Out of nowhere this pops up today:
----(The journalist has covered Ferry many times... Roxyboy)....
http://politiken.dk/kultur/musik/ECE2475756/bryan-ferry-hvis-ting-bliver-gjort-af-kaerlighed-har-de-som-regel-blivende-vaerdi/Google says:
"Bryan Ferry: "If things are done with love, they usually have lasting value '"
Music nobleman is as a songwriter a timeless and conservative guy.
With his white tuxedo jacket and penchant for crooning with water in the hair and swimming pool in the background looked like Bryan Ferry early an image of unwavering and slightly decadent conservatism in the middle of rock music's restless and unruly modernity.
Bryan Ferry looked not at all what he was. Namely, the son of a Northern English miner from Durham. Ferry junior had more eye for class than class struggle. It is what comes out of it, when society closes the door ajar for social mobility and sends the working class sons of art school as a 17-year-old.
Ferry helped start Roxy Music in 1970. A blistered experiment and a special chapter in rock music history. But Bryan Ferry's solo career has since the beginning 41 years ago was a picture of stylish conservatism. Gradually, the image and the man melted together.
Champagne, trophy wives and country house
Bryan Ferry has been the epitome of English gentry. A life as a millionaire with champagne, trophy wives, country house and an adult son who as its highest goal in life fighting for the right to commit fox hunting in the old English way. In the family Ferrys case can really talk about social mobility.
I hate when people tear beautiful buildings down and behave something awful ugly something instead. I like to preserve
Up to the last election in Britain went Bryan Ferry out and declared themselves conservative. Without making a big deal out of it. The same can be said about the 69-year-old popsangers new album 'Avonmore'. Stylish and conservative pop music with a sprinkling melancholy yearning for the world of yesterday.
So not the one that was expressed as coal dust ingrained in facial skin pores, but elegant swingpjattet jazz music and monumental buildings with gesvejsninger. So of course it is the modernized and now even more upscale D'Angleterre, to rock music's self-made gentleman greets us in Copenhagen. Less can not do it.
What does the word 'conservative' for you?
"It means 'if it is not broke, do not fix it'" laughs Bryan Ferry.
"I hate when people tear beautiful buildings down and behave something awful ugly something instead. I like to preserve. So preserve things that are good. I also like new things, but many of the bad things in life are associated with greed. People build ugly, because it is cheap, and they will earn from it. It's a shame. If things are done with love, they usually lasting value. "
Did you have some concerns about publicly declare you as a conservative?
Bryan Ferry moving slightly in his chair.
"Yes, I did actually. For I do not generally about artists who interfere in politics. I prefer to believe that art is above politics and is at a higher and more refined sphere '.
A timeless type
Already in time with Roxy Music did you like someone from another time. As perhaps came from a place completely outside time. A more refined and beautiful place where you valued other things?
"I like timeless thing. As a landscape can be beautiful then and now. I love history. It was my favorite subject in school. We had a beautiful old teacher who really could get past to life. She grabbed my imagination. "
Has this historical approach influenced your way of interpreting music?
"Yes, I think so."
Jazz music has a tradition of interpreting a standard repertoire, while only a few of the rock music world has managed to crack the code. One of them is Bryan Ferry, who as early as 1973 established himself as one of rock music's few interpreters of class. On his new album 'Avonmore' he besides Stephen Sondheim 'Send In The Clowns' elected Robert Palmer's 'Johnny & Mary' from the 1980 album 'Clues'. Of all the songs in the world why one? That is the question, an interpreter must constantly ask themselves.
"It should be a song that you still think is interesting when you have heard it many times. It should not be something temporary. It should be songs, I feel nothing. I do not want to analyze it too much, because it is so much about feeling "explains Ferry and pours tea while his words settles gently settle onto the carpet's pile.
"I thought, 'Johnny & Mary' was a really good song when it came out. A man and a woman in a situation in their home. It was quite poetic, I think. A song to interpret, not just be good. It must have an opening where you can contribute something fresh. Otherwise it is pointless. My most successful cover versions have been those who have imitated the originals least. As for example, 'A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall', "said Ferry, who as one of the few have had artistic success in dealing with rock music canon in the same way as jazz standards. Not as deeply personal statements, but room for interpretation.
At the concert in Copenhagen in October was 'Jealous Guy' once again a highlight. What is it with Ferry and Lennon's song?
"The day after John Lennon's death we had to play at a big show in Germany. I suggested that we practiced 'Jealous Guy' as an encore and as a tribute to John Lennon. I was a great admirer of his art and his song. No sooner said than done. And the audience reacted really strongly in the positive sense. With cigarette lighters and all. It was quite a scene. So when we came back to England, we went into the studio and recorded it. I did something a little Japanese anything with strings eventually. That I imagined, as he would have liked. The only time I met him was in Tokyo, where he was with his wife, who was the Japanese, "said Bryan Ferry, who has a good explanation of why he is so happy to mix interpretations and original material.
"Writing songs is a lonely affair. You sit there and try to find something in yourself that you want to express, "sugar Bryan Ferry. So you are looking forward to the point where we can finally work can go into the studio and get it to live. The road is undeniably shorter when the song is not to be invented first, but only to be found.
Roxy Music's experimental music and Bryan Ferry's stylish pop are two different strategies that evening after evening will merge in a concert with Bryan Ferry, where Roxy repertoire clutters up. How he unites the two?
"It's a bit like having a left and a right hand. As breakfast and dinner. I like to stay in town, and I like living in the country, "explains Bryan Ferry.
"It was an exciting time with Roxy Music. It was so new everything together and we really felt we played uncharted territory. We had an interesting symbiotic relationship going, and for a while it was really interesting to me with Eno, McKayes oboe and Manzanera, who could play everything I asked him on his guitar. But I think the groups have a limited lifespan, "he says.
Perfectionists
"I makes me great trouble, when I make music," says Bryan Ferry, who is known as a perfectionist and spends a lot of time in his studio in London.
Careful unit also applies to his highly acclaimed excursions into jazz music, where he has both sung neglected classics and later on 'The Jazz Age' has 'jazzificeret' 13 of his songs from Roxy Music and solo career and pretended that Roxy Music was a story from the 1920s and 1970s.
Do you think it points forward or back?
"In a way both. As far as I know, there probably never before someone who has taken his own material and placed it in a different era. At the same time, I could show people that the music from the 1920s in fact was quite beautiful and still sounds lovely. It's always great to hear talented people play, "said Bryan Ferry.
That was unnecessary SB, it was a good article which trod new ground in parts and W2's comments and thoughts are perfectly valid, he's entitled to express them.