Bryan Ferry: Putting On The Style

The elusive Bryan Ferry, reviver of oldies and singer with Roxy Music, talks to Caroline Coon

In 1971, when Bryan Ferry flew into the pop arena from nowhere, an unheard-of outsider with no musical pedigree to speak of, very few people thought he would survive longer than it would take his first album, Roxy Music, to sink without a trace. When the album, as stunning visually as it was musically, reached six in the chart, the success was chalked up as a profitable hype.