From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V12 #87 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Tuesday, April 3 2007 Volume 12 : Number 087 Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: [AVALON] Chart [] [AVALON] AMANDA LEAR in MOJO [Chandla911@aol.com] [AVALON] BF on LS [Chandla911@aol.com] [AVALON] Aussie review [Scotty ] Re: [AVALON] Chart ["Dick & Petra Verseput" ] [AVALON] Cor! Der...ballet [Chandla911@aol.com] To leave the list, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon-digest ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 09:18:22 +0100 From: Subject: RE: [AVALON] Chart No 36 in UK this week ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 05:46:33 EDT From: Chandla911@aol.com Subject: [AVALON] AMANDA LEAR in MOJO Was he or wasn't she? In April Ashley's Odyssey, the autobiography of the first British transsexual to go public, Ashley wrote about a certain "Peki d'Oslo, otherwise Alain Tapp, later Amanda Lear". In one of Lear's own trash-disco classics, Fabulous Lover, Love Me, she purrs, "The surgeon made me so well that you could not tell that I was not somebody else", while Roxy Music's PR, the late Simon Puxley, agrees it was common knowledge that she was once a he. Not that Lear has ever confirmed it. She claims she was told by her mentor, artist Salvador Dali, to pretend she was once a man. "It was a phoney publicity stunt in order to sell records," she claimed. "No one wanted a boring girl like any other. But it was the time of The Rocky Horror Show, and I was around, looking glamourous, and people always dream, don't they? The lady is a girl, and that's it." Born to an English-French father and Asian-Russian mother, Lear was fashion modelling for Ossie Clark when Bryan Ferry caught a show. "Bryan and [Roxy designer] Anthony Price thought I'd be the right girl with the right attitude, because the girl had to be way before her time. 1973 was too early for the black-leather dominatrix look, but I was right, probably because I was very tall. They wanted a girl who looked like a Hitchcock movie, a little bit dangerous but arrogant at the same time. I had to be able to carry off that ridiculous shiny-dress look." Lear had never heard of Roxy Music, "but Bryan was very charming. He took me out and offered me the job, but he never mentioned the black panther." The shoot, in an empty south London street, "was a bit frightening. They overdid the valium for the animal, though, and it couldn't get up, poor thing. It was lying flat on its stomach. When it came to it, they had to paint the eyes open on the sleeve. I was looking fierce though." The result impressed one David Bowie. "He fell in love with the girl on the sleeve. I think he was a little disappointed when we met because I looked nothing like that, but he lived with me for a year. He originated my singing career, paid for my singing and dancing lessons and my first demo. Elton John, Freddie Mercury, they all said, 'You must sing.'" And so a camp Euro-disco queen was born. Through the 1980s and '90s, Lear reinvented herself as a TV celebrity o various chat and panel shows in Italy and France, while landing the occasional TV/film role and stoking her popularity on the gay club circuit, all the while living with her husband Alain-Philippe Malagnac in a farmhouse in the south of France: "I have a dog and two cats and olive trees. To you it might look boring, but to me it is wonderful. It is a normal life. I cook for my husband. I go every day to the market. This is happiness. And the rest - false eyelashes and makeup and going on TV - is not. It is work." Events took a tragic turn in 2000 when a fire killed Malagnac and burned down their farmhouse. Lear has kept working: her thirteenth album, With Love, was released in France last year, and she was the eccentric fashion designer Edna Mode in the Italian and French versions of the film The Incredibles. Best wishes Richard Mills ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 05:53:44 EDT From: Chandla911@aol.com Subject: [AVALON] BF on LS Martino wrote: God bless YouTube and all who sail in her. When friends say "what is you like so much about Bryan Ferry?" I simply ask them to go to this site and type in his name, the late show, and love is the drug. High octane glamour. RM wrote: Blimey, yes. I had no memory of his hips being quite no mobile and/or snake like. He's so limber (although still a bad dancer) now, that I'd quite forgotten he was ever so vibrant... Best wishes Richard Mills ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 05:23:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Scotty Subject: [AVALON] Aussie review After a less-than-enthusiastic review of 'Dylanesque' in Melbourne's Sunday Herald-Sun, I was happy to read this one from Brisbane's Courier Mail. Rather good really. http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,21468300-5003421,00.html Cheers all. Scotty - --------------------------------- The fish are biting. Get more visitors on your site using Yahoo! Search Marketing. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 23:12:53 +0200 From: "Dick & Petra Verseput" Subject: Re: [AVALON] Chart This week number 15 in the mega album top 100! More than good for dutch standards! CIAO PETRA/DICK - ----- Original Message ----- From: To: "'Avalon'" Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 10:18 AM Subject: RE: [AVALON] Chart > No 36 in UK this week > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.24/742 - Release Date: 1-4-2007 > 20:49 ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 20:24:49 EDT From: Chandla911@aol.com Subject: [AVALON] Cor! Der...ballet Leo Abrahams Discography mentions all his collaborations with Brian Eno. One of the recent entries is a piece called `Sombrero`. This is a Ballet by Philippe Decoufle for which Brian apparently wrote the music. 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