Bryan Ferry
Jon Savage, MOJO, October 1994
BRYAN FERRY SHOULD NEED LITTLE introduction. The first five Roxy Music albums Roxy Music, For Your Pleasure, Stranded, Country Life and Siren defined the first half of the '70s in a hyper-modernist sequence of epigrams, science fiction noises and costume changes to equal, or indeed outstrip, David Bowie. "You're so sheer, you're so chic: teenage rebel of the week"; "Casanova is that your name or do you live there?"; "Well I've been up all night again, party-time wasting is too much fun"; "And boys will be boys will be boy-oy-oys!" fabulous!
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