Perri Lister (born 10 April 1959) is an English dancer, singer and actress. She was a dancer with the British dance troupe Hot Gossip which appeared regularly on The Kenny Everett Video Show in the late 1970s and early 1980s in the United Kingdom.[2] In the 1980s Lister was a backing vocalist for a number of pop music acts, including Billy Idol, with whom she had a nine-year relationship.
Early life
Perri Lister was born on 10 April 1959 in London, England,[3] the daughter of Bert Lister, a stage manager, dresser and chauffeur, by his third wife, stage actress Gail Kendall. Her paternal grandmother was an amateur opera singer.[4]
Lister began a relationship with rock singer Billy Idol in 1980, over whom she allegedly exerted a big influence.[6][7] She sang the French lyrical backing vocal chorus, "Les yeux sans visage" on his 1984 hit single "Eyes Without a Face";[2][6] and appeared in several of his music videos, including "White Wedding" in which she played the bride; "To Be a Lover"; and she was the girl bound to a cross in the second video for his song "Hot in the City".[2][8]Mademoiselle described Lister's sexy performance in the latter video as "sizzling".[8] She danced topless in the 1982 Duran Duran video for the single release "The Chauffeur",[2] and sang backing vocals for the band Visage[citation needed], and August Darnell's band Kid Creole and the Coconuts.[citation needed]
Lister and Billy Idol together have a son,[10] who was born in Los Angeles, California on 15 June 1988. When an American model held a press conference claiming to be Idol's girlfriend, Lister responded by holding one of her own, maintaining that she was "and always had been Idol's girlfriend".[11] The couple broke up in 1989.[2]
