Although television took priority over musical activity, 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. Her bigger hits included ' Blood and Honey', ' Tomorrow', ' Queen of Chinatown', ' Follow Me', ' Enigma (Give a Bit of Mmh to Me)', ' The Sphinx', and ' Fashion Pack'.īy the mid-1980s, Lear had become a leading media personality in Italy, where she hosted many popular TV shows. Lear's first four albums earned her mainstream popularity, charting in the top 10 of European charts, including the best-selling Sweet Revenge (1978). From the mid-1970s to the early 1980s, she was a million-album-selling disco queen, mainly in Continental Europe and Scandinavia, signed to Ariola Records. Lear first came into the public eye as the cover model for Roxy Music's album For Your Pleasure in 1973. She met Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dalí, and remained his closest friend and muse for the next 15 years. 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.
Amanda Lear (née Tap or Tapp born 1939 in Saigon, French Indochina ) is a French singer, songwriter, painter, television presenter, actress, and former model.
