Bryan Ferry Comes Clean
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 up sleeves. Faded light blue levis with a perfunctory, barely successful nod to the fashionable turned up cuff. Comfortably worn penny loafers, minus pennies.
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