Favorite Chistmas Songs
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I am a Ghost
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I can give a very sexy Amanda Lear-like interpretation of any Christmas song.
Isn't s(he) a man?
I am a Ghost
New Member
I don't know, but there's rumours etc.
Not that I care, I'm more a Dana International man meself
Rumours of transsexuality
Despite modelling nude for Playboy Magazine in 1977 and Lear saying "and they could see I was a woman like everybody else"[7], she was and still is widely rumoured to be either a transsexual or an intersexual because of her height (6 ft / 183 cm), her masculine facial features and, most of all, her exceptionally low baritone-like vocal timbre. That Lear was born male is considered an open secret in Continental Europe although Lear herself has since the early 1980s insisted that these rumours are the result of a planned succès de scandale, a clever publicity stunt thought up by herself and Salvador Dalí to get her career in music started, just like her contradictory statements about her childhood and the origin of her parents; during her disco career Lear even went as far as telling the press that she was born in Transsylvania. " - Everything Dalí said, I just listened to. He was the genius, who was I? When it came to launching my career, he told me I was a lousy singer and if I wanted to sell records, I'd have to find something other than the music to attract people to buy them. So we built the Amanda Lear persona into something very intriguing and very ambiguous and it worked." [7]
However, Britain's first publicly confessed transsexual April Ashley has since gone on record in her autobiography April Ashley's Odyssey to say that she worked with Lear in legendary Parisian drag show Carrousel Club in the late 1950s. According to Ashley, Lear was then a man in his early twenties, called Alain Tapp, performing in drag shows using the stage name Péki d'Oslo and a regular member of the Carrousel ensemble as they toured Germany, Scandinavia, Italy and South America. [8] This early alter ego could in fact be a reference to Lear's Eurasian origin; Oslo/Peking.
Coccinelle, France's most celebrated transsexual entertainer, has also revealed that she met and befriended Lear in the late 1950s: Péki was then still called Alain T. and was a young man with a talent for sketching and painting. Coccinelle's 1987 autobiography Coccinelle Par Coccinelle even contains photographic evidence from the era, picturing her in the company of a teenaged Alain T. [9]
These claims were later also confirmed by famous Dutch transsexual singer, actress and nightclub owner Romy Haag in her 1999 autobiography Eine Frau und mehr (translated as A Woman And More). Just like Ashley and Coccinelle, Haag describes that she first met Lear under the name Péki d'Oslo at the Carrousel in Paris and that the two also worked together at Romy's famous nightclub Chez Romy Haag in Berlin, in the early seventies. [10]
In March 2007, renowned British music manager Simon Napier-Bell was the next eyewitness to come forward, saying that "...my publishers sent me off to Paris to make a record with Amanda Lear, someone I’d known years before as a young Asian-looking guy called Péki who hung out in the Gigolo, a gay bar in London in the 60' s. Now that Péki had become Amanda, I wasn't interested anymore, but other people were - Amanda's new companion was Salvador Dalí." [11]
Furthermore, in her autobiography April Ashley claims that Alain Tapp/Péki D'Oslo had already changed her stage name to Amanda when she persuaded a 20-year-old architecture student, Morgan Paul Lear, to marry her on December 11, 1965 at Chelsea Register Office for £50 in order for her to obtain British citizenship - all through her autobiography My Life With Dalì Lear refers to herself as being "English" or "British". [12] Ashley also insists that Lear and Dalí met long before 1965, probably in 1958 or 1959 while Lear was still working at the Carrousel as a female impersonator. [13] Some sources go even further, saying that Lear was Dalí's greatest artistic creation of his whole career, suggesting that he was the one who paid for a sex reassignment that was to have taken place in Casablanca, Morocco in 1963, (see Georges Burou) and Lear is consequently sometimes referred to as Dalí's "Frankenstein". [14] [15]
After his return to Catalonia after World War II, Dalí became close to the Franco regime, met the dictator in person on several occasions and publicly expressed his admiration and support of the government's actions, especially towards Socialists and Communists. [16] In 1996 General Franco's granddaughter María del Carmen Martínez-Bordiú y Franco confirmed in her autobiography, published in Spanish magazine Hola!, that she as a child and a young teenager had met Lear in the company of her grandfather and Salvador Dalì in the late 1950s and early 1960s - both before and after Lear's sex change took place. [17]
However it should be added that Salvador Dalí, David Bowie, María Martínez-Bordiú, Simon Napier-Bell, April Ashley, Romy Haag and Coccinelle all have stated that Lear is transsexual and rumours of her transsexuality predates her meeting with Dalí. She appears to have attempted to go into stealth mode after moving to London and finding her modelling career hampered by her past.
British actress and comedienne Joanna Lumley, who not only bears an uncanny physical resemblance to Lear but also was a fashion model in London in the mid-Sixties herself, has in several interviews confirmed that her glamourous but notoriously foul-mouthed Absolutely Fabulous character Patsy Stone was loosely based on the mysterious life story of a certain A. Lear. (see Absolutely Fabulous, Series 2, Episode 3: Morocco) [18] In 2001 Lear was even offered the part of Patsy Stone in the French film adaptation of the series, Absolument fabuleux, but she declined by saying that she had "already lived it". Interestingly, Amanda Lear’s MySpace page says her record label is called Edina, the name of the other main Ab Fab character. [19]
Sister Rose
A little older, wiser
I love Christmas and there are so many songs I love! I guess this one was always a fave!
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hatfull
HIM-full
I like that one!
My current favourite one, I have no idea at all what it's called or who it's by but the BBC are using it in their trail for their Christmas TV schedule.
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Corrissey
lovable loser
hey Corrissey, I know you have a thing for John Legend. have you seen this?
hahahaha! Thanks! I had not seen that. And now I'm smiling from ear to ear!! LOLZ!And yes, I do want to be John's nutmeg.
Stephen is his All-spice! Fleet Foxes, White Winter Hymnal counts (to me) as a new Christmasy song.
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MsChievous
Hand Frink
SR - That's also my fave and I was trying to post it a few days ago but couldn't. I don't know what it is about NKC but his voice sends shivers up my spine - so smooth!!
Mars_Rover
Junior Member
It Came Upon A Midnight Clear
Do You Hear What I Hear?
anything to do with angels, really
Do You Hear What I Hear?
anything to do with angels, really
vicarinatutugal
can't reMember
my fav xmas song tho is o holy night, can not find a really good version on youtube tho just now.
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Corrissey
lovable loser
Mine too! I really like Clay Aiken's version *hides*
and Josh Groban's is pretty powerful, too. A very moving song.How could we forget the Grinch!?
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hatfull
HIM-full
awwwwwwwwwwwwww! I took the kids' to a carol concert on Wednesday (before collapsing on my sick bed) and I really enjoyed it (much more than the kids' I suspect, I'm guessing 'Once In Royal David's City' isn't that exciting when you're 6
) I'd forgotten how much I love carol concerts, I'm tempted to suggest to my mum that we go to one when I'm at hers for Xmas.
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ThisCharmingGirl
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ThisCharmingGirl
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Yes, yes I do
Ok, I can teach you Catalan whenever you want then, and can you teach me some Irish slang? What's the craic?
Sister Rose
A little older, wiser
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My mam's fave and one of mine too.
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I really really love this! The Irish rock!!
My mam's fave and one of mine too.
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I really really love this! The Irish rock!!
Sister Rose
A little older, wiser
Jukebox Jury
Retired
Siouxsie & The Banshees - II Est Ne le Devin Enfant
Hang on..... is that the bloke from The Cure on symbals?
Jukebox Jury
Hang on..... is that the bloke from The Cure on symbals?
Jukebox Jury
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I am a Ghost
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Ok, I can teach you Catalan whenever you want then, and can you teach me some Irish slang? What's the craic?
The crack is apparently an English term from the 16th century stolen by the Paddies
What slang do you want to know?
I am a Ghost
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