Bete Noire - Bryan Ferry

As Time Goes By - Bryan Ferry

This is my favourite Brian Ferry Album. This singer has been through all the stages of singing his heart out to electronic sounds, and making his name with Roxy Music in the 1970's. Now he's hit perfection! The delectable Brian Ferry (with the come to bed eyes and dark brown voice) has produced this album, 'As Time Goes By', with the help of Rhett Davies. It's a collection of old classics from the '30's and '40's. As Time Goes By ________________ Originally written by Herman Hupfield. A romantic song with violin, cello, and harp included in the backing orchestra. This track has an old 'Palm Court' Orchestra feel to ...

More Than This: The Best Of Bryan Ferry & Roxy Music - Bryan ...

repacking it they committed heresy by deleting 2 top Roxy tracks out went Pyjamarama and Do The Strand and for aficionados of the band this is unforgivable. Also deleted was Bryan Ferry s version of the Wilson Pickett classic In The Midnight Hour so perhaps there was some good judgement exercised after all. This had all the soul of a turn-up-at-the-studio and do the vocal routine. What the album does have is the 2 stages of Roxy Music and Bryan Ferry. The early seventies saw Roxy produce innovative inventive rock, sometimes with a bit of excess when performing live. So mark down Virginia Plain in this area. When Brian Eno left the band was less electronic keyboard and ...

Street Life - Bryan Ferry

This was the first of the Greatest Hits compilations which Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music produced. When originally released it contained 20 tracks as a double album but although each side of the LP had 5 tracks the running time was as little as 16-17 minutes for a couple of sides. The later version of their greatest hits (the CD More Than This released in 1995) had a longer total running time on a single CD. Plus ca change. For me this album better defines the essence of good Roxy Music and, ergo, good Bryan Ferry. Don t get me wrong I like Bryan Ferry as a solo artist but for innovation and inventiveness he was at his best when with the musical influences of Phil ...