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Bryan Ferry (born 26 September 1945 in Washington, Sunderland) is an English singer, musician, songwriter and occasional actor famed for his suave visual and vocal style, who came to public prominence in the 1970s as lead vocalist and principal songwriter with Roxy Music. He is also noted for his subsequent solo career.
Ferry formed Roxy Music with a group of friends and acquaintances, beginning with Graham Simpson. The Roxy Music line-up expanded to include Andy Mackay and his acquaintance Brian Eno, who owned tape recorders and played Mackay's synthesiser. Other early members included a timpanist and ex-Nice guitarist David O'List, who were replaced respectively by Paul Thompson and Phil Manzanera before the band recorded its first album. (Early Peel sessions for UK radio station Radio 1 feature O'List's playing.)[7]
Roxy Music's first hit, "Virginia Plain", just missed topping the charts, and they followed up with several hit singles and albums, with Ferry as vocalist and occasional instrumentalist (he taught himself piano in his mid-twenties) and Eno contributing synthesiser backing.
On a personal level, Ferry was known to date very beautiful women, who often appeared as cover models on the Roxy Music albums. Ferry dated singer and model Amanda Lear, who was photographed with a black jaguar for the cover of the For Your Pleasure album. She later went on to date and create music with David Bowie. [8]
For many years, Ferry has collaborated with fashion designer Antony Price for clothing and image consultations. Price is famous for his London shop on King's Road. He created suits recognized worldwide for their elegance, and gained fame when celebrities and rock stars dressed in his designs. [9]
After the first two albums, Eno left Roxy Music, leaving Ferry its undisputed leader. Ferry then began a relationship with model Jerry Hall. Hall appeared in several of Ferry's music videos, including "Let's Stick Together" and "The Price of Love." Ferry first met Hall when she posed for the Roxy Music album cover for Siren, which was photographed in Wales during the Summer of 1975. Hall's autobiography ("Tall Tales") describes the photo session, and she elaborates on how the blue body paint she wore to look like a mythical siren would not wash off; Hall says that Ferry took her back to his house to help her remove the paint[10]. Her stay at Ferry's Holland Park (London) home, following the album cover photo shoot, marked the start of their doomed affair.
In his private life, Ferry went through a rough period. Jerry Hall and Bryan Ferry eventually moved in together, sharing homes in London and in the ritzy Bel Air section of Los Angeles. While Ferry was away on tour, Jerry Hall began a simultaneous affair with Mick Jagger, leading to the break-up between Ferry and Hall. To this day, Ferry rarely speaks about Hall, but fans often speculate that his song "Kiss and Tell" from the Bête Noire album was Ferry's response to Hall's tell-all book about their relationship.[11]Ferry often refuses to discuss his feelings about Hall or talk about their romantic history during interviews. Bryan Ferry's solo album The Bride Stripped Bare is widely believed[12] to contain references to his break-up with Hall, who left him for Mick Jagger in late 1977. Ferry's original songs on the album were in fact written some time before the relationship ended, although it was recorded afterwards. The album was commercially not very successful, the highest-peaking single "Sign of the Times" only reaching 37th position in the UK charts. After this album failed to catapult his solo career, Ferry decided to reunite with Roxy Music to record new material.
After lengthy ("debilitating") tours like the gruelling schedule used to promote the Avalon album in 1983, Bryan Ferry decided to put a hold on Roxy Music and continue as a solo artist.
Ferry's performance at the London Live Aid[13] in 1985 was judged by some as a disappointment, but his appearance was described as one of the most eagerly anticipated by the BBC. He was hit with technical difficulties on sound and the drummer's drumstick broke at the start of the first song 'Sensation' and his guitarist for the performance David Gilmour's sunburst Fender Stratocaster went dead and switched to his candy-apple red Stratocaster for the rest of the performance[14]. The difficulties in sound were overcome for "Slave to Love" (featured on the soundtrack to 9½ Weeks) and "Jealous Guy." By the end of his set the crowd were up dancing again. As with other successful Live Aid acts, his current album, Boys and Girls, remained in the chart for over a year.
After the Avalon promotion tours, Ferry was rather reluctant to return to life on the road; however, a change of management persuaded him to try touring again in 1988 to belatedly promote the previous year's Bête Noire release. He spoke enthusiastically about the experience and repeated it for Mamouna in 1994/1995.
Ferry continued with Taxi in 1993, and teamed up again with Brian Eno for Mamouna in 1994 (collaborating with Robin Trower on guitar and as producer).
In 1996 for the Phenomenon soundtrack Ferry's performed the song Dance With Life which was written by Bernie Taupin and Martin Page.
In 1999 Ferry appeared with Alan Partridge (played by Steve Coogan) on BBC's Comic Relief.
After taking some time off from his music, Ferry returned in 1999. He began to perform a mix of 1930s songs (from As Time Goes By) and songs of his own, including several from the Roxy collection. Surprisingly for anyone familiar with his 1980s persona, so focussed on intricate and ambitious studio work, Ferry has rarely been away from the stage since: there have been several tours, significant changes of personnel within his tour band and the largely successful reformation of Roxy Music as - so far - a live act, playing its repertoire to great acclaim. Ferry has admitted in interviews that all this might be a way of keeping his mind from other things, such as his divorce from his wife Lucy, granted in 2003.
Ferry and his family experienced a big scare in December of 2000, when his British Airways flight from London's Gatwick Airport to Kenya was disrupted in a hijack attempt. A man named Paul Mukonyi burst into the cockpit of the Boeing 747 flying to Nairobi. As three crew fought to restrain Mukonyi, 27, a mental patient from Kenya, the jet plunged downward about 10,000 feet (3048 m). But disaster was averted when pilots recovered the aircraft and all passengers landed safely.[15]
Following his split from Lucy, British newspapers photographed Ferry with Katie Turner, naming her as his new 'girlfriend'[16][17][18][19]. Ferry and Katie Turner met while she worked as one of the dancers during Roxy Music's concert tour in 2001. Katie is also featured on the DVD of the 2001 Hammersmith Odeon Show and has appeared with Bryan Ferry on several TV appearances to promote the Frantic album. Katie also appeared in the live show during the Frantic 2002 tour. After their break-up, Ferry had a relationship with Lady Emily Compton, a socialite[20], and in 2005 briefly dated ER's Alex Kingston[21]. In 2006, he resumed his relationship with Katie Turner. Turner is 35 years younger than Ferry.
In 2004, Ferry starred in the short film The Porter. Also in that year, guitarist David Williams was involved in some recording sessions for Ferry.
In 2005, it was confirmed[22] that Roxy Music (Ferry, Eno, Mackay, Manzanera and Thompson) would be performing further shows at that year's Isle Of Wight festival and that they would also be recording a further album of new and original songs, with no indication of when such a project would reach completion[23]. Brian Eno has confirmed[24] that he has worked in the studio with Roxy once more and has co-written songs for the new album. He has remarked how the bands dynamic has not changed since he was a member in the early 1970s. He has also confirmed he will not tour with the band.
In 2005, Ferry appeared in Neil Jordan's movie, Breakfast on Pluto, starring Cillian Murphy as a young Irish transvestite who goes to London in the glam 1970s to find his mother. Ferry, appearing in a bit part as Mr. Silky String, plays a suave but creepy john who picks up the sexually ambiguous young man and, after a short conversation, attempts to strangle him in the front seat of his car.
In October 2006, Bryan Ferry became the face of the men's clothing range Autograph with British retailer, Marks and Spencer. His album Slave To Love: Best Of The Ballads was reissued to commemorate this. Bryan was back in the studio in 2006 recording songs from the Bob Dylan canon with the Dylan tribute album Dylanesque, released in March 2007 with a UK tour planned to promote the album. In the fall 2006, Ferry's Don't Stop The Dance was in the Scandinavian men-clothe store's Dressman TV ad.
On May 14 it was announced that Ferry had been dropped by Marks and Spencer[28]. The April edition of Private Eye magazine featured a cartoon of Bryan Ferry singing 'These foolish things I keep saying' under the caption 'Bryan Führerry'.
On June 29, the Daily Mirror apologized for its article run on April 16 and the misquotation of Ferry it carried, stating that their claim "Mr. Ferry had been singing the praises of the Nazis [...] was not true." The apology goes on to say that the Daily Mirror "accept[s] that Mr. Ferry abhors the Nazi regime and all it stood for."[29].
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Biography
Before Roxy Music (before 1971)
Born into a working-class family (Ferry's father Fred Ferry was a farmer who also looked after pit ponies[1]), Ferry studied fine art at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne under Richard Hamilton.[2] He had applied to study History of Art at the world-renowned Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, but was rejected. His contemporaries included Tim Head[3] and Nick de Ville[4]. He became a pottery teacher in London [5], all the while aiming for a career in music. Ferry formed the band the Banshees, and later, together with Graham Simpson, the band The Gas Board.[6]Early Roxy Music (1971-1976)
Ferry formed Roxy Music with a group of friends and acquaintances, beginning with Graham Simpson. The Roxy Music line-up expanded to include Andy Mackay and his acquaintance Brian Eno, who owned tape recorders and played Mackay's synthesiser. Other early members included a timpanist and ex-Nice guitarist David O'List, who were replaced respectively by Paul Thompson and Phil Manzanera before the band recorded its first album. (Early Peel sessions for UK radio station Radio 1 feature O'List's playing.)[7]
Roxy Music's first hit, "Virginia Plain", just missed topping the charts, and they followed up with several hit singles and albums, with Ferry as vocalist and occasional instrumentalist (he taught himself piano in his mid-twenties) and Eno contributing synthesiser backing.
On a personal level, Ferry was known to date very beautiful women, who often appeared as cover models on the Roxy Music albums. Ferry dated singer and model Amanda Lear, who was photographed with a black jaguar for the cover of the For Your Pleasure album. She later went on to date and create music with David Bowie. [8]
For many years, Ferry has collaborated with fashion designer Antony Price for clothing and image consultations. Price is famous for his London shop on King's Road. He created suits recognized worldwide for their elegance, and gained fame when celebrities and rock stars dressed in his designs. [9]
After the first two albums, Eno left Roxy Music, leaving Ferry its undisputed leader. Ferry then began a relationship with model Jerry Hall. Hall appeared in several of Ferry's music videos, including "Let's Stick Together" and "The Price of Love." Ferry first met Hall when she posed for the Roxy Music album cover for Siren, which was photographed in Wales during the Summer of 1975. Hall's autobiography ("Tall Tales") describes the photo session, and she elaborates on how the blue body paint she wore to look like a mythical siren would not wash off; Hall says that Ferry took her back to his house to help her remove the paint[10]. Her stay at Ferry's Holland Park (London) home, following the album cover photo shoot, marked the start of their doomed affair.
Solo success years (1976-1978)
After the concert tours in support of Siren, Roxy Music temporarily disbanded in 1976. Ferry had already started a parallel solo career in 1973, specialising in cover versions of old standards on albums such as These Foolish Things. Notably Ferry's Roxy Music bandmembers, particularly Paul Thompson, Phil Manzanera and Eddie Jobson took part in recording his subsequent solo material. The solo album Let's Stick Together was a commercial success; the title track that was released as a single reached 4th place in the UK single charts. Additionally in 1976, Ferry covered a Beatles song, “She's Leaving Home” for the transitory musical documentary All This and World War II.)
Cover of The Bride Stripped Bare
Second Roxy Music years (1978-1983)
After a couple of years as a solo artist, Ferry re-formed the band. Roxy Music recorded the successful albums Manifesto in 1978, Flesh and Blood in 1980 and Avalon in 1982. The pinnacle of their success being their only UK number one hit, "Jealous Guy", released in tribute to John Lennon - ironically, the only one of their singles not written by Ferry.After lengthy ("debilitating") tours like the gruelling schedule used to promote the Avalon album in 1983, Bryan Ferry decided to put a hold on Roxy Music and continue as a solo artist.
After Roxy Music (1983-2001)
Ferry eventually settled down to married life with Lucy Helmore, and they had four sons, including huntsman and political activist Otis Ferry, infamous man-about-town Isaac Ferry, Tara and Merlin. Ferry continued to record, and in 1985 the album Boys and Girls reached the number one position in Britain.Ferry's performance at the London Live Aid[13] in 1985 was judged by some as a disappointment, but his appearance was described as one of the most eagerly anticipated by the BBC. He was hit with technical difficulties on sound and the drummer's drumstick broke at the start of the first song 'Sensation' and his guitarist for the performance David Gilmour's sunburst Fender Stratocaster went dead and switched to his candy-apple red Stratocaster for the rest of the performance[14]. The difficulties in sound were overcome for "Slave to Love" (featured on the soundtrack to 9½ Weeks) and "Jealous Guy." By the end of his set the crowd were up dancing again. As with other successful Live Aid acts, his current album, Boys and Girls, remained in the chart for over a year.
After the Avalon promotion tours, Ferry was rather reluctant to return to life on the road; however, a change of management persuaded him to try touring again in 1988 to belatedly promote the previous year's Bête Noire release. He spoke enthusiastically about the experience and repeated it for Mamouna in 1994/1995.
Ferry continued with Taxi in 1993, and teamed up again with Brian Eno for Mamouna in 1994 (collaborating with Robin Trower on guitar and as producer).
In 1996 for the Phenomenon soundtrack Ferry's performed the song Dance With Life which was written by Bernie Taupin and Martin Page.
In 1999 Ferry appeared with Alan Partridge (played by Steve Coogan) on BBC's Comic Relief.
After taking some time off from his music, Ferry returned in 1999. He began to perform a mix of 1930s songs (from As Time Goes By) and songs of his own, including several from the Roxy collection. Surprisingly for anyone familiar with his 1980s persona, so focussed on intricate and ambitious studio work, Ferry has rarely been away from the stage since: there have been several tours, significant changes of personnel within his tour band and the largely successful reformation of Roxy Music as - so far - a live act, playing its repertoire to great acclaim. Ferry has admitted in interviews that all this might be a way of keeping his mind from other things, such as his divorce from his wife Lucy, granted in 2003.
Ferry and his family experienced a big scare in December of 2000, when his British Airways flight from London's Gatwick Airport to Kenya was disrupted in a hijack attempt. A man named Paul Mukonyi burst into the cockpit of the Boeing 747 flying to Nairobi. As three crew fought to restrain Mukonyi, 27, a mental patient from Kenya, the jet plunged downward about 10,000 feet (3048 m). But disaster was averted when pilots recovered the aircraft and all passengers landed safely.[15]
Roxy Music reunion (2001-present)
Ferry, Manzanera, Mackay and Thompson re-reformed Roxy Music in 2001 and toured extensively for a couple of years while not releasing any albums. However, with the help of Manzanera and Thompson, in 2002 Ferry returned with Frantic, the long-awaited follow-up for As Time Goes By, where he was assisted on a couple of tracks by Manzanera and Thompson; the final track is a collaboration with Brian Eno. The album Frantic mixed Ferry originals with covers - something that Ferry hadn't attempted on a solo album since The Bride Stripped Bare, twenty-four years before.Following his split from Lucy, British newspapers photographed Ferry with Katie Turner, naming her as his new 'girlfriend'[16][17][18][19]. Ferry and Katie Turner met while she worked as one of the dancers during Roxy Music's concert tour in 2001. Katie is also featured on the DVD of the 2001 Hammersmith Odeon Show and has appeared with Bryan Ferry on several TV appearances to promote the Frantic album. Katie also appeared in the live show during the Frantic 2002 tour. After their break-up, Ferry had a relationship with Lady Emily Compton, a socialite[20], and in 2005 briefly dated ER's Alex Kingston[21]. In 2006, he resumed his relationship with Katie Turner. Turner is 35 years younger than Ferry.
In 2004, Ferry starred in the short film The Porter. Also in that year, guitarist David Williams was involved in some recording sessions for Ferry.
In 2005, it was confirmed[22] that Roxy Music (Ferry, Eno, Mackay, Manzanera and Thompson) would be performing further shows at that year's Isle Of Wight festival and that they would also be recording a further album of new and original songs, with no indication of when such a project would reach completion[23]. Brian Eno has confirmed[24] that he has worked in the studio with Roxy once more and has co-written songs for the new album. He has remarked how the bands dynamic has not changed since he was a member in the early 1970s. He has also confirmed he will not tour with the band.
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In 2005, Ferry appeared in Neil Jordan's movie, Breakfast on Pluto, starring Cillian Murphy as a young Irish transvestite who goes to London in the glam 1970s to find his mother. Ferry, appearing in a bit part as Mr. Silky String, plays a suave but creepy john who picks up the sexually ambiguous young man and, after a short conversation, attempts to strangle him in the front seat of his car.
In October 2006, Bryan Ferry became the face of the men's clothing range Autograph with British retailer, Marks and Spencer. His album Slave To Love: Best Of The Ballads was reissued to commemorate this. Bryan was back in the studio in 2006 recording songs from the Bob Dylan canon with the Dylan tribute album Dylanesque, released in March 2007 with a UK tour planned to promote the album. In the fall 2006, Ferry's Don't Stop The Dance was in the Scandinavian men-clothe store's Dressman TV ad.
Nazi Criticism
In March 2007, a number of newspapers[25] reported that Bryan Ferry calls his West London studio his Führerbunker, a title associated with Hitler's headquarters. In an interview in German newspaper Welt am Sonntag, Ferry allegedly praised the Nazi regime. There was some condemnation from the Jewish community and calls for Ferry to be dropped from his contract with Marks & Spencer. Lord Janner said "Marks & Spencer should have a serious rethink about employing him. This man should stick to singing and stay away from making offensive comments of this sort. Any praise of the Nazis is not acceptable in the Jewish world."[26] On April 17 2007, Ferry apologized for the offence caused by these comments, reinforcing that they "were made solely from an art history perspective" and stating that he finds "the Nazi regime, and all it stood for, evil and abhorrent"[27]. On the Swedish TV show "Stina" on April 28 2007, Ferry denied that his studio was ever called "Führerbunker" and that his comment were never about Nazis but rather about art. He also said that he was very upset over this incident. On his personal website, Ferry made the statementOn May 14 it was announced that Ferry had been dropped by Marks and Spencer[28]. The April edition of Private Eye magazine featured a cartoon of Bryan Ferry singing 'These foolish things I keep saying' under the caption 'Bryan Führerry'.
On June 29, the Daily Mirror apologized for its article run on April 16 and the misquotation of Ferry it carried, stating that their claim "Mr. Ferry had been singing the praises of the Nazis [...] was not true." The apology goes on to say that the Daily Mirror "accept[s] that Mr. Ferry abhors the Nazi regime and all it stood for."[29].
Discography
Studio albums
- These Foolish Things (October 1973, UK #5)
- Another Time, Another Place (July 1974, UK #4)
- Let's Stick Together (September 1976, UK #19, US #160)
- In Your Mind (February 1977, UK #5, US #126, Aust.#1)
- The Bride Stripped Bare (April 1978, UK #13, US #159)
- Boys and Girls (May 1985, UK #1, US #63)
- Bête Noire (October 1987, UK #9, US #63)
- Taxi (13 April 1993, UK #2, US #79)
- Mamouna (20 September 1994, UK #11, US #94)
- As Time Goes By (15 October 1999, UK #16, US #199)
- Frantic (18 May 2002, UK #6, US #189)
- Dylanesque (5 March 2007, UK #5, US #117)
Bibliography
- Bracewell, Michael Roxy Music: Bryan Ferry, Brian Eno, Art, Ideas, and Fashion (Da Capo Press, 2005) ISBN 0-306-81400-5
- Buckley, David The Thrill of It All: The Story of Bryan Ferry & Roxy Music (Chicago Review Press, 2005) ISBN 1-55652-574-5
- Rigby, Jonathan Both Ends Burning: The Complete Roxy Music (Reynolds & Hearn, 2005) ISBN 1-903111-80-3
- Stump, Paul Unknown Pleasures: A Cultural Biography of Roxy Music (Quartet Books, 1998) ISBN 0-7043-8074-9
References
1. ^ "Bryan Ferry's solo work", www.vivaroxymusic.com. Retrieved on 2007-08-10.
2. ^ "Richard Hamilton Biographical chronology", www.infoloop.org. Retrieved on 2007-06-15.
3. ^ "Soundtrack of my life: Bryan Ferry", The Observer, 18 March 2007. Retrieved on 2007-06-15.
4. ^ "The best of both worlds?", Interview, Arena Magazine, September 1994. Retrieved on 2007-06-15.
5. ^ "Bryan Ferry", vivaroxymusic.com. Retrieved on 2007-06-15.
6. ^ "Look Back In Languor", The Guardian, 14 June 1997. Retrieved on 2007-06-15.
7. ^ "Getting Roxy Music in with 'The 'In' Crowd' - An Interview With Davy O'List", VivaRoxyMusic.com, 25 April 2004. Retrieved on 2007-06-15.
8. ^ "Amanda Lear Biography", eurodancehits.com, 1998. Retrieved on 2007-06-15.
9. ^ "Peter Yorke on Antony Price", The independent magazine. Retrieved on 2008-08-10.
10. ^ Hall, Jerry; Christopher Hemphill [June 1985]. "Siren", Tall Tales. New York: Pocket Books. ISBN 0-671-50911-X. Retrieved on 2007-06-15.
11. ^ "Songfacts: Kiss And Tell by Bryan Ferry", Songfacts, Songfacts. Retrieved on 2007-08-10.
12. ^ Stephanie R. Myers. "Jerry Hall Prefers Rockers Over Brad Pitt", Softpedia. Retrieved on 2007-08-10.
13. ^ "Live Aid (July 13th, 1985): Bryan Ferry", MTV, January 2002. Retrieved on 2007-06-15.
14. ^ "Live aid in their own words", The Observer, 17 October 2004. Retrieved on 2007-06-15.
15. ^ "Doctors assess cockpit intruder", BBC, 30 December 2000. Retrieved on 2007-06-15.
16. ^ "Melting moment for King of Cool", Evening Post, 11 October 2002. Retrieved on 2007-06-15.
17. ^ "Frantic Tour", Boston Globe, 10 November 2002. Retrieved on 2007-06-15.
18. ^ "Bryan Ferry surrenders the depths of his soul", Boston Globe, 13 November 2002. Retrieved on 2007-06-15.
19. ^ "Bryan Ferry at The Chicago Theatre", Chicago Sun Times, November 21, 2002. Retrieved on 2007-06-15.
20. ^ "Bryan Ferry: Back in style", The Independent, 12 August 2006. Retrieved on 2007-06-15.
21. ^ "Answer blowing in the wind", Scotland on Sunday, March 4, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-06-15.
22. ^ "Roxy Music To Play At The Isle Of Wight Festival", 2005-03-17. Retrieved on 2007-04-17.
23. ^ "Roxy back in the studio", Phil Manzarena, 2005-06-30. Retrieved on 2007-04-17.
24. ^ "Working with someone is like dating", Guardian, 2006-05-19. Retrieved on 2007-04-17.
25. ^ ""Ich wäre gern ein Amateur" (German)", Die Welt, 2007-03-04. Retrieved on 2007-04-17.
26. ^ "Nazi Ferry gaffe", SomethingJewish, 2007-04-16. Retrieved on 2007-04-17.
27. ^ "Singer Bryan Ferry apologises after praising 'amazing' Nazis", ABC, 2007-04-17. Retrieved on 2007-04-17.
28. ^ "Bryan Ferry dropped by Marks & Spencer", NME, 2007-05-14. Retrieved on 2007-06-15.
29. ^ "Bryan Ferry: An Apology", Daily Mirror, 2007-06-29. Retrieved on 2007-07-06.
2. ^ "Richard Hamilton Biographical chronology", www.infoloop.org. Retrieved on 2007-06-15.
3. ^ "Soundtrack of my life: Bryan Ferry", The Observer, 18 March 2007. Retrieved on 2007-06-15.
4. ^ "The best of both worlds?", Interview, Arena Magazine, September 1994. Retrieved on 2007-06-15.
5. ^ "Bryan Ferry", vivaroxymusic.com. Retrieved on 2007-06-15.
6. ^ "Look Back In Languor", The Guardian, 14 June 1997. Retrieved on 2007-06-15.
7. ^ "Getting Roxy Music in with 'The 'In' Crowd' - An Interview With Davy O'List", VivaRoxyMusic.com, 25 April 2004. Retrieved on 2007-06-15.
8. ^ "Amanda Lear Biography", eurodancehits.com, 1998. Retrieved on 2007-06-15.
9. ^ "Peter Yorke on Antony Price", The independent magazine. Retrieved on 2008-08-10.
10. ^ Hall, Jerry; Christopher Hemphill [June 1985]. "Siren", Tall Tales. New York: Pocket Books. ISBN 0-671-50911-X. Retrieved on 2007-06-15.
11. ^ "Songfacts: Kiss And Tell by Bryan Ferry", Songfacts, Songfacts. Retrieved on 2007-08-10.
12. ^ Stephanie R. Myers. "Jerry Hall Prefers Rockers Over Brad Pitt", Softpedia. Retrieved on 2007-08-10.
13. ^ "Live Aid (July 13th, 1985): Bryan Ferry", MTV, January 2002. Retrieved on 2007-06-15.
14. ^ "Live aid in their own words", The Observer, 17 October 2004. Retrieved on 2007-06-15.
15. ^ "Doctors assess cockpit intruder", BBC, 30 December 2000. Retrieved on 2007-06-15.
16. ^ "Melting moment for King of Cool", Evening Post, 11 October 2002. Retrieved on 2007-06-15.
17. ^ "Frantic Tour", Boston Globe, 10 November 2002. Retrieved on 2007-06-15.
18. ^ "Bryan Ferry surrenders the depths of his soul", Boston Globe, 13 November 2002. Retrieved on 2007-06-15.
19. ^ "Bryan Ferry at The Chicago Theatre", Chicago Sun Times, November 21, 2002. Retrieved on 2007-06-15.
20. ^ "Bryan Ferry: Back in style", The Independent, 12 August 2006. Retrieved on 2007-06-15.
21. ^ "Answer blowing in the wind", Scotland on Sunday, March 4, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-06-15.
22. ^ "Roxy Music To Play At The Isle Of Wight Festival", 2005-03-17. Retrieved on 2007-04-17.
23. ^ "Roxy back in the studio", Phil Manzarena, 2005-06-30. Retrieved on 2007-04-17.
24. ^ "Working with someone is like dating", Guardian, 2006-05-19. Retrieved on 2007-04-17.
25. ^ ""Ich wäre gern ein Amateur" (German)", Die Welt, 2007-03-04. Retrieved on 2007-04-17.
26. ^ "Nazi Ferry gaffe", SomethingJewish, 2007-04-16. Retrieved on 2007-04-17.
27. ^ "Singer Bryan Ferry apologises after praising 'amazing' Nazis", ABC, 2007-04-17. Retrieved on 2007-04-17.
28. ^ "Bryan Ferry dropped by Marks & Spencer", NME, 2007-05-14. Retrieved on 2007-06-15.
29. ^ "Bryan Ferry: An Apology", Daily Mirror, 2007-06-29. Retrieved on 2007-07-06.
See also
External links
- The Official Bryan Ferry website
- Viva Roxy Music - A Roxy Music fansite, with news, interviews and photographs of Roxy Music and the solo careers of the members, plus information about songs and albums, cooperating with www.bryanferry.com
- Bryan Ferry at the Internet Movie Database
- Open Directory Project - Roxy Music directory category
- Roxyrama! The Bryan Ferry & Roxy Music Archive
- Madness in my Soul - The first Roxy Music & Bryan Ferry website
- Yahoo! Music - Bryan Ferry
- Time Out New York interview with Bryan Ferry
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actor, actress, or player (see terminology) is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity.
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Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century
1940s 1950s 1960s - 1970s - 1980s 1990s 2000s
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1975 1976 1977 1978 1979
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- The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, also called
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1940s 1950s 1960s - 1970s - 1980s 1990s 2000s
1970 1971 1972 1973 1974
1975 1976 1977 1978 1979
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- The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, also called
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Roxy Music is an English art rock group founded in the early 1970s by art school graduate Bryan Ferry (vocals and keyboards). The other members are Phil Manzanera (guitars), Andy Mackay (saxophone and oboe) and Paul Thompson (drums and percussion).
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pit pony was a type of pony commonly used in coal mines up until the mid 20th century. Shetlands were a breed commonly used because of their small size.
Pit "ponies" were used for both economical and practical reasons and their use is said to have been instrumental in making
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Pit "ponies" were used for both economical and practical reasons and their use is said to have been instrumental in making
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Newcastle University is a British university located in Newcastle upon Tyne in the north-east of England. It was established as a School of Medicine and Surgery in 1834 and became the University of Newcastle upon Tyne by an Act of Parliament in August 1963.
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Richard Hamilton (born February 24 1922) is an English painter and collage artist. His 1956 collage titled Just What Is It that Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?, produced for the This is Tomorrow
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Tim Head (born 1946) is a British artist.
Born in London, He studied at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne from 1965 to 1969, where his teachers included Richard Hamilton and Ian Stephenson. His contemporary students included Roxy Music frontman Brian Ferry.
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Born in London, He studied at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne from 1965 to 1969, where his teachers included Richard Hamilton and Ian Stephenson. His contemporary students included Roxy Music frontman Brian Ferry.
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London
Canary Wharf is the centre of London's modern office towers
London shown within England
Coordinates:
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Constituent country England
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Canary Wharf is the centre of London's modern office towers
London shown within England
Coordinates:
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Constituent country England
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Graham Simpson (born in 1943) was a founding member of Roxy Music, and friend of Bryan Ferry - he was part of the band as a bassist when they recorded their first album Roxy Music in 1972.
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Roxy Music is an English art rock group founded in the early 1970s by art school graduate Bryan Ferry (vocals and keyboards). The other members are Phil Manzanera (guitars), Andy Mackay (saxophone and oboe) and Paul Thompson (drums and percussion).
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Andrew "Andy" Mackay (born 23 July 1946) is an English musician, best known as the saxophonist for the art rock group Roxy Music.
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Life and career
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Brian Eno (pronounced IPA: /ˌbraɪən ˈiːnəʊ/) born on 15 May 1948 in Woodbridge, Suffolk, England) is an English electronic musician, music theorist and record producer.
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The Nice are an English progressive rock band from the 1960s, known for their unique blend of rock, jazz and classical music. Their debut album, The Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack
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Paul Thompson (born 13 May 1951 in Newcastle upon Tyne, England) was the drummer for Roxy Music from 1971 to 1980 and from 2001 onwards.
In between those stints with Roxy Music, he was drummer in the Oi! band, Angelic Upstarts and the American alternative rock band Concrete
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In between those stints with Roxy Music, he was drummer in the Oi! band, Angelic Upstarts and the American alternative rock band Concrete
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Phil Manzanera (born Philip Geoffrey Targett-Adams, 31 January 1951, in London, England), is an English guitarist. He played with Quiet Sun, then Roxy Music.
He was educated at Dulwich College.
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He was educated at Dulwich College.
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piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It produces sound by striking steel strings with felt hammers that immediately rebound allowing the string to continue vibrating at its resonance frequency.
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Synthesizer is generally any kind of electronic musical instrument, or electronic device capable of producing or manipulating audio tones, such as musical notes, through audio signal processing.
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Amanda Lear is a French model, adult model, polyglot, painter, novelist, actress, media personality, composer, lyricist, singer and gay icon who was a Disco Queen in Continental Europe, the Eastern Bloc and most other parts of the world in the mid 1970s to the early 1980s.
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For Your Pleasure is a 1973 album by the British glam and art rock group Roxy Music. The band's second album, it was also their last to feature synthesizer and sound specialist Brian Eno, who would later gain acclaim as a solo artist and producer.
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Antony Price is a London fashion designer who is best known for glamorous evening wear and suits, and for the seventies icon of the cap sleeve t-shirt (trading under the Plaza label for the premium price of £6, this was
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Jerry Faye Hall (born July 2, 1956 in Gonzales, Texas) is an American supermodel and actress known for being Mick Jagger's long-time companion and common law wife.
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Siren is a 1975 album, the fifth released by the British rock band Roxy Music. The cover featured Bryan Ferry's girlfriend at the time, model Jerry Hall.
In 2003, the album was ranked number 371 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
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In 2003, the album was ranked number 371 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
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