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Bryan Ferry and Amelia Barratt: Loose Talk review – Roxy demos remade, remodelled as eerie duets

Veering from the standard heritage-artist playbook, Ferry pairs unearthed demos from across his career with cool narration from Barratt, to beautiful, unsettling effect

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Bryan Ferry and performance artist Amelia Barratt share new video for title track of upcoming art rock album Loose Talk

Roxy Music's Bryan Ferry creates music for another artist's words for the very first time with Amelia Barratt for Loose Talk

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“For Pink Floyd songs, David is happiest when I play an old Fender with a pick”: Session legend Guy Pratt on the Jazz Bass he bought from John Entwistle and how he conjured a “massive octave-pedal freakout” with Madonna

In addition to his main gig with David Gilmour, Guy Pratt has played bass on some monster hits, including Madonna’s Like a Prayer and Michael Jackson’s Earth Song

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Unpeeled tomatoes and barn conversions: Nicky Haslam reveals what’s ‘common’ this year

Instagram release of tea towel featuring what the UK designer ‘finds common’ has become an annual ritual

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“Unfriendly immigration officers read ‘musician’ and ask, ‘Anything I should know?’ I say, ‘Oh yeah!’ They remember Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and it’s OK”: Yello’s offbeat synth prog ethic gets Dieter Meier round the world

The “Dada version of Bryan Ferry” – who says he uses bandmate Boris Blank’s audio imagery to find structure then leap off into chaos – admits he was never a tortured artist

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“Everyone knows Take My Breath Away, the chart-topping ballad from Top Gun. But there’s a good chance you haven’t heard this seven-minute anthem”: David Gilmour's 10 greatest guitar guest appearances, from folk legend Roy Harper to Paul McCartney

There are occasions when your track needs something. It could be more cowbell. Or it could be the services of David Gilmour. Over the years, the former Pink Floyd man has dropped magic on a number of guest spots, but these are his finest

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“The drummer broke his snare-drum skin, the bass was in a different tuning, Gilmour’s guitar wasn’t working properly…”: Bryan Ferry remembers Slave To Love’s chaotic live debut

Bryan Ferry on how difficult Slave To Love was to get right

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‘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’

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"All of his solo work is worth owning, but this collection is a mighty big entry point":The best of Bryan Ferry collected on the epic Retrospective 1973-2023

Celebrating 50 years of Roxy Music frontman Bryan Ferry as solo artist

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Herbie Flowers, bassist on Lou Reed’s Walk on the Wild Side, dies aged 86

Flowers also featured on other rock hits, including for David Bowie, T Rex, Bryan Ferry and Elton John

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Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and… Bryan Ferry? The mind boggles

Trent Reznor and Bryan Ferry collaborate on a track

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Bryan Ferry hooks up with Nine Inch Nails for his first original song in more than a decade

Bryan Ferry's new single Star was written with Nine Inch Nails duo Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross

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“All I can remember was Robert Fripp giving up completely, saying, ‘There’s no hope’”: King Crimson’s torturous journey through fourth album Islands – and its 30-year fallout

How King Crimson fractured, regrouped and fractured again as they made 1971 album Islands

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Bryan Ferry announces 81-track Retrospective: Selected Recordings 1973-2023

Byran Ferry's new solo career retrospective will be released this October

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Whistle down the wind: The Aussie attempting to save whistling from the cultural dustbin

Whistling in music - Molly Lewis is upholding a fine pop tradition

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“They’d been to university, they had bank accounts; two of them were teachers; they had a car; they’d got a bank loan to buy a PA!”: Phil Manzanera always knew Roxy Music were going to make it

Guitarist who failed his first audition recalls making 1972 debut album for just £5,000

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Bryan Ferry Partners With Iconic Artists Group To Expand Legacy

Bryan Ferry partners with Iconic Artists Group to expand his musical legacy, including hits from Roxy Music. Learn about Ferry's career milestones and endu...

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Short Stories 2024: Dinner Time

Elermore Vale's Sally Davies is a finalist in the Newcastle Herald Short Story Competition 2024 with this entry, Dinner Time.

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“It was when we knew Roger Waters wasn’t going to be part of anything we did, but before he’d officially left. He had us trapped in limbo. I was putting my toe in the water”: David Gilmour’s solo career

Despite saying it’s less complicated to work alone, David Gilmour’s association with Pink Floyd means he never wandered far, or for long, from the band

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Kevin Rowland: ‘I couldn’t ever see myself doing the music again. I was violently against it’

The Dexys lead singer explains how tai chi and a vegan diet helped him find his creative energy – and why he was too shy to say hello to Bryan Ferry

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"We could have been bigger had we had an amazing manager. We’re our own worst enemies": How Roxy Music got it together despite themselves

They looked like they were from “Planet Zog” and sneaked through a gap created by drug addiction - but the members accept they could have made it easier for themselves

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“This is what I can’t bear about fans: they assume songwriters are writing about themselves all the time” - Brian Eno’s quest to deliver “interleaved stories”

Music as movement, speakers in teapots and laughing with Robert Fripp are all part of the great experimenter’s process

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That time Thom Yorke formed a glam rock band with members of Radiohead, Suede, Roxy Music and, umm, David Gray’s drummer

When Thom Yorke was recruited for fictional band The Venus In Furs as part of the Velvet Goldmine soundtrack, the Radiohead singer was told to “ham it up”

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Guy Pratt: “I always thought that the second I walked out the studio, the producer would be on the phone to Pino Palladino”

The session stalwart discusses his career as a sideman, gigging with Pink Floyd, and chatting to Noel Gallagher and Suzi Quatro for his music podcast, The Rockonteurs

The Guardian - UK

‘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

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