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Bryan Ferry: The Bride Stripped Bare

Review by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 16 September 1978

I MUST confess myself horrified to recall, just as I was about to start this review, that my first ever album review was of Bryan ...

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Bryan Ferry (1976)

Interview by Jonh Ingham, Rock's Backpages audio, 13 July 1976

Mr. Ferry talks about his latest solo album, Let's Stick Together: choosing material, using session men like Chris Spedding, and the ballads v rockers variety of material; he talks ablout his need for privacy and unwillingness to expose himself; his relationship with Jerry Hall; how he views himself, and being an autobiographical lyricist; his dislike of being interviewed, but being a good listener.

File format: mp3; file size: 48.5mb, interview length: 50' 33" sound quality: ***

Bryan Ferry (1993)

Interview by Mat Snow, Rock's Backpages audio, January 1993

The former Roxy frontman talks about his new album, Taxi; about doing cover versions; solo vs. groups; looks back at Roxy Music and Eno; his sensitivity to criticism; the stars he's met and his love of classic soul.

File format: mp3; file size: 111.9mb, interview length: 2h 02' 10" sound quality: **

Bryan Ferry (1993)

Interview by Adam Sweeting, Rock's Backpages audio, 4 March 1993

The old smoothie talks about "lost" album Horoscope; his new covers album Taxi and the joys of interpretation; the pleasures of working with Robin Trower and the perils of 48-track recording; his work ethic; being a family man; owning his own studio, and his lifelong interest in art.

File format: mp3; file size: 58.2mb, interview length: 1h 00' 38" sound quality: *****

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Bryan Ferry

Interview by Michael Gross, Zoo World, 8 January 1973

LONDON – The red bus was drifting past Marble Arch, turning towards Knightsbridge. I was leafing through the notes I'd taken that afternoon, and came ...

Solo Ferry Sets Sail

Interview by Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc, 23 June 1973

BRYAN FERRY has obviously not yet found it necessary to adopt strict security measures to avoid his Earls Court flat being invaded by hoards of ...

Bryan Ferry: Party Fun From an Old Poseur

Interview by Ian MacDonald, New Musical Express, 8 September 1973

AT NOON PRECISELY, on a colourless day, I pressed the bell-push of Bryan Ferry's chic Earl's Court flat. Fifteen minutes later I was still ringing. ...

Bryan Ferry

Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 19 January 1974

"I TELL ya, mate, just wait till Bryan Ferry gets onstage – 'is face is goin' to look like a fuckin' cancered lung". ...

Bryan Ferry: These Foolish Things (Atco)

Review by Greg Shaw, Phonograph Record, 1 April 1974

FOR WEEKS I'd been hearing how bad this album was from people whose judgment is usually reliable. How pleasant then to discover an album so ...

Bryan Ferry: Another Time, Another Place; Eno: Here Come The Warm Jets

Review by Richard Cromelin, Phonograph Record, August 1974

AS EXPECTED, Eno's first solo album is a sonically innovative and adventurous thing, boldly experimental in its employment of phasing, drones, repetition, shifting of layers, ...

Bryan Ferry: Roxy Music's Sleek Sheik Of Pop Chic

Profile by Ron Ross, Creem, November 1974

BRYAN FERRY is a pop artistic multi-talent with a faultless ear, an extensive library of Fifties and Sixties singles inherited from his big sister, and ...

Bryan Ferry: Albert Hall, London

Live Review by Philip Norman, The Times, 20 December 1974

MUCH TROUBLE had been taken in order that Bryan Ferry's Albert Hall concert should be numbered among historic recitals. A handsome orchestra was engaged and ...

Bryan Ferry: Tired of that same old anorak?

Interview by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 21 December 1974

Achieve the Country Life look in a Komfi-twede blazer. By Ferrari of South Kensington. ...

Bryan Ferry: Royal Albert Hall, London

Live Review by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 28 December 1974

THE ALBERT HALL is teeming, brim-full with the beautiful awaiting the first solo airing of his master's voice in the Capital. ...

Island Records: Treasure Island

Profile by Lenny Kaye, Hit Parader, January 1975

GIVEN THE commercial restrictions of the business we call music, it is the rare record company that is willing to lay itself on the line ...

Bryan Ferry: Snapshots Of A Shy Coxcomb

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Creem, June 1975

In which Bryan Ferry reveals that genius may not be pain, but interviews are something else again… ...

Bryan Ferry: Putting On The Style

Interview by Caroline Coon, Melody Maker, 12 July 1975

The elusive Bryan Ferry, reviver of oldies and singer with Roxy Music, talks to Caroline Coon In 1971, when Bryan Ferry flew into the ...

The Roxy Music Story

Report and Interview by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 4 October 1975

THE TELEPHONE'S ringing woke him. Sleepily Flame Torso surveyed the tangle of blankets which hid the form next to him. He vaguely tried to remember ...

Bryan Ferry: So Ferry Stylish

Report and Interview by Ray Fox-Cumming, Record Mirror, 25 October 1975

POST-CONCERT meals with Roxy Music are relaxed and refined affairs. The group change for dinner, sip pre-prandial drinks in their hotel bar, then dine with ...

Bryan Ferry Comes Clean

Interview by 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 ...

John Wetton: I Have Nothing To Hide Shock

Interview by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 11 September 1976

John Wetton reflects on past problems with Uriah Heep – and on his future plans which, among other things, involve working with Ferry. ...

Bryan Ferry: Let's Stick Together

Review by Ron Ross, Phonograph Record, October 1976

WHILE THE POLITICS of self-exposure are evident in every album Bryan Ferry has made, with or without Roxy Music, his solo albums have consistently been ...

Roxy Music: Viva! Roxy Music; Bryan Ferry: Extended Play (both Island)

Review by Jeffrey Morgan, Cheap Thrills, October 1976

WAIT A MINUTE! Snuff out them candles and get them drapes open! This band may be closin' in on being certified MTH (Mott The Hoople–one ...

Bryan Ferry: Let's Stick Together (Atlantic) Import***

Review by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 9 October 1976

IT'S HARD to review this album without sounding as artsy-fartsy as the man in question. I mean, I don't know much about Art but I ...

Bryan Ferry: Let's Stick Together

Review by Wayne Robins, Rolling Stone, 18 November 1976

LET'S STICK TOGETHER is the least campy of Bryan Ferry's three solo albums. Rather than do suave interpretations of oldies as diverse as ‘It's My ...

Bryan Ferry: Mask Behind A Mask

Profile by Philip Norman, The Sunday Times, January 1977

BRYAN FERRY'S jeans are as outmoded in style as high fashion can contrive. He wears a blue shirt and black official tie, framed by a ...

Bryan Ferry: The Prisoner

Interview by Paul Rambali, New Musical Express, 4 March 1978

The 1978 edition BRYAN FERRY ‘These Four Wall of my Prison I Have Come to Love.'Byron said that. ...

Bryan Ferry: The Bride Stripped Bare

Review by 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 ...

Roxy Music's reunion manifesto

Interview by Jim Farber, Rolling Stone, 5 April 1979

New album and tour ...

Bryan Ferry: A Perverse Romance

Profile by Susin Shapiro, New York Daily News, 15 April 1979

BRYAN FERRY, born in Newcastle, England, would make a perfect matinee idol. But though he has all the attributes — handsome, suave, with a slow-spreading, ...

Roxy Music: Still Raining Still Posing

Report and Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 19 May 1979

SEVEN YEARS. Is it really that long a time? That short a time? Yes, it is indeed, and the fact that Roxy Music have actually ...

Bryan Ferry: Dream Sequence, Take 2

Interview by Robert Duncan, Creem, July 1979

A Conversation With BRYAN FERRY, Frog Prince Of Rock 'n' Roll ...

Bryan Ferry Leaves His Heart In Avalon

Interview by Don Waller, L.A. Weekly, 4 November 1982

"I'M BASICALLY very shy," Bryan Ferry tells me with a mock chuckle — or is it a nervous laugh? Welcome to Roxy Music-land, where intergalactic ...

Bryan Ferry: Boys and Girls (Warner Bros.)

Review by Ira Robbins, Rolling Stone, 18 July 1985

WHEN BRYAN Ferry first began making solo records in 1973, his apparent goal was to forge a path radically different from what he was writing ...

Bryan Ferry: In Every Dream Home a Heartache

Interview by Chris Salewicz, Q, January 1988

Los Angeles. Paris. Nassau. Los Angeles again. Then London. And Paris again. And back to London. Recording is a nerve-wracking, schedule-shredding pastime for the itinerant ...

Bryan Ferry: Bête Noire (Reprise)

Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, March 1988

BRYAN FERRY was easier for a common clod like me to take back in the 1970s, when his precocious elegance and studied world-weariness were contained ...

Pat Leonard: The Madonna Method

Interview by Alan di Perna, Musician, May 1988

PRODUCING BRYAN FERRY AND ARRANGING MADONNA IN THE WORLD OF HIGH-STAKES HIGH-TECH ...

Bryan Ferry: Wembley Arena, London

Live Review by Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 4 February 1989

SENT TO review a man who looks like the squinting lion out of Banana Splits, who sings like a garrotted donkey and dresses like a total ...

Bryan Ferry: My Indecision Is Final…

Profile and Interview by Mat Snow, Q, February 1993

Once he was the prolific matinee idol of spaceglam, the original Earl Of Suave and the king of luxuriously lined lovelessness. Now Bryan Ferry takes ...

Bryan Ferry (1993) [transcript]

Audio transcript of interview by Adam Sweeting, Rock's Backpages transcripts, 4 March 1993

This is a transcript of Adam's interview with the Roxy Music man. Listen to the audio of this interview. ...

Bryan Ferry Follows His Muse To Make The R&B Taxi

Interview by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 14 May 1993

BRYAN FERRY spent Sunday afternoon, a splendid sunny day, strolling the Boston Common and being impressed all over again as to how fine Boston looked ...

Bryan Ferry: The Original's Still The Greatest

Interview by Ben Edmonds, Creem, July 1993

"Why don't we just call the damn magazine Roxy Music Monthly?" ...

Bryan Ferry

Interview by 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 ...

Bryan Ferry: Mamouna (Virgin)

Review by Stuart Maconie, Q, October 1994

Farewell then, writer's block, hello topiary ...

Bryan Ferry: Zealous Guy

Interview by Adam Sweeting, Vox, October 1994

Managerial divorce, marital problems, writer's block… times have been hard for Bryan Ferry, but the "artist who makes records" has entered his Arabic period with ...

Bryan Ferry: Mamouna (Virgin)

Review by John Mendelsohn, Musician, March 1995

LISTENING TO this predominantly gloomy album, it's easy to forget that, at his best – in 'Over You', say, or 'More Than This', Bryan Ferry ...

Bryan Ferry

Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Rolling Stone, October 1995

You’ve just celebrated your 50th birthday. Traumatic? ...

Twentieth Century Blues: The Songs Of Noel Coward

Review by Gavin Martin, Uncut, May 1998

PAN-GENERATIONAL tribute to The Other Noel, benefiting International AIDS-prevention projects ...

10 Questions for Bryan Ferry

Interview by Sylvie Simmons, MOJO, October 1999

Geordie space-crooner considers glam, going to the pictures with Eno, playing tennis against Tony Blair and life before rock. ...

Bryan Ferry: As Time Goes By (Virgin)

Review by Kit Aiken, Uncut, November 1999

Standard time for legendary art-rocker and model ...

Glam’s Great Melancholic: Bryan Ferry

Profile by Barney Hoskyns, The Independent, 2000

BY HIS OWN slightly shamefaced admission, the first thought that raced through Bryan Ferry’s mind as he came within a hair’s breadth of plunging to ...

Bryan Ferry: Royal Festival Hall, London

Live Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, February 2000

This man swings fundamentally ...

Another Time, Another Place: Bryan Ferry relives the early Roxy years

Interview by Nicky Parade, Rock's Backpages, June 2001

NP: I know that you didn’t particularly care for the term Glam. Is that because you felt it reduced Roxy to the level of, say, ...

Bryan Ferry: Frantic

Review and Interview by Jim Irvin, MOJO, May 2002

BEFORE WE go on, I'd like to apologise for the recent albums by Mick Jagger and Paul McCartney; just as a public service, because, Lord ...

Bryan Ferry: Frantic (Virgin) *****

Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, May 2002

LIVELY RETURN to form on Roxy roue's 11th solo opus. ...

We Have Ways Of Making You Talk: Bryan Ferry

Interview by Chris Roberts, Uncut, May 2002

AFTER LAST YEAR'S TRIUMPHANT REUNION TOUR WITH ROXY MUSIC, THE KING OF COOL RETURNS WITH A NEW SOLO ALBUM, FRANTIC, FEATURING SONGS INSPIRED BY MARILYN, ...

Bryan Ferry: Royal Albert Hall, London

Live Review by Lisa Verrico, The Times, 8 October 2002

WITH CLASSY CROONERS back in fashion, the Roxy Music reunion could not have been better timed. It was perfect for Bryan Ferry, the band's suave ...

Bryan Ferry: Orpheum, Boston

Live Review by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 13 November 2002

A BRYAN FERRY show is not quite like a Roxy Music show, even if the singer is the same and the current 11-piece band includes ...

Bryan Ferry: Kenwood House, London

Live Review by Stephen Dalton, The Times, July 2004

THE ATMOSPHERE was more Glyndebourne than Glastonbury when Bryan Ferry brought his impeccably groomed lounge-soul floorshow to the leafy grounds of Kenwood House on Saturday ...

On Second Thought: Bryan Ferry's Mamouna

Retrospective by Alfred Soto, Stylus, 12 April 2005

For better or worse, we here at Stylus, in all of our autocratic consumer-crit greed, are slaves to timeliness. A record over six months old ...

Knockin' on Dylan's Door: Bryan Ferry

Interview by Ken Scrudato, Flaunt, March 2007

HIPPIES. PERHAPS no other collective of modern countercultural revolutionaries has left a more ambiguous imprint. Dada, Situationism, Punk—all boast fairly intact legacies, the original philosophical ...

Bryan Ferry and how to do a great Bob Dylan cover

Column by John Lewis, So London, 14 March 2007

WAY BACK in 1973, long before any of you were born, the debonair Roxy Music crooner Bryan Ferry had a big hit single with a ...

Bryan Ferry: Tangled Up In Bob

Interview by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Phoenix, 25 June 2007

"DYLANESQUE" isn't what comes to mind when you think of the suave, new-romantic, once-and-future frontman of Roxy Music, Bryan Ferry. But time and again throughout ...

Bryan Ferry: Olympian Heights

Interview by Chris Roberts, The Quietus, 18 November 2010

The legendary Bryan Ferry has just released Olympia, his best album in two decades, and continues the Roxy Music revival tour in the new year. ...

Bryan Ferry: Beacon Theatre, New York

Live Review by Larry Jaffee, Rock's Backpages, 9 October 2011

SITTING IN THE audience prior to Bryan Ferry's solo gig at the Beacon Theatre – his first show in New York since the 2003 Roxy ...

Bryan Ferry: Beacon Theatre, New York

Live Review by Larry Jaffee, Huffington Post, 6 October 2014

Bryan Ferry Tried But He Could Not Stay Away From NYC, Philly ...

Bryan Ferry: St David's Hall, Cardiff

Live Review by Stephen Dalton, The Times, 11 April 2018

The post-Roxy solo material drifted into polished blandness at times, but there were standout beauties too. ...

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