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Set List: Bryan Ferry, the Alpha Male of Highfalutin Sleaze (New Yorker)

_Photograph by Nikola Tamindzic._

Loving Bryan Ferry--or Roxy Music--has never felt much like an act of faith.
Most fans (I'm one) show up for weird style and the spritz of execution;
variables like wisdom and depth of emotion are beside the point. So it is hard
to understand why a dapper sixty-five-year-old British man couldn't pull off a
reasonable live facsimile of the hustle he's been running for years. But
Ferry's performance at the Beacon last Thursday was a disappointment wrapped
in bafflement. Ferry looks healthy and is in strong voice--which made the fact
that he was hidden inside his own show all the more strange. How did the alpha
male of highfalutin sleaze become the captain of a cruise ship? Why was it
headed for a hedge-fund retreat in Croatia? Why couldn't we see him half the
time? What was with all the goddamned guitar solos?

Roxy Music came out of the fertile and permissive English art-school scene of
the late sixties (a moment documented in Michael Bracewell's excellent 2007
book, "Re-Make/Re-Model"). This clip from a DVD collection of Old Grey Whistle
Test episodes shows the band performing "Do the Strand" in 1972. Presenter
Richard ...

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