Michael Hann

The magic of Bryan Ferry

Plus: Lewis Capaldi has a big, rich, soulful voice but he rather overplayed the comedy at his gig at the Wembley Arena

Opulence and anxiety: Bryan Ferry at the Royal Albert Hall. Photographer: Iain G. Reid (beanotownphotography.com) 
issue 21 March 2020

The accepted line about Bryan Ferry is that his is one of the greatest reinventions in English pop culture: Peter York said, in 1976, that his life was ‘the best possible example of the ultimate art-directed existence’. But watching him at the Albert Hall, I couldn’t help thinking of my father.

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