AFTER an impressive set of performances around the world throughout 2014 including the lauded Glastonbury and Coachella debuts, British musical icon Bryan Ferry will stop in Dorset as part of his 20 date UK tour.
He is at Lighthouse, Poole, on Sunday June 7.
The gig will feature a set list of both Roxy Music and solo hits and includes songs from Ferry’s new album ‘Avonmore’, which will be released on November 17.
From his earliest recordings with Roxy Music at the beginning of the 1970s, Bryan Ferry has taken his place as one of the most iconic and innovative artists to emerge in popular music.
When Ferry’s group Roxy Music first appeared on ‘Top of The Pops’ in 1972, performing their debut single, ‘Virginia Plain’, their impact was instantaneous.
More or less overnight, the band’s audience was secured - from screaming teenage fans to highbrow rock critics.
Since 1973, Bryan Ferry’s career as a solo recording artist has run in parallel to his work with Roxy Music.
His first solo album, ‘These Foolish Things’ (released that same year) would introduce what Ferry has described as his ‘ready-mades’ - cover versions of recordings by artists whom he admires, which he then interprets in his own style.
Many of Ferry’s greatest compositions describe the fate of the lonely, isolated romantic - always on the outside, even at the heart of the grandest party or the most exotic city.
Throughout the 1990s to the present, Ferry has continued his work on both the ‘ready-made’ and his own compositions, exploring specifically the music of the 1930s and 1920s (‘As Time Goes By’ (1999) and ‘The Jazz Age’ (2012) and the songs of one of his great musical idols, Bob Dylan (‘Dylanesque’ (2006).
Ferry celebrated the 40th year anniversary of his career as a singer and songwriter by rearranging his own compositions and recording them in a 1920's style with his very own Jazz Orchestra, The Bryan Ferry Orchestra, for the instrumental album 'The Jazz Age'
Contact Lighthouse, Poole, for tickets.
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