Bryan Ferry: The Bride Stripped Bare
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 Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even.
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