Bryan Ferry is to Modern Music as Humphrey Bogart is to Classic Cinema. If you don’t get it, you don’t get it. But you do get it, or else you wouldn’t be here.
Bryan Ferry.
I loved him on sight, on sound, on senses. Loved his tales of doomed enraptured lovers, enslaved by love, in windswept mad embraces, kissing and telling, wearing and tearing, with lipstick and leather, for your pleasure, if your love is strong enough, oh yeah, to bittersweet applause, where nobody spoils … the thrill of it all.
The Ferry Equation: Love = Exquisite Madness.
Decades later, I still love Bryan Ferry best, even though I have been cheating on him for several years with Nick Cave. There’s an animal in me that only Nick can satisfy. But Brian Ferry has my heart. He always will. (That’s probably close to what Jerry Hall said when she left him for that pig, Jagger.)
In devotion to Bryan Ferry and his wonderful music, I offer you the following video selections from YouTube members (thanks mates), dating back to the earliest days. Bryan Ferry solos are mixed right in with Roxy because I don’t feel like over-categorizing this Special Interest page (I do separate the LIVE stuff from music videos).
As with other music pages here, the titles are the links. If there are dead links, please leave a comment and I’ll fix it.
If you find any Bryan Ferry or Roxy Music videos, interviews, or linkable print material, please leave me a note in the comments section. In return, I’ll give you full attribution and undying love. Well, not so much undying love, but you get the idea…
Cheers,
Morgan
Updated, April 6, 2008 –
Morgan’s recent blog posts on Bryan Ferry/Roxy Music:
Mother of Pearl (2-18-08) |
Bryan Ferry’s Dylan (1-28-08) |
Roxy Retrospective (1-29-08)
Book Suggestions:
The Thrill of It All: The Story of Bryan Ferry & Roxy Music (Paperback)
by David Buckley (Author), Chicago Review Press (March 1, 2005)
BRYAN FERRY: …Oh, my love… (Paperback)
by Sassa Poulkou (Author), Nikos Hassiotis (Translator)
Wasteland Press (March 13, 2005)
Roxy Music: Both Ends Burning (Paperback)
by Jonathan Rigby (Author), Reynolds & Hearn (July 1, 2005)
Re-Make Re-Model: Becoming Roxy Music
by Michael Bracewell (Author), Da Capo Press; Reprint edition (March 10, 2008)
Book Description: In 1972 an English rock band released its first album to instant critical acclaim: Roxy Music. Here was a group that looked as though it came not only from another era, but also from another planet–a band in which art, fashion, and music would combine to create, in Bryan Ferry’s words, “above all, a state of mind.” Written with the assistance, for the first time, of all those involved, including Bryan Ferry, Brian Eno, Andy Mackay, and Phil Manzanera, Re-Make/Re-Model tells how Pop Art, the 1960s underground, and Swinging London were transformed into a unique sound and look–theatrical, arch, literate, clever, sexy, thrilling. In the tradition of Jean Stein and George Plimpton’s Edie, Re-Make/Re-Model is the story of extraordinary individuals and exceptional creativity–and nothing less than the history of an era in music and pop culture.
LIVE PEFORMANCE:
Roxy Music: ”Virginia Plain (1972)
Roxy Music: ”Ladytron ” (1972)
Roxy Music: ”Remake/Remodel” (1972)
Roxy Music: “Do The Strand“
Roxy Music: “Do the Strand” (Old Grey Whistle Test)
Roxy Music: “Street Life” (1973)
Roxy Music: “In Every Dream Home a Heartache” (1973)
Roxy Music: ”All I Want is You“
Roxy Music: ”A Song For Europe” (1974)
Bryan Ferry: “These Foolish Things” (British TV, 1974)
Roxy Music: “Love Is The Drug” (1976) British TV?
Roxy Music: “Out of the Blue” (Live 1976)
Roxy Music: “The Thrill of It All” (Live 1976)
Roxy Music: “Dance Away” (TOTP2)
Bryan Ferry: “Avalon” (Live in Paris 2000)
Bryan Ferry: “Smoke Gets In Your Eyes” (Live in Paris 2000)
Roxy Music “Over You” (Live in France 1982)
Roxy Music: “Editions of You” (Live in France 1982)
Roxy Music: “Out of the Blue” (Live at the Apollo)
Bryan Ferry: “Just Like Tom Thumbs Blues” (on David Letterman)
Bryan Ferry: “Make You Feel My Love” (2007)
Bryan Ferry: “Don’t Stop the Dance” (LIVE 2007)
Bryan Ferry - “Its All Over Now Baby Blue” [TOTP, 2002]
VIDEO:
Roxy Music: “Avalon“ (Original video with Sophie Ward)
Bryan Ferry: “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” (1973)
Bryan Ferry: “These Foolish Things” ( 1973)
Bryan Ferry: “You Go To My Head” (1975?)
Bryan Ferry: “Let’s Stick Together” (with Jerry Hall)
Bryan Ferry: “What Goes On” (1978)
Roxy Music: “Same Old Scene” (from Flesh and Blood)
Roxy Music: “Angel Eyes“
Roxy Music: “Jealous Guy“
Bryan Ferry: “Don’t Stop the Dance” (mid-80s promo)
Bryan Ferry: “Slave to Love“
Bryan Ferry: “Kiss and Tell“
Bryan Ferry: “Limbo“
Roxy Music: “More Than This“
Roxy Music: “Oh Yeah” (1980)
Bryan Ferry: “I Put a Spell on You” (1993)
Bryan Ferry: “Is Your Love Strong Enough” (Legend Soundtrack)
Bryan Ferry: “Will You Love Me Tomorrow” (Anna Nicole Smith )
Bryan Ferry: “Dance With Life (The Brilliant Light)” (1996)
Bryan Ferry Interview with Jools Holland (1984) Part I
Bryan Ferry Interview with Jools Holland (1984) Part II
Never in my life did I expect to find someone who felt exactly like me - I have loved Bryan Ferry for many years but like you have cheated on him with Nick Cave. Those two guys take the yellow from the green and leave me in deep blue ocean and velvet sky full of stars, beauty and bittersweet ache.
Thank you so much for being there … It feels good to know that you are not alone.
By: T on November 9, 2007
at 6:10 pm
T,
Like you, I have long sought another who feels this way. Your note was a wonderful reminder that each of us has someone out there, perhaps on soul level alone, who feels as we feel, dreams as we dream, who longs, with sadness and hope, for communion with the seemingly unattainable Other.
How wonderful to know you are out there! To know that on any given night in this whole wide world you and I are dancing and trancing while listening to one or both of these Gods, each of them holding the endless capacity to evoke shades of Light and Dark.
Do you, like me, think it a glorious paradox that Ferry and Cave are so alike, yet so different?
To rephrase your beautiful metaphor: we go into the deep and out of the blue with these two men.
Thank you for revealing yourself to me! Please write again?
By: Morgan Wolf on November 10, 2007
at 2:25 pm
FERRY is God. No doubt. I say that and I’m a Muslim! lol! As a late 30s, creative, aging pretty-boy; I am a scion of the proto-Goth days! dated some hot n heavy neo-starlets and partied with some of the best! INCLUDING Mr. Ferry! ;) If u’re in NYC - theres a GREAT kareoke bar in lower Manhattan that has ALL the early Roxy Music stuff! hit me up!
By: benier koranache on March 23, 2008
at 12:20 am
Benier,
Quite right. A God. You’ve partied with this rarified deity? DO tell! I shall hit you up, should I ever find myself in lower Manhattan.
Cheers, Morgan
btw: Have you read my musings about Mr. Ferry?
The most recent:
http://morgansmusings.wordpress.com/2008/02/18/mother-of-pearl/
http://morgansmusings.wordpress.com/2008/01/29/roxy-retrospective/
http://morgansmusings.wordpress.com/2008/01/28/bryan-ferrys-dylan/
By: Morgan Wolf on March 24, 2008
at 9:57 am
ohhhhhh that is something that is a big shock for me…why i didnt find bryan ferry in ur blog sooner…well take my apology bryan..but yes an alien came to my house and i was busy hosting him……thankkkkk MORGAN for these links…tommorow i will dig these…while im digging myself,,:)…
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..Jill***
By: Jill on July 3, 2008
at 10:12 pm
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