I'm not quite sure whether we had that one from 'Berliner Morgenpost'. The article starts with a very indescreet question but then it gets better. Bryan's answers go beyond the same old statements ...
http://www.morgenpost.de/kultur/article ... lanze.htmlThat's what the Google Translator proposes - every second sentence is complete nonsense, sorry ... :
Bryan Ferry - "Music's like a tender plant"
Bryan Ferry is after his illness rejection now with almost exactly one year late guesting in the Berlin Tempodrom. The mature, still glamorous pop Dandy is almost as timeless as his songs that yes not aging now. In Tempodrom Ferry is on 25 September, presented one day before his 70th birthday, as well as classics aplenty - selected hits of ex-band Roxy Music ("Avalon"), the best part of his long solo career ("Slave to Love "), small side trip to the Jazz and songs from the current album" Avonmore ". We spoke with Ferry - dark blue suit, white shirt, he got rid of the tie - in his studio and office property in London's Kensington district Edel.
Berliner Morgenpost: Bryan Ferry, one of their newer pieces called "One Night Stand". It is certainly tactless to ask when such an experience has recently taken place in them.
Bryan Ferry: You are actually the first journalist who wants to know about me. The honest answer is that I can no longer remember.
This is more convenient to say it?
No, it's really a very long time ago. This song is based purely on imagination. I have always been in love before, before I slept with a woman. I believe in the theory of the love and the practice has largely me, though not always, confirmed in my faith. I am a man who is romantic ideas inclined. Volatile amorous adventures had for me never a romantic appeal.
The elegant and sad song "Lost" that at "Slave to Love" reminds a little, treats the end of a love relationship. Is "Avonmore" a separation Album?
No, that sounds so cheap. (laughs out loud)
Why are they laughing?
Music was and is for me a means to treat me so. My songs are a theater of illusion. I want to stimulate the imagination of the listener. Writing about love, over and over again, so is ideal for me. This is simply fulfilling than when you sing about politics or about furniture. I myself am often amazed at how many variations of love songs there.
Consult other men about you in relationship issues?
Well, it would be ill-advised if they did. Women are an infinite mystery. Because women are inscrutable, the world turns on and on. I like this fascination, even if it sometimes is a fatal fascination.
A snippet from the album "The Jazz Age", in which you play instrumental jazz versions of their classics, were in the movie to hear "The Great Gatsby".
Yes, also invited us director Baz Luhrmann, to play at the opening ceremony of the Film Festival in Cannes. I love the novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald and enjoyed it to have been a small part of this film.
You are 70. Think occasionally mind to put you to bed?
No. Every day to play golf or tennis, that may be pleasant. But most likely it would bore me quickly. I am happy to recover on the weekends, visit a friend in France or on Ibiza. I'm not a party animal, I do not go dancing.
But?
No. I prefer a quiet atmosphere. Which does not mean that I do not like to hear dance music. My favorite song was "Get Lucky" by Daft Punk. My friend Nile Rogers plays there with well known. And he is of course again on my album here, just like Johnny Marr, I also appreciate very much. Did you know that Johnny marathon running?
I did not know.
Yes. Unbelievable, right? That would be too much of effort. I have the pleasure to go nice to eat and perhaps now and then in one of these gentlemen's clubs.
Are you a gentleman?
Maybe I am a man who is commonly referred to that way. I pay attention to my appearance, I have manners, I'm polite. I have been well trained, that was the decisive basis. To give my four sons a good education and training, I was therefore very important.
The guys are mid-20s to early 30s had their efforts successful?
That depends on who you ask. Mostly I hear good things about them.
They have become with Roxy Music in the mid-seventies a world star. Today What is your ambition?
Continue. I treat my music with care, each new song is like a delicate plant to which I look after. I believe that one does not survive four decades in this business, when one's own music is indifferent. Many people are so surprised that I still make the effort and publish new albums. But my ambition has never suffered, I will publish interesting and special music and playing concerts. A new album of original songs to take, that's hard work. I like "Avonmore" very much. The songs have energy, radio, rock and roll, they are groovy, and not without erotic aura.
Sing against their age?
I've never suffered to be older. Health is very good to me, and at tennis I take it at any time with guys who are half my age. I also very much located that my art is not einstaubt.
Feel younger, if you play with younger musicians?
Not really. I always feel the same. The guys I play with them now, are just a little bit louder.
What will their program at the concerts?
Two or three pieces from the new album, the greatest hits of Roxy Music, a lot of my solo songs and some cover numbers.
In her band will accompany Tara, the second youngest of her sons, on drums. He continues the family tradition?
I have to leave him. Basically, I like traditions very much. They are important and should be preserved.
What traditions do you concretely at heart?
Everything device by the computer into oblivion or be forgotten. Just the handwriting loses totally important. The children learn no longer to write properly at school, they hardly know even how to hold a pen. I'm always sad when I see a red telephone booths. The few who are left to see from so lonely and lost. I also find that regional peculiarities and cultures should be preserved. I travel a lot and have noticed that the countries that stores, the clothes are always similar. Who, incidentally, has an exquisite sense of traditions, are the Bayern. The lederhosen and dirndl dresses the close I see really love.
