She had in her mind exactly the character she wanted to portray ‘Give me red lips, I want to be a Roxy girl’ she screamed!”Bryan gave Kate a coveted autographed copy of the first Roxy Music album with Kari-Ann on the cover. “When Bryan approached me to shoot his new album cover I jumped at the chance, envisaging all his famous covers of the past. Photographer Adam Whitehead on the Kate Moss photo shoot: I now think that it was one of the key influences in my own development as an artist, and had a major impact on the album sleeves that I was later to design for Roxy Music, and, of course, for my latest album.’ It seemed to me to be a rather glamorous pin-up picture, and, as such, to have a strong connection to the world of Pop Art in which I was deeply immersed–the world of Hamilton and Warhol. ‘I first saw Olympia when I was an art student in the 1960s and was immediately struck by how modern it is. Joanna Lumley, who plays Patsy Stone in the comedy Absolutely Fabulous, has confirmed repeatedly that the character Patsy Stone was loosely based on the mysterious life story of Amanda Lear.Ĭover concept: Bryan Ferry. Despite modeling nude, there are rumors that Amanda was born a man by the name of Alain Tapp and that she is a transsexual. Bryan is dressed in a chauffer’s uniform – another Price design, leaning on a Cadillac on the back cover.Īfter her engagement to Bryan Ferry ended, Amanda had an affair with David Bowie, and was the emcee of his 1980 Floor Show in 1973. The backdrop is actually an image of Las Vegas. Amanda recalls that it was a tribute to the tall, cool blondes in Hitchcock films, particularly Kim Novak in Vertigo. In 1973, Amanda posed in a skin-tight black leather dress (an Antony Price design) leading a black panther on a leash on the cover of For Your Pleasure. Amanda was romantically linked to Brian Jones, in the Rolling Stones song “Miss Amanda Jones” on their 1967 album Between the Buttons. Not only did she model for Paco Rabanne, Yves Saint Laurent, Chanel, Mary Quant and Ossie Clark – Amanda was the confidante, protegée and mistress of the Spanish painter Salvador Dali. I felt strong enough to take someone on.”Īmanda Lear was the cover model on Roxy Music’s For Your Pleasure. Fleshy, in a word” Someone to be eaten? “No! I felt like I could eat somebody up myself. The colours remind me of a marshmallow, like something really delicious. Kari-Ann: “ It was very glamorous, very sexy, or at least I felt that way.
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She’s one of the few models who didn’t date Bryan Ferry. Her career was at its peak when her agent set her up with the Roxy Music shoot. She came to London from Cornwall aged 18.
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The first Roxy cover gatefold model was Kari-Ann Muller. It reached No.10 on the UK album chart in September 1972. Roxy’s first LP was released in June to good reviews and was a major success. Island boss Chris Blackwell at first seemed unimpressed with the band, but when he glanced at the album cover images at Island’s offices, he said, “Looks great! Have we got them signed yet?” The band signed with Island a few days later.
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Roxy Music’s debut album and its infamous cover artwork were apparently completed before the group signed with Island Records.