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“There are few things that can save your life; love, the sea… and a cat.”

Born on this day 84 years ago (November 18, 1939): model turned muse of Salvador Dali, turned cover girl for the album Roxy Music (For Your Pleasure (1973)) turned nightclub singer with the voice of Dietrich, turned host of TV, turned Playboy playmate, turned perennial gay icon and synonym for continental hedonism and glamor - Amanda Lear! Or was she? Some sources list her birth date as June 18. And Lear's birth year has been reported as 1941, 1946, and 1950. (Unsurprisingly, Lear herself prefers the latter). You see, Lear is a mysterious international woman whose precise origins, real name, and even sex at birth are shrouded in secrecy (she is widely seen as being transgender). Lear performed in a personal appearance at The Fridge nightclub in Brixton in the early nineties. She throatily sang a hi-NRG disco rendition of the standard “Lili Marlene” in her foghorn voice, flanked by baby-oiled bodybuilders in pose bags. Probably the most exaggerated thing ever seen, until Ann-Margret's nightly revue at The Stardust Casino in Las Vegas in 2005. Anyway, Lear (whose romantic partners include Brian Jones, David Bowie and Bryan Ferry), Lear was also allegedly the inspiration for the character Patsy Stone on the TV show Absolutely Fabulous, her elegant 1978 disco single “Follow Me” is the soundtrack to Chanel’s current perfume campaign. (The music still hits hard). In the photo: portrait of Lear from 1976, made by Robert Mapplethorpe.

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