Bryan Ferry: Last News

Roxy Music‘s frontman Bryan Ferry has sold 50 per cent of his music catalogue in a deal with Iconic Artist Group.The deal includes a range of assets from Ferry’s music career including his solo work as well as the work from his time with Roxy Music. Iconic Artists Group also acquired half of the singer’s sound recording, publishing, and name, image and likeness rights.

Bryan Ferry has today shared a new single called ‘Star’ – his first new music in over a decade. Check it out below.The song features on an upcoming album from Ferry called ‘Retrospective: Selected Recordings 1973-2023‘, which is set for release on October 25.

Bryan Ferry has announced a new 81-track career retrospective compilation, including a reimagined version of Bob Dylan’s ‘She Belongs To Me’ – listen below.The former Roxy Music frontman will release Retrospective: Selected Recordings 1973-2023 on October 25 via BMG, and you can pre-order it here.Included among the vintage tracks will be a brand new song in the form of ‘Star’, his first original song in more than 10 years, as well as a new version of ‘She Belongs To Me’, first released on Dylan’s 1965 classic album ‘Bringing It All Back Home’. Listen to the cover below.Retrospective will be the first collection to span the entirety of Ferry’s solo career, covering 16 solo albums and over five decades of recordings.Ferry released his debut solo album ‘These Foolish Things’ in 1973, just weeks before Roxy Music’s third album ‘Stranded’, and continued to record and release music both on his own and with the band until Roxy Music’s first split in 1983.The new collection brings together his recordings with various labels over the years, including Virgin, Polydor and BMG, and will be available in a 5CD deluxe box set, accompanied by a 100-page hardback book with extensive new liner notes and rare and unseen photographs and imagery.There will also be a 2LP gatefold edition titled The Best Of Bryan Ferry, comprising 20 tracks, and a 1CD version made from the same choices.Disc One: ‘The Best Of Bryan Ferry’Disc Two: ‘Compositions’ Disc Three: ‘Interpretations’Disc Four: ‘The Bryan Ferry Orchestra’ Disc Five: ‘Rare and Unreleased’ News of the compilation comes after the singer sold 50 per cent of his music catalogue in March as part of a deal with Iconic Artist Group.

Sports Team have announced plans to release their third album ‘Boys These Days’.The band have returned with the follow up to their 2022 album ‘Gulp!’ and shared new single ‘I’m In Love (Subaru)’, which you can listen to below.“The song captures that tension between those glossy inanimate objects you can project any desire onto versus all the stuff that creeps in behind it,” explained vocalist Alex Rice. “It should be a very uncomplicated love song, talking about cars and how people perceive their relationships, but with humanity, nothing is ever that simple.”He continued: “Having been in London guitar world for a quite while, I began looking at people like Bryan Ferry and how it can be a bit more fun if you play around with characters.

Roxy Music have announced the special guest support act for their forthcoming UK area shows, as well as releasing additional tickets for their London date.The Bryan Ferry-fronted group recently reunited for their first live shows since 2011 to mark the 50th anniversary of their self-titled debut album, which came out in 1972. They’re currently out on the road in North America.Next month, Roxy Music will return to these shores for concerts in Glasgow (October 10), Manchester (12) and London (14).Today (September 14) it’s been announced that extra tickets for the currently-sold-out gig at The O2 in London will go on sale this Friday (September 16) – you’ll be able to purchase yours from here.