Bryan Ferry Announces Retrospective Album, Shares New Bob Dylan Cover: Listen
Bryan Ferry is looking back on his solo career with the 81-song Retrospective: Selected Recordings 1973-2023. The huge new collection includes numerous covers, favorites from across the Roxy Music frontman’s catalog, rarities, a new track titled “Star,” and more. The five-disc album opens with Ferry’s first-ever solo single, a cover of Bob Dylan’s “A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall,” and also includes a new cover of Dylan’s 1965 song “She Belongs to Me.” Find that, along with a handful of tracks from the box set, below.
Retrospective: Selected Recordings 1973-2023 is out October 25 via BMG. It’ll be available digitally and as a five-disc collection that comes with a 100-page hardcover book of liner notes, photographs, and imagery. A condensed edition, The Best of Bryan Ferry, will also be released in double-vinyl and single-CD formats.
Ferry released his most recent studio album, Bitter-Sweet, in November 2018. Check out the Sunday Review of Roxy Music’s 1973 sophomore album, For Your Pleasure.
The elegant glam-rock veteran and Roxy Music leader Bryan Ferry is now more than 50 years deep into his solo career, and he’s in a mood to look back. Last year, Ferry released a deluxe edition of this 1994 solo album Mamouna, and it featured a full unreleased album as a bonus. Today, Ferry announces plans for a career-spanning box set called Retrospective: Selected Recordings 1973-2023. It’ll feature more previously unreleased music, including Ferry’s first new original song in 10 years.
In recent years, Bryan Ferry has released a lot of covers, as well as reimaginings of his own music. He hasn’t released any new original songs since his 2014 album Avonmore, but that’s about to change. The 81-track Retrospective box set will include the new song “Star,” a collaboration with the Glasgow musician Amelia Barratt.
Retrospective will also include a lot of cover songs, since those have long been a staple of Ferry’s solo career. The first single from Ferry’s first solo album, 1973’s These Foolish Things, was an arch take on Bob Dylan’s “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall,” and Ferry has covered Dylan plenty of times over the years. Along with the Retrospective announcement, Ferry has shared a newly recorded Dylan cover, his luxe take on Dylan’s playful 1965 classic “She Belongs To Me.” Below, listen to Ferry’s cover and Dylan’s original
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