Bryan Ferry Live In New York: A Career Of Cool

I knew Bryan Ferry was going to be cool in person, but I didn’t know he was going to be that cool.

Even though he’s well into his dotage–the Durham born singer is 74–he exudes a timeless elegance that makes him rock and roll’s eternal casanova. He looks great, he sounds great and he knows how to put on a show.

Ferry’s show at the Captiol Theater (8/7) was a clinic of cool–a career-spanning 22-song set that included tracks from his Roxy Music catalog as well as his solo work.

Of the former, numbers like “India” and “More Than This” were rather heart-stopping and of the latter, “Slave To Love” and “Boys and Girls” were definite highlights.

The last few years have been busy for Ferry–he put out 2018’s Bitter-Sweet album, earlier this year he was elected into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with his Roxy Music bandmates and his 2019 World Tour has stops in Europe, Japan, Canada, The United States, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.

But all that work aside, Ferry was unruffled onstage and deep into the set, through numbers like the cresting “Avalon” or the funky “Love Is The Drug,” he remained a picture of fashionable grace.

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