Bryan Ferry
Bryan Ferry
Bryan Ferry CBEis an English singer, songwriter and musician. His vocal style has been described as an "elegant, seductive croon". He also established a distinctive image and sartorial style; according to The Independent, in common with his contemporary David Bowie, he influenced a generation with both his music and his appearance...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth26 September 1945
music silence quiet
You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?
quiet hours peace-and-quiet
But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour.
song fall rain
I like lots of songs, and I find it quite interesting to do [cover songs] from time to time. My first solo hit was in 1973, the [Bob] Dylan song "A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall."
song mean bored
It's good having a lot of different songs to choose from to do the show. It means you don't get bored of doing it in one particular genre.
giving perspective world
Much as I love the northeast, I didn't want to spend my life there. I wanted to experiment. Savour everything you can while you're here! Touring, seeing the world... That in itself gives you a different perspective.
schedules littles interviews
I don't do interviews at all when I'm on tour, so this time, on a day off, I'll do that kind of thing a little bit. I don't do big promotion schedules, not when I'm touring.
memories paris one-day
I'd love to follow the Tour de France one day. It's a really exciting spectacle. I've only seen it once as it was coming into Paris and that was very exciting for me. I have memories of that.
thinking ferry
I don't think I've ever played the Olympia before, but I'm not totally sure.
mistake moving thinking
When I stopped touring in the early '80s for a few years, it was a mistake looking back. I lost touch with my audience in a way and I think that was a bad career move.
wine labels ugly
I can't drink a wine if it has an ugly label,
writing done orchestra
I've done shows with orchestras, and I like writing with orchestras.
music firefighter looks
Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.
feeling quite
But I was feeling quite down at the time. I was living in L.A., which was kind of weird for me.
nicer secondary
In New York, you couldn't wish for a nicer audience, or in L.A., Chicago, Boston. But when you get into secondary markets, they don't have a clue.