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LIZZIE TEAR PROFILE

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Lizzie Tear is exactly  the kind of girl you read about in magazines. Perhaps even the knd of girl you see on the cover of Time magazines.  Her father, Richard Tear, is an opera singer, and Lizzie trained for a while to be one too,  but she decided that she liked pop music better. "Plus you earn more money."  She went to "a reallyposh school", where she didn't get any 'A' levels. she got a job at Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren's Worlds End shop instead. Her mother took here there to buy a new frock for her 15th birthday and Westwood asked her if she'd like to be a Saturday Girl. She said "Yes"  to that but "No" to Mclaren

when he asked her if she'd like to be in Bow Wow Wow. So she lost the job.  But she had, over a bottle of Cointreau and a rainy afternoon, written a song called Life Won't Be The Same, and it's out now on EMI. In between times she has done some modelling and been a presenter on The Tube. "Let's talk about music," she says. She likes LL Cool J and Frank Sinatra.  "He's heavy. I love him."  She sings the ntro to Summer Wind - "The summer wind...came blowin' ín..across the sea..." - Phrasing just like Frank and singing very well indeed. She obviously like music a lot, as much as the movies, even, and we nearly talk about it,  but the conversation soon gets anecdotal,  and she recall drinking thirteen, Wild Turkeys in Nell's with The Beastie Boys - who

think of her as an honorary sister - and before we know where we are she is down by the East River at five in the morning. Can't remember a thing about it. Lizzie is extremely irked that EMI are isisting that the word' whore'  be escised from Life before it can be the hit record that it's supposed to be " It's ridiculous how prudish they've become,  it really winds me up" she says.  Her record is groovier than 80 percent of Madonna's ( if not quite as groovy as the other 20 percent ) and because not quite as groovy as the other 20 percent ) and because she is also the kind of girl you read about in magaznes, her dreams will probably come true.  At the moment she is keen to meet Mickey Rourke. Lizzie Tear is 21                                                     Blitz - 1986

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