Bryan Ferry

‘I wanted a hit!’ Bryan Ferry on recording Slave to Love in Bette Midler’s house

‘Its first performance was at Live Aid. The drummer broke his kit, the bass was in a different tuning, David Gilmour’s guitar wasn’t working – and my mic was inaudible’

Interviews by Dave Simpson

28, Oct, 2024 @3:13 PM

‘It speaks straight from the heart’: Bryan Ferry, Adele and Engelbert Humperdinck on Bob Dylan’s Make You Feel My Love

As the ballad appears on the latest Bootleg Sessions box set, some of the many artists who have covered it explain why it tugs their heartstrings

Annie Zaleski

31, Jan, 2023 @4:00 PM

Roxy Music review – arch art-rockers peacock their peerless anthems

Reuniting for a 50th anniversary tour, the band have lost none of their sophisticated swagger in a career-spanning set which highlights their enduring originality and influence

Malcolm Jack

11, Oct, 2022 @1:27 PM

Amanda Lear: the androgynous muse to Dalí who made disco intellectual

The subject of a new documentary, who is also portrayed in an upcoming Dalí biopic, scorned modelling as ‘immoral and stupid’, turning instead to a lifetime of underrated, high-minded pop

Angelica Frey

01, Jun, 2022 @6:25 AM

Bryan Ferry: ‘I did a lot of whistling on my paper round as a lad’

The Roxy Music star answers your questions on his favourite Newcastle boozers, the influential mentors who shaped his thinking, and the temptation to overproduce everything

Dave Simpson

28, Apr, 2022 @2:00 PM

Post your questions for Bryan Ferry

As the Roxy Music frontman publishes his lyrics, releases new music and prepares a 50th anniversary tour, he will ponder Guardian readers’ questions

Ben Beaumont-Thomas

19, Apr, 2022 @11:07 AM

Pino Palladino, pop's greatest bassist: 'I felt like a performing monkey!'

One of the world’s most celebrated bass players has worked with everyone from Adele to Elton John, the Who and D’Angelo. But the Welsh musician has hidden from the spotlight – until now

Alexis Petridis

06, Apr, 2021 @5:00 AM

Bryan Ferry review – lounge lizard still at his best on the dancefloor

The Roxy Music frontman’s crooning numbers can be sophisticated – and also dull. It’s when he gets slinky that his tour’s opening night comes alive

Jude Rogers

10, Apr, 2018 @10:25 AM

'Pete Doherty tried to get out of the car at 80mph': the stories behind NME's greatest covers

From Stuart Maconie romping up the Eiger with Stone Roses to Vivien Goldman having her mind blown by reggae sound systems, writers and editors from four decades of NME delve behind the front pages

Interviews by Ben Beaumont-Thomas and Laura Snapes

09, Mar, 2018 @9:18 AM

Bryan Ferry on how Roxy Music invented a new kind of pop: 'We were game for anything'

With their thrillingly strange 1972 debut, Roxy Music announced themselves as a band that were unlike anyone else. The singer looks back at how they created a new kind of music – out of Stax, oboes and Marilyn Monroe

Jon Savage

01, Feb, 2018 @12:58 PM

'Such a sad event': why musicians hate the Tory party conference

Florence Welch and Calvin Harris have objected to their music being used at the Tory conference – the way Keane and the Dandy Warhols once did, too. It’s not surprising, given the tin-eared way the Tories twist song meanings