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"It would be great if I could live forever"Dagmar von Taube
He is the king of cool, still. And shows how aging stylish. Celebrating his 70th birthday pop icon Bryan Ferry in Berlin. A talk about lies in the press, lawn mowing and late heartbreak
London-Kensington On a Sunday afternoon, a quarter, pretty and soothing as Hamburg-Winterhude. His studio is located in a cul de sac. Inside: Thick, white masonry around a cozy chaos of books, huge sofas, Moroccan vases, rugs and framed posters from old Roxy Music days. In a corridor you see felt a hundred pants and jackets very neatly hanging on a clothes rail. Among an army of shoes. So goes a cloakroom world stars, which will be celebrated again and again until today in "Best In the basement is including his musical empire. Usually, the Englishman recovered on the weekends in the countryside. But because Bryan Ferry has to adjust things for his last concerts in Germany, he is exceptional in the city. And so you sit in its kind bachelors Fortress with lowered blinds despite sun outside the windows. "I like privacy," Ferry says slightly inhibited in blue shirt, sits down on the sofa as in an old Bentley and sets his feet on the coffee table edge. That seems cool, but also a little as if he would step on an imaginary brake.
The British fashion designer Alexander McQueen has once said: "I would never have become the designer, who I was, if I were not even shy." His insecurity have plagued him, but also before preserved, to be a "bloated Großkotz". Does it have something good to be shy, Mister Ferry?
Bryan Ferry:
Something good? Oh well. I am convinced, just that creative people can be shy. I personally am very guided by my moods. My health may be daily, oh what, hourly change. For my music which is certainly good. There are people who tap into emotions like a vampire only from others, because they themselves do not feel. Synthetic emotions but leave you cold. I would have wished sometimes to be a little less sensitive. Emotions can be a also in the way. This can be exhausting.
So true what you read about the "Coolest Living Englishman": Are you shy?
I am, always been a melancholy type. I was very nervous, yes. Previously more than today.
Claudia Schiffer can also sing a song about it. "As soon as someone speaks over blushing, I'll immediately red," she once said. As a child she was so shy that she hid behind curtains when visitors came. Then you know such a thing?
Being shy can be quite charming in women yes. Tough, too ambitious, I find anyway unattractive. I am cautious, some confuse with coolness. Being on stage was not easy for me. Or to talk with strangers, whether woman or man - I've never been very comfortable here. I used to have a cigarette between his fingers. I was a heavy smoker, which was helpful. So I had to do something in his hand and something. Even today, I put my hands in your pocket, actually a bad habit. But there are maintenance.
My colleague Phil Collins once told me that he had at first downright hidden behind the drums and later the microphone stand. He had for years not taken out the micro to not lose to stand on stage. They occur more than 40 years as a frontman. As you have done your strong stage character?
It helped to act as a group. When Roxy Music I was not alone, but as part of a name behind which I could hide. So at least I have concocted me mentally, to give me courage. I was never a loud performer, not a great dancer. Okay, in "Roxy" I have moved a bit.
You were a great Haucher, Shakers and sigh. There was something feminine, almost alien explanatory as they danced, they swoosh motion. The kohl painted eyes half-closed, diagonally far holding the mic on its own, with the small, spread fingers.
Yeah ... haha! Those were the crazy eighties .....
How did it actually hingekriegt that you always go that one strand in the forehead? How important are ever hair as an expression, as well as protection?
I do not know, really. Someone thinks something out for you, it worked, and then they just hung there, the tress. Do you know my style, the way of dressing me was so often discussed, I myself was never so important. It fit the mood.
This saxophone melancholy, which told yes your music, which she illustrated: the moment at the end of the party when you emerged from the companionship in solitude. How would you describe your music-soul?
I rarely go even at parties. Parties can be awfully tiring, I think. Most of them are in any case become impersonal, fashion magazine parties. I prefer to retire to my villa. I have a beautiful garden in Sussex. Not that I would dig there all day. I do not have much themselves - except mowing against writer's block! But nature means a lot to me. I'm such a ...
Homesick man who depends on the desire.
I am fascinated by impermanence. I was nine when I should write an essay, and I wrote this very sad story. The teacher was fascinated and asked me where this sadness would like me it was invaded? I dont know. It's just in me, I have this dark side. It attracts me, almost obsessively. I'm not afraid of sadness. Sad music can be very cleansing and soothing. Know "Four Last Songs" of Richard Strauss? Beautifully!
If I count correctly, you will soon ...
70! Yes, you talk it out quietly. I'm in Berlinbe on my birthday, the night before we act. Then I'll probably go out to eat with a couple of band people. Small, nothing special. It's strange, when I consider how many of my friends have already died; very, very close to the part. It makes me sad when I think about it. I often wish that they were still here. One should not think so much about the age, it leads to nothing. Old is not old, just as one can die young. But the idea that it is sometime past, already makes me a little scared. It would be great if I could live forever.
Forever 70 you mean? Can you learn to take off his shyness at some point, or tape them a lifetime at one?
One can try to overcome them, they really going never leaves you. You have to learn to live with it. I do not know who composed temperament, genetics or the origin? We have very poor living at home. My father fed as a miner our family, you know, it was that kind of life. This does not mean that you will automatically be shy. It was neither good nor bad. It was just like that. And, having grown up there, in Newcastle, a city in the gray North East of England, has also made me strong.
It was the mining stronghold. Then shut the large mines, unemployment and resignation took hold.
There is a harsh climate up there, people are tougher, more direct. Who needs to work hard to make any long sentences. At the same time you feel their pride, their grounding. Non Cricket and teacups - working class.
Do you still have contact with?
A little, not continuously or periodically. My two sisters now live in the South. Two months ago we had a very sad funeral in the family, as we are all met. That was interesting.
In what way?
My Uncle Bryan had died. I had a very close relationship with him. According to him, I am also named. He was the one who took me to my very first concert, Jazz in the City Hall of Newcastle. He was very important for my career. And then I stood there with my four children that their very old family members saw at once that they rarely see. There was a band playing. Yes, it was good ... it was interesting to stand there in my past with my sons. My father never talked to me about feelings, not a word. Never.
How did you grow up?
I went to a state school, so I stayed at home to study. My kids came with eight boarding school. Hart. We saw them only on weekends. For her mother, it was normal, her whole family was at boarding schools, it was part of their upbringing. My background was just another. I think I have learned to deal with it.
And, moreover, made a tremendous career.
Well, I never thought to be worse due to my origins. I often felt even as sophisticated as some who came from a better society than I am. Because I knew the importance of education in life. Later, with the success, I learned then to know so many people from all social classes. The relativized something crucial for me: that nothing about origin indicates whether someone is good or not good, clever or dull. One can develop snobbery from the bottom up, too, as a contempt for the upper class, which can also be very English - why must live in such a big castles? So I never thought.
They are but the icon of "Englishness" They have always dressed like that.
Oh, Fred Astaire, Cary Grant, all have well dressed, and they came from a modest background. And these movie stars have always been my role models, not any Dukes, only some had stopped the same tailor.
I found your video to the really top-of-the-pops-song "Avalon" looked at again, this upper-class world: Castle, White Tuxedo, the women in shiny silk. What you meant this world was your imagination of wealth, of happiness?
That was never my style! The director wanted it, not me. I had little time and then have it only nod. It was his fantasy of wealth. The main thing to remember. I had it in Cubacan play in a kind of Hemingway bar, not so flat. What the heck, that is so long ago.
Was not that the Jerry Hall Time?
God, no, I was with Jerry Hall 76 dating, I think.
After their separation, she married then Mick Jagger. What is it like to lose a woman to another alpha male?
I beg your pardon? No, I can not say anything, it would be presumptuous. It is also too long and too unimportant in my life.
Okay, we do not need. But why is love so complicated? Understand the women?
Well, right now I am not in the state of being in love. Not so long ago it was different. I had very strong feelings for a woman for about five years.
They were married to her. She is 36 years younger than you.
She was younger, that's right, much younger. It was more like the French style ...
She was the ex-girlfriend of her son.
Never! She never was. This story is a pack of lies. It's bad enough that you might assume at all, it is true.
It was really in every newspaper.
No, Amanda was never the girlfriend one of my sons, they simply was a friend of all of my sons. Otherwise it would have been already shameful. You know, and that is precisely the reason why it is nowadays not always pleasant to give interviews. Journalists consider nothing more, just write from. It was a spiteful gossip reporter who has time spread this nonsense. Its chief editor has indeed subsequently apologized to me, anyway, it was becoming more widespread.
Not any longer longer. How it is to be thrown back to a bachelor life?
What can I say, I live alone at the time, and I slowly get used to it.
Is lovelorn with 70 as much as 17?
Maybe you feel it at the age worse! Hm. It helps only the time. And a good dog on the side! I have a Border Terrier, Bobby. He is already old. So I have to start thinking about a new dog.
So bad?
Well, this year had his moments. I would not call it my best, although the last few years have been very interesting for me. I am more at peace with myself. My children are grown up, I have to worry about less.
How is your son Merlin after the car accident last year before Christmas?
It was awful. It's a miracle that he is alive!
Someone tried to overtake a truck ...
And tore with my son. I was on my manor four hours away from him when I received the news. He was in critical condition. I thought he would be dead when I arrive at the hospital. He had worst internal injuries, but survived it. Tragically, he now has an infection on his arm, muscles and nerves are destroyed. He can not move his hand. He will have a very long time to do so. But he can go, his brain has taken no harm. He's only 25. I thank God!
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