Artist.......: Bryan Ferry
Album........: Live At AVO Session Basel
Label........: n/a
Genre........: Rock
Catnr........: n/a
Source.......: DVBS
Rip.date.....: 2015-02-27
Str.date.....: 2014-11-00
Quality......: 242kbps/48.0kHz/Joint Stereo
Url..........: http://www.bryanferry.com
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1. Live At AVO Session Basel 60:17
Runtime 60:17
Size 104.57
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While his tenure as the frontman for the legendary Roxy Music remained his
towering achievement, singer Bryan Ferry also carved out a successful solo
career that continued in the lush, sophisticated manner perfected on the group's
final records. Born September 26, 1945, in Washington, England, Ferry, the son
of a coal miner, began his musical career as a singer with the rock outfit the
Banshees while studying art at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne under pop
conceptualist Richard Hamilton. He later joined the Gas Board, a soul group
featuring bassist Graham Simpson; in 1970, Ferry and Simpson formed Roxy Music.
Within a few years, Roxy Music had become phenomenally successful, affording
Ferry the opportunity to cut his first solo LP in 1973. Far removed from the
group's arty glam rock, These Foolish Things established the path that all of
Ferry's solo work -- as well as the final Roxy Music records -- would take,
focusing on elegant synth pop interpretations of '60s hits like 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, coolly
dramatic manner.
Roxy Music remained Ferry's primary focus, but in 1974 he returned with a second
solo effort, Another Time, Another Place, another collection of covers ranging
from "You Are My Sunshine" to "It Ain't Me, Babe" to "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes."
His third venture, 1976's Let's Stick Together, featured remixed, remade, and
remodeled versions of Roxy Music hits as well as the usual assortment of covers.
Released in 1977, In Your Mind was Ferry's first collection of completely
original material; the following year's The Bride Stripped Bare, a work inspired
by his broken romance with model Jerry Hall, split evenly between new songs and
covers.
Ferry did not record another solo album until 1985's Boys and Girls, a sleek,
seamless effort that was his first "official" solo release following the Roxy
breakup. For 1987's Bete Noire, he was joined by former Smiths guitarist Johnny
Marr on the shimmering "The Right Stuff," and notched his only U.S. Top 40 hit
with "Kiss and Tell." Another covers collection, Taxi, followed in 1993;
Mamouna, an LP of originals, appeared a year later, and in 1999 Ferry returned
with a collection of standards, As Time Goes By. After a brief tour in support
of As Time Goes By, there were rumors of a Roxy Music reunion. The next summer,
the practically unimaginable 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 first jaunt out in more than a decade.
In summer 2002, Ferry returned to his solo career for the electrifying Frantic.
Dylanesque, a set of Bob Dylan covers, followed in 2007, featuring assistance
from several longtime associates (including Brian Eno, Chris Spedding, Paul
Carrack, and Robin Trower). Ferry signed with the Astralwerks imprint for the
release of 2010's Olympia. In 2012, he assembled the Bryan Ferry Orchestra and
recorded The Jazz Age. This completely instrumental album featured his band
re-recording some of his biggest hits in a 1920s jazz style. Ferry returned to
the studio in 2014 to record his 14th studio album with longtime collaborator
Rhett Davies. The resulting Avonmore -- which included guest spots from Johnny
Marr, Nile Rodgers, and Marcus Miller and revived Ferry's mid-'80s sound --
appeared in November.
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