Bryan Ferry in Berlin: The suit sitting – Tagesspiegel

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The man with the sense of style is 70. Bryan Ferry still sings and celebrates with a concert at the Tempodrom in his birthday purely – at least almost.

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He is likely to forever the best-dressed man in England remain. His sense of style is perhaps the result of proletarian origin. Bryan Ferry, who was born on September 26, 1945 in North East England, is the son of a miner and still the only avowed conservatives of British pop. Even at times of the hated Margaret Thatcher he held – it Diedrich Diederichsen once pointed – the Tories loyalty. And unlike some of his colleagues Ferry UK has never turned his back in order to pay less taxes need.

It fits the picture that at the concert in the Berlin Tempodrom on the Devotionalientisch besides T-shirts with the black and white face Young, hauntingly beautiful singer and Barbour jackets are sold that bear his signature. Bryan Ferry is in immaculate-casual black suit on stage, the collar is naturally open. At the opening song “Avonmore” from the same, last year released album are Ferry, wrapped his seven-piece band and three backup singers in front of fan-shaped headlights flickering from dark blue light. The seating in hall turns so in a mix of luxury disco and oriental Serail.

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“How many a year has passed and Gone / Many a gamble HAS BEEN lost and won “

Rock riffs in cotton mix with the whispering Saxofonmelancholie. Has always alternated with Bryan Ferry, the lascivious lulling the energetic euphoric moments from. His hit “Slave to Love”, backed by a bit too intrusive guitar solo, he rewinds rather bored from, later he sings another confession song about the dependencies of life, the jagged “Love is the Drug” from his old band Roxy with greater passion Music. “How many a year has passed and gone / Many a gamble HAS BEEN lost and won,” it says in “Bob Dylan’s Dream”.

That sounds like a bitter life balance Blues. Many friends are gone, many games have been lost. Ferry plays Dylan Hobo song in a block with its separation ballad “Do not Think Twice, It’s All Right”. The first song sags in Piano Guitar Violin euphony, the second his voice is accompanied only by the piano – she is fragile and blurred become. Last winter he had need to cancel his concert in Berlin because of a laryngitis. To hear is after all also that Ferry can play better than Dylan harmonica, which he once dedicated the cover album “Dylanesque”

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The best pieces of the evening come from Roxy Music. “Ladytron” from the debut album from 1972 begins as a disaster and then to triumph. The piece, after meanwhile an electronic band named from Liverpool is sugared with castanets and clarinet harmonies, guitarist riding on his wah-wah pedal, and in the end everything explodes in winking rainbow light. Similarly impressive are the pompous glam rock of “Stronger Through the Years” and the halborchestrale sound collage “Tara”. For his solo career Bryan Ferry has left the avant-garde experiments of Roxy Music behind. He took some remarkable plates on, but as good as with the band and his colleagues Brian Eno and Phil Manzanera, he was then never again.
The concert on Friday evening Bryan Ferry celebrated his 70th birthday in. Almost. The gig ended at 22.30 clock. With the additions danced the entire sold-out hall. Congratulations

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