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Bryan Ferry is an English singer and musician. He became known as the frontman of the band Roxy Music and also launched a solo career.
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entertainment · British singer (born 1945) · singer-songwriter · actor · musician · pianist · guitarist · singer · composer · also Bryan Ferry, Brian Ferry, Ferry
Born 26 September 1945 · Q216179
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“We’d made an album and we knew how to do it – sort of. Everyone was featured. It had oboe, the synth, the drums are powerful, and the lyrics were much more assured. I was still finding my feet as a songwriter.”
Published video “Roxy Music For Your Pleasure Super Deluxe Edition”.
Published video “Another Time, Another Place, released July 5th, 1974. "It Ain't Me Babe" from the Russell Harty Show”.
Published video “Bryan Ferry interview from 1977 and "You Go To My Head"”.
Published video “Bryan Ferry - All Night Operator 1977 - Melbourne Australia”.
Published video “Loose Talk, Bryan Ferry's collaboration album with Amelia Barratt, was release a year ago today.”.
Published video “"Florist" from Loose Talk was released on 28 February 2025”.
Published video “Bryan Ferry - Smoke Gets In Your Eyes - Live 2004”.
Published video “Bryan Ferry performed Jealous Guy - Roxy Music's tribute to John Lennon - at @LiveAid”.
Published video “"Kiss and Tell" live from the Bête Noire tour 1988”.
Published video “"This is Tomorrow" was released on 24 January 1977”.
Released album “Loose Talk”.
The Guardian: Bryan Ferry and Amelia Barratt: Loose Talk review | Alexis Petridis’ album of the week
The Guardian: ‘I wanted a hit!’ Bryan Ferry on recording Slave to Love in Bette Midler’s house
Released album “Retrospective: Selected Recordings 1973–2023”.
Released ep “Retrospective: Star”.
Released ep “Retrospective: She Belongs to Me”.
The Guardian: ‘It speaks straight from the heart’: Bryan Ferry, Adele and Engelbert Humperdinck on Bob Dylan’s Make You Feel My Love
Rolling Stone ranked Ferry at number 150 on its list of the 200 Greatest Singers of All Time
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Released ep “Love Letters”.
The Guardian: Bryan Ferry: ‘I did a lot of whistling on my paper round as a lad’
The Guardian: Post your questions for Bryan Ferry
Released album “Royal Albert Hall 2020”.
Released album “Live at the Royal Albert Hall, 1974”.
Released album “Bryan Ferry – Live”.
Described incumbent Prime Minister Boris Johnson as "bright" but expressed a reluctance to further discuss his politics
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Released album “Slave to Love (live)”.
Was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Roxy Music
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Duran Duran lead singer Simon Le Bon described Ferry's lyrics as "open-heart surgery"
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The Guardian: Bryan Ferry review – lounge lizard still at his best on the dancefloor
The Guardian: Bryan Ferry on how Roxy Music invented a new kind of pop: 'We were game for anything'
While on holiday in County Clare, Ireland, after what her brother described as "a long battle with depression"
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Ferry appeared as a cabaret singer in the television series Babylon Berlin
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Ferry gave his debut performance at the Hollywood Bowl, backed by the venue's full orchestra
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Released album “Avonmore: The Remix Album”.
Released album “Live 2015”.
Returned to Coachella to perform as a guest artist with Terje
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Released album “Avonmore”.
Ferry toured extensively, with notable performances including Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, as well as an appearance at the Chicago Theatre, which was preceded by a talk with author Michael Bracewell at the M
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Ferry was made an honorary Doctor of Music by Newcastle University
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Ferry collaborated with the Norwegian DJ/producer Todd Terje, providing vocals on a cover version of "Johnny and Mary" (originally recorded by Robert Palmer)
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Released album “Live in Lyon”.
Including a performance at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, which was opened by Luhrmann's Great Gatsby film
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Ferry was a guest at the Conservative Party's black-and-white ball
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Was awarded the French national honour of Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
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Released album “Olympia Remixes”.
Roxy Music performed together for the last time before going on an indefinite hiatus as Ferry, Manzanera, Mackay, and Thompson embarked on a world tour to celebrate the group's 40th anniversary
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Released album “Olympia”.
Released album “The Best of Bryan Ferry”.
“s a bright guy. I hope they do well. I don”
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Ferry began a relationship with Amanda Sheppard, and on 4 January 2012, they married in a private ceremony on the Turks and Caicos Islands
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Ferry indicated that he supported the Conservative Party, referring to himself as apolitical but "conservative by nature", preferring not to mix art with politics
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Released album “Dylanesque”.
Released album “Dylanesque Live: The London Sessions”.
Ferry performed at a concert to raise funds for the Countryside Alliance
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Belgian fashion designer Dries van Noten created a Fall 2007 collection inspired by outfits Ferry wore during his solo career and tenure with Roxy Music
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“I apologize unreservedly for any offence caused by my comments on Nazi iconography, which were solely made from an art history perspective. I, like every right-minded individual, find the Nazi regime, and all it stood for, evil and abhorrent.”
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Resumed his relationship with Katie Turner for some time
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GQ presented Ferry with its Lifetime Achievement Award, deeming him "pop's original art-school bobby-dazzler" and noting his solo career spent as the "world's best-dressed and most languidly mannered deluxe chanteur"
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It was confirmed that Roxy Music (Ferry, Mackay, Manzanera and Thompson) would perform shows at that year's Isle of Wight Festival and that they would record an album of new and original songs, with no indication of when
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Released album “The Collection”.
Released album “The Platinum Collection”.
Starred in the short film The Porter, and in 2005 he appeared in Neil Jordan's film Breakfast on Pluto as the character Mr
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Released album “Another Time, Another Place / Let's Stick Together”.
Released album “Frantic”.
“Roxy Music legend Bryan Ferry unwinds in Paris”
Ferry released a new studio album, Frantic, which featured several tracks written with David A
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(and is featured on the DVD of the 2001 Hammersmith Odeon show)
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Released album “Golden Collection 2000”.
And toured extensively for a couple of years, though the band did not record any new material
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Released album “Slave to Love: The Best of the Ballads”.
The whole Ferry family were on British Airways Flight 2069 to Nairobi when a passenger forced his way into the cockpit, attacked the pilot and caused the plane to dive downwards
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Released album “I Am in the Mood for Love (The Best of Solo Years)”.
Released album “As Time Goes By”.
Ferry released his tenth solo studio album, As Time Goes By, consisting of cover versions of 1930s songs
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Released album “The Greatest”.
Released album “Tokyo Joe: The Best of Bryan Ferry & Roxy Music”.
Ferry performed the song "Dance with Life" for the Phenomenon soundtrack, written by Bernie Taupin and Martin Page
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Released album “More Than This: The Best of Bryan Ferry + Roxy Music”.
Released album “Mamouna”.
Released album “Girl of My Best Friend”.
Released album “Taxi”.
His eighth solo studio album, which peaked at no
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Released album “Live USA”.
Released album “The Ultimate Collection”.
To promote the previous year's Bête Noire
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Ferry referred to himself as "sort of conservative" in his beliefs in an interview with the Chicago Tribune
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Released album “Bête Noire”.
Released album “Street Life: 20 Great Hits”.
Released album “Boys and Girls”.
Ferry contributed the song "Is Your Love Strong Enough
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Following the release of the group's best-selling album Avalon the previous year, Ferry disbanded Roxy Music to concentrate on his solo career; his next album, 1985's Boys and Girls, reached No
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As a posthumous tribute to its author, John Lennon, who had been murdered two months earlier
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Released album “The Bride Stripped Bare”.
Released album “In Your Mind”.
Released album “Let’s Stick Together”.
Released ep “Extended Play”.
Though some Roxy members – Paul Thompson, Phil Manzanera, Eddie Jobson and bassists John Gustafson, John Wetton and Rick Wills – took part in the recording of Ferry's subsequent solo material
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Ferry began a relationship with model Jerry Hall
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Released album “Another Time, Another Place”.
Was like being Bob Dylan in 1965, Clark Gable in 1939, and Oscar Wilde in 1895
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Released album “These Foolish Things”.
Ferry was notably denied his request for a show at the Royal Albert Hall due to a ban on rock concerts before ultimately being granted his first performance a year later, in December 1974
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Performing cover versions of old standards on his debut studio album These Foolish Things (1973) and his second album Another Time, Another Place (1974), both of which reached the UK top 5
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And later that year enlisted him alongside other friends, including Nick de Ville, to create the cover for Roxy Music's debut album
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Containing a rich variety of sounds, which reflected Ferry's interest in exploring different genres of music
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Began to assemble Roxy Music with a group of friends and acquaintances in London, and took the role of lead singer and main songwriter
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And taught art and pottery at Holland Park School while pursuing a career in music
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“From then on Richard was a great inspiration, both as an artist, and as a personality.”
“was kind of a talisman for me”
Born 1945-09-26.
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