Bryan Ferry
Idioma disponível: inglêsWhile fronting Roxy Music in the 1970s and early '80s, Bryan Ferry devised a blueprint for art rock, and as a solo performer, he brilliantly updated the parameters of the pop songbook. Although Ferry's solo career has included several excellent self-penned tracks, he's best-known for his adventurous interpretations of songs from the rock and pop canon. Combining a studied, wry, lounge-singer persona with a genuine passion for everything from Motown and Bob Dylan to the Great American Songbook of the 1920s and '30s, Ferry's performances add a post-modern gloss to pop standards. Following rumors of a reunion, Roxy Music re-formed in 2001 and did several tours during the ensuing decade. Born September 26, 1945 in Washington, England, Ferry, the son of a coal miner, began his musical career as a singer with the rock outfit the Banshees while studying art at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne under pop conceptualist Richard Hamilton. He later joined the Gas Board, a soul group featuring bassist Graham Simpson; in 1970, Ferry and Simpson formed Roxy Music. Within a few years, Roxy Music had become phenomenally successful, affording Ferry the opportunity to cut his first solo LP in 1973. Far removed from the group's arty glam rock, These Foolish Things established the path that all of Ferry's solo work -- as well as the final Roxy Music records -- would take, focusing on elegant synth pop interpretations of '60s hits like Bob Dylan's "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall," the Rolling Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil," and the Beatles' "You Won't See Me," all rendered in the singer's distinct, coolly dramatic manner. Roxy Music remained Ferry's primary focus, but in 1974 he returned with a second solo effort, Another Time, Another Place, another collection of covers ranging from "You Are My Sunshine" to "It Ain't Me, Babe" to "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes." His third venture, 1976's Let's Stick Together, featured remixed, remade, and remodeled versions of Roxy Music hits as well as the usual assortment of covers. Released in 1977, In Your Mind was Ferry's first collection of completely original material; the following year's The Bride Stripped Bare, a work inspired by his broken romance with model Jerry Hall, was split evenly between new songs and covers. Ferry did not record another solo album until 1985's Boys and Girls, a sleek, seamless effort that was his first "official" solo release following the Roxy breakup. For 1987's Bete Noire, he was joined by former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr on the shimmering "The Right Stuff," and notched his only U.S. Top 40 hit with "Kiss and Tell." Another covers collection, Taxi, followed in 1993; Mamouna, an LP of originals, appeared a year later, and in 1999 Ferry returned with a collection of standards, As Time Goes By. After a brief tour in support of As Time Goes By, there were rumors of a Roxy Music reunion. The next summer, the practically unimaginable came true when Ferry joined Andy Mackay and Phil Manzanera for a tour of Europe and the U.S. It was a celebration of hits, and the band's first jaunt out in more than a decade. In summer 2002, Ferry returned to his solo career for the electrifying Frantic. Dylanesque, a set of Bob Dylan covers, followed in 2007, featuring assistance from several longtime associates (including Brian Eno, Chris Spedding, Paul Carrack, and Robin Trower). Ferry signed with the Astralwerks imprint for the release of 2010's Olympia. In 2012, he assembled the Bryan Ferry Orchestra and recorded The Jazz Age. This completely instrumental album featured his band re-recording some of his biggest hits in a 1920s jazz style. Ferry returned to the studio with longtime collaborator Rhett Davies in 2014 to record his 14th studio album. The resulting Avonmore -- which included guest spots from Johnny Marr, Nile Rodgers, and Marcus Miller and revived Ferry's mid-'80s sound -- appeared in November. In the spring of 2017, after embarking on a major world tour, Ferry made his debut at the legendary Hollywood Bowl amphitheater, performing nearly the entire set backed by a full orchestra. That same year, he also appeared as a cabaret singer in the 1930s set drama Babylon Berlin, for which he also contributed several songs. Those tracks were then included on a full-length album recorded by Ferry and his jazz orchestra, 2018's Bitter-Sweet. Ferry continued to tour into the last years of the 2010s, a period highlighted by Roxy Music's induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2019. The archival set Live at the Royal Albert Hall, 1974 appeared early in 2020.
© Jason Ankeny /TiVo Ler mais
While fronting Roxy Music in the 1970s and early '80s, Bryan Ferry devised a blueprint for art rock, and as a solo performer, he brilliantly updated the parameters of the pop songbook. Although Ferry's solo career has included several excellent self-penned tracks, he's best-known for his adventurous interpretations of songs from the rock and pop canon. Combining a studied, wry, lounge-singer persona with a genuine passion for everything from Motown and Bob Dylan to the Great American Songbook of the 1920s and '30s, Ferry's performances add a post-modern gloss to pop standards. Following rumors of a reunion, Roxy Music re-formed in 2001 and did several tours during the ensuing decade.
Born September 26, 1945 in Washington, England, Ferry, the son of a coal miner, began his musical career as a singer with the rock outfit the Banshees while studying art at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne under pop conceptualist Richard Hamilton. He later joined the Gas Board, a soul group featuring bassist Graham Simpson; in 1970, Ferry and Simpson formed Roxy Music.
Within a few years, Roxy Music had become phenomenally successful, affording Ferry the opportunity to cut his first solo LP in 1973. Far removed from the group's arty glam rock, These Foolish Things established the path that all of Ferry's solo work -- as well as the final Roxy Music records -- would take, focusing on elegant synth pop interpretations of '60s hits like Bob Dylan's "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall," the Rolling Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil," and the Beatles' "You Won't See Me," all rendered in the singer's distinct, coolly dramatic manner.
Roxy Music remained Ferry's primary focus, but in 1974 he returned with a second solo effort, Another Time, Another Place, another collection of covers ranging from "You Are My Sunshine" to "It Ain't Me, Babe" to "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes." His third venture, 1976's Let's Stick Together, featured remixed, remade, and remodeled versions of Roxy Music hits as well as the usual assortment of covers. Released in 1977, In Your Mind was Ferry's first collection of completely original material; the following year's The Bride Stripped Bare, a work inspired by his broken romance with model Jerry Hall, was split evenly between new songs and covers.
Ferry did not record another solo album until 1985's Boys and Girls, a sleek, seamless effort that was his first "official" solo release following the Roxy breakup. For 1987's Bete Noire, he was joined by former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr on the shimmering "The Right Stuff," and notched his only U.S. Top 40 hit with "Kiss and Tell." Another covers collection, Taxi, followed in 1993; Mamouna, an LP of originals, appeared a year later, and in 1999 Ferry returned with a collection of standards, As Time Goes By. After a brief tour in support of As Time Goes By, there were rumors of a Roxy Music reunion. The next summer, the practically unimaginable came true when Ferry joined Andy Mackay and Phil Manzanera for a tour of Europe and the U.S. It was a celebration of hits, and the band's first jaunt out in more than a decade.
In summer 2002, Ferry returned to his solo career for the electrifying Frantic. Dylanesque, a set of Bob Dylan covers, followed in 2007, featuring assistance from several longtime associates (including Brian Eno, Chris Spedding, Paul Carrack, and Robin Trower). Ferry signed with the Astralwerks imprint for the release of 2010's Olympia. In 2012, he assembled the Bryan Ferry Orchestra and recorded The Jazz Age. This completely instrumental album featured his band re-recording some of his biggest hits in a 1920s jazz style.
Ferry returned to the studio with longtime collaborator Rhett Davies in 2014 to record his 14th studio album. The resulting Avonmore -- which included guest spots from Johnny Marr, Nile Rodgers, and Marcus Miller and revived Ferry's mid-'80s sound -- appeared in November. In the spring of 2017, after embarking on a major world tour, Ferry made his debut at the legendary Hollywood Bowl amphitheater, performing nearly the entire set backed by a full orchestra. That same year, he also appeared as a cabaret singer in the 1930s set drama Babylon Berlin, for which he also contributed several songs. Those tracks were then included on a full-length album recorded by Ferry and his jazz orchestra, 2018's Bitter-Sweet. Ferry continued to tour into the last years of the 2010s, a period highlighted by Roxy Music's induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2019. The archival set Live at the Royal Albert Hall, 1974 appeared early in 2020.
© Jason Ankeny /TiVo
Artistas semelhantes
-
Love Letters EP
Alternative & Indie - Lançado por BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd em 19/05/2022
The undisputed king of delivering covers that are both personal and elegant in equal measure (take As Time Goes By in 1999 and The Jazz Age in 2012), ...
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Live at the Royal Albert Hall 2020 (Live)
Rock - Lançado por Dene Jesmond Records em 02/04/2021
Bryan Ferry returned to London's Royal Albert Hall in March 2020, some 46 years after performing there in 1974 on his debut solo tour. Recorded just b ...
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Boys And Girls
Rock - Lançado por Virgin Records em 01/05/1985
Having at last laid Roxy to bed with its final, intoxicatingly elegant albums, Ferry continued its end-days spirit with his own return to solo work. D ...
Qualidade de CD de 16 bits 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Street Life - 20 Greatest Hits
Rock - Lançado por EG Records em 01/01/1986
The first compilation to attempt an all-encompassing overview of Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music's career, Street Life was originally released in 1986, fou ...
Qualidade de CD de 16 bits 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Olympia
Pop - Lançado por BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd em 25/10/2010
There are two headlines for Olympia, Bryan Ferry’s 13th solo album. The first is that it’s Ferry’s first collection of primarily original material sin ...
Qualidade de CD de 16 bits 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Bête Noire
Pop - Lançado por BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited em 01/10/1987
Hooking up with regular Madonna collaborator Patrick Leonard as the co-producer of this album proved to be just the trick for Ferry. Bete Noire sparkl ...
Qualidade de CD de 16 bits 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Live at the Royal Albert Hall, 1974 (Live at the Royal Albert Hall, 1974)
Rock - Lançado por BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd em 07/02/2020
Bryan Ferry had released two solo albums when he took the stage at London's Royal Albert Hall in December 1974. Both of them, 1973's These Foolish Thi ...
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Avonmore: The Remix Album
Rock - Lançado por BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd. em 12/08/2016
Qualidade de CD de 16 bits 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Don't Stop The Dance (Remixes)
Dance - Lançado por EMI em 01/01/1985
Qualidade de CD de 16 bits 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Will You Love Me Tomorrow
Pop - Lançado por BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd em 01/01/1993
This is a 19-minute, four-song maxi-single containing two versions of Carole King and Gerry Goffin's title track, a featured song on Bryan Ferry's Tax ...
Qualidade de CD de 16 bits 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Dylanesque
Pop - Lançado por BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited em 05/03/2007
The greatest -- indeed, only -- irony of Bryan Ferry's 2007 album-long tribute to the Bard is that Dylanesque never sounds "Dylanesque." There are no ...
Qualidade de CD de 16 bits 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Bitter-Sweet
Vocal Jazz - Lançado por BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited em 30/11/2018
Bryan Ferry is the ultimate dandy, the singer that never gets old and who does as he pleases. The former boss of the flamboyant, decadent and glamouro ...
Qualidade de CD de 16 bits 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
As Time Goes By
Pop - Lançado por BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd em 19/10/1999
Bryan Ferry invests considerable time and energy in cover albums (he should, considering that they compose a good portion of his solo catalog), treati ...
Qualidade de CD de 16 bits 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
These Foolish Things
Rock - Lançado por Virgin Records em 01/10/1973
Much like his contemporary David Bowie, Ferry consolidated his glam-era success with a covers album, his first full solo effort even while Roxy Music ...
Qualidade de CD de 16 bits 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
The Bride Stripped Bare
Rock - Lançado por EG Records em 01/04/1978
When Jerry Hall, front-cover model on Roxy's Siren, left Ferry for Mick Jagger, his response was this interesting album, not a full success but by no ...
Qualidade de CD de 16 bits 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Olympia Remixes
Dance - Lançado por BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited em 11/02/2022
Qualidade de CD de 16 bits 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
The Right Stuff
Pop - Lançado por BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited em 01/01/1987
Qualidade de CD de 16 bits 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Limbo
Pop - Lançado por BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited em 01/01/1987
Qualidade de CD de 16 bits 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Bryan Ferry at Live Aid (Live at Wembley Stadium, 13th July 1985)
Rock - Lançado por The Band Aid Trust em 26/04/2021
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Let's Stick Together
Rock - Lançado por Virgin Records em 01/09/1976
As Roxy approached its mid- to late-'70s hibernation, Ferry came up with another fine solo album, though one of his most curious. With Thompson and We ...
Qualidade de CD de 16 bits 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Mamouna
Pop - Lançado por BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd em 05/09/1994
Sufficiently recharged via Taxi, Ferry got down to business and the following year released Mamouna, notable among other things for being his first re ...
Qualidade de CD de 16 bits 44.1 kHz - Stereo