Covering both Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music's best-known songs, Street Life is the best introduction to the stylish art rocker's career. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music...
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When Slave to Love: The Best of the Ballads was released in 2000, there hadn't been a true Roxy Music compilation in print for years. Street Life and More Than This were...
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"Tribute" and "cover" records may be hot commodities, but ex-Roxy Music crooner Bryan Ferry has been doing it for years, recording LPs filled with classics like "Smoke Gets...
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Frantic manages to touch upon virtually every musical style of Bryan Ferry's career. Ferry has proved to be as interested in covering other artists' material as penning...
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Sufficiently recharged via Taxi, Ferry got down to business and the following year released Mamouna, notable among other things for being his first recordings with the help...
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Ferry's Mamouna CD5 features the title cut plus three tracks recorded live while on tour in Glasgow, 1988. "Mamouna" (1994), reminiscent of the Avalon-era sound, is the best...
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Taxi shows a mature Bryan Ferry, suave and controlled, very much in line with his general career from 1979 on. The choices of songs to cover doesn't make for any surprises...
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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 Taxi album, plus two...
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Covering both Ferry and Roxy Music's best-known songs, Street Life is the best introduction to the stylish art-rocker's career. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music...
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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 sparkles as the highlight of...
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With Roxy Music set aside for the time being, Ferry took the solo plunge with an album of totally original material. As such, the underrated In Your Mind makes a logical...
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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 Wetton joined by U.K....
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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. Dedicated to Ferry's...
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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 means a washout. In...
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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 was still going full...
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Another Time, Another Place isn't as immediately thrilling as Ferry's solo debut, but still is a great listen. The same core band that backed Ferry up on the earlier record...
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You might expect a send-up of beloved standards like "Easy Living," "Falling in Love Again" and "September Song" from Bryan Ferry. After all,...
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Bryan Ferry invests considerable time and energy in cover albums (he should, considering that they compose a good portion of his solo catalog), treating them with as much...
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In November 1980, Roxy Music scored their 13th straight UK hit with "The Same Old Scene". Who could have guessed that, less than 20 years on, there would be an entire...
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