I had to buy the magazine. I couldn`t find it at their homepage. It cost me 11,80 pounds (this is not Great Britain). Well, there are a lot of blandness. I was looking for news that would give me joy. My own comments follow behing a "-" mark.

“The show in Belgium was the best one we did of the six or so we`ve done this year”.
- Interesting.

“We are changing the set around a lot as we are a bit short of fast numbers,” he laughs.
-What did he mean by that?

“For now, at least, his live work will all be Roxy Music shows.”
- Hmm.

“Yet it is so very clearly a Bryan Ferry album, with the expensive sheen of late-period Roxy and his own solo albums. Not only is it clearly a Bryan Ferry album, it`s also clearly a very good Bryan Ferry album”
- Nice to hear.

“Why have so many people on there and risk overcooking it all?”
- Good question.

“One of the most significant people on the record is Marcus Miller, who is the bass-player”, he says. “He`s on every track.”
- Good to hear that one of the most significant people one the record is the bass player, I`d say.

“Olympia, or at least parts of it, were originally going to be for a Roxy Music album”
- Well, I liked that.

“it`s dead easy to go and sing Love Is The Drug. I could do it in my sleep.”
- I guess so.

- Then we get the covers thing: ”No one seems to do that any more. Someone like Frank Sinatra`s entire oeuvre was covers. The same with Elvis Presley”
- Yeah, we know that, and we`ve heard you say that before, but they were Frankie Boy and Elvis. Besides, people still do that.

“I`d like one day to do an album of where it`s just me and a guitar or a piano.”
- Hmm.

“It was very nice talking to you,” he says, ever the gentleman.
- Hmm, I get the feeling that there still are untold stories...

Sorry le freak but what does that sentence about overcooking means?

Hmmm. I'd quite like to hear an album of just Bryan and piano. I think he's at his best then. He gets carried away, finding bits for great musicians to play and ovwercooks it !

Ann, overcooking means too many musicians and too many instruments. Bryan answers this question by saying that he likes people that are unusual players and so forth...

In my view, to have many musicians might be fair enough, if you only are able to stop before the sound gets so compact that you can`t distinguish each instrument from the other, plus loosing a lot of spaciousness.

Me too! I loved what he done with "The Only Face", especially the version on the Jools Holland & friends album. Also the version of "A Fool For Love" from The Porter movie was great.

Many of us would love to hear Beauty Queen live again but know that it is probabley not in Bryan's vocal range these days. I would be interested to hear a stripped down piano & voice version of BQ.

The piano versions of The Only Face and A Fool for Love were brilliant.I must admit, I'm growing tired listening to the same arrangements of the same songs. Every now and then, if you're very lucky, he throws up a new arrangement of an old song. Mother of Pearl on the 1979 tour was great. And at The Koko Club in 2005, he played the piano while doing the vocals, which was a great change. More please.