Bryan Ferry
Glam-rock god turned solo sophisticate By Jim AllenRoxy Music frontman and stylish solo artist.
As Roxy Music’s driving force, Bryan Ferry is one of the most influential figures of the post-Beatles rock 'n' roll landscape. The syncretic, postmodern sound and image he created put Roxy Music at the forefront of glam and art rock and provided a primary inspiration for everything from the U.K. punk movement to the New Romantics. Ferry was a far cry from most rock heroes of his era: his smooth croon and stylishly hedonistic, aristocrat-on-a-bender persona owed more to the pre-rock era. Sure enough, the title track of the suave singer’s first solo album was the pop standard “These Foolish Things.” Ferry maintained a successful solo career in the U.K. all through Roxy’s lifetime, but it was his first post-Roxy outing, 1985’s Boys and Girls, that finally put him on the map in America with its sleek, subtle, and – crucially – danceable soundscapes. Since he’d always maintained a more “mature” image than most of his contemporaries, Ferry aged with an according amount of grace, briefly reuniting with his Roxy mates in 2001 and continuing to play the deceptively dishabille ladykiller on his own albums well into his sixties.
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