Thursday, 26 June 2008
Bryan Ferry
Artist: Bryan Ferry
Genre(s):
Rock: Pop-Rock
Rock: Glam Rock
Rock
Discography:
Dylanesque
Year: 2007
Tracks: 11
Platinum Collection (CD 3)
Year: 2004
Tracks: 15
Platinum Collection (CD 2)
Year: 2004
Tracks: 15
Platinum Collection (CD 1)
Year: 2004
Tracks: 15
Frantic
Year: 2002
Tracks: 13
Bete Noire
Year: 2002
Tracks: 9
These Foolish Things
Year: 2000
Tracks: 13
The Bride Stripped Bare
Year: 2000
Tracks: 10
Slave To Love: Best Of The Ballads
Year: 2000
Tracks: 18
Hit Collection 2000
Year: 2000
Tracks: 18
Grand Collection
Year: 2000
Tracks: 21
In Your Mind
Year: 1999
Tracks: 8
Boys and Girls
Year: 1999
Tracks: 9
As Time Goes By
Year: 1999
Tracks: 15
Another Time, Another Place
Year: 1999
Tracks: 10
Mamouna
Year: 1994
Tracks: 10
Ultimate Collection
Year: 1993
Tracks: 15
TAXI and Boys and Girls
Year: 1993
Tracks: 10
Taxi
Year: 1993
Tracks: 10
Lets Stick Together
Year: 1993
Tracks: 11
The Ultimate Collection
Year: 1988
Tracks: 14
Street Life: Greatest Hits
Year: 1987
Tracks: 20
The Bride Stripped Bare
Year: 1978
Tracks: 10
Let's Stick Together
Year: 1976
Tracks: 11
These Foolish Things
Year: 1973
Tracks: 13
While his incumbency as the frontman for the legendary Roxy Music remained his soaring achievement, isaac M. Singer Bryan Ferry likewise carven out a successful solo career which continued in the lucullan, sophisticated mode perfected on the group's final records. Born September 26, 1945, in Washington, England, Ferry, the son of a coal mineworker, began his musical calling as a singer with the rock music turnout the Banshees spell perusing nontextual matter at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne under pop-conceptualist Richard Hamilton. He by and by united the Gas Board, a soul grouping featuring bassist Graham Simpson; in 1970, Ferry and Simpson formed Roxy Music.
Inside a few age, Roxy Music had get phenomenally successful, affording Ferry the opportunity to issue his number one solo LP in 1973. Far removed from the group's arty glam john Rock, These Foolish Things conventional the route which all of Ferry's solo work -- as intimately as the net Roxy Music records -- would take on, focusing on graceful synth bolt down interpretations of '60s hits care 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, nervelessly dramatic manner.
Roxy Music remained Ferry's principal focus, only in 1974 he returned with a minute solo endeavor, Some other Time, Another Place, another appeal of covers ranging from "You Are My Sunshine" to "It Ain't Me, Babe" to "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes." His third gear venture, 1976's Let's Stick Together, featured remixed, remade, and remodeled versions of Roxy Music hits as well as the usual categorisation of covers. 1977's In Your Mind was Ferry's first appeal of completely original material; the following year's The Bride Stripped Bare, a process elysian by his upset romanticism with modelling Jerry Hall, split equally 'tween raw songs and covers.
Ferry did not record some other solo record album until 1985's Boys and Girls, a flowing, seamless cause that was his number 1 "official" solo release following the Roxy dissolution. For 1987's Bete Noire, he was joined by late Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr on the shimmering "The Right Stuff," and toothed his only U.S. Top 40 hit with "Candy kiss and Tell." Another covers accumulation, Taxi, followed in 1993; Mamouna, an LP of originals, appeared a yr later, and in 1999 Ferry returned with a accumulation of standards, As Time Goes By. After a brief circuit in support of As Time Goes By, on that point were rumors of a Roxy Music reunion. The side by side summertime, the practically out of the question 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 number one jaunt extinct in more than than a decade. In summer 2002, Ferry returned to his solo calling for the thrilling Frantic. Dylanesque, a set of Bob Dylan covers, followed basketball team age later, featuring help from several longtime associates (including Brian Eno, Chris Spedding, Paul Carrack, and Robin Trower).