Amanda Lear (born November 18,1946) is a model, adult model, polyglot, painter, novelist, actress, media personality, composer, lyricist, singer and gay icon who was a Disco Queen in Continental Europe, the Eastern Bloc and most other parts of the world in the mid 1970s to the early 1980s. She first came to the public's attention as the fetishistically clad model on the cover of Roxy Music's album For Your Pleasure in 1973. Lear was allegedly born Amanda Tapp [LINK: http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/artsetlettres/juillet2006.html] [1] [LINK: http://www.divus.cz/umelec/en/pages/umelec.php?id=931&roc=2000&cis=5] [2], supposedly on November 18, reputedly in Hong Kong (Saigon) [LINK: http://www.3d-dali.com/centennial-magazine/e-9-muse.htm] [3] [LINK: http://www.mookychick.co.uk/icon/amanda_lear.php] [4]