Amanda Lear: “David Bowie was a bit disgusting”

There will also be a passage dedicated to David Bowie in Francesca Fagnani’s interview with Amanda Lear which will be broadcast this evening in prime time on Rai2 during the first episode of the new season of “Belve”. Speaking of transgressive loves and the encounters made during his career, the voice of “Tomorrow” will also talk about the White Duke: «I didn’t like him very much. He was all white, very thin, red hair, no eyebrows… It was a bit disgusting. One day Angie, Bowie’s wife, came to visit me and told me you go with my husband, don’t worry, it’s ok. She wasn’t jealous, they were an open couple.”

According to what she herself said, it was by posing as a model on the cover of Roxy Music’s “For your pleasure” album that Amanda Lear caught the attention of David Bowie, with whom Lear formed an intense bond. On November 16, 1973 Lear appeared on the American NBC television series “Midnight Special” with Bowie performing “Sorrow”. In the video, which you can find below, Amanda Lear is on a scaffolding holding a long stick in her hand which she uses to move living pawns on a chessboard.

Shortly afterwards he recorded his first song together with Bowie entitled “Star”never published. In a television interview, Lear declared that it was Bowie himself who convinced her to leave her modeling profession to embrace a career as a singer, also financing some singing and dancing courses for her; She also declared: “David was the only man I slept with who wore more makeup than me.”