Both conventionally debonair and completely set aside from the atypical, Bryan Ferry stays one of many UK’s most singular pop stars. As a guide of his lyrics is printed on 5 Might, new solo music is launched and a fiftieth anniversary Roxy Music tour is ready, the 76-year-old will be part of us to reply your questions on something in his lengthy profession, which you'll put up within the feedback part beneath.
The riot of glamour in Roxy Music’s 1972 debut single Virginia Plain, its lyrics written and delivered by Ferry with a circus-master’s sense of theatre, introduced a model new drive in British rock. Peacocking however cool somewhat than foolish, Ferry’s invites to “dance on moonbeams / slide on rainbows / in furs or blue denims” on Do the Strand, and “simply boogaloo a rhapsody divine” on Pyjamarama, have been enthusiastically taken up by a fanbase who flocked to their art-school glam. They launched eight UK Prime 10 albums, finally modulating into an arena-friendly mushy rock band, and studying Ferry’s lyrics on the web page from that entire period is a thrill: psychedelic fantasias which can be leavened with humour, heartbreak, savage ennui and satirical pokes on the institution.
The band cut up in 1983 after the No 1 album Avalon, however reformed for his or her thirtieth, fortieth and now fiftieth anniversaries – Ferry, together with core members Andy MacKay, Phil Manzanera and Paul Thompson, will play 10 dates within the US in September, and three within the UK in October.
Ferry has additionally lengthy been a celebrated interpreter of others’ songs. His 1973 solo debut These Silly Issues – the primary of 16 solo albums – was a covers information that kicked off with Bob Dylan’s A Laborious Rain’s Gonna Fall and took in classics like Sympathy for the Satan and The Tracks of My Tears. He later topped the UK charts with Roxy Music’s cowl of John Lennon’s Jealous Man, launched the 12 months after Lennon’s homicide, and went on to carry out Amy Winehouse’s Again to Black, Screamin Jay Hawkins’s I Put a Spell on You, a complete Dylan covers album, and extra. A brand new set of covers are being progressively launched this spring: the title observe is Love Letters by Ketty Lester, whose River of Salt he beforehand lined on These Silly Issues; I Simply Don’t Know What to Do With Myself, made well-known by Dusty Springfield; Elvin Bishop’s waltzing 70s hit Fooled Round and Fell in Love; and The Very Considered You, a typical beloved of Billie Vacation and Nat King Cole.
It’s a wealthy and ongoing half-century of creativity and certainly impeccable tailoring – put up your questions on it beneath and Ferry will reply as many as he can. His solutions can be printed within the 29 April version of the Guardian’s Movie & Music part, and on-line.
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