Bryan Ferry

Bryan Ferry, CBE ( born September 26, 1945 in Washington, England ) is a British singer and songwriter. He became known in the 1970s as lead singer of the group Roxy Music.

Life

The son of a farmer studied art at Newcastle University. After working as a truck driver and restorer Bryan Ferry worked as an art teacher at a girls' school in London, but always pursued a music career. He founded in 1971 with friends and acquaintances (including Brian Eno ) the group Roxy Music.

Starting in 1973, Bryan Ferry desired parallel to a solo career, specializing initially on cover versions of popular songs. Especially his first two albums These Foolish Things and Another Time, Another Place contained almost exclusively cover versions of popular songs like Sympathy for the Devil ( The Rolling Stones) or Smoke Gets in Your Eyes. The cover version of Bob Dylan 's classic A Hard Rain's A- Gonna Fall gave him his first hit as a soloist. Only after the temporary separation of Roxy Music presented with Ferry In Your Mind, his first album with own compositions. The music magazine Sounds praised the "vital, exciting and explosive mixture " of hard rock ' n ' roll and soul and rhythm and blues overtones. Bryan Ferry was perceived by the press from then on as a soloist. On the LP The Bride Stripped Bare, however, he mixed once more cover versions performed by The Velvet Underground (What Goes On ) or Sam And Dave ( Hold On I'm Coming ) with their own songs. 1978 Roxy Music were together again, and achieved new success until 1982.

After the dissolution of Roxy Music Bryan Ferry published in 1985 with the LP Boys And Girls (UK # 1, Germany # 9), a perfect and filigree crafted pop album, his hitherto successful work as a solo artist. The album contained the hits also Slave To Love and Do not Stop The Dance. This success could Ferry in 1987 with the album Bête Noire (UK # 7) and the single The Right Stuff repeat approximate. The offer, later known by the Simple Minds song Do not You ( Forget About Me) to sing, he refused. After an extensive tour 1988/1989 Bryan Ferry disappeared for five years from the public. In the spring of 1993, he also returned with the album Taxi, on which he re- cover versions of popular songs like I Put A Spell On You by Screamin 'Jay Hawkins offered. The trade press was disappointed. In 1999, he interprets titles of the swing era with musicians of the Pasadena Roof Orchestra.

From 1975 to 1977 Ferry had a relationship with Jerry Hall. Hall is the cover girl on the album Siren by Roxy Music. They met during the shooting know. The separation of the Hall, she left him for Mick Jagger, he worked in his solo album The Bride Stripped Bare. Bryan Ferry was married to Lucy Helmore from 1982, with whom he has four sons Otis, Isaac, Tara and Merlin. In 2003, the couple divorced. In 2000 Ferry narrowly escaped a plane crash in Kenya. A man had brought the aircraft under his control, but could still be overwhelmed swoop. During the tour in 2001 Bryan Ferry met the twenty-five -year-old dancer Katie Turner know, from whom he separated in 2008 but because they wanted children, but he did not. On January 4, 2012 Ferry married Amanda Sheppard, the British, with whom he is together since 2009. Amanda is 36 years younger than he, and was previously the girlfriend of his second eldest son, Isaac. Bryan Ferry in 2006 was the face of a fashion campaign for the British fashion house Marks & Spencer.

On June 11, 2011 Bryan Ferry was honored by Queen Elizabeth II with the title of Commander of the British Empire.

Discography

Albums

  • These Foolish Things ( 1973)
  • Another Time, Another Place (1974 )
  • Let's Stick Together (1976 )
  • In Your Mind (1977 )
  • The Bride Stripped Bare (1978 )
  • Boys And Girls ( 1985)
  • Bête Noire ( 1987)
  • Taxi ( 1993)
  • Mamouna (1994 )
  • As Time Goes By (1999)
  • Frantic (2002)
  • Dylanesque (2007)
  • Olympia ( 2010)
  • The Jazz Age ( Bryan Ferry Orchestra, 2012)

DVD

Singles

1970:

  • " A Hard Rain's A- Gonna Fall " ( September 1973 UK # 10, DE # 42)
  • " The In Crowd " ( July 1974 UK # 13)
  • "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" ( August 1974 UK # 17)
  • " You Go to My Head" ( June 1975, UK # 33)
  • "Let's Stick Together " ( June 1976 UK # 4, DE # 47)
  • " Extended Play " ( August 1976 UK # 7)
  • " Heart on My Sleeve " ( October 1976 US -only, # 86)
  • "This Is Tomorrow" ( January 1977 UK # 9)
  • "Tokyo Joe" ( April 1977, UK # 15)
  • " What Goes On " ( April 1978, UK # 67)
  • "Sign of the Times" (July, 1978, UK # 37)
  • " Carrickfergus " ( November 1978 only in the UK, without placement)

1980:

  • "Slave to Love" (May, 1985, UK # 10, DE # 30, CH # 18)
  • "Do not Stop the Dance" ( August 1985 UK # 21, DE # 45)
  • " Windswept " ( November 1985, UK # 46)
  • " Is Your Love Strong Enough? " ( March 1986, UK # 22)
  • "Help Me " (July, 1986, only in U.S.)
  • " The Right Stuff " ( September 1987 UK # 37)
  • "Kiss and Tell" ( February 1988, UK # 41, U.S. # 31)
  • " Limbo " (June 1988)
  • "Let's Stick Together '88 " ( October 1988 UK # 12)
  • "The Price of Love '89 " ( February 1989, UK # 49)
  • " He'll Have to Go" ( April 1989, UK # 63)

1990:

  • " I Put a Spell on You " ( February 1993, UK # 18, DE # 53)
  • " Will You Love Me Tomorrow " ( May 1993 UK # 23, DE # 79)
  • "Girl of My Best Friend" ( August 1993 UK # 57)
  • "Your Painted Smile" ( October 1994 UK # 52)
  • " Mamouna " ( October 1994 UK # 57)
  • " Dance with Life ( The Brilliant Light) " (1996, only in Germany, DE # 92)
  • " As Time Goes By " (November 1999)

2000s:

  • " It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" ( 2002)
  • " Goddess of Love" (2002)
  • " One Way Love" (July 2002)
  • " A Fool for Love" (December 2002)
  • " You Can Dance " (November 2010)

Filmography

2005: Breakfast on Pluto

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