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I recently digitised Bryan Ferry’s 1985 solo album Boys & Girls. Despite being 25 years old I found that it still sounds very fresh and fairly contemporary. It is unlike most of Ferry’s other solo stuff in that all of the tracks are self-penned and while it doesn’t feature any other Roxy Music personnel (unless you count Andy Newmark, Alan Spenner & Neil Hubbard) I have to agree with the Amazon review below and concur that it sounds very like the last Roxy album Avalon which preceded it by a couple of years. The feature track is undoubtedly Slave to Love.

Amazon Description

Ferry’s first solo effort since the second breakup of Roxy Music is arguably his best, in part because it continues in the direction the band had been going. It’s like AVALON, only more so.
Here, Ferry’s lounge lizard affectations are writ large; the lyrical pose is all bruised romantic fatalism(say hello, “Slave to Love”), and the music fits it like a glove. The album’s soundscapes are lush and echo-laden, and nearly every track has a discreet disco pulse; “Valentine”, the one exception, is mid-tempo reggae. Overlaid with skittish percussion and guitars, BOYS AND GIRLS is the aural equivalent of a white dinner jacket and a half-empty bottle of champagne. Buy at Amazon.

http://www.bryanferry.com

http://www.roxymusic.com

Short article as I don’t have one. How can you? It is impossible to like one piece of music more than any other. It depends on so many factors.

As I start to type this I am listening to “Roadhouse Blues” by The Doors from the 2007 remastered The Very Best of The Doors

Can’t say that I am a massive fan of The Doors – this is the only CD of theirs that I own – but I do think that every serious listener should have “Riders On The Storm” which is featured here.

Lead singer Jim Morrison “died young”. There are quite a few notable musicians who also died before their time or did they ? Wasn’t it the fact that they did die young that determined their “time”. Morrison would be 60+ if he were still alive. Would he have turned into something entirely different from the image portrayed above and would in fact have lost all of his mystique along the way. Discuss.

The Doors at Wikipedia