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Lear got her start as a model and segued into music in 1975, encouraged to do so by her boyfriend at the time, David Bowie. Her debut single, "La Bagarre,'" released on Polydor was a French language cover of Elvis Presley's 1958 classic "Trouble." It became a minor disco hit in West Germany in early 1976 and caught the attention of singer, composer and producer Anthony Monn and label Ariola-Eurodisc. Her first full-length release I Am A Photograph was recorded in Munich, with most songs composed by Monn and arranger Rainer Pietsch and Lear herself providing the English lyrics. The album included Lear's first pan European hit "Blood And Honey", lyrically paraphrasing Dalí's 1941 painting La Miel Es Más Dulce Que La Sangre (Honey Is Sweeter Than Blood). It spun off three other hit singles and landed near the top of the charts in several European countries. In 1978, Lear continued her line of disco hits with Sweet Revenge, a cleverly promoted album that made Lear a larger-than-life figure in the Eurodance community, with a persona that transcended her music and would have an impact on the next three decades of European pop culture.



In 1980, at the artistic and commercial peak of her international career, the so called "anti-disco backlash" began to take its toll on Lear's careers. She broke with Monn and tentatively started recording tracks for a forthcoming album with producer Trevor Horn in London. At her record company's insistence, however, she returned to Monn in Germany and recorded Incognito, an album that got a lukewarm commercial response. Lear's international career momentum was slowing and effectively came to an end in December 1983 when she delivered her final album to the Ariola label, under contractual obligation. Lear would go on to explore other avenues of artistic expression than music, but she will always be remembered as a Eurodance icon.