THE SECOND ROXY MUSIC ALBUM

FOR YOUR PLEASURE

MARCH 23, 1973

THIS IS AN EXCERPT FROM MY STORY: ROXY LADIES – The Roxy Music Album Cover Girls

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Bryan Ferry, wanting “a Hitchcock type girl” chose Amanda Lear as the cover model on For Your Pleasure.  They soon began dating. Not only did Amanda model for Paco Rabanne, Yves Saint Laurent, Chanel, Mary Quant and Ossie Clark, but she was the confidante, protégée and mistress of the Spanish painter Salvador Dali. She was romantically linked to Brian Jones, which resulted in the ironic Rolling Stones song “Miss Amanda Jones”, on the 1967 album Between the Buttons. Amanda also dated Tara Browne, who “blew his mind out in a car” in the infamous lyrics to the Beatles song ‘A Day in the Life.’

In 1973 Amanda posed in a skintight leather dress leading a black panther on a leash on the cover of For Your Pleasure. The lights of Las Vegas light up the night with Bryan Ferry dressed in a chauffeur’s uniform , leaning on a Cadillac on the back cover – another Price design.

Amanda had an affair with David Bowie. She was the emcee of his 1980 Floor Show in 1973 . Bowie encouraged her to start a singing career and was going to produce her, but after awhile, she struck out on her own, becoming a famous disco singer throughout Europe, selling millions of singles and albums.

In 1977 she posed nude for Playboy. There is ample evidence that Amanda was born a man by the name of Alain Tapp and that she is a transsexual – yet she continues to deny it. Joanna Lumley, who plays Patsy Stone in the television comedy Absolutely Fabulous, has confirmed repeatedly that the character Patsy Stone was loosely based on the mysterious life story of Amanda Lear.

Cover concept: Bryan Ferry. Art Direction: Nicholas De ville. Artwork: CCS. Wardrobe, make-up: Antony Price. Hair: Smile.

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