Greatest Hits (Cassette)

While fronting Roxy Music in the 1970s, Bryan Ferry devised a blueprint for art-rock, and as a solo performer, he brilliantly updated the parameters of the pop songbook. Although Ferry's solo career did include several excellent self-penned tracks, he is perhaps best known for his adventurous interpretations of a vast array of songs from the rock and pop canon. Combining a studied, wry, lounge-singer persona with a genuine passion for everything from Motown and Bob Dylan to 1930s songbook, Ferry's performances add a post-modern gloss to pop standards. Following rumors of a reunion, Roxy Music re-formed in the early 2000s for a successful world tour.

• Category:  Music  »  Rock & Pop  »  General Rock & Pop
• Format: Cassette   Learn more about the Cassette format using Tower WIKI.
• Release Date: October 5, 1999
• Label: Virgin Records (USA)
• UPC: 724384817343
• WAPI (Tower ID): 106263651
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Personnel: Bryan Ferry (vocals).

Producers include: Peter Sinfield, Bryan Ferry, Chris Thomas, John Porter, John Punter.

Almost since the first Roxy Music album in 1973, frontman Bryan Ferry had had a concurrent solo career that morphed from almost campy lounge into ultimately-suave decadence--while the band arrived there after starting as glam-rockers. Shortly after these two evolutions met, Roxy Music disbanded and Ferry continued on. Heavily skewed toward this later period in Ferry's career, MORE THAN THIS examines the highly polished, slick sophistication that he perfected on the AVALON album.

The band's brilliant first single "Virginia Plain," the frankly rather wacky version of Dylan's "A Hard Rains a-Gonna Fall," and the solid grooves of the story-song "Love Is the Drug" are all from the early years, but the focus here is really on the diamond-hard, funky jazz-rock that became the Ferry's true forte--tracks like "Dance Away" and "Angel Eyes." Though the two songs from AVALON--"More Than This" and the title track--included here eclipse most of Ferry's other work, "Slave to Love," "Oh Yeah," and "Same Old Scene" are all certifiable masterpieces. After AVALON, Ferry's solo recordings, including "Kiss and Tell" (from BETE NOIRE) and his cover version of "I'm in the Mood for Love" (from AS TIME GOES BY), have successfully refined ideas from those tracks.

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