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Bryan Ferry

June 2023

  • ‘Pints flowed freely’ … Bryan Ferry in Newcastle

    From the Troubles to glam rock: through the eyes of Brian Aris – in pictures

    The British photographer started off covering civil unrest and ended up shooting the Queen – a new exhibition takes you on the wild ride

January 2023

  • ‘Straight from the heart’ … Bob Dylan circa 1997.

    ‘It speaks straight from the heart’: Bryan Ferry, Adele and Engelbert Humperdinck on Bob Dylan’s Make You Feel My Love

    As the ballad appears on the latest Bootleg Sessions box set, some of the many artists who have covered it explain why it tugs their heartstrings

October 2022

  • ‘A delicate speak-sung delivery somehow befits an irony-dripping oeuvre’ … Bryan Ferry of Roxy Music at the OVO Hydro, Glasgow.

    Roxy Music review – arch art-rockers peacock their peerless anthems

    Reuniting for a 50th anniversary tour, the band have lost none of their sophisticated swagger in a career-spanning set which highlights their enduring originality and influence

June 2022

  • Amanda Lear.

    Amanda Lear: the androgynous muse to Dalí who made disco intellectual

    The subject of a new documentary, who is also portrayed in an upcoming Dalí biopic, scorned modelling as ‘immoral and stupid’, turning instead to a lifetime of underrated, high-minded pop

April 2022

  • Bryan Ferry at a piano

    The reader interview
    Bryan Ferry: ‘I did a lot of whistling on my paper round as a lad’

  • Bryan Ferry Credit: Neil Kirk

    The reader interview
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April 2021

  • Rock’s sideman of choice ... Pino Palladino, left, with Blake Mills.

    Pino Palladino, pop's greatest bassist: 'I felt like a performing monkey!'

    One of the world’s most celebrated bass players has worked with everyone from Adele to Elton John, the Who and D’Angelo. But the Welsh musician has hidden from the spotlight – until now

November 2019

  • Siouxsie Sioux, London 1980.

    'From Abba to Zappa': Michael Putland's shots of rock royalty – in pictures

    Putland, who died this week aged 72, was said to have snapped every major musical star from A-Z. Here’s a selection of images from a new book that pairs images of the many stars he captured over his 50-year-career with his own memories

December 2018

  • Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Welcome To The Pleasuredome LP session

    Frankie! Eurythmics! Tina Turner! Peter Ashworth's 80s pop mavericks - in pictures

    From Adam Ant to Julian Cope, the pop stars of the 80s were bold, brash and big-haired. Photographer Peter Ashworth realised their wildest visual fantasies

April 2018

  • Bryan Ferry performing in Paris in 2017.

    Bryan Ferry review – lounge lizard still at his best on the dancefloor

    The Roxy Music frontman’s crooning numbers can be sophisticated – and also dull. It’s when he gets slinky that his tour’s opening night comes alive

March 2018

  • NME comp New

    'Pete Doherty tried to get out of the car at 80mph': the stories behind NME's greatest covers

    From Stuart Maconie romping up the Eiger with Stone Roses to Vivien Goldman having her mind blown by reggae sound systems, writers and editors from four decades of NME delve behind the front pages

February 2018

  • Bryan Ferry in 1972

    Bryan Ferry on how Roxy Music invented art pop: 'We were game for anything'

    With their thrillingly strange 1972 debut, Roxy Music announced themselves as a band that were unlike anyone else. The singer looks back at how they created a new kind of music – out of Stax, oboes and Marilyn Monroe

October 2017

  • Theresa May and Florence Welch, who criticised the use of her music at the Tory party conference.

    Music blog
    'Such a sad event': why musicians hate the Tory party conference

    Florence Welch and Calvin Harris have objected to their music being used at the Tory conference – the way Keane and the Dandy Warhols once did, too. It’s not surprising, given the tin-eared way the Tories twist song meanings

August 2017

  • Brian Eno in 1972, about to embark on his solo career.

    Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Brian Eno reissues review – beautiful, astounding music that goes back to the future

    After leaving Roxy Music, Eno created solo albums presaging everything from post-punk to My Bloody Valentine

June 2017

  • Chrissie Hynde (1991)

    Salvaged stars: from Shaun Ryder to Judi Dench – in pictures

    Brothers Stuart and Andrew Douglas photographed the famous for 10 years. But when they fell out, their archive was almost burned and bulldozed. Now the brothers have made up – and galleries are taking an interest, with an exhibition in London opening this month

November 2015

  • Johnny cash
cadillac (‘49–‘70)
This Frankenstein’s monster of a Cadillac was built to promote Johnny Cash’s song ‘One Piece at a Time’. The song’s about an assembly-line worker  who steals a Cadillac by taking one piece at a time home in his lunchbox. Nashville mechanic Bruce Fitzpatrick (far right) constructed the car from Cadillac parts, using
the song as a manual.
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    Rock star cars: under the bonnets of Johnny Cash, Snoop Dogg and Dolly Parton – in pictures

  • Bryan Ferry And Roxettes<br>British singer Bryan Ferry of Roxy Music with backing singers Jacqui Sullivan (left) and Doreen Chanter in London, England in October 1975. (Photo by Michael Putland/Getty Images)

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August 2015

  • Rough flight? Maybe there was a rock star on board.

    Music blog
    In-flight entertainment: when flying goes wrong for musicians

    Jason Derulo is just the latest musician to find that flying commercial brings out the worst in him. Here are five other examples of when pop stars meet planes … with disastrous consequences

July 2015

  • (L to R) Bono of U2, Paul McCartney, and Freddie Mercury perform in the finale of the Live Aid concert at Wembley stadium in 1985.

    How Live Aid reinvented pop music

    Creation of mega-rock event handed flagging bands a stage for their revival and lucrative TV audiences that are still being wooed today

May 2015

  • Bryan Ferry

    Bryan Ferry review – pop enigma still sets knees trembling

    Ferry is as relaxed yet regal as ever, even as a borderline riot erupts when he breaks out the Roxy Music hits
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