Bryan Ferry CBE was born on 26 September 1945 and is an English singer and songwriter.
60 Facts About Bryan Ferry
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Bryan Ferry's voice has been described as an "elegant, seductive croon".
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Bryan Ferry established a distinctive image and sartorial style: according to The Independent, Ferry and his contemporary David Bowie influenced a generation with both their music and their appearances.
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Bryan Ferry began a parallel solo career in 1973 by releasing These Foolish Things, which popularized the concept of a contemporary musician releasing an album covering standard songs and was a drastic departure from his ongoing work with Roxy Music.
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In 2019, Bryan Ferry was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Roxy Music.
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Bryan Ferry was born in Washington, County Durham, son of Mary Ann and Frederick Charles Bryan Ferry.
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Bryan Ferry's parents were working-class: his father was a farm labourer who looked after pit ponies.
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Bryan Ferry attended Washington Grammar-Technical School on Spout Lane from 1957.
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Bryan Ferry studied fine art at Newcastle University from 1964 until 1968, under Richard Hamilton for one year, and some of his paintings were displayed at the Tate Gallery in 1970.
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Bryan Ferry's contemporaries included Tim Head and Nick de Ville.
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Bryan Ferry then moved to London in 1968 and taught art and pottery at Holland Park School while pursuing a career in music.
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Bryan Ferry formed Roxy Music with a group of friends and acquaintances, beginning with bassist Graham Simpson, an art school classmate, in November 1970.
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Bryan Ferry met women's fashion designer Antony Price at a party in Holland Park in 1972, and later that year enlisted him alongside other friends including Nick de Ville to create the cover for Roxy Music's debut album.
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Bryan Ferry began a parallel solo career in 1973, performing cover versions of old standards on his debut studio album These Foolish Things and his second album Another Time, Another Place, both of which reached the UK top 5.
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Bryan Ferry released three solo albums during this period, Let's Stick Together, In Your Mind and The Bride Stripped Bare, all of which charted in the UK top 20.
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In July 1985, Bryan Ferry performed at the London Live Aid show, accompanied by Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour.
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In 1996, Bryan Ferry performed the song "Dance with Life" for the Phenomenon soundtrack, written by Bernie Taupin and Martin Page.
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In 1999, Bryan Ferry released his tenth solo studio album As Time Goes By, consisting of cover versions of 1930s songs.
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In 2002, Ferry released a new studio album, Frantic, which featured several tracks written with David A Stewart of Eurythmics as well as collaborations with Eno, Manzanera and Thompson.
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In 2003, Bryan Ferry provided the entertainment for the Miss World contest.
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However, Bryan Ferry later stated that some of the material from these sessions would most likely be released as part of his next solo album.
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In March 2007, Bryan Ferry released the album Dylanesque, an album of Bob Dylan songs with backing vocals from Tara McDonald and Anna McDonald.
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The album charted in the UK top 10, and Bryan Ferry undertook a UK tour.
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On 7 October 2008, Bryan Ferry was honoured as a BMI Icon at the annual BMI London Awards.
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In 2009, Bryan Ferry provided vocals on DJ Hell's record U Can Dance.
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Bryan Ferry provided vocals for the song "Shameless" on Groove Armada's 2010 album Black Light.
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In June 2011, Bryan Ferry was made a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours for his contribution to the British music industry, and in 2012 he was awarded the French national honour of Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
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In 2014, Bryan Ferry was made an honorary Doctor of Music by Newcastle University.
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In 2014, Bryan Ferry toured extensively, with notable performances including Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, as well as an appearance at the Chicago Theatre, which was preceded by a talk with author Michael Bracewell at the Museum of Contemporary Art on the subjects of fame and his creative inspiration.
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In June 2014, Bryan Ferry appeared at the Glastonbury Festival, and in 2015 he returned to Coachella to perform as a guest artist with Terje.
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In November 2014, Bryan Ferry released a new album entitled Avonmore, featuring original material and two cover songs.
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Bryan Ferry continued to tour Europe and North America in the three years following the album's release, consistently playing no fewer than 30 shows each year.
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In 2017, Bryan Ferry gave his debut performance at the Hollywood Bowl, backed by the venue's full orchestra.
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In November and December 2018, Bryan Ferry made his second appearance with the long-running concert series Night of the Proms in Germany, along with the Pointer Sisters, Milow, and Tim Bendzko.
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In February 2020 Bryan Ferry released live album Live At The Royal Albert Hall, 1974, a recording from his first ever solo tour.
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Bryan Ferry continued touring with a UK run in March 2020, finishing the tour shortly before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down touring in the United Kingdom.
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Royal Albert Hall 2020, an album recorded live at the Royal Albert Hall in March, was released in April 2021 with the proceeds going to support Bryan Ferry's touring band and crew members.
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In May 2022, Bryan Ferry released a cover EP called Love Letters.
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Shortly after the announcement of the EP, it was confirmed that Bryan Ferry would be participating in a Roxy Music 50th anniversary reunion tour with Mackay, Manzanera and Thompson.
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In 2007, Belgian fashion designer Dries van Noten created a Fall 2007 collection inspired by outfits Bryan Ferry wore during his solo career and tenure with Roxy Music.
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Bryan Ferry has credited numerous art and film influences throughout his career, among them Richard Hamilton, Marcel Duchamp, and Humphrey Bogart.
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For Bogart, Ferry penned the song "2HB", leading the band Madness to record "4BF", on their 1988 album The Madness.
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In 1975, Bryan Ferry began a relationship with model Jerry Hall: they first met when she appeared on the album cover for Siren, which was photographed in Wales during the summer of 1975.
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Bryan Ferry's stay at Ferry's Holland Park home, following the album photo shoot, marked the start of their relationship.
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Hall and Bryan Ferry lived together, sharing homes in London and in the Bel Air neighbourhood of Los Angeles, and Hall appeared in some of Bryan Ferry's solo music videos, including "Let's Stick Together" and "The Price of Love".
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Bryan Ferry said he was "saddened and shocked" by her death.
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In 2000, the whole Bryan Ferry family were on British Airways Flight 2069 to Nairobi when a passenger forced his way into the cockpit, attacked the pilot and caused the plane to lurch downwards.
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Bryan Ferry has been arrested and charged several times for activities relating to hunting, only one of which led to a conviction.
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Bryan Ferry's children have contributed to his albums Olympia and Avonmore.
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Bryan Ferry appeared with Ferry on several TV shows to promote the Frantic album, and performed on the Frantic tour in 2002.
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In 2009, Bryan Ferry began a relationship with Amanda Sheppard, an acquaintance of one of his sons, and on 4 January 2012, they married in a private ceremony on the Turks and Caicos Islands.
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In 1988, Bryan Ferry referred to himself as "sort of conservative" in his beliefs in an interview with the Chicago Tribune.
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In 2007, controversy arose when Bryan Ferry praised the imagery and iconography of Nazi Germany in an interview with the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag, citing in particular "Leni Riefenstahl's movies and Albert Speer's buildings and the mass parades and the flags".
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Bryan Ferry later issued a public apology for any offence caused by the comments.
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In 2007, Bryan Ferry performed at a concert to raise funds for the Countryside Alliance.
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In 2008, Bryan Ferry indicated that he supported the Conservative Party, referring to himself as "conservative by nature" but essentially apolitical, preferring not to mix art with politics.
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Bryan Ferry expressed an opposition to "left-wing bitterness" and political correctness, arguing both were stifling to individual liberty and freedom of expression.
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In 2012, Bryan Ferry was a guest at the Conservative Party's black-and-white ball.
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Bryan Ferry had a cameo role in the fourth episode of the French television miniseries Petit dejeuner compris, which first aired in 1980.
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In 2017 Bryan Ferry appeared as a cabaret singer in the television series Babylon Berlin.