030414022733/http://www.lyonclubbing.com/html/people/indexpeople.php3?action=afficher&no=76&annee=2002 |archive-date=14 April 2003}}</ref> or between London and Paris,<ref name="drole"/> or in Nice.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N7hNAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Elle+est+n%C3%A9e+par+hasard+a+Hong-Kong+d%27un+%22|title=Elle est née par hasard à Hong-Kong d'un père marin et d'une mère qui, très vite divorcée, l'a élevée à Nice|website=[[Paris Match]] |language=fr |year=1987 }}</ref><ref>"Confessions Orbitales". ''[[Europe 1]]'' (in French). 8 March 2003</ref> She learned English, German, Spanish and Italian in her teens and would use multilingualism in her professional life. The academic Georges Claude Guilbert claims, "Linguists observe that she has a French accent when she speaks (and sings) in English".<ref name="Guilbert"/>

''[[The Guardian]]'', on 24 December 2000, summarized the information relating to these aspects of Lear's life as follows:<ref name="www.guardian.co.uk"/>
{{Blockquote| text=Lear's background remains a mystery. She has variously let it be known that her mother was English or French or Vietnamese or Chinese, and that her father was English, Russian, French or Indonesian. She may have been born in Hanoi in 1939, or Hong Kong in either 1941 or 1946. Once she said she was from [[Transylvania]]. And to this day, it is a matter of conjecture as to whether she was born a boy or a girl.}}

==Career==
===1965–1974: Modelling and the Swinging London period===
[[File:Salvador Dali NYWTS.jpg|thumb|[[Salvador Dalí]] had a profound impact on Lear's painting career as well as her personal life.{{sfnp|Lear|1985|pp=193, 296}}]]
Amanda Lear was introduced to the eccentric Spanish surrealist painter [[Salvador Dalí]] in Paris. The self-proclaimed enfant terrible in the world of art, 35 years her senior, was struck by her looks and found a soul mate in her. She has since described their close and unconventional relationship as a "spiritual marriage" and remained Dalí's confidante, {{lang|fr|protégée}} and closest friend through the next 16 years.<ref name="night">{{cite magazine |title=Interview: Amanda Lear for Night |first=Robert Henry |last=Rubin |year=2002 |magazine=[[NIGHT (magazine)|NIGHT]] }}</ref> She spent every summer with Dalí at his home at [[Port Lligat]] in Catalonia, Spain, and accompanied him and his wife on trips to Barcelona, Madrid, Paris and New York. She also took part in his art projects, posing for a number of Dalí's drawings and paintings, including ''Angélus de Millet - Amanda'' (1968),<ref>{{Cite web |title=Angélus de Millet - Amanda by Salvador Dali. |url=https://www.artnet.fr/artistes/salvador-dal%C3%AD/ang%C3%A9lus-de-millet-amanda-O0CgvhXcFTUwwv-utdGDRA2 |website=Artnet}}</ref> ''Roger Freeing Angelica (St. George and the Damsel)'' (1970),<ref>{{Cite web |title=Roger Freeing Angelica (St. George and the Damsel) (1970) by Salvador Dali |url=https://www.salvador-dali.org/fr/oeuvre/catalogue-raisonne-peinture/obra/828/sans-titre-d-apres-roger-delivrant-angelique-d-ingres |website=Fundacio Gala-Salvador Dali}}</ref> ''Bateau Anthotropic'' (1971),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.artnet.com/artists/salvador-dal%C3%AD/bateau-anthotropic-amanda-lear-WnUnHQM8AOAnJ2kRy3Fcrg2 |title=Bateau anthotropic Amanda Lear by Salvador Dalí on artnet |website=[[Artnet]] |access-date=19 February 2020}}</ref>{{sfnp|Lear|1985|pp=49–51, 82, 126–130, 149–150}} and ''Exploding Head'' (1982).<ref>{{cite web |title=Exploding Head |url=https://www.salvador-dali.org/en/artwork/catalogue-raisonne-paintings/obra/976/untitled-exploding-head |website=The Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Lear |first1=Amanda |title=Mon Dali |date=2004 |publisher=Michel Lafon |isbn=9782749901114 |pages=252}}</ref> Dalí and Lear would later collaborate on a giant seven-foot-wide by four-foot high collage fan.<ref>{{cite web |title=Fan-shaped collage made by Salvador Dalí in collaboration with Amanda Lear |url=https://www.salvador-dali.org/en/artwork/the-collection/82/fan-shaped-collage-made-by-salvador-dali-in-collaboration-with-amanda-lear |website=Salvador Dali}}</ref> Lear can be found as [[Temperance (tarot card)|Temperance]] in [[Salvador Dali's Tarot]], in which she claimed to have assisted Dalí in the completion of the collages.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lear |first1=Amanda |title=Mon Dali |date=2004 |publisher=Michel Lafon |isbn=978-2749901114 |pages=193}}</ref>

In 1965, Lear moved to London and began working as a cabaret artist. A July 1965 newspaper report about a robbery at her home described her as the strip-tease artist "Amanda Tapp, professionally known as Peki d'Oslo".<ref name="ReferenceA">"Male Model stole from strip girl", Chelsea News, 9 July 1965</ref> An American newspaper described her in October 1965 as "one of the leading stripping stars on the European cabaret circuit".<ref>Mountain Echo (Shickshinny, Pennsylvania), 28 October 1965</ref>

On 11 December 1965 in the UK, she married Morgan Paul Lear, an architecture student,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.antijen.org/Aprilv1/|title=April Ashley's Odyssey|first1=Duncan|last1=Fallowell|author-link1=Duncan Fallowell|first2=April Ashley|last2=Ashley|author-link2=April Ashley|website=antijen.org|publisher=[[Jonathan Cape]]|location=London|year=1982|page=287|isbn=0-224-01849-3|oclc=9491739|lccn=82145047|access-date=3 November 2020|archive-date=18 November 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191118004812/http://www.antijen.org/Aprilv1/|url-status=dead}}</ref> and adopted his name.<ref name="Carla Antonelli 2003">{{cite web |url=http://www.carlaantonelli.com/pierrot_memorias_de_transexuales3.htm |title=Pierrot-Memorias Trans Capitulo 2º |first=Carla |last=Antonelli |author-link=Carla Antonelli |year=2003 |website=Carla Antonelli.com |language=es |access-date=25 January 2013}}</ref><ref name="FamilySearch"/> After showing up at [[Lucie Daouphars]]' Parisian model school (known as Lucky), she was sent by Gérald Nanty to [[Karl Lagerfeld]], then model maker at [[Patou]].<ref name="Nanty">{{cite book |last=Quin|first=Élisabeth|title=Bel de nuit, Gérald Nanty |year=2007|publisher=[[Éditions Grasset]] |location=Paris |isbn=9782246693413|oclc=470792050|page=311 |url-access=registration |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SEWwZa1hUQwC&q=Bel+de+nuit%2C+G%C3%A9rald+Nanty }}</ref> Amanda Lear was a runway model for Lagerfeld and met Catherine Harlé, the head of a modelling agency, who offered her a contract. With her modelling assignment, she walked for rising star [[Paco Rabanne]] in 1967.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ina.fr/video/I12254896/salvador-dali-les-crises-de-rire-et-la-prison-video.html|title=Salvador Dali "les crises de rire" et "la prison"|date=21 April 1967|website=[[Institut national de l'audiovisuel|Ina]]|language=fr|author=Raoul Sangla|access-date=24 February 2020}}</ref> Just as Harlé had predicted, her looks were very much in demand. Soon after her debut Lear was photographed by [[Helmut Newton]], [[Charles Paul Wilp]] and Antoine Giacomoni for magazines such as ''Beau'' (1966), ''mr.'' (1966),<ref>{{cite news|title=Anatomy of a wife-swap group |newspaper=mr. |url=https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/4vIAAOSwjARcaXHY/s-l1600.jpg |location=New York |date=February 1966 }}</ref> ''[[Le Nouveau Candide]]'',<ref>{{cite news|language=fr|title=L'invasion du sadisme|newspaper=Le Nouveau Candide|url =https://i.pinimg.com/originals/0b/8c/37/0b8c378797f19b1a3d33d102d8b9d8dc.jpg|location=Paris|date=3 October 1966|number=284}}</ref> ''[[Cinémonde]]'' (1967),<ref>{{cite book|title=Cinémonde|date=23 May 1967|number=1694|publisher=Musée de la presse : les archives de la presse, journ@aux-collection.com|url=http://journaux-collection.com/fiche.php?id=892250|format=fiche n° 892250|access-date=13 October 2019|archive-date=8 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190508163533/http://www.journaux-collection.com/fiche.php?id=892250|url-status=dead}}</ref> ''Scandal'', ''Marie France'', ''[[Nova (UK magazine)|Nova]]'',<ref>{{cite news|title=How to undress in front of your husband|newspaper=Nova|url =https://www.duffyarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/NOVA_MAY_1971_COVER.jpg|location=London|publisher=IPC Magazines Ltd|date=May 1971}}</ref> ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'', ''[[Stern (magazine)|Stern]]'',<ref name="Jukebox magazine">{{cite news|date=June 2013|author=Patrick Renard|title=Amanda Lear travestie|newspaper=Jukebox magazine|page=28|number=318|url =http://www.jukeboxmag.com/images/magazines/pages/318_p28.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191013114157/http://www.jukeboxmag.com/images/magazines/pages/318_p28.pdf|archive-date=13 October 2019}}</ref> ''[[Bravo (magazine)|Bravo]]'' and ''[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]]''. She modelled for fashion designers including [[Yves Saint Laurent (designer)|Yves Saint Laurent]] and [[Coco Chanel]] in Paris and [[Mary Quant]], [[Ossie Clark]] and [[Antony Price]] in London. After some time, Lear dropped out of art school to model full-time and went on to lead a bohemian and flamboyant life in the [[Swinging London]] of the 1960s. Lear's acquaintances included [[the Beatles]] and fellow top models [[Twiggy]], [[Pattie Boyd]] and [[Anita Pallenberg]]. In late 1966, she began dating [[the Rolling Stones]]' [[Brian Jones]], whom she first met prior through [[Tara Browne]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lear |first1=Amanda |title=Mon Dali |date=2004 |publisher=Michel Lafon}}</ref> Pallenberg, cited as "Jones' [[Mistress (lover)|mistress]]", also connected Lear with him.<ref name="drole"/> Their relationship inspired [[Mick Jagger]] and [[Keith Richards]] for the track "[[Miss Amanda Jones]]" from ''[[Between the Buttons]]'', alluding the romance between Jones and Lear as she's described as "Ms. Jones".<ref>''Il paraîtrait que cette'' Miss Amanda Jones ''n'est autre qu'Amanda Lear qui en effet traînait avec Brian.'', [[Frédéric Lecomte|Frédéric {{nobr|Lecomte Esq.}}]], « Rolling Stones 63/90 ''Le Chemin des pierres'' », ''[[Musicien (revue)|Musicien]]'', Hors-série, {{nobr|nº 2H}}, « Spécial ''Rolling Stones'' », 1990, {{nobr|p. 17}}.</ref> She became a "stalwart of London's [[demimonde]]",<ref name="www.guardian.co.uk">{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2000/dec/24/focus.news |title=The bizarre career of Amanda Lear (At the court of Queen Lear) |first=Andrew |last=Anthony |author-link=Andrew Anthony |date=24 December 2000 |newspaper=[[The Observer]] |access-date=6 June 2010}}</ref> an exotic name on the nightclub circuit and a regular fixture in the gossip columns. Lear was arrested in 1967 by the police with drugs belonging to the Rolling Stones.<ref name="drole"/><ref name="Topham">{{cite web |url=https://www.topfoto.co.uk/asset/2967454/ |title=File n° 0002981 |first=John |last=Topham |author-link= John Topham (photographer)|date=20 May 1967 |website=topfoto.co.uk |access-date=19 February 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://museedelapresse.com/parisien-libere-edition-de-paris-le-no-7067/ |title=Le Parisien libéré édition de Paris n°7067 22 mai 1967 |work=Le Parisien |author-link=Le Parisien |date=22 May 1967 |language=fr |access-date=19 February 2020 |archive-date=25 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201025113132/http://museedelapresse.com/parisien-libere-edition-de-paris-le-no-7067/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> Lear was sent naked to a prison cell "because you don't denounce a Rolling Stones", she said and was later fined for it.<ref name="drole"/> Lear appeared in several advertisements for major brands, modelling among others for a [[Chantelle (lingerie)|Chantelle]] underwear range and the Detchema fragrance by a French company [[Révillon Frères]] in 1967,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://dangerousminds.net/comments/salvador_dalis_transsexual_muse_amanda_lear_in_her_first_tv_commercial_1967 |title=Salvador Dali's transgender muse Amanda Lear in her first TV commercial, 1967 |first=Richard |last=Metzger |date=25 February 2013 |website=Dangerous Minds.net |access-date=17 March 2013}}</ref> and in 1968 played a minor role in the French comedy film ''[[Ne jouez pas avec les Martiens]]'' and also in the 1968 British psychedelic film ''[[Wonderwall (film)|Wonderwall]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ey7REUEM8lU |title=Suki Potier along with Amanda Lear and Jane Birkin in Wonderwall  |via=YouTube |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200308213933if_/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ey7REUEM8lU |archive-date=8 March 2020 |url-status=dead}}</ref> After Jones' death, Lear moved with hippie friends to [[Elvaston Place]], [[South Kensington]], in London. Lear recalled: "We smoked joints, took [[LSD]], [[Jimi Hendrix]] came by when he had no place to sleep."<ref name="drole"/> In New York, Lear became a fixture at [[Max's Kansas City]], partying every night with [[Andy Warhol]] and friends, to the point of neglecting some of her modelling duties, saying : "Do you even think I could have been ready and spotless by 8 A.M. as they wanted me to be ?".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Huston |first1=Anjelica |title=A Story Lately Told : Coming of Age in Ireland, London, and New York. |date=2013 |publisher=Scribner |isbn=978-1451656305 |pages=200}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Pantella |first1=Marco |title=An interview with Amanda Lear |journal=The Ground Magazine |date=March 10, 2014 |issue=4}}</ref>

In 1971, Lear modelled for a special Christmas issue of the French edition of ''[[Vogue Paris|Vogue]]'', edited entirely by Salvador Dalí, and was photographed by [[David Bailey]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ciaovogue.com/2012/03/december-1971-paris-vogue.html |title=December 1971 - Paris Vogue |first=Freya |last=Erickson |date=13 March 2012 |website=Ciao Vogue.com |access-date=13 March 2013 |url-status = dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130410170255/http://www.ciaovogue.com/2012/03/december-1971-paris-vogue.html |archive-date=10 April 2013 }}</ref> She performed in a short-lived play along with the singer [[P.J. Proby]] in an [[Islington]] pub in London and 1972 saw her first on-stage appearance when she introduced [[Roxy Music]] and [[Lloyd Watson]] at the [[Rainbow Theatre]] in London in August.{{sfnp|Cann|2010|p=265}} Lear also made a cameo appearance modelling in ''[[A Bigger Splash (1973 film)|A Bigger Splash]]''. Lear has been briefly engaged to [[Bryan Ferry]] of Roxy Music<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0495166/bio |title=Amanda Lear - Biography |publisher=[[IMDb]] |access-date=18 July 2007}}</ref> and was famously depicted posing in a skintight leather dress leading a black panther on a leash on the cover of the band's art rock album ''[[For Your Pleasure]]'', released in March 1973,<ref>{{cite book |last=Salewicz |first=Chris |title=Keep on Running – The Story of Island Records |year=2009 |publisher=[[Island Records|Island Records Company]] |location=London, UK |isbn=978-0-95619-140-3 |page=67}}</ref> an image that has been described as "as famous as the album itself".<ref name="eurodancehits.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.eurodancehits.com/learbio.html |title=Amanda Lear Biography |website=Eurodancehits.com |access-date=21 July 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090611040832/http://www.eurodancehits.com/learbio.html |archive-date=11 June 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref> After the release of ''For Your Pleasure'', Lear appeared on stage at [[Koko (music venue)|Camden Palace]] during Roxy Music concerts; "[[Freddie Mercury]] and [[Elton John]] thought I was great", she said.<ref name="drole"/> Later, [[Marianne Faithfull]] handed the phone to Lear: "It's [[David Bowie]], he wants to talk to you."<ref name="drole"/> Lear first met Bowie at a dinner with Jagger and his wife [[Bianca Jagger|Bianca]], and then went to a [[Muhammad Ali]] boxing match shown at a [[Movie theater|cinema]] in [[Leicester Square]]. Lear thought Bowie was "weird with his red hair". Bianca "hated" Lear.<ref name="drole"/> Lear went on to have an affair with the married Bowie.<ref>{{cite book |last=Bowie |first=Angela |author-link=Angela Bowie |title=Backstage Passes |year=1994 |publisher=Orion |location=London |isbn=1-85797-108-6 |page=164}}</ref> However, Bowie's wife [[Angie Bowie|Angie]] supported Lear.<ref name="drole"/> Following the exposure to the music world she gained from the album cover, Lear appeared in the live performance of Bowie's hit song "[[Sorrow (The McCoys song)#David Bowie version|Sorrow]]" in ''[[The 1980 Floor Show]]'' and was cast as the show's MC held in October 1973, broadcast in November 1973 as part of ''[[The Midnight Special (TV series)|The Midnight Special]]'' TV series.<ref>{{cite book |last=Spitz |first=Marc |author-link=Marc Spitz |title=David Bowie: A Biography |year=2010 |publisher=[[Aurum Press]] |location=London, UK |isbn=978-1-84513-551-5 |pages=224, 229}}</ref> Lear then contributed to the [[Dalí Theatre and Museum|Dalí Museum]], opened in the painter's home town [[Figueres]] in September 1974, by producing a series of [[collage]]s decorating the doors of the museum, and was offered writing a monthly gossip column by the British magazine ''[[Tatler (1901)|Tatler]]''.{{sfnp|Lear|1985|pp=249–253, 258}} Lear was also one of the four [[gossip columnist]]s for ''[[Ritz Newspaper|Ritz Magazine]]''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Jones |first1=Dylan |title=Sweet Dreams: The Story of the New Romantics |date=October 6, 2020 |publisher=Faber & Faber |isbn=978-0571353446}}</ref>

===1974–1983: The disco period with Ariola Records===
In 1974, disillusioned by a shallow and conservative fashion industry and encouraged by her boyfriend Bowie,<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.zingmagazine.com/zing16/projects/sico.html |title=Persistence of Memory |first1=Sico |last1=Carlier |first2=Ben |last2=Laloua |number=16 |date=Winter 2002 |magazine=[[Zingmagazine]] |access-date=9 April 2009 |archive-date=17 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181017204223/http://www.zingmagazine.com/zing16/projects/sico.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> who paid for singing and dancing lessons, Lear decided to launch a career in music. Bowie recommended a Hungarian voice coach Florence Wiese-Norberg, with whom he also worked,{{sfnp|Cann|2010|p=126}} and the pair subsequently recorded a demo track called "Star", which remains unreleased to date.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb5FEq7rqT8  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/yb5FEq7rqT8| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|title=Amanda Lear talks about David Bowie in Italy |first=Marco |last=Piraccini |via=YouTube |date=1 October 2016 |language=it |access-date=23 July 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Lear's debut single, "[[Trouble (Elvis Presley song)|Trouble]]", a pop-rock cover of [[Elvis Presley]]'s 1958 classic, was released unsuccessfully by minor label [[Creole Records]] in the United Kingdom. A French-language version of the track, "[[La Bagarre]]", was released on [[Polydor]] in France and while equally unsuccessful there, it became a minor disco hit in West Germany in early 1976. The track caught the attention of the singer, composer and producer [[Anthony Monn]] and label [[Ariola Records|Ariola]], which offered her a seven-year, six-album recording contract for a sum of money that Lear since has described as "astronomic".<ref name="eurodancehits.com"/> Her debut album, ''[[I Am a Photograph]]'', released in 1977, was recorded in Munich with most songs composed by Monn who later produced majority of her material in the disco era. The album included Lear's first European hit "[[Blood and Honey]]", as well as the follow-up Italian no. 1 single "[[Tomorrow (Amanda Lear song)|Tomorrow]]", and covers of [[Nancy Sinatra]]'s "[[These Boots Are Made for Walkin']]" and [[Leroy Anderson]]'s "[[Blue Tango]]". ''I Am a Photograph''{{'}}s mixture of lush disco, [[schlager music|schlager]], [[kitsch]] and [[camp (style)|camp]], topped with Lear's deep half-spoken, half-sung vocals and her characteristic [[Franglais]] accent was a successful combination. The second edition of ''I Am a Photograph'', which also contained German no. 2 hit "[[Queen of Chinatown]]", included a free [[Pin-up model|pin-up]] poster with Lear posing [[toplessness|topless]], a photo originally featured in a ''[[Playboy]]'' spread. Lear allegedly had affairs with [[Keith Moon]] and [[Jimmy Page]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Robinson |first1=Lisa |title=There Goes Gravity: A Life in Rock and Roll |date=2014 |publisher=Riverhead Book |isbn=9781594487149}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Lear |title=Je ne suis pas du tout celle que vous croyez |date=2009 |publisher=Hors Collection |isbn=978-2258081321}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Gaignault |title=Egéries sixties |date=2006 |publisher=Fayard |isbn=978-2213620541}}</ref>

[[File:Amanda Lear 929-5962.jpg|thumb|Lear performing on a Dutch TV show at the height of her singing career, 1978]]
In 1978, Lear continued her line of disco hits with ''[[Sweet Revenge (Amanda Lear album)|Sweet Revenge]]'', an album that opens with a concept medley about a [[Faust]]ian fairy tale of a girl who sells her soul to the devil for fame and fortune, and in her eventual revenge over the devil's offer finds true love. The first single from ''Sweet Revenge'', "[[Follow Me (Amanda Lear song)|Follow Me]]", powered by Lear's characteristic deep and recitative voice and the theme of the devil, was an instant smash hit. It reached the top 3 in the West German singles chart as well as the top 10 in many European countries,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://hitparade.ch/song/Amanda-Lear/Follow-Me-505 |title=Amanda Lear – Follow Me |website=hitparade.ch |language=de |access-date=6 February 2009}}</ref> and has been Lear's signature tune ever since. The ''Sweet Revenge'' album was certified [[music recording sales certification|gold]] in West Germany<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.musikindustrie.de/markt-bestseller/gold-/platin-und-diamond-auszeichnung/datenbank/ |title=Gold-/Platin-Datenbank |website=[[Bundesverband Musikindustrie]] |language=de |access-date=23 November 2009}}</ref> and France,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.infodisc.fr/Album_Certifications.php |title=Les Certifications depuis 1973 |website=InfoDisc.fr |language=fr |access-date=23 November 2009}}</ref> and went on to sell in excess of four million copies, spawning further European hit singles "[[Gold (Amanda Lear song)|Gold]]" and "[[Enigma (Give a Bit of Mmh to Me)]]". Lear took part in three Italian productions in 1978: a war-time parody ''[[Loggerheads (1978 film)|Zio Adolfo in arte Führer]]'', a [[softcore pornography|softporn]] documentary ''[[Follie di notte]]'' directed by [[Joe D'Amato]], and a six-episode controversial TV show ''[[Stryx]]''. Later in 1978, Lear and Monn teamed for ''[[Never Trust a Pretty Face]]''. The album featured a variety of genre exercises like the dance version of a war-time classic "[[Lili Marleen]]", the interpersonal ballad "[[The Sphinx (song)|The Sphinx]]", the cabaret-esque "Miroir", futuristic tracks "Black Holes" and "Intellectually", as well as the hit disco single "[[Fashion Pack|Fashion Pack (Studio 54)]]".

In late 1978, at a fashionable Parisian discothèque [[Le Palace]], a French equivalent of [[Studio 54]], Amanda Lear met bisexual French aristocrat [[Alain-Philippe Malagnac d'Argens de Villèle]], the former lover and then adopted son of diplomat and controversial gay novelist [[Roger Peyrefitte]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.glbtq.com/literature/peyrefitte_r.html |title=Peyrefitte, Roger |first=Michael D. |last=Sibalis |website=[[glbtq.com]] |access-date=18 July 2007 |url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070926215942/http://www.glbtq.com/literature/peyrefitte_r.html |archive-date=26 September 2007 }}</ref>

She married him on 13 March 1979, while on a trip to the United States. The marriage lasted 21 years, until Malagnac's death on 16 December 2000, when he was killed by smoke in a fire at their farmhouse in [[Saint-Étienne-du-Grès]].<ref name=actustar>{{cite web |url=http://www.actustar.com/actualite/200012/20001219f.html |language=fr |title=Le mari d'Amanda Lear mort dans l'incendie de leur maison |date=19 December 2000 |work=ActuStar.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010124000800/http://www.actustar.com/actualite/200012/20001219f.html |archive-date=2001-01-24}}</ref> He died just six weeks after [[Roger Peyrefitte]].

This marriage is not official for the French state. Dalí and his wife Gala both strongly disapproved of the relationship and attempted to persuade Lear to have the marriage annulled. As a consequence of this, and also the time taken up by Lear's successful career in music and television, she and her mentor began drifting apart. They sporadically kept in touch via letters and telephone through the early and mid-1980s, especially after Gala's death in 1982. Lear visited Dalí one last time at [[Púbol]], Spain, a few years before the painter died.

In the early '80s, she had her first art exhibition in Paris.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.eventiesagre.it/Eventi_Mostre/18010_Sogni+Miti+Colori.html|title=Amanda Lear "Sogni Miti Colori"|date=2 June 2008|language=it |website=Ciao Vogue.com|author=Freya Erickson|access-date=24 February 2020}}</ref> According to Lear, it happened in 1979.<ref name="night"/>

In late 1979, Lear recorded ''[[Diamonds for Breakfast]]'', which was her commercial breakthrough in the Scandinavian market (top 10 in both Sweden and Norway<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.swedishcharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Amanda+Lear&titel=Diamonds+For+Breakfast&cat=a |title=Amanda Lear – Diamonds For Breakfast |website=Swedishcharts.com |access-date=10 April 2009}}</ref>), producing hits "[[Fabulous (Lover, Love Me)]]" and "[[Diamonds (Amanda Lear song)|Diamonds]]", plus regional single releases "Japan", "When" and the [[autoeroticism|autoerotic]] "Ho fatto l'amore con me". The album abandoned the Munich disco sound with its lush strings and brass arrangements in favour of an electronic [[New wave music|new wave]] rock style. Lear spent most of 1980 on European promotional tours for the album and its many accompanying single releases, from Greece to Finland. She also made her first visit to Japan, where both the single "Queen of Chinatown" and the ''Sweet Revenge'' album had charted. Two non-album singles followed the ''Diamonds for Breakfast'' album in late 1980: a pop cover of [[Eric "Monty" Morris]]'s early [[ska]] hit "[[Solomon Gundie]]" and the [[chanson]]-esque "Le Chat de gouttière", the latter with both music and lyrics written by Lear and recorded for francophone markets.

The Lear/Monn album success saga neared its end in 1981 when Lear had become increasingly uncomfortable with the expectations and pressures of the music business in general and her own record label in particular. At the artistic and commercial peak of her international career, but with the so-called "[[Disco|anti-disco backlash]]" beginning to take its toll, she had tentatively started recording tracks for a forthcoming album with producer [[Trevor Horn]] in London. However, Ariola did not approve of the material<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.trevor-horn.de/revealed.html |title=Revealed - The First Endeavours As A Producer |first=Wouter |last=Weylandt |website=Trevor-Horn.de |access-date=10 April 2009}}</ref> and informed Lear that she was to return to Munich and provide the company and the market with another Monn product. The result of these sessions was ''[[Incognito (Amanda Lear album)|Incognito]]'', only partly co-written by Lear, with new wave material fueled with rock and electronic elements. ''Incognito'' generated only one minor hit, the French language ballad "[[Égal (song)|Égal]]", and still met with relative success in Scandinavia. It was also her breakthrough album in South America, with three tracks recorded in Spanish: "Igual", "Dama de Berlin", and "Ninfomanía". Another non-album single followed in early 1982, a [[synthpop]] take on the pop classic "[[Fever (Little Willie John song)|Fever]]". This was Lear's final collaboration with producer Anthony Monn. Shortly thereafter, she took legal action against the Ariola label on the grounds of artistic differences to be released from her recording contract. The lawsuit was unsuccessful, and she remained with Ariola until the end of 1983, as stipulated in the original contract. In 1982, another Italian language single, the ballad "[[Incredibilmente donna]]", was released on the greatest hits compilation ''[[Ieri, oggi]]''.

The double A-side single "[[Love Your Body]]"/"Darkness and Light", released in the spring of 1983, was produced by Monn's sound engineer Peter Lüdemann rather than Monn. These were Lear's final Munich recordings for Ariola and her final promotional appearance on West Germany's most important music TV show at the time, ''[[Musikladen]]'', in June 1983. Lear's international career momentum was slowing and effectively ended in December 1983 with her sixth and final Ariola album under contractual obligation. ''[[Tam-Tam (album)|Tam-Tam]]'', a collaboration with Italian composers and producers, was a modern and minimalist early 1980s synthpop album with a soundscape dominated by [[Roland TR-808]] drum machines and sequencer-programmed synthesizers. Lear again wrote all the English lyrics for the album. Although she performed some of the songs from the album on the popular Italian TV show ''[[Premiatissima]]'', she did not promote ''Tam-Tam'' in West Germany or any other parts of Europe and neither did the record company. As a consequence, ''Tam-Tam'' passed by unnoticed by the international record-buying public.

===1983–1999: Television career and comeback attempts===
Lear launched a very successful and lucrative career as a TV presenter in Italy, thanks to the future prime minister [[Silvio Berlusconi]], soon becoming a household name in that country. She hosted many successful TV shows there, including ''Premiatissima'' and ''W le donne'' (the latter adapted in France as ''Cherchez la femme''), where she frequently promoted her music. The singer recorded a string of dance singles for various European labels: "[[Assassino]]" and "[[Ritmo Salsa]]" in 1984, followed by "[[No Credit Card]]" and "[[Women (Amanda Lear song)|Women]]" in 1985. A mini album titled ''[[A L]]'', with four covers of classic songs, including [[Marilyn Monroe]]'s "Bye Bye Baby" and "[[As Time Goes By (song)|As Time Goes By]]" from the film ''[[Casablanca (film)|Casablanca]]'', was recorded for Five Records and released in 1985. Her music career, however, had waned by that point, and she had failed to find chart success with her recordings at that time. In late 1985, Lear appeared in a series of TV spots for [[Fiat]]. She had written her first book, the autobiography ''[[My Life with Dalí]]'', about her long relationship with the famous painter. Originally published in French, the book was translated into other languages in the second half of the 1980s.

After several years as a TV entertainer in Italy on [[Canale 5]] and France on [[La Cinq]], Lear returned to music. Her next album, ''[[Secret Passion (Amanda Lear album)|Secret Passion]]'', a post-disco [[Hi-NRG]] affair produced by [[Christian De Walden]], was recorded in Los Angeles and Rome for major French label [[Carrere Records]]. The album was to be her comeback in Continental Europe, Scandinavia, the Eastern Bloc, South America and Japan, as well as a breakthrough attempt in English-speaking countries. These were the only major markets that Lear had not conquered during the Ariola years. The launch was planned for January 1987, however, just before promotion began, Lear was seriously injured in a near-fatal car accident and took months to recover, unable to promote the record properly.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nightlife-mag.net/amanda_lear.htm |title=Story of Amanda Lear |first=Laurent |last=Doucet de Courtuy |access-date=22 July 2018 |website=Nightlife-mag.net |language=fr |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020628123617/http://www.nightlife-mag.net/amanda_lear.htm |archive-date=28 June 2002}}</ref> ''Secret Passion''{{'}}s commercial success was less than hoped for, and the lead single "[[Wild Thing (The Troggs song)|Wild Thing]]" was ultimately released in a few countries such as France, Italy and Greece. While in hospital, Lear began writing a novel, {{lang|fr|L'Immortelle}}, a surrealistic tale of the torments of a woman doomed to eternal youth and beauty.<ref name="tanzhouse">{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvEkciZA9uA  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/HvEkciZA9uA| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|title=Amanda Lear – Interview at "Tanzhouse" (1989) |author=MZ Channel |date=29 November 2008 |via=YouTube |language=en, de |access-date=18 June 2010}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Watching everyone else grow older and eventually losing all her loved ones, the woman is still as beautiful but unable to stop the merciless passage of time.<ref>{{cite book |last=Lear |first=Amanda |title=L'Immortelle |year=1987 |publisher=Carrere France |location=Paris |language=fr |isbn=978-2-86804-363-4 |page=367}}</ref>

[[File:Amanda Lear.jpg|thumb|190px|left|Lear at the [[Cannes Film Festival]] in 1990]]
A series of re-recordings of her old hits appeared on the market in the late 1980s, starting with a synthpop take of the biggest hit, "Follow Me", in 1987. The following year, Italian band [[CCCP Fedeli alla linea]] recorded a cover of her song "Tomorrow", retitled "Tomorrow (Voulez-vous un rendez-vous)", for which Lear contributed guest vocals. The single was a minor hit in Italy and Amanda's first chart success in that country in six years. In 1989, DJ [[Ian Levine]] remixed "Follow Me" and "Gold" in a Hi-NRG fashion, while Lear hosted ''Ars Amanda'' on [[Rai 3]], an Italian chat show where she interviewed both Italian and international celebrities and politicians in bed.<ref name="eurodancehits.com"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.raiplay.it/programmi/arsamanda/ |title=Ars Amanda |website=RaiPlay.it |language=it |access-date=20 October 2017}}</ref> From the late 1980s, Lear has been a regular participant in the popular French radio show ''[[Les Grosses Têtes]]'' on [[RTL (French radio)|RTL]], televised on [[Paris Première]]. To maintain her popularity in Italy, she recorded ''[[Uomini più uomini]]'', an all-Italian language album, which included mainstream pop material written among others by {{Interlanguage link|Giorgio Conte|it|Giorgio Conte (cantante)|vertical-align=sup}}, [[Paolo Conte]]'s brother<ref>{{cite web|language=it|url=http://discografia.dds.it/scheda_titolo.php?idt=9236|title=Uomini più uomini Uomini più uomini|website=Discografia Nazionale della Canzone Italiana|access-date=5 April 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Véronique Mortaigne|date=22 September 2008|url=https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2008/09/22/paolo-conte-rauque-et-chic_1098103_3246.html|title=Paolo Conte, rauque et chic|website=[[Le Monde]]|access-date=5 April 2021}}</ref> No single was released to promote the album and it turned out a commercial failure. The same year, Amanda re-recorded some of the songs in French and cut the dance single "Métamorphose" for the French-Italian re-release of the album ''[[Tant qu'il y aura des hommes]]''. In 1990, she released an up-tempo, promotional-only single, "Do You Remember Me?" and took part in [[Thierry Mugler]]'s fashion show.

Lear continued to record more dancefloor-friendly repertoire in the 1990s, starting with the 1992 song "Fantasy", which became a hit in European clubs. ''[[Cadavrexquis]]'', her next album, was released in 1993 and featured heavily club-oriented material, including "Fantasy" and re-recordings of three songs from the disco era. Both the single and the album failed to enter any mainstream charts. Meanwhile, Lear hosted the TV show ''Méfiez-vous des blondes'' on [[TF1]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.lesoir.be/art/%252Fmefiez-vous-madame-sexe-se-rhabille-_t-19940615-Z0861H.html |title=MEFIEZ-VOUS! MADAME SEXE SE RHABILLE... |author=Dominique Legrand |date=15 June 1994 |work=[[Le Soir]] |language=fr |access-date=2018-12-23}}</ref> and appeared in {{Interlanguage link|Arnaud Sélignac|fr|vertical-align=sup}}'s TV drama ''Une Femme pour moi'' in France. In 1994, she modelled for the fashion house [[Grès]] in Paris and again for Thierry Mugler in Berlin the following year. In May 1995, Lear debuted her new, erotic [[Late night television|late night]] TV show ''Peep!'' in Germany, also known as ''Beware of the Blondes'',<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/liebe-und-erotik--amanda-lear-stoebert-im-privatleben-von-prominenten-die-disko-queen-als-entertainerin-17297350 |title=Liebe und Erotik: Amanda Lear stöbert im Privatleben von Prominenten: Die Disko-Queen als Entertainerin |first=Tim |last=Rauch |date=6 May 1995 |newspaper=[[Berliner Zeitung]] |access-date=14 July 2018 |language=de}}</ref> which she hosted for one year. The show, which used her song "Peep!" as the opening music theme, became remarkably popular in Germany, achieving over 50% of the market share.<ref name="eurodancehits.com"/> In June 1995, she performed at a 1970s disco music tribute concert ''La fièvre du disco'' in Paris alongside [[Boney M.]] and [[Gloria Gaynor]] In autumn, the singer released ''[[Alter Ego (Amanda Lear album)|Alter Ego]]'', an upbeat [[Eurodance]] offering. Again, the album was unsuccessful and did not produce any hits. As an active supporter of people suffering from [[HIV/AIDS]], Lear made an appearance in 1996 as a model for Paco Rabanne during an annual charity event [[Life Ball]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.eurodancehits.com/learphoto.html |title=Amanda Lear - Photo History |website=Eurodancehits.com |access-date=18 June 2010}}</ref> During her November 1996 concert at Le Palace in Paris, the singer announced her definitive departure from touring and performing live, and although she sporadically gave concerts in the following years, her live acts have been limited mostly to short TV appearances.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.eurodancehits.com/learnews.html |title=Amanda Lear - News |website=Eurodancehits.com |access-date=29 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160115090431/http://www.eurodancehits.com/learnews.html |archive-date=15 January 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Lear released ''[[Back in Your Arms]]'' in Spring 1998, an album consisting of re-recordings of her own 1970s disco hits and remixed versions of tracks from the 1995 album ''Alter Ego''. The album failed to make much impact on the market, but the re-recordings have been featured on many mid-price compilations in Europe. ''Back in Your Arms'' was re-released with a slightly different track list and title, and a remix of "Blood and Honey" was released as the single. Her next acting and television ventures were the French movie ''[[Bimboland]]'', in which she starred alongside [[Gérard Depardieu]], and an Italian [[makeover reality television series|makeover TV show]] ''Il brutto anatroccolo''. The theme tune to the latter was "Nuda", a cover version of [[Melina Mercouri]]'s 1960 recording "[[Never on Sunday (song)|Never on Sunday]]", which Lear recorded but never released commercially. On the set of ''Il brutto anatroccolo'' Lear met model and actor {{Interlanguage link|Manuel Casella|it|vertical-align=sup}}, some 30 years her junior. Lear and Casella began a long-term relationship and were featured prominently in the [[Tabloid journalism|tabloid press]] in France and Italy, before splitting in 2008.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.gay.it/televisione/news/amanda-lear-manuel-adieu |title=Amanda Lear: Manuel adieu |date=25 February 2008 |website=Gay.it |language=it |access-date=30 March 2012}}</ref>

===2000–present: Recent career===
Lear contributed vocals for a cover of [[Giorgio Moroder]]'s 1970s hit "[[From Here to Eternity (Giorgio Moroder song)|From Here to Eternity]]", recorded in 2000 with [[Eric D. Clark]]. In the morning of 16 December 2000, a fire broke out in Lear's house in [[Saint-Étienne-du-Grès]], killing her husband Alain-Philippe, and his friend Didier Dieufis.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/la-terrible-epreuve-d-amanda-lear-18-12-2000-2001834453.php |title=La terrible épreuve d'Amanda Lear |date=18 December 2000 |newspaper=[[Le Parisien]] |language=fr |access-date=17 July 2018}}</ref> At the time of the accident, Lear was in Milan, where she was hosting a TV show. The fire left the house in ruins, destroying personal memorabilia and a number of Dalí's paintings.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2000/12/17/il-marito-di-amanda-lear-muore-bruciato.html |title=Il marito di Amanda Lear muore bruciato nella villa |date=17 December 2000 |newspaper=[[la Repubblica]] |language=it |access-date=17 July 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://kobieta.onet.pl/uroda/amanda-lear/f6s59s4 |title=Amanda Lear - Uroda |date=27 December 2004 |website=[[Onet.pl]] |language=pl |access-date=17 July 2018}}</ref> As a result of the accident, she fell into depression,<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/amanda-lear-je-n-ai-plus-rien-16-12-2001-2002663343.php |title=Amanda Lear: "Je n'ai plus rien" |date=16 December 2001 |newspaper=[[Le Parisien]] |language=fr |access-date=17 July 2018}}</ref> but soon returned to work and put on an art exhibition titled ''Not a. Lear''.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/12/arts/art-in-review-not-a-lear.html |title=Art in Review - 'Not a. Lear' |first=Holland |last=Cotter |date=12 October 2001 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=9 April 2009}}</ref> At the end of 2001, she returned with the album ''[[Heart (Amanda Lear album)|Heart]]'', dedicated to the late husband. The album offered a cover of "[[Love Boat (song)|Love Boat]]", the title song from the 1970s [[The Love Boat|TV series of the same name]], and the club-friendly track "I Just Wanna Dance Again", both issued as singles featuring remixes by some prominent names in the world of French dance music, such as [[Laurent Wolf]] and [[Junior Vasquez]].

In 2002, Lear starred in ''Le Défi'',<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.parisvoice.com/voicearchives/02/june/html/dance.html |title=Blanca Li's Hip hop challenge |first=Carol |last=Pratl |year=2002 |website=Paris Voice.com |access-date=23 January 2015}}</ref> a musical movie written and directed by choreographer [[Blanca Li]] about an 18-year-old dropout who dreams of becoming a star in [[breakdancing]] and the ensuing conflicts with his conservative mother. Lear played the mother's understanding and encouraging best friend. She cut the title song for her Italian TV show ''Cocktail d'amore'' in which she interviewed some of Italy's most famous 1980s music stars, and released the single "[[Beats of Love]]" with the Belgian boy band Get Ready! Both tracks were included in the 2003 re-release of ''Heart'', retitled ''[[Tendance]]''. Next year, Lear dubbed the voice of [[Edna Mode]] in the French and Italian versions of the [[The Walt Disney Company|Disney]]/[[Pixar]]'s blockbuster ''[[The Incredibles]]'', and her 1978 song "Enigma" enjoyed success in Central and Eastern Europe after exposure in the [[Kinder Bueno]] TV advert. In 2005, the singer became a judge on ''Ballando con le stelle'', the Italian version of ''[[Dancing with the Stars]]'', and released two dance singles, "[[Paris by Night (song)|Paris by Night]]" and the remake of [[Barry Manilow]]'s "[[Copacabana (song)|Copacabana]]", as well as two compilations, ''[[Forever Glam!]]'' and ''[[Sings Evergreens]]''. In 2006, Lear opened an art exhibition in New York, titled ''Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's Amanda Lear'',<ref>{{cite web |url=http://oneartworld.com/Envoy/Never+Mind+The+Bollocks_2C+Here_27s+Amanda+Lear.html |title=Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's Amanda Lear at Envoy |website=Oneartworld.com |access-date=9 April 2009 |url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090826013239/http://oneartworld.com/Envoy/Never+Mind+The+Bollocks_2C+Here_27s+Amanda+Lear.html |archive-date=26 August 2009}}</ref> and was decorated with the [[Ordre des Arts et des Lettres]] by the French Minister of Culture [[Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres]] in recognition of her contributions to French arts and sciences.<ref name="culture.gouv.fr"/> A compilation was released, the 3 CD ''[[The Sphinx – Das Beste aus den Jahren 1976–1983]]'', fully covering the singer's Ariola output. In October, the album ''[[With Love (Amanda Lear album)|With Love]]'' was released in France. It won critical acclaim in France and was released in the rest of Europe in early 2007. Lear made several appearances in movies, including acting in ''Oliviero Rising'' and dubbing for the French version of ''[[Dragon Hunters (film)|Dragon Hunters]]''. In 2008, she hosted several TV shows in Italy and France.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.affaritaliani.it/culturaspettacoli/amandalear160508.html |title=Il personaggio/ Amanda Lear porta sul satellite le sexy star di Hollywood: "Rai e Mediaset sono vecchie" |author=Michele Bisceglia |date=16 May 2008 |publisher=affaritaliani.it |language=it |access-date=2018-12-26 |archive-date=29 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181229075706/http://www.affaritaliani.it/culturaspettacoli/amandalear160508.html |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://tvmag.lefigaro.fr/programme-tv/article/television/38636/amanda-lear-les-70-s-une-periode-charniere.html |title=Amanda Lear: "Les 70's, une période charnière" |author=Julia Baudin |date=8 July 2008 |newspaper=[[Le Figaro]]|language=fr |access-date=2018-12-26}}</ref>

In 2009, Lear accepted the part of Cécile in the comedy ''Panique au ministère'', which debuted at the [[Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin]] in Paris. The show turned out to be a huge success and was taken on tour.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.leparisien.fr/loisirs-et-spectacles/panique-au-ministere-bientot-la-suite-19-06-2010-970385.php |title='Panique au ministère': bientôt la suite |date=19 June 2010|newspaper=[[Le Parisien]] |language=fr |access-date=22 July 2018}}</ref> The same year, she dubbed the voice of Fish in the German movie ''Lacoma'' directed by Christopher Roth.<ref name="IMDb"/> Her next album ''[[Brief Encounters]]'', was released in autumn 2009, preceded by the single "[[Someone Else's Eyes]]", a duet with Italian singer-producer Deadstar. The following month, Lear released the autobiography {{lang|fr|Je ne suis pas celle que vous croyez...}} (''I am not who you think...'') and the EP ''[[Brand New Love Affair (EP)|Brand New Love Affair]]''. The title song was released as the lead single, accompanied by an animated music video. ''Brief Encounters'' was partly re-recorded and remixed and then released in ''Acoustique'' and ''Reloaded'' versions. [[Boy George]] remixed "Someone Else's Eyes" in 2010. In April 2011, Lear released the single "[[Chinese Walk]]", and joined the judging panel of the Italian TV show ''[[Ciak... si canta!]]'' on [[Rai 1]]. She dubbed the voice of Janet the Lioness in the French version of ''[[Zookeeper (film)|Zookeeper]]''. In September, Lear returned to theatre for the lead role in ''Lady Oscar'', an adaptation of [[Claude Magnier]]'s 1958 play ''Oscar'', at the [[Théâtre de la Renaissance]] in Paris. The play was another success<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theatreonline.com/Spectacle/Lady-Oscar/35524 |title=Lady Oscar - Théâtre de la Renaissance |website=Theatreonline.com |language=fr |access-date=22 July 2018}}</ref> and was taken on tour.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.concertlive.fr/actualite/theatre-amanda-lear-tournee-lady-oscar-8432414 |title=Théâtre: Amanda Lear en tournée avec 'Lady Oscar' |first=Nathalie |last=Paul |date=24 August 2012 |website=Concertlive.fr |language=fr |access-date=22 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180723182512/https://www.concertlive.fr/actualite/theatre-amanda-lear-tournee-lady-oscar-8432414 |archive-date=23 July 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Her album ''[[I Don't Like Disco]]'' was released in January 2012, and the single "[[La Bête et la Belle]]" sparked controversy due to its [[Eroticism|erotic]] imagery.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ponystep.com/features/the-original-queen-of-reinvention/ |title=The Original Queen of Reinvention |date=9 February 2013 |access-date=13 March 2016 |website=Ponystep.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150723051632/http://ponystep.com/features/the-original-queen-of-reinvention/ |archive-date=23 July 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chartsinfrance.net/Amanda-Lear/news-77899.html|title=Amanda Lear : le clip érotique "La belle et la bête"|date=30 January 2012|website=Charts in France|author=Jonathan Hamard|language=fr |access-date=19 February 2020}}</ref> In September 2012, Lear appeared as a catwalk model on [[Jean Paul Gaultier]]'s fashion show in Paris<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.elleuk.com/fashion/news/jean-paul-gaultier-s-homage-to-pop-stars-of-the-eighties |title=Jean Paul Gaultier's homage to pop stars of the eighties for spring summer 2013 |first=Rebecca |last=Lowthorpe |date=30 September 2012 |magazine=[[Elle (magazine)|Elle UK]] |access-date=23 January 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.purepeople.com/article/fashion-week-jean-paul-gaultier-deshabille-la-tres-sexy-amanda-lear_a107793/ |title=Fashion Week : Jean-Paul Gaultier déshabille la très sexy Amanda Lear |date=30 September 2012 |website=Purepeople.com |language=fr |access-date=23 January 2013 |archive-date=6 June 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130606182344/http://www.purepeople.com/article/fashion-week-jean-paul-gaultier-deshabille-la-tres-sexy-amanda-lear_a107793/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> and in 2013 started playing the leading part in the play ''Divina'' at the [[Théâtre des Variétés]] in Paris. In Spring 2014, she released ''[[My Happiness (album)|My Happiness]]'', a tribute album with covers of [[Elvis Presley]]'s songs, promoted by the single and video "[[Suspicious Minds]]". In 2015, she recorded the duet "Mai più" with Italian singer {{Interlanguage link|Gianluca De Rubertis|it|vertical-align=sup}} for his album ''L'universo elegante''. The pair then teamed for the ballad "Prima del tuo cuore" for Lear's next album ''[[Let Me Entertain You (Amanda Lear album)|Let Me Entertain You]]'', released in May 2016. Her play ''La Candidate'', a sequel to ''Panique au ministère'', opened in 2016 at the [[Théâtre de la Michodière]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.parisetudiant.com/etudiant/sortie/la-candidate-paris.html |title=La Candidate - Théâtre de la Michodière, Paris |website=Le Parisien Etudiant.com |language=fr |access-date=17 July 2018}}</ref> and was subsequently taken on tour across France. At the time of an interview in the Italian program ''[[Domenica in]]'' on 16 October 2016, Lear had planned a retirement immediately after completing the ''La Candidate'' tour in Spring 2017,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.quotidiano.net/magazine/showbiz/amanda-lear-1.2599304 |title=Amanda Lear annuncia il ritiro dalle scene a Domenica In |date=16 October 2016 |website=Quotidiano.net |language=it |access-date=17 July 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.ledauphine.com/france-monde/2016/10/19/amanda-lear-se-retire-fatiguee-par-le-showbiz |title=Amanda Lear se retire, "fatiguée par le showbiz" |date=19 October 2016 |website=Le Dauphine.com |language=fr |access-date=17 July 2018}}</ref> however, she had to cancel a number of final dates due to health issues.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://next.liberation.fr/musique/2017/06/16/amanda-lear-rien-n-est-vrai-tout-est-permis_1577429 |title=Amanda Lear : rien n'est vrai, tout est permis |first=Guillaume |last=Lecaplain |date=16 June 2017 |newspaper=[[Libération]] |language=fr |access-date=17 July 2018}}</ref> In 2018, she worked on the dubbing for French and Italian versions of ''[[Incredibles 2]]'', hosted the TV show ''Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ?'' on [[Cielo (TV channel)|Cielo]],<ref>{{Cite web|language=it|url=https://www.rtl.it/notizie/articoli/amanda-lear-gli-uomini-vanno-mandati-a-quel-paese/|title=Amanda Lear, gli uomini vanno mandati a quel paese|date=12 April 2018|website=rtl.it|access-date=2 March 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cielotv.it/programmi/voulez_vous_coucher_avec_moi.html |title=Voulez vous coucher avec moi?, anche in streaming |publisher=cielotv.it |language=it |access-date=2 March 2020}}</ref> and released another book, ''Délires''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INknoZQBMjw  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/INknoZQBMjw| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|title=Amanda Lear dans A La Bonne Heure |date=7 November 2018 |website=[[RTL (French radio)|RTL]] |language=fr |access-date=11 November 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref> In 2019, Lear joined the judging panel of the Italian TV show ''[[Sanremo Young]]'' on Rai 1. In 2020, Lear starred in ''Si Muore Solo Da Vivi'' directed by Alberto Rizzi and in ''Miss'' directed by [[Ruben Alves]].<ref>{{cite web|language=it|url=https://www.spettacoloitaliano.it/2019/05/06/si-muore-solo-da-vivi/|title=Si Muore Solo da Vivi: riprese del nuovo film con Alessandro Roja, Alessandra Mastronardi, Francesco Pannofino e Amanda Lear|date=6 May 2019|website=spettacoloitaliano.it|author=Alberto Fuschi|access-date=15 February 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|language=fr|url=https://www.unifrance.org/film/48060/miss|title=Miss de Ruben Alves|website=[[UniFrance]]|access-date=15 February 2020}}</ref> In 2021, she appears in TV drama ''{{Interlanguage link|Camping Paradis|fr|vertical-align=sup}}'' in France.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13587002/?ref_=tt_ch|title=Les Bikers au camping|date=19 July 2021|access-date=25 September 2021|publisher=IMDb}}</ref> In September, Lear returned to theatre to play [[Joan Crawford]] in ''{{Interlanguage link|Qu'est-il arrivé à Bette Davis et Joan Crawford ?|fr|vertical-align=sup}}'', a play about [[Bette Davis]] and [[Joan Crawford]] in the war they fought on the set of ''[[What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (film)|What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?]]'' The play was directed by [[Michel Fau]] at the [[Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin]] in Paris.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rtl.be/info/magazine/culture/amanda-lear-et-michel-fau-reunis-au-theatre-pour-jouer-bette-davis-et-joan-crawford-1320396.aspx|title=Amanda Lear et Michel Fau réunis au théâtre pour jouer Bette Davis et Joan Crawford|date=23 August 2021|website=Rtl.be|access-date=25 September 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.leparisien.fr/culture-loisirs/amanda-lear-de-retour-au-theatre-avec-michel-fau-je-peux-etre-tragique-pathetique-ridicule-11-09-2021-444MS74YZBDZVEVRMTFYVFDCNU.php|title=Amanda Lear, de retour au théâtre avec Michel Fau : "Je peux être tragique, pathétique, ridicule"|date=11 September 2021|website=Le Parisien|access-date=25 September 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.la-croix.com/Amanda-Lear-Michel-Fau-reunis-theatre-jouer-Bette-Davis-Joan-Crawford-2021-08-23-1301171908|title=Amanda Lear et Michel Fau réunis au théâtre pour jouer Bette Davis et Joan Crawford|date=23 August 2021|access-date=25 September 2021|newspaper=La Croix}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.france.tv/france-5/c-a-vous-la-suite/c-a-vous-la-suite-saison-13/2767673-amanda-lear-michel-fau-et-rudy-gobert-c-a-vous-03-09-2021.html|title=C à vous la suite Amanda Lear, Michel Fau et Rudy Gobert|date=3 September 2021|access-date=25 September 2021|website=France.tv}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nouvelobs.com/culture/20210903.OBS48196/de-goldoni-a-desproges-la-selection-theatre-de-l-obs.html|title=De Goldoni à Desproges… La sélection théâtre de " l'Obs "|date=3 September 2021|website=L'Obs|access-date=25 September 2021}}</ref>

She released a new album called ''[[Tuberose (album)|Tuberose]]'' in 2021.

She is portrayed by [[Andreja Pejić]] in the film ''[[Dalíland]]'', released in 2023.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|first=Angelica|last=Frey|date=1 June 2022|title=Amanda Lear: the androgynous muse to Dalí who made disco intellectual|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jun/01/amanda-lear-the-androgynous-muse-to-dali-who-made-disco-intellectual|access-date=1 June 2022}}</ref>

A 2025 [[HBO]] documentary compares and contrasts the life stories of April Ashley and Amanda Lear<ref>https://x.com/HBO/status/1866912849840189646</ref> and includes a new interview with Lear conducted by the director [[Zackary Drucker]]. The interview focusses on Lear's own version of her personal history and gender identity, and how it contrasts with the accounts of her contemporaries.<ref>https://www.out.com/film/enigma-documentary-sundance-review</ref> Provisionally titled ''April & Amanda'', the film screened at the [[Sundance Film Festival]] in January 2025 as ''[[Enigma (2025 film)|Enigma]]''.<ref>https://variety.com/2025/film/reviews/enigma-review-1236293666/</ref>

==Gender identity==
Allegations claiming that Lear was a [[drag queen]] or [[intersex]] circulated from the beginning of Lear's modelling and singing careers.<ref>{{cite book|title=Autobiography|last=Quant|first=Mary|author-link=Mary Quant|publisher=[[Headline Publishing Group]]|year=2012|oclc=785520991|isbn=9780755360178|location=London|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sNPcHZh7mDkAC&q=mary+quant+amanda+lear+whispering+campaign&pg=PT45}}{{Dead link|date=October 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Her alleged [[transgender]] background was commented on by [[Salvador Dalí]] himself<ref>{{cite news|title=Salvador Dalí: ''Solo io so la verità: Amanda era un uomo''|language=it|date=May 1978|publisher=[[Novella 2000]]|url=https://www.prideonline.it/download/2008/08.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160322211411/https://www.prideonline.it/download/2008/08.pdf|archive-date=22 March 2016}}</ref> and remarked upon in the media and in the biographies of those who knew Lear earlier in her life, including Dalí;<ref>{{cite book |last=Lozano |first=Carlos |title=Sex, Surrealism, Dalí and Me |year=2000 |publisher=Razor Books |location=[[Penryn, Cornwall|Penryn]] |isbn=0-9538205-0-5 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Etherington-Smith |first=Meredith |author-link=Meredith Etherington-Smith |title=The Persistence of Memory: A Biography of Dalí |year=1995 |publisher=[[Da Capo Press]] |location=New York City |isbn=0-306-80662-2 }}</ref> author [[Ian Gibson (author)|Ian Gibson]] devoted an entire chapter to Lear in his biography of Dalí.<ref name="Gibson"/>

[[April Ashley]], a transgender entertainer and model, claimed that in the 1950s and early 1960s, Lear, whose birth name she said was "Alain Tap",<ref name="Vazzana2016">{{cite news |last=Vazzana |first=Simone |date=19 November 2016 |title=I 70 anni (ma anche no) di Amanda Lear, storia di un mistero |trans-title=The 70 years (or not) of Amanda Lear, the story of a mystery |url=https://www.lastampa.it/spettacoli/showbiz/2016/11/19/news/i-70-anni-ma-anche-no-di-amanda-lear-storia-di-un-mistero-1.34773035/ |url-status=live |language=it |newspaper=[[La Stampa]] |archive-url=https://archive.today/20230212093307/https://www.lastampa.it/spettacoli/showbiz/2016/11/19/news/i-70-anni-ma-anche-no-di-amanda-lear-storia-di-un-mistero-1.34773035/ |archive-date=12 February 2023 |access-date=23 December 2023}}</ref> had worked with her in the Parisian [[transgender]] revues [[Madame Arthur]] and [[Le Carrousel de Paris]]. In her book ''April Ashley's Odyssey'', Ashley recalls Lear performing [[drag act]]s under the stage name "Peki d'Oslo".<ref>{{cite book |last=Ashley |first=April |author-link=April Ashley |title=April Ashley's Odyssey |year=1982 |publisher=[[Jonathan Cape]] |location=London, UK |isbn=0-224-01849-3 }}</ref> Similar facts have been reported by [[Romy Haag]], a transgender artist living in Germany, who ran the popular nightclub Chez Romy in [[Berlin]] and knew Lear.<ref>{{cite book |last=Haag |first=Romy |author-link=Romy Haag |title=Eine Frau und mehr |year=1999 |publisher=Quadriga |location=Berlin |language=de |isbn=3-88679-328-1 }}</ref>

Some sources claim that Dalí sponsored Lear's [[sex reassignment surgery]] in [[Casablanca]] in 1963, carried out by [[Georges Burou]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2013/10/08/cultura/1381218575.html |title=Amanda, David, Mick |website=[[El Mundo (Spain)|El Mundo]] |language=es|first= Julián |last=Ruiz|date=8 October 2013 |archive-date=11 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131011090634/https://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2013/10/08/cultura/1381218575.html |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="www.guardian.co.uk"/><ref name="AR">{{cite web |url=http://secondtype.tripod.com/gallery-amanda.htm |title=Fabulous Amanda |website=secondtype.tripod.com |first=Annie |last=Richards |date=21 March 2007 |access-date=16 March 2013 |archive-date=25 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181125073922/http://secondtype.tripod.com/gallery-amanda.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> and also that Dalí invented the stage name for her, a [[pun]] of the [[Catalan language]] {{lang|ca|"L'Amant de Dalí"}} ('Dalí's lover').

In 1978, Lear posed nude for ''[[Playboy]]''.<ref name="AllMusic">{{cite web |title=Muse Amanda Lear Defends Being Alone to Artist Francesco Vezzoli |url=https://www.documentjournal.com/2018/02/muse-amanda-lear-defends-being-alone-to-artist-francesco-vezzoli/ |website=Document Journal |date=28 February 2018}}</ref>

Despite Lear contradicting transgender allegations on numerous occasions and explaining they were part of a strategy to draw public attention,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/amanda-lear-mn0000746385/biography |title=Amanda Lear: Biography & History |first=Michael |last=Freedberg |website=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=1 June 2007}}</ref> the allegations continued to persist. In 1976, Lear stated that it was "a crazy idea from some journalist"<ref name="3nach9"/> and later claimed that the rumour had been started by Dalí or even herself.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Girl in the Song: The Real Stories Behind 50 Rock Classics|author=[[Michael Heatley]], Frank Hopkinson|chapter=Miss Amanda Jones : The Rolling Stones|chapter-url-access=registration|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bsC_CAAAQBAJ&pg=PT110|publisher=[[Pavilion Books]]|year=2014|isbn=978-1909396883}}{{Dead link|date=October 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref name="Venier">{{cite news|language=it|format=vid|title=Amanda Lear confessa in tv: "Ho detto che ero un uomo, non-sapevo cantare e mi serviva pubblicità"|date=3 December 2018|author=[[Mara Venier]]|newspaper=[[Domenica in]]|publisher=[[Rai 1]]|url =https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5z4qUVMlOcc}}</ref>

However, French,<ref>{{cite web|title=Le Parisien|date=22 May 1967|number=7067|publisher=Musée de la presse : les archives de la presse, journ@aux-collection.com|url=http://museedelapresse.com/parisien-libere-edition-de-paris-le-no-7067/|format=fiche n° 1068482|access-date=15 February 2020|archive-date=25 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201025113132/http://museedelapresse.com/parisien-libere-edition-de-paris-le-no-7067/|url-status=dead}} « Drogue : Peki d'Oslo, mannequin français, 27 ans, arrêtée à Londres pour trafic; elle et son réseau ravitaillaient les [[The Rolling Stones|Rolling Stones]]. »</ref> British and Italian<ref>{{cite book|language=it|page=514|title=Il "detto Amanda", voce travestita|date=1978|volume=29|number=1–12|publisher=[[Il Borghese]]|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZLQxAQAAIAAJ&q=Carcassonne}} « ''Amanda Lear è una vecchia conoscenza di quanti bazzicavano l'ambiente dell' avanspettacolo. Si chiamava allora Peki d'Oslo (all'anima della fantasia!) e praticava lo «spogliarello travestito». Peki d'Oslo era indicata (o indicato) sul passaporto e sulle note della polizia di Carcassonne come «Tap Alain, nato a Saigon il 18 giugno del 1939, detto 'Amanda', cittadino francese». È cosi.'' »</ref><ref>{{cite book|language=it|author=G. M.|volume=41|page=29|title=Amanda-show dopo mezzanotte|series=Confidenze|location=Milan | publisher ={{Interlanguage link|Lo Specchio (periodico)|it|vertical-align=sup}}|date=8 October 1961}} ''Alain Louis René Maurice Tap, in arte Amanda: « Amanda » (cambiando bruscamente voce ed atteggiamento): « Io sono, caro signore, tanto perché lei non-si faccia idee sbagliate, monsieur Alain Louis René Maurice Tap. Dei Tap, naturalmente. E sono nato a Saigon, ex-Indochine française, 22 anni or sono. Mi considerano, attualmente, uno dei migliori professionisti mondiali del travestimento; il vero nome di Amanda è Alain Louis René Maurice Tap, nato ventidue anni prima a Saigon, e "se pure il suo passaporto è intestato a 'monsieur Tap' un documento altrettanto valido e controfirmato dal console di Francia a Berlino autorizza 'monsieur Tap' a farsi chiamare 'mademoiselle Amanda' in base ad un certificato rilasciato l'anno scorso all'artista da un medico francese, che dichiara il signor Tap fisiologicamente e fisicamente donna". Ma Alain Tap è ancho il vero nomme di "Peki", uno dei travesti che affiancano Coccinelle nella sua esibizione napoletana (Lo Specchio, Fall 1961)</ref> newspapers and magazines in the 1960s and 1970s and more recently in 2008<ref>GiovanBattista Brambilla, « Il caso Amanda », ''Pride'' (magazine), no. 110,{{lrm}} August 2008, pp. 48-49</ref> and 2011<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.armonics2zero.it/index.php/gossip/essere-o-non-essere |title=Essere o non-essere? |date=17 November 2011 |website=Armonics 2 Zero.it |language=it |access-date=21 December 2012 |url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120702215515/http://www.armonics2zero.it/index.php/gossip/essere-o-non-essere |archive-date=2 July 2012}}</ref> and a 2016 article in ''[[La Stampa]]'' included passport details and an alleged reproduction of a copy of Lear's birth certificate, which states that she was given the name Alain Maurice Louis René Tap on 18 June 1939 in Saigon.<ref name="Vazzana2016"/> The article included a supposed picture of Lear before her alleged transition.<ref name="Vazzana2016"/>

== Discography ==
{{Main|Amanda Lear discography}}
;Studio albums and main compilations
{{col-begin}}
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* 1977: ''[[I Am a Photograph]]''
* 1978: ''[[Sweet Revenge (Amanda Lear album)|Sweet Revenge]]''
* 1979: ''[[Never Trust a Pretty Face]]''
* 1980: ''[[Diamonds for Breakfast]]''
* 1981: ''[[Incognito (Amanda Lear album)|Incognito]]''
* 1982: ''[[Ieri, oggi]]''
* 1983: ''[[Tam-Tam (album)|Tam-Tam]]''
* 1985: ''[[A L]]''
* 1986: ''[[Secret Passion (Amanda Lear album)|Secret Passion]]''
* 1989: ''[[Uomini più uomini]]''
* 1989: ''[[Tant qu'il y aura des hommes]]''
* 1989: ''[[Super 20]]''
* 1991: ''[[The Collection (Amanda Lear album)|The Collection]]''
* 1993: ''[[Cadavrexquis]]''
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* 1995: ''[[Alter Ego (Amanda Lear album)|Alter Ego]]''
* 1998: ''[[Back in Your Arms]]''
* 2001: ''[[Heart (Amanda Lear album)|Heart]]''
* 2003: ''[[Tendance]]''
* 2005: ''[[Forever Glam!]]''
* 2005: ''[[Sings Evergreens]]''
* 2006: ''[[The Sphinx – Das Beste aus den Jahren 1976–1983]]''
* 2006: ''[[With Love (Amanda Lear album)|With Love]]''
* 2009: ''[[Brief Encounters]]''
* 2009: ''[[Brand New Love Affair (EP)|Brand New Love Affair]]''
* 2012: ''[[I Don't Like Disco]]''
* 2014: ''[[My Happiness (album)|My Happiness]]''
* 2016: ''[[Let Me Entertain You (Amanda Lear album)|Let Me Entertain You]]''
* 2021: ''[[Tuberose (album)|Tuberose]]''
{{col-end}}

==Filmography==
{{Main|Amanda Lear filmography}}
*''[[Ne jouez pas avec les Martiens]]'' (1967)
*''[[Wonderwall (film)|Wonderwall]]'' (1968)
*''[[Follie di notte]]'' (1978)
*''[[Loggerheads (1978 film)|Loggerheads]]'' (1978)
*''Grottenolm'' (1985)
*''L'amour est à réinventer'' (1997)
*''[[Bimboland]]'' (1998)
*''La Défi'' (2002)
*''Oliviero Rising'' (2007)
*''Bloody Flowers'' (2008)
*''[[8th Wonderland]]'' (2010)
*''[[Jodorowsky's Dune]]'' (2013)
*''Metti una notte'' (2017)
*''Miss'' (2020)
*''Si muore solo da vivi'' (2020)
*''Maison de retraite 2'' (2024)
* ''[[To Live, To Die, To Live Again]] (Vivre, mourir, renaître)'' (2024)
* ''[[Enigma (2025 film)|Enigma]]'' (2025, biographical documentary)

==Theater==
* 2009-2011 : ''Panique au ministère'' written by Jean Franco & Guillaume Mélanie, directed by Raymond Acquaviva
* 2011-2013 : ''Lady Oscar'' written by Guillaume Mélanie, directed by Éric Civanyan
* 2013-2014 : ''Divina'' written by Jean Robert-Charrier, directed by Nicolas Briançon
* 2016-2017 : ''La Candidate'' written by Jean Franco & Guillaume Mélanie, directed by Raymond Acquaviva
* 2021-2022 : ''Qu’est-il arrivé à Bette Davis et Joan Crawford ?'' written by Jean Marboeuf, directed by [[Michel Fau]]
* 2024 : ''[[The Scientific Cardplayer]]'' written by Jean Franco & Guillaume Mélanie, directed by Raymond Acquaviva

==Books==
* 1984 : {{cite book|language=fr|first=Amanda|last=Lear|title=[[My Life with Dalí|Le Dalí d'Amanda]]|location=Lausanne|publisher={{Interlanguage link|Éditions Favre|fr|vertical-align=sup}}|year=1984|oclc=461749441|isbn=2-8289-0175-0}} <small>(autobiography)</small>
* 1987 : {{cite book|language=fr|first=A|last=Lear|title=L'Immortelle|location=Paris|publisher={{Interlanguage link|Claude Carrère|fr|vertical-align=sup}}|year=1987|oclc=461837831|isbn=2868043631}} <small>(novel)</small>
* 1994 : {{cite book|language=fr|first=A|last=Lear|title=[[My Life with Dalí|L'Amant Dalí : ma vie avec Salvador Dalí]]|location=Paris|publisher={{Interlanguage link|Éditions Michel Lafon|fr|vertical-align=sup}}|year=1994|oclc=807550048|isbn=2840980118}} <small>(reprint of ''Le Dalí d'Amanda'', with a foreword by [[Paco Rabanne]])</small>
* 2004 : {{cite book|language=fr|first=A|last=Lear|title=Mon Dalí|location=Neuilly-sur-Seine|publisher=Éditions Michel Lafon|year=2004|oclc=56012321|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GGx8DwAAQBAJ&q=Le+Dal%C3%AD+d%27Amanda|isbn=2749901111}} <small>(reprint of ''Le Dalí d'Amanda'')</small>
* 2006 : {{cite book|language=en|first1=A|last1=Lear|last2=Galerie Claudius|title=Between dream and reality|location=Norderstedt|publisher={{Interlanguage link|Books on Demand|fr|vertical-align=sup}}|year=2006|oclc=180929230|isbn=9783833451850}} <small>(collected arts)</small>
* 2009 : {{cite book|language=fr|first=A|last=Lear|title=Je ne suis pas du tout celle que vous croyez…|location=Paris|publisher={{Interlanguage link|Hors collection|fr|vertical-align=sup}}|year=2009|oclc=468417957|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XNuyg1xJWuoC&q=Je+ne+suis+pas+du+tout+celle+que+vous+croyez|isbn=9782258081321}} <small>(autobiography)</small>
* 2018 : {{cite book|language=fr|first1=A|last1=Lear|first2=Frédéric|last2=Dieudonné|title=Délires|location=Paris|publisher={{Interlanguage link|Le Cherche midi|fr|vertical-align=sup}}|year=2018|oclc=1078361743|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H1lvDwAAQBAJ&q=Le+Dal%C3%AD+d%27Amanda|isbn=9782749150437}} <small>(collection of meditations and anecdotes)</small>

==In popular culture==
* Lear was romantically linked to [[Brian Jones]], which resulted in the ironic [[The Rolling Stones|Rolling Stones]] track "Miss Amanda Jones" on the 1967 album ''[[Between the Buttons]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://suite101.fr/article/amanda-lear--egerie-du-rolling-stone-brian-jones-entre-autres-a30286 |title=Amanda Lear égérie du Rolling Stone Brian Jones (entre autres) |first=Daniel |last=Lesueur |date=26 July 2011 |website=Suite101.fr |language=fr |access-date=23 January 2013 |url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130221064450/http://suite101.fr/article/amanda-lear--egerie-du-rolling-stone-brian-jones-entre-autres-a30286 |archive-date=21 February 2013}}</ref>
* Character [[Patsy Stone]] from the UK TV series ''[[Absolutely Fabulous]]'' was partly modeled on Amanda Lear.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2016/06/28/absolutely-fabulous-who-was-the-real-patsy-stone/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2016/06/28/absolutely-fabulous-who-was-the-real-patsy-stone/ |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Absolutely Fabulous: who was the real Patsy Stone? |first=Alice |last=Vincent |date=28 June 2016 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=14 July 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oystermag.com/oyster-98-amanda-lear |title=Oyster #98: Amanda Lear |first=Zac |last=Bayly |date=21 April 2012 |magazine=[[Oyster (magazine)|Oyster]] |access-date=28 December 2018 |url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140117210506/http://www.oystermag.com/oyster-98-amanda-lear |archive-date=17 January 2014}}</ref>
* Italian band [[Baustelle]] dedicated their 2016 song "Amanda Lear" to her.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.it/musica/news-musica/amanda-lear-nuova-canzone-dei-baustelle-amore-disco-music/345456/ |title='Amanda Lear', la nuova canzone dei Baustelle. Perché l'amore è come un LP di disco music |date=31 December 2016 |magazine=[[Rolling Stone|Rolling Stone Italia]] |access-date=15 July 2018 |language=it}}</ref>
* In the biographical film ''[[Dalíland]]'', Amanda Lear is played by the model and actress [[Andreja Pejić]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8399658/|title=Dali Land|access-date=25 September 2021|publisher=IMDb}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://nymag.com/fashion/11/fall/andrej-pejic/|title=How Model Andrej Pejic Works Both Sides of the Runway - Fall Fashion 2011 |first=Alex|last=Morris|magazine=[[New York (magazine)|New York]]|access-date=25 September 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/esmagazine/andreja-peji-on-becoming-the-most-famous-transgender-model-in-the-world-a3288581.html|title=Andreja Pejic on becoming the most famous transgender model in the world &#124; London Evening Standard|date=22 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170822230122/https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/esmagazine/andreja-peji-on-becoming-the-most-famous-transgender-model-in-the-world-a3288581.html|access-date=25 September 2021|archive-date=22 August 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.lepoint.fr/people/amanda-lear-flingue-le-biopic-sur-salvador-dali-15-07-2021-2435608_2116.php|title=Amanda Lear flingue le biopic sur Salvador Dali|first=Marc|last=Fourny|date=15 July 2021|newspaper=[[Le Point]]|access-date=25 September 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.telestar.fr/people/amanda-lear-dezingue-le-biopic-sur-salvador-dali-627896|title=Amanda Lear dézingue le biopic sur Salvador Dali - Télé Star|date=9 July 2021|website=Telestar.fr|access-date=25 September 2021}}</ref>

==Notes==
{{Notelist}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Bibliography==
*{{cite book |last=Cann |first=Kevin |title=David Bowie – Any Day Now – The London Years: 1947–1974 |year=2010 |publisher=[[Adelita (imprint)|Adelita]] |location=Bicester |isbn=978-0-95520-177-6 |oclc=1020536375 |url=http://www.anydaynowbook.com/ |access-date=25 March 2011 |archive-date=12 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170912215047/http://anydaynowbook.com/ |url-status=dead }}
*{{cite book|first1=Duncan|last1=Fallowell|author-link1=Duncan Fallowell|first2=April|last2=Ashley|author-link2=April Ashley|title=April Ashley's Odyssey|location=London, UK|publisher=[[Jonathan Cape]]|year=1982|lccn=82145047|oclc=9491739|url=http://www.antijen.org/Aprilv1/|isbn=0224018493|access-date=16 October 2019|archive-date=18 November 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191118004812/http://www.antijen.org/Aprilv1/|url-status=dead}}
*{{cite book|first=Ian|last=Gibson|author-link=Ian Gibson (author)|title=The Shameful Life of Salvador Dali|location=New York|publisher=[[W. W. Norton & Company|W. W. Norton]]|id=Gibson|year=1997|oclc=1074378942|isbn=0393046249|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/shamefullifeofsa00gibs}}
*{{cite book|language=de|first1=Romy|last1=Haag|author-link1=Romy Haag|first2=Martin|last2=Schacht|title=Eine Frau und mehr|location=Berlin|publisher=Quadriga|year=1999|oclc=47260127|isbn=3886793281}}
*{{cite book |last=Lear |first=Amanda |title=[[My Life with Dalí]] |year=1985 |publisher=[[Virgin Books]] |location=London, UK |isbn=0-86369-095-5}}
*{{cite book|language=fr|first=Élisabeth|last=Quin|title=Bel de nuit, Gérald Nanty|location=Paris|publisher=[[Éditions Grasset]]|year=2007|oclc=470792050|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SEWwZa1hUQwC&q=Bel+de+nuit%2C+G%C3%A9rald+Nanty|isbn=9782246693413}}

==External links==
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{{Wikiquote}}
* [http://www.amandalear.com/ Official website]
* [http://www.amandalear.it/ Official art website] (in Italian)
* [https://www.youtube.com/user/reinelear Official channel] at YouTube
* [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5QZvS8kq0Or2ShS4iLLI9A/videos Official VEVO channel] at YouTube
* [http://www.dailymotion.com/reinelear Official channel] at [[Dailymotion]]

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