Bryan Ferry
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Bryan Ferry: The Bride Stripped Bare
Review by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 16 September 1978
I MUST confess myself horrified to recall, just as I was about to start this review, that my first ever album review was of Bryan ...
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Interview by Jonh Ingham, Rock's Backpages audio, 13 July 1976
Mr. Ferry talks about his latest solo album, Let's Stick Together: choosing material, using session men like Chris Spedding, and the ballads v rockers variety of material; he talks ablout his need for privacy and unwillingness to expose himself; his relationship with Jerry Hall; how he views himself, and being an autobiographical lyricist; his dislike of being interviewed, but being a good listener.
File format: mp3; file size: 48.5mb, interview length: 50' 33" sound quality: ***
Interview by Mat Snow, Rock's Backpages audio, January 1993
The former Roxy frontman talks about his new album, Taxi; about doing cover versions; solo vs. groups; looks back at Roxy Music and Eno; his sensitivity to criticism; the stars he's met and his love of classic soul.
File format: mp3; file size: 111.9mb, interview length: 2h 02' 10" sound quality: **
Interview by Adam Sweeting, Rock's Backpages audio, 4 March 1993
The old smoothie talks about "lost" album Horoscope; his new covers album Taxi and the joys of interpretation; the pleasures of working with Robin Trower and the perils of 48-track recording; his work ethic; being a family man; owning his own studio, and his lifelong interest in art.
File format: mp3; file size: 58.2mb, interview length: 1h 00' 38" sound quality: *****
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Interview by Michael Gross, Zoo World, 8 January 1973
LONDON – The red bus was drifting past Marble Arch, turning towards Knightsbridge. I was leafing through the notes I'd taken that afternoon, and came ...
Interview by Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc, 23 June 1973
BRYAN FERRY has obviously not yet found it necessary to adopt strict security measures to avoid his Earls Court flat being invaded by hoards of ...
Bryan Ferry: Party Fun From an Old Poseur
Interview by Ian MacDonald, New Musical Express, 8 September 1973
AT NOON PRECISELY, on a colourless day, I pressed the bell-push of Bryan Ferry's chic Earl's Court flat. Fifteen minutes later I was still ringing. ...
Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 19 January 1974
"I TELL ya, mate, just wait till Bryan Ferry gets onstage – 'is face is goin' to look like a fuckin' cancered lung". ...
Bryan Ferry: These Foolish Things (Atco)
Review by Greg Shaw, Phonograph Record, 1 April 1974
FOR WEEKS I'd been hearing how bad this album was from people whose judgment is usually reliable. How pleasant then to discover an album so ...
Bryan Ferry: Another Time, Another Place; Eno: Here Come The Warm Jets
Review by Richard Cromelin, Phonograph Record, August 1974
AS EXPECTED, Eno's first solo album is a sonically innovative and adventurous thing, boldly experimental in its employment of phasing, drones, repetition, shifting of layers, ...
Bryan Ferry: Roxy Music's Sleek Sheik Of Pop Chic
Profile by Ron Ross, Creem, November 1974
BRYAN FERRY is a pop artistic multi-talent with a faultless ear, an extensive library of Fifties and Sixties singles inherited from his big sister, and ...
Bryan Ferry: Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Philip Norman, The Times, 20 December 1974
MUCH TROUBLE had been taken in order that Bryan Ferry's Albert Hall concert should be numbered among historic recitals. A handsome orchestra was engaged and ...
Bryan Ferry: Tired of that same old anorak?
Interview by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 21 December 1974
Achieve the Country Life look in a Komfi-twede blazer. By Ferrari of South Kensington. ...
Bryan Ferry: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 28 December 1974
THE ALBERT HALL is teeming, brim-full with the beautiful awaiting the first solo airing of his master's voice in the Capital. ...
Island Records: Treasure Island
Profile by Lenny Kaye, Hit Parader, January 1975
GIVEN THE commercial restrictions of the business we call music, it is the rare record company that is willing to lay itself on the line ...
Bryan Ferry: Snapshots Of A Shy Coxcomb
Interview by Richard Cromelin, Creem, June 1975
In which Bryan Ferry reveals that genius may not be pain, but interviews are something else again… ...
Bryan Ferry: Putting On The Style
Interview by Caroline Coon, Melody Maker, 12 July 1975
The elusive Bryan Ferry, reviver of oldies and singer with Roxy Music, talks to Caroline Coon In 1971, when Bryan Ferry flew into the ...
Report and Interview by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 4 October 1975
THE TELEPHONE'S ringing woke him. Sleepily Flame Torso surveyed the tangle of blankets which hid the form next to him. He vaguely tried to remember ...
Report and Interview by Ray Fox-Cumming, Record Mirror, 25 October 1975
POST-CONCERT meals with Roxy Music are relaxed and refined affairs. The group change for dinner, sip pre-prandial drinks in their hotel bar, then dine with ...
Interview by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 24 July 1976
THE LIGHT caught him in bas-relief. Under the scuffed, light brown leather jacket a light blue shirt with creases pressed into the shoulders and rolled ...
John Wetton: I Have Nothing To Hide Shock
Interview by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 11 September 1976
John Wetton reflects on past problems with Uriah Heep – and on his future plans which, among other things, involve working with Ferry. ...
Bryan Ferry: Let's Stick Together
Review by Ron Ross, Phonograph Record, October 1976
WHILE THE POLITICS of self-exposure are evident in every album Bryan Ferry has made, with or without Roxy Music, his solo albums have consistently been ...
Roxy Music: Viva! Roxy Music; Bryan Ferry: Extended Play (both Island)
Review by Jeffrey Morgan, Cheap Thrills, October 1976
WAIT A MINUTE! Snuff out them candles and get them drapes open! This band may be closin' in on being certified MTH (Mott The Hoople–one ...
Bryan Ferry: Let's Stick Together (Atlantic) Import***
Review by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 9 October 1976
IT'S HARD to review this album without sounding as artsy-fartsy as the man in question. I mean, I don't know much about Art but I ...
Bryan Ferry: Let's Stick Together
Review by Wayne Robins, Rolling Stone, 18 November 1976
LET'S STICK TOGETHER is the least campy of Bryan Ferry's three solo albums. Rather than do suave interpretations of oldies as diverse as ‘It's My ...
Bryan Ferry: Mask Behind A Mask
Profile by Philip Norman, The Sunday Times, January 1977
BRYAN FERRY'S jeans are as outmoded in style as high fashion can contrive. He wears a blue shirt and black official tie, framed by a ...
Interview by Paul Rambali, New Musical Express, 4 March 1978
The 1978 edition BRYAN FERRY ‘These Four Wall of my Prison I Have Come to Love.'Byron said that. ...
Bryan Ferry: The Bride Stripped Bare
Review by Penny Valentine, Melody Maker, 16 September 1978
WITH HIS USUAL panache (some may say pretensions), Bryan Ferry has taken his album title from a famous work by the surrealist Marcel Duchamp: The ...
Roxy Music's reunion manifesto
Interview by Jim Farber, Rolling Stone, 5 April 1979
New album and tour ...
Bryan Ferry: A Perverse Romance
Profile by Susin Shapiro, New York Daily News, 15 April 1979
BRYAN FERRY, born in Newcastle, England, would make a perfect matinee idol. But though he has all the attributes — handsome, suave, with a slow-spreading, ...
Roxy Music: Still Raining Still Posing
Report and Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 19 May 1979
SEVEN YEARS. Is it really that long a time? That short a time? Yes, it is indeed, and the fact that Roxy Music have actually ...
Bryan Ferry: Dream Sequence, Take 2
Interview by Robert Duncan, Creem, July 1979
A Conversation With BRYAN FERRY, Frog Prince Of Rock 'n' Roll ...
Bryan Ferry Leaves His Heart In Avalon
Interview by Don Waller, L.A. Weekly, 4 November 1982
"I'M BASICALLY very shy," Bryan Ferry tells me with a mock chuckle — or is it a nervous laugh? Welcome to Roxy Music-land, where intergalactic ...
Bryan Ferry: Boys and Girls (Warner Bros.)
Review by Ira Robbins, Rolling Stone, 18 July 1985
WHEN BRYAN Ferry first began making solo records in 1973, his apparent goal was to forge a path radically different from what he was writing ...
Bryan Ferry: In Every Dream Home a Heartache
Interview by Chris Salewicz, Q, January 1988
Los Angeles. Paris. Nassau. Los Angeles again. Then London. And Paris again. And back to London. Recording is a nerve-wracking, schedule-shredding pastime for the itinerant ...
Bryan Ferry: Bête Noire (Reprise)
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, March 1988
BRYAN FERRY was easier for a common clod like me to take back in the 1970s, when his precocious elegance and studied world-weariness were contained ...
Pat Leonard: The Madonna Method
Interview by Alan di Perna, Musician, May 1988
PRODUCING BRYAN FERRY AND ARRANGING MADONNA IN THE WORLD OF HIGH-STAKES HIGH-TECH ...
Bryan Ferry: Wembley Arena, London
Live Review by Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 4 February 1989
SENT TO review a man who looks like the squinting lion out of Banana Splits, who sings like a garrotted donkey and dresses like a total ...
Bryan Ferry: My Indecision Is Final…
Profile and Interview by Mat Snow, Q, February 1993
Once he was the prolific matinee idol of spaceglam, the original Earl Of Suave and the king of luxuriously lined lovelessness. Now Bryan Ferry takes ...
Bryan Ferry (1993) [transcript]
Transcript of audio interview by Adam Sweeting, Rock's Backpages transcripts, 4 March 1993
This is a transcript of Adam's interview with the Roxy Music man. Listen to the audio of this interview. ...
Bryan Ferry Follows His Muse To Make The R&B Taxi
Interview by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 14 May 1993
BRYAN FERRY spent Sunday afternoon, a splendid sunny day, strolling the Boston Common and being impressed all over again as to how fine Boston looked ...
Bryan Ferry: The Original's Still The Greatest
Interview by Ben Edmonds, Creem, July 1993
"Why don't we just call the damn magazine Roxy Music Monthly?" ...
Review by Stuart Maconie, Q, October 1994
Farewell then, writer's block, hello topiary ...
Interview by Adam Sweeting, Vox, October 1994
Managerial divorce, marital problems, writer's block… times have been hard for Bryan Ferry, but the "artist who makes records" has entered his Arabic period with ...
Interview by Jon Savage, MOJO, October 1994
Last time Bryan Ferry put out an album of original material, Fulham were in the First Division, manned spaced flight was a distant dream, flappers ...
Review by John Mendelsohn, Musician, March 1995
LISTENING TO this predominantly gloomy album, it's easy to forget that, at his best – in 'Over You', say, or 'More Than This', Bryan Ferry ...
Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Rolling Stone, October 1995
You’ve just celebrated your 50th birthday. Traumatic? ...
Twentieth Century Blues: The Songs Of Noel Coward
Review by Gavin Martin, Uncut, May 1998
PAN-GENERATIONAL tribute to The Other Noel, benefiting International AIDS-prevention projects ...
Interview by Sylvie Simmons, MOJO, October 1999
Geordie space-crooner considers glam, going to the pictures with Eno, playing tennis against Tony Blair and life before rock. ...
Bryan Ferry: As Time Goes By (Virgin)
Review by Kit Aiken, Uncut, November 1999
Standard time for legendary art-rocker and model ...
Glam’s Great Melancholic: Bryan Ferry
Profile by Barney Hoskyns, The Independent, 2000
BY HIS OWN slightly shamefaced admission, the first thought that raced through Bryan Ferry’s mind as he came within a hair’s breadth of plunging to ...
Bryan Ferry: Royal Festival Hall, London
Live Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, February 2000
This man swings fundamentally ...
Another Time, Another Place: Bryan Ferry relives the early Roxy years
Interview by Nicky Parade, Rock's Backpages, June 2001
NP: I know that you didn’t particularly care for the term Glam. Is that because you felt it reduced Roxy to the level of, say, ...
Review and Interview by Jim Irvin, MOJO, May 2002
BEFORE WE go on, I'd like to apologise for the recent albums by Mick Jagger and Paul McCartney; just as a public service, because, Lord ...
Bryan Ferry: Frantic (Virgin) *****
Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, May 2002
LIVELY RETURN to form on Roxy roue's 11th solo opus. ...
We Have Ways Of Making You Talk: Bryan Ferry
Interview by Chris Roberts, Uncut, May 2002
AFTER LAST YEAR'S TRIUMPHANT REUNION TOUR WITH ROXY MUSIC, THE KING OF COOL RETURNS WITH A NEW SOLO ALBUM, FRANTIC, FEATURING SONGS INSPIRED BY MARILYN, ...
Bryan Ferry: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Lisa Verrico, The Times, 8 October 2002
WITH CLASSY CROONERS back in fashion, the Roxy Music reunion could not have been better timed. It was perfect for Bryan Ferry, the band's suave ...
Live Review by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 13 November 2002
A BRYAN FERRY show is not quite like a Roxy Music show, even if the singer is the same and the current 11-piece band includes ...
Bryan Ferry: Kenwood House, London
Live Review by Stephen Dalton, The Times, July 2004
THE ATMOSPHERE was more Glyndebourne than Glastonbury when Bryan Ferry brought his impeccably groomed lounge-soul floorshow to the leafy grounds of Kenwood House on Saturday ...
On Second Thought: Bryan Ferry's Mamouna
Retrospective by Alfred Soto, Stylus, 12 April 2005
For better or worse, we here at Stylus, in all of our autocratic consumer-crit greed, are slaves to timeliness. A record over six months old ...
Knockin' on Dylan's Door: Bryan Ferry
Interview by Ken Scrudato, Flaunt, March 2007
HIPPIES. PERHAPS no other collective of modern countercultural revolutionaries has left a more ambiguous imprint. Dada, Situationism, Punk—all boast fairly intact legacies, the original philosophical ...
Bryan Ferry and how to do a great Bob Dylan cover
Column by John Lewis, So London, 14 March 2007
WAY BACK in 1973, long before any of you were born, the debonair Roxy Music crooner Bryan Ferry had a big hit single with a ...
Bryan Ferry: Tangled Up In Bob
Interview by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Phoenix, 25 June 2007
"DYLANESQUE" isn't what comes to mind when you think of the suave, new-romantic, once-and-future frontman of Roxy Music, Bryan Ferry. But time and again throughout ...
Interview by Chris Roberts, The Quietus, 18 November 2010
The legendary Bryan Ferry has just released Olympia, his best album in two decades, and continues the Roxy Music revival tour in the new year. ...
Bryan Ferry: Beacon Theatre, New York
Live Review by Larry Jaffee, Rock's Backpages, 9 October 2011
SITTING IN THE audience prior to Bryan Ferry's solo gig at the Beacon Theatre – his first show in New York since the 2003 Roxy ...
The Bryan Ferry Orchestra: The Jazz Age
Review by Ned Raggett, Pitchfork, 7 February 2013
Reworking his past material as jazz instrumentals, Bryan Ferry's The Jazz Age is a self-consciously 1920s collection, openly meant to evoke Louis Armstrong, early Count ...
Bryan Ferry: Beacon Theatre, New York
Live Review by Larry Jaffee, Huffington Post, 6 October 2014
Bryan Ferry Tried But He Could Not Stay Away From NYC, Philly ...
The Record Collector archives: David Bowie and the curious case of the missing Roxy Music reviews
Memoir by Steve Pafford, stevepafford.com, 7 December 2017
IT'S AMAZING THE stuff you find when you're least expecting it. ...
Bryan Ferry: St David's Hall, Cardiff
Live Review by Stephen Dalton, The Times, 11 April 2018
The post-Roxy solo material drifted into polished blandness at times, but there were standout beauties too. ...
An imperceptible dream: Bryan Ferry at 75 + live in Holland & New Zealand
Memoir by Steve Pafford, stevepafford.com, 26 September 2021
BRYAN FERRY has turned 75. ...
'Children of the Revolution': Glam Rock and the '70s
Essay by Toby Manning, New Socialist, 16 October 2021
Glam, in all its queer, communal, proletarian glory, is the soundtrack to a militant '70s that we must reclaim for the left. ...
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