Amanda Lear

Amanda Lear (2011)

Amanda Lear , née Tapp (born November 18, 1939 in Hong Kong , Saigon or Hanoi ) is a singer , painter , presenter , author and actress . She became known to the general public in the second half of the 1970s as the disco queen with hits like Blood and Honey , Queen of Chinatown and Follow Me . Lear was friends with Salvador Dalí and was considered his muse . In the 1980s and 1990s, she hosted television shows in Italy , France and Germany .

Life

Childhood and adolescence until 1965

According to several sources that would support a male maiden name, Lear is said to have been born as Alain Maurice Louis René Tap (p) on June 18, 1939 in Saigon. Southern France or French Switzerland are named as places of her childhood and youth , where she is said to have acquired her schooling and foreign language skills in boarding schools .

Amanda Lear began her memories 15 years with Salvaldor Dalí in the autumn of 1965, after she had met the painter as an art student in London. In 2006 she received the order “ Chevalier dans l'Ordre National et des Lettres ” from the French Minister of Culture, Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres , which was officially awarded on January 16, 2007. On the occasion of the award ceremony, the authorities announced that the medal would be awarded to "Mme Amanda Tapp, dite Amanda Lear". In this respect, the maiden name has been known since that time, of which Lear always claimed until the award of the order that he was not hers.

Discussions about Lear's gender

In the Radio Bremen talk show Drei nach nine , a first German television interview in May 1976, Lear mentioned to journalist Carmen Thomas that her mother was Russian and her father was a British seaman and that both parents had died. Thomas also asked her about the rumors that he was born a boy. Lear dismissed the claim as "a journalist's crazy idea". She later said that Salvador Dalí originally developed the idea for publicity purposes.

The transsexual English artist April Ashley reported in her biography Odyssey in 1982 that she and Amanda Lear, whose real name was Alain Tap and called herself Peki d'Oslo , appeared as travesty stars in the Paris cabarets Madame Arthur and Le Caroussel in the early 1960s . Ashley went on to report that she had her sex reassignment surgery performed by Dr. Georges Burou in Casablanca had it carried out, who was also consulted by Tap shortly afterwards. Also Romy Haag told in her biography A woman and more that Lear under the stage name Peki d'Oslo from 1962 in Berlin Travesty Cabaret Chez Nous had occurred. The singer Evelyn Künneke reports in her biography Sing Evelyn, sing. Review of a lifetime that Amanda Tap was hired by Michel Hiro, the founder of Chez Nous , in 1962 , and refers to the pictures that Berlin photographer Herbert Tobias took of Tap during this time. Ian Gibson also investigated Lear's possible transsexual background in his 1998 Dalí biography and dedicated it to Salvador Dalí in his book . The biography has its own chapter. Lear himself flirted with her androgynous image in songs like The Sphinx (1978), Fabulous (Lover, love me) (1979) or I'm a Mistery (1986). In the song Je m'appelle Amanda in 2009, she confessed, "I told so many lies and I denied ...". Even today, the media still speculate what gender Amanda Lear was born with. Lear stated that not even the nude photos she posed for in Playboy could satisfactorily answer the questions, and is said to have ordered that she be cremated after her death so that her secret could not be revealed by a pathologist. In 15 years with Salvaldor Dalí , Lear reports that she began studying at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris in the early 1960s . From 1964 she continued her studies at the London St. Martins School of Art . On December 11, 1965, she married the 22-year-old Scottish architecture student Paul Morgan Lear in Chelsea / London, which gave her a British passport. The bride's name was given at the Chelsea registry office as "Amanda Tap", daughter of André Tap, a retired captain in the French army. Lear moved in the nightlife of the London swinging sixties and met rock greats like Marianne Faithfull , Mick Jagger and Brian Jones , with whom she had a relationship. The Rolling Stones commented on the relationship between their guitarist and Lear in the song Miss Amanda Jones on their 1967 LP Between the Buttons .

Model and first TV appearances 1965–1975

Because of her Eurasian appearance and her height of 1.78 m, she was discovered for the modeling agency by Cathérine Harlé. From 1965 Lear was a model for Ossie Clark and Paco Rabanne and appeared on various covers of youth and fashion magazines. In 1967 she shot a commercial for a Detchema perfume for the French company Révillon and played the role of Monique Rozier in the science fiction film Ne jouez pas avec les Martiens, directed by Henri Lanoë . In Charles Wilp's 1968 commercial in Afri-Cola -Rausch , she starred alongside Donna Summer and Marsha Hunt . In 1969 she had a side appearance as a mannequin in the German crime series Der Kommissar . Further small film and TV appearances followed. In 1971 she posed on the cross and as a blind-eyed nun in the December issue of Vogue designed by Salvador Dalí . In 1973 she posed for the cover of the 2nd Roxy Music LP For Your Pleasure in a black leather outfit with a - drawn - black panther.

Singing star, TV presenter and actress from 1976

Amanda Lear, 1978

As early as 1973, Lear moderated in the role of Octobriana David Bowie's 1980 Floor Show . Bowie, with whom Lear had a relationship, made her sing. After signing a contract with Ariola , she appeared in 1976 as a singer of disco titles. With productions by Anthony Monn and mostly self-written texts, she had hits such as Blood and Honey , Queen of Chinatown and Follow Me in South Africa, Europe, South America, the Soviet Union and Japan until 1983 . Lear was portrayed by photographers such as Herbert Tobias , Mick Rock , Pierre et Gilles , Helmut Newton , Robert Mapplethorpe and Antoine Giacomoni and posed for Playboy in 1977 . In the same year, the music store produced a 45-minute special about Lear.

In 1978 Andy Warhol's interview featured a report on the singer's success in Europe. On their record covers Lear had himself photographed with a whip in lacquer and leather, posed like Marlene Dietrich in Der Blaue Engel with top hat and suspenders on a wooden barrel ( Sweet Revenge , 1978) or as a hybrid of snake, eagle and blonde vamp ( Never Trust a Pretty Face , 1979). In 1979 she married Alain-Philippe Malagnac d'Argens de Villele . The wedding took place in Las Vegas. Malagnac d'Argens de Villele was previously the partner of the French writer Roger Peyrefitte .

Lear, who originally wanted to make rock music, but only got the record deal with Ariola on the condition that she would sing disco, repeatedly distanced herself from her music. When the disco wave ebbed in the early 1980s, she concentrated on painting, hosted television shows in Italy and France and released only a few singles. In 1986 her album Secret Passion , produced by Christian de Walden, was released , which was also released in the USA. Due to a car accident she was unable to market the LP and wrote the novel L'immortelle while she was convalescing . In 1989 Uomini più uomini was their first album with songs in Italian, followed by an album in French in 1990.

In 1995 RTL II started the erotic format Peep! Lear hosted the first 39 episodes from May 1995 to May 1996. The format was continued by Verona Feldbusch . Lear subsequently described the moderation at Peep as the "biggest mistake of her career". She feared that the German audience would forget her and accepted the show, even though she was of the opinion that “sex has no business being on television”. In Italy she hosted a show called Ugly Duckling ( Ugly Duckling ). In December 2000, Lear's husband Alain-Philippe Malagnac d'Argens de Villele died in a fire in their shared house in Saint-Étienne-du-Grès while Lear was in Italy. In a television interview on the ARD telecast Beckmann Lear expressed about the circumstances of the fire, her personal collapse and their mourning period. A year later she released the album Heart , dedicated to her husband , which was released on the French record label Le Marais Productions.

In 2002 Lear spoke the character of the transsexual Monique Carrera in several episodes of the radio play series The Three ??? . In the same year she starred in the Blanca Li 'film Le Défi (international title: Dance Challenge ). Also in 2002 she met the dancer Manuel Casella during the production of the Italian television series Il brutto anatroccolo , with whom she was in a relationship until 2008. In 2004 she dubbed the character of Edna Mode in the animated film The Incredibles for the French and Italian versions of the film. Her song Enigma (Give a Bit of Mmh to Me) was used in advertising for Kinder Bueno in numerous countries in 2004, 25 years after its release .

In the summer of 2005 she released the single Paris by Night , which reached the top 50 on both the Italian and French charts. In 2008 she hosted the disco show “La folle Histoire du Disco” at France 3's. In the same year, the TV broadcaster ARTE hired her as a presenter for the series Summer of the '70s , in which Lear announced the contributions and films in German and French. With The Sphinx - The Best from 1976–1983 , the first CD box was released in 2006, containing all the singles and the most important album tracks with all the songs from the original tapes from the Ariola era. Also in 2006, Lear released the album With Love with evergreens in big band style.

In 2009 Lear signed up as an actress for the play Panique au Ministère and was on stage with over 300 sold out performances in Paris. She played the grandmother in a three-generation household, in which she and the granddaughter suffer from the strict daughter or mother who is the Minister for Education (Ministère de l'Éducation). From October 2010 to the end of February 2011, Lear was with the play on a theater tour through France, Belgium and Switzerland. In 2011 Lear released the single Chinese Walk . In the summer of the same year she was a juror on Italian television in the program Dilitti Rock on Rai 2 , the Italian version of X-Factor . In 2011 she played Lady Oscar , an adaptation of Guillaume Mélanie's play Oscar, at the Renaissance Theater in Paris . In 2012, at the age of 73, she was shown in a prêt-à-porter show in Paris for Jean Paul Gaultier .

painter

Lear was already painting during his time as a model for Salvador Dali. However, Dali was of the opinion that women had no talent for painting; "The talent would be in the testicles and consequently women could not have one". In various interviews, Lear regretted that painting, as her most important form of expression, was being masked by her image as a “disco queen”. For many years, Salvador Dali, whom Lear referred to as a mentor, influenced her art. In this respect, many of Lear's first larger works are also characterized by the representation of the unreal and dreamlike. Lear later freed himself from Dali's influence. In various interviews she referred to the liberation process as a kind of exorcism . In 2000, the exhibition Not a. Lear , in which artists from around the world took part and produced works on Amanda Lear, including Niels Schlumm, Jan Broeckx and Jan Schüler .

Lear has since developed her own style and has been exhibiting her work in galleries since the early 1980s. She sees herself in the meantime in the series of Nabis (artists) around Pierre Bonnard , the representatives of Fauvism like Paul Gauguin or Paul Cézanne . In doing so, she changes style, techniques and subjects. Whether black and white ink drawings, paper works, strong oil paints, dynamic male torso or calm still life - everything serves the personal form of expression and is a form of therapy, as Lear often emphasizes. In the catalog for the exhibition Between Dream and Reality in Hamburg in 2006, her work as a painter is described as follows: “Having moved to the south of France, Lear distanced herself from her earlier works, which she described in an interview as“ a copied, darlesque surrealist Kind of art ”. In her new environment, she referred to previous role models such as the Fauvists. This influence can be clearly seen in many of her landscapes, which are bursting with color and take up pictorial motifs by Henri Matisse . Some of the figures populating it are reminiscent of Paul Gauguin's depictions of scenes from Tahiti, others more like creatures in Pablo Picasso's work from the early 1920s. In the darker period that followed, the artist reduced her palette to primarily black and red tones. An iridescent blue gives her work depth, which she uses to deposit the two basic colors. Martyre, horses and the female body break through the given picture structure with dramatic force. [...] In her fascination for the muscular male body, Lear paints male torsos. These images and that of a Corinthian soldier increasingly polarize Lear's oeuvre, because they contrast feminine depictions of tenderness and dreamy women, as well as the head of Medusa, possibly a hidden self-portrait. Lear succeeds in creating symbols in her own pictures that are inspired by her own path in life and yet invite the viewer to make their own interpretations. "

Discography

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		DE	AT	CH
1977	I am a photographer	DE26 (34 weeks) DE	AT25 (4 weeks) AT	-	First published: July 1977 Producer: Anthony Monn
1978	Sweet Revenge	DE4th gold (32 weeks)DE	AT8 (20 weeks) AT	-	First published: May 1978 Producer: Anthony Monn
1979	Never trust a pretty face	DE24 (14 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: February 1979 Producer: Anthony Monn
1980	Diamonds for Breakfast	DE43 (5 weeks) DE	AT11 (8 weeks) AT	-	First published: March 1980 Producer: Anthony Monn

gray hatching : no chart data available for this year

More albums

1980: Incognito 1982: Ieri, oggi 1983: Tam Tam 1986: Secret Passion 1989: Uomini più uomini 1989: Tant qu'il y aura des hommes 1993: Cadavrexquis 1995: Alter Ego 1998: Back in Your Arms

2001: Heart 2006: With Love 2009: Brief Encounters 2009: Brief Encounters Acoustique 2009: Brand New Love Affair 2010: Brief Encounters Reloaded 2012: I Don't Like Disco 2013: Brief Encounters (Dance & Smooth CD) 2014: My Happiness 2016: Let Me Entertain You (CD & DVD)

Compilations

1990: Follow Me 1991: The Collection 1993: Telegrams 1994: Indovina chi sono 1997: Amanda Lear 1998: Amanda '98 - Follow Me Back in My Arms 1998: Queen of Chinatown 2000: Made of Blood & Honey 2001: I'm a Mistery - The Whole Story (2 CDs) 2002: Essential

2002: Follow Me - The Greatest Hits 2003: Living Legend (2 CDs) 2005: Sings Evergreens 2005: Forever Glam! 2006: The Sphinx: The best of the years 1976–1983 (box with 3 CDs) 2007: Greatest Hits 2008: Disco Queen of the Wild 70’s 2010: My French Italian Songbook 2010: ... Give a Bit of Mmh to Me 2013: Amanda Lear

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		DE	AT	CH
1977	Blood and Honey I Am a Photograph	DE12 (26 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: March 1977 Authors: Amanda Lear, Anthony Monn
	Queen of China-Town	DE2 (26 weeks) DE	AT11 (12 weeks) AT	CH5 (8 weeks) CH	First published: August 1977 Authors: Amanda Lear, Anthony Monn
1978	Follow Me Sweet Revenge	DE3 (27 weeks) DE	AT6 (20 weeks) AT	CH7 (9 weeks) CH	First published: August 1977 Authors: Amanda Lear, Anthony Monn
	The Sphinx Never Trust a Pretty Face	DE19 (13 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: November 1978 Authors: Amanda Lear, Anthony Monn
1979	Fashion Pack (Studio 54) Never Trust a Pretty Face	DE24 (6 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: April 1979 Authors: Amanda Lear, Anthony Monn
	Fabulous Lover, Love Me Diamonds for Breakfast	DE25 (15 weeks) DE	-	-	First publication: September 1979 Author: Rainer Pietsch
1980	Diamonds Diamonds for Breakfast	DE30 (12 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: January 1980 Authors: Amanda Lear, Anthony Monn
	Solomon Gundie	DE36 (16 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: October 1980 Author: Sintas (aka Anthony Monn)
1981	No matter incognito	DE75 (1 week) DE	-	-	First published: April 1981 Author: Sintas (aka Anthony Monn)

More singles

1975: Trouble 1975: La bagarre 1977: Tomorrow 1977: Blue Tango 1977: Alphabet (Prelude in C by JS Bach ) 1978: Run Baby Run 1978: Enigma (Give a Bit of Mmh to Me) 1978: Lili Marleen 1978: gold 1980: Japan 1980: Ho fatto l'amore con me 1980: When 1980: Rockin 'Rollin' (I Hear You Nagging) 1980: Ho fatto l'amore con me 1980: Amanda Lear (EP) 1981: Love Amnesia 1981: Igual 1981: Nymphomania 1981: Hollywood Is Just a Dream When You're Seventeen 1981: Red Tape 1982: Fever 1982: Incredibilmente donna 1983: No Regrets 1983: Love Your Body 1984: Assassino 1984: Ritmo Salsa 1984: No Credit Card 1985: Women 1985: Amanda Lear (EP) 1986: Les femmes 1986: She Wolf

1987: Follow Me (The Special 1987 Mix) 1987: Wild Thing 1987: Times Up 1987: Aphrodisiaque 1988: Thank You 1989: Follow Me '89 1989: Métamorphosis 1990: L'École d'amour 1990: Do You Remember Me? 1992: Fantasy 1995: Everytime You Touch Me 1995: Peep! 1996: Angel Love 1998: I'll Miss You 1998: Blood and Honey (New Remix '98) 2000: From Here to Eternity ( Giorgio Moroder vs. Eric D. Clark feat. Amanda Lear) 2001: Love Boat 2002: I Just Wanna Dance Again 2002: Beats of Love (with Get Ready!) 2005: Paris by Night 2005: Copacabana 2006: Queen of Chinatown 2006 (DJenetix feat. Amanda Lear) 2009: Someone Else's Eyes (feat. Deadstar) 2009: Brand New Love Affair (In the Mix) 2010: I'm Coming Up (The Remix EP) 2010: I Am What I Am (TV Final Mix) 2011: Chinese Walk 2011: La Bête et la Belle 2012: Back to Black ( Amy Winehouse Sung by Amanda Lear) 2012: Love at First Sight 2014: Suspicious Minds

Filmography

• 1967: Ne jouez pas avec les Martiens
• 1968: Fun and Games for Everyone
• 1969: Der Kommissar (TV series, episode Nobody heard the shot )
• 1970: Double Pisces, Scorpio Rising
• 1978: Uncle Addi
• 1984: W le donne (TV series)
• 1985: Grotto olm
• 1993: Une femme pour moi (TV movie)
• 1993: Piazza di Spagna (mini series)
• 1996: Reinventing Love (Miniseries, One Episode)
• 1998: Les années bleues (TV series, one episode)
• 1998: Love at the sixth sight (Bimboland)
• 2001: Tre Ragazzi a Milano (TV movie)
• 2002: Le défi
• 2004: La talpa (TV series)
• 2004: St. Tropez ( Sous le Soleil , TV series, an episode)
• 2005: Gigolo (short film)
• 2006: Boys Briefs 4 (short video)
• 2007: Un amour de fantôme (TV movie)
• 2007: Oliviero Rising
• 2008: Avocats & associés (TV series, an episode)
• 2008: The Dragon Hunters ( Chasseurs de dragons , voice)
• 2008: Encore une nuit de merde dans cette ville pourrie (short film)
• 2008: Un posto al sole (TV series, one episode)
• 2008: Bloody Flowers
• 2009: Panique au ministère (TV movie)
• 2009: Lacoma (voice)
• 2011: Le grand restaurant II (TV movie)
• 2012: Scènes de ménages (TV series, one episode)
• 2012: Nom de code: Rose (TV movie)

Fonts (selection)

• Le Dali d'Amanda . Éditions Pierre-Marcel Favre, Paris 1984, ISBN 2-8289-0175-0 .
• Dali - 15 years with Salvador Dalí . Goldmann Verlag, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-442-06805-3 .
• L'Immortelle . Éditions Carrere, Paris 1987, ISBN 2-86804-363-1 .
• L'Amant Dali. Ma Vie avec Salvador Dali . With a foreword by Paco Rabanne . Éditions Michel Lafon, Paris 1994, ISBN 2-84098-011-8 .
• Mon Dali . Éditiones Michel Lafon, Neuilly-sur-Seine 2004, ISBN 2-7499-0111-1 .
• Between Dream and Reality . Exhibition catalog. Galerie Claudius, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-8334-5185-8 .
• Omnia . Exhibition catalog. Gallery Friedmann Hahn, Berlin 2007.
• "Sogni, Miti, Colori" . Exhibition catalog. Artemisia Art Gallery, Monza 2007.
• Je ne suis pas du tout celle que vous croyez . Hors Collection, France 2009, ISBN 978-2-258-08132-1 . (Biography)
• Amanda Lear. Passioni . Exhibition catalog Milano Art Gallery, Edizioni Leima, Milan 2015, ISBN 978-88-98395-24-8 .

Literature (selection)

• Songs for sluts. In: Playboy . No. 9, September 1977, pp. 105-109.
• Brigitte Tast, Hans-Jürgen Tast (Ed.): Amanda Lear. In: Kulleraugen-Materialammlung, No. 4, Hildesheim 1978, no page number (material and text collection about Lear's acting roles, interviews and song texts, list of secondary literature).
• Tinkerbelle: Amanda Lear. "I hate to spread rumors, but what else can I do with them?" In: Interview , Vol. VIII, NO. 3, March 1978, pp. 32, 33.
• Disco star Amanda Lear: "I was never a man". In: Stern Magazin , No. 45/1978, November 2, 1978, title and pp. 34–38.
• Who's Afraid of Amanda Lear? Thought-memories-confessions . Drei Sterne Verlagsanstalt, Munich 1979 (photo book with texts by Amanda Lear. The book was advertised for the appearance of the 4th LP Diamonds for Breakfast , see: LP inlay).
• Charles Wilp (Ed.): Dazzledorf. Düsseldorf “suburb of the world”. Photographed for 20 years . Verlag Melzer, Dreieich, no year (approx. 1978), p. 109.
• Thomas Jeier : Amanda Lear: Disco Music is boring! In: Disco Stars . Heyne Verlag, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-453-80035-4 , pp. 75-88.
• April Ashley: Odyssey . Jonathan Cape Publisher, 1982, ISBN 0-224-01849-3 .
• Evelyn Künneke : Sing Evelyn, sing. Review of a life . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1982, ISBN 3-455-04028-4 , pp. 228-231.
• Manfred W. Koch: Amanda Lear. The disco vamp proves he's a whole woman. In: High Society, 2/83, March / April 1983, pp. 14-25 (photo series and interview).
• Mick Rock : Stardust . Schirmer / Mosel Verlag, Munich / Paris / London 1995, ISBN 3-88814-779-4 , p. 106.
• Bernard Marcadé, Dan Cameron (Eds.): Pierre et Gilles. The Complete Works 1976-1996 . Taschen, Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-8228-8095-7 , p. 97.
• Thierry Mugler (ed.): Presentation of the 97 collection with German texts by Stéphane Wargnier, N ° Siren 307131573, Paris 1997, p. 29.
• Ian Gibson (Ed.): 14. Amanda Lear and Other Extravagances. In: Salvador Dali. The biography. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-421-05133-X , pp. 547-583.
  • English edition: The Shameful Life of Salvador Dali . Faber and Faber Ltd., London 1997, ISBN 0-393-04624-9 .
• Romy Haag : One woman and more . Verlag Quadriga, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-88679-328-1 , p. 206.
• François Nars: X-RAY . Schirmer / Mosel Verlag, Munich / Paris / London 1999, ISBN 3-88814-951-7 , no page number.
• David Bowie : Moonage Daydream. The Life and Times of Ziggy Stardust . Cassell Illustrated / Octopus Publishing Group, London 2005, ISBN 1-84403-380-5 , pp. 81, 294, 304.
  • German edition: Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-89602-682-8 .
• Marianne Winkler, Michael Petzel (eds.): My friends, the stars. Photographs by Lothar Winkler. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-89602-691-7 . (with various recordings by Amanda Lear alias "Peki d'Oslo" , early sixties)
• Fabrice Gaignault: Les égéries Sixties. Éditions Fayard, Paris 2006, ISBN 2-213-62054-7 , p. 176.
• Herbert Tobias . Looks and Desires 1924–1982 . Steidl Verlag, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-86521-605-2 , pp. 18, 109, 121 (book for the exhibition of the same name in the Berlinische Galerie. The photos show Amanda Tap - now Lear, Berlin 1960 ).
• James Anderson: Icons: Amanda Lear. In: Attitude , August / September 2007, pp. 144, 145.
• Thomas Hermanns : Track 8: Blood and Honey. In: forever disco , Scherz Verlag / S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-502-15167-8 , pp. 112-123.
• Dominic Lutyens, Kirsty Hislop (Ed.): 70s Style & Design . Edel Germany GmbH, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-941378-24-7 , pp. 105, 171, 186, 188.
  • English edition: 70s Style & Design . Thames & Hudson, London 2009, ISBN 978-0-500-51483-2 .
• Le Vrai Visage d'Amanda. In: Vogue , No. 915, March 2011, pp. 332–337 (photo series and interview with Amanda Lear).
• Amanda Lear: "On va tous devenir Chinois!". In: Schnock, N ° 2, Paris 2012, ISBN 978-2-35461-020-3 , pp. 32-67.
• Günter Gueffroy : Just for pleasure. Photographs 1971–1990 , Bebug mbH / Verlag Bild und Heimat, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86789-441-8 , p. 64.
• Christoph Dallach: Amanda Lear. I have a dream . In: Zeitmagazin , No. 43, October 13, 2016, pp. 42, 43.
• Johannes von Weizsäcker: Prelude for… Amanda Lear . In: Spex . Pop Culture Magazine, No. 372, January / February 2017, pp. 32–36.

Web links

Commons : Amanda Lear  - collection of images

• Literature by and about Amanda Lear in the catalog of the German National Library
• Amanda Lear in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Amanda Lear at Allmusic (English)
• Amanda Lear at Discogs (English)
• Discography at lescharts.com
• Amanda Lear at promipool.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, Arrêté portant promotion ou nomination dans l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, République Française: "Amanda Tapp dite Amanda Lear, chanteuse, animatrice, artiste-peintre" www2. culture.gouv.fr
2. ↑ Birthdays of our members. (No longer available online.) In: GEMA News No. 170. GEMA, November 2004, archived from the original on August 28, 2006 ; accessed on November 20, 2006 : "65 years [...] Amanda Lear (November 18, 1939)" 
3. ↑ Amanda Lear. on: bbc.co.uk
4. ↑ ^{a b} At the court of Queen Lear. on: guardian.co.uk
5. ↑ ^{a b} Ian Gibson (Ed.): 14. Amanda Lear and Other Extravagances. In: Salvador Dali. The biography. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt , Stuttgart 1998, p. 552.
6. ↑ ^{a b} Evelyn Künneke : Sing Evelyn, sing. Review of a life . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1982, ISBN 3-455-04028-4 , pp. 228-231.
7. ↑ Peki D'Oslo - Photos Carrousel ( Memento from September 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) dianeetlesexedesanges.ch, accessed on September 22, 2013.
8. ^ "Il Borghese" - Vol. 29, page 514 (1978): 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.
9. ↑ Peki d'Oslo, whose real name is Amanda Tapp - French passport (June 30, 1965 - Daily Mirror ); Peki d'Oslo - real name Amanda Lear (June 13, 1967 - Daily Mirror )
10. ^ 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, of course. 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, September / October 1961)
11. ↑ Giovan Battista Brambilla, "Il caso Amanda", Pride - No. 110, August 2008, pages 48-49
12. ↑ In 1978, la giornalista Camilla Cederna scrive un articolo per TV Sorrisi e Canzoni in cui dice di aver sbirciato il passaporto francese della cantante depositato al bureau del suo albergo a Milano. Il documento risulterebbe rilasciato a Carcassonne, Sud della Francia, intestato a "Alain Tap, detto Amanda, travestito, nato a Saigon il 18 giugno 1939". Più in basso il nome d'arte: "Peki d'Oslo". (Simone Vazzana lastampa.it , “La Stampa”, I 70 anni (ma anche no) di Amanda Lear, storia di un mistero , November 18, 2016)
13. ^ Dali-15 years with Savaldor Dali. Goldmann Verlag , Munich 1984, p. 5.
14. ↑ Homepage of the Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, list of the 2006 award winners , accessed on July 21, 2018.
15. ↑ April Ashley: Odyssey. Jonathan Cape Publisher, 1982, ISBN 0-224-01849-3 .
16. ^ Ian Gibson (Ed.): 14. Amanda Lear and Other Extravagances. In: Salvador Dalí. The biography. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt , Stuttgart 1998, p. 551.
17. ↑ Romy Haag: A woman and more. Verlag Quadriga, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-88679-328-1 , p. 206.
18. ↑ Herbert Tobias . Looks and Desires 1924–1982 . Steidl Verlag , Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-86521-605-2 , pp. 18, 109, 121 (book for the exhibition of the same name in the Berlinische Galerie . The photos show Amanda Tap - now Lear, Berlin 1960 ).
19. ^ Ian Gibson (Ed.): 14. Amanda Lear and Other Extravagances. In: Salvador Dali. The biography. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt , Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-421-05133-X , pp. 547-583.
20. ↑ The surgeon made me so well that nobody could tell that I once was somebody else. In: Fabulous (Lover, love me), 1979.
21. ↑ Je m'appelle Amanda , Album: Brief Encounters, 2009.
22. ^ Diario: Ma allora, Amanda Lear è un trans? … ( Memento of December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on: hurricane_53.ilcannocchiale.it
23. ↑ Amanda Lear: Recording Artist, Model, Painter, and Actress. ( Memento of December 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) at: tgreporter.com
24. ↑ ^{a b c d} Amanda Lear: "Who the hell is this weird woman?" ( Memento from December 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on: netzeitung.de , September 9, 2004.
25. ^ Antonio Gracia José: Pierrot Memorias Trans. Capitulo 2 ° Dalí / Amanda Lear , Web Carla Antonelli
26. ↑ Fabrice Gaignault. Les égéries Sixties. Éditions Fayard, Paris 2006, ISBN 2-213-62054-7 , p. 176.
27. ^ Judith Watt (ed.): Ossie Clark 1965–74. V & A Publications, London 2005, ISBN 1-85177-458-0 , pp. 16, 34, 73, 76, 98, 103, 11, 122.
28. ↑ Amanda Lear: L'Amant Dali. Ma Vie avec Salvador Dali. With a foreword by Paco Rabanne . Éditions Michel Lafon, Paris 1994, pp. 7, 8.
29. ↑ Excerpt from Ne jouez pas avec les Martiens ( Memento of December 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on youtube.com
30. ^ Charles Wilp (ed.): Dazzledorf. Düsseldorf “suburb of the world”. Photographed for 20 years. Verlag Melzer, Dreieich, no year (approx. 1978), p. 109.
31. ↑ on this: Found items of television (7) - The great Afri-Cola-Rausch . FAZ.Net
32. ↑ TV series "Der Kommissar", episode 7 "Nobody heard the shot" (1969)
33. ↑ David Bowie : Moonage Daydream. The Life and Times of Ziggy Stardust. Cassell Illustrated / Octopus Publishing Group, London 2005, ISBN 1-84403-380-5 , p. 304.
34. ↑ Christopher Sandford: David Bowie. The biography. Update 2003. Verlagsgruppe Koch / Hannibal, Höfen 2003, ISBN 3-85445-240-3 .
35. ^ Sotheby's New York auction on October 6, 2010, lot 207 Robert Mapplethorpe: Portrait Amanda Lear
36. ↑ Le Vrai Visage d'Amanda. In: Vogue . No. 915, March 2011, p. 334.
37. ^ Songs for sluts. In: Playboy . No. 9, September 1977, pp. 105-109.
38. ↑ Tinkerbelle: Amanda Lear. “ I hate to spread rumors, but what else can I do with them? ”In: Interview . Volume VIII, No. 3, March 1978, pp. 32, 33.
39. ↑ Michael D. Sibalis: Peyrefitte, Roger (1907-2000). (No longer available online.) In: glbtq Encyclopedia. 2006, archived from the original on April 18, 2006 ; accessed on July 21, 2018 (English). 
40. ↑ Thomas Jeier : Amanda Lear: Disco Music is boring! In: Disco Stars. Heyne Verlag, Munich 1979, pp. 75-88.
41. ↑ Amanda Lear: L'immortelle . Éditions Carrere, Paris 1987, ISBN 2-86804-363-1 .
42. ↑ Love burned too ... In: Bunte . No. 4, January 18, 2001, pp. 68-72.
43. ↑ Le mari d'Amanda Lear mort dans l'incendie de leur maison. (No longer available online.) In: actustar.com. December 19, 2000, archived from the original on January 24, 2001 ; Retrieved on July 21, 2018 (French). 
44. ^ Alfred Hitchcock / Robert Arthur : The three ??? Episode 106: The Man Without a Head. BMG Ariola, 2002.
45. ↑ KOBIETY KOBIETOM: Amanda Lear
46. ↑ Andrea Radke: Summer of the 70s. Disco and Dali. In: arte magazine . 1. – 31. July 2008, pp. 14, 15.
47. ↑ Panique au Ministère is a play by Jean Franco and Guillaume Mélanie, premiered on March 4, 2009 at the Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, Paris (France)
48. ↑ Amanda Lear in the catalog for her exhibition "Omnia" in the Friedmann-Hahn Gallery, Berlin, 2007.
49. ↑ ANP-Projects, exhibition Not a. Lear
50. ^ Exhibition Not a. Lear on Kunstaspekte.de
51. ↑ The Pictures of Amanda Lear. In: Berliner Morgenpost. June 5, 2008.
52. ↑ Kristine of Oehsen in the exhibition catalog "Amanda Lear - Between Dream and Reality", Gallery Claudius, Hamburg of 2006.
53. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: DE Singles DE Albums AT CH
54. ↑ ^{a b} gold / platinum database DE
55. ↑ Article on the Amanda Lear exhibition . Omnia in the Berliner Morgenpost from February 18, 2007