For Your Pleasure – Bryan Ferry

Published on 3rd September 2013

FOR YOUR PLEASURE – History Tab

Interviewed by Richard Williams in 1972, the creator of Roxy Music, Bryan Ferry, had claimed the group’s ability to surprise, creatively and artistically, to be one of their greatest strengths. The varieties of this stylistic agility were soon to be demonstrated, not least on Roxy Music’s second LP, released in 1973: the icily poised yetread more

Published on 24th March 1973

8. For Your Pleasure

(Ferry) For your pleasure in our present state Part false part true like anything We present ourselves The words we use tumble All over your shoulder Gravel hard and loose There all night lying With your dark horse hiding Abhorring such extremes You’re rubbing shoulders With the stars at night shining so bright Getting olderread more

Published on 24th March 1973

7. Grey Lagoons

(Ferry) Blue suns and grey lagoons Silver starfish with honeymoons All these and more to choose if you Satin teardrops on velvet lights Morning sickness on Friday nights Heaven knows what others I might bring to you Broken partings making strange goodbyes Hopeless cases with fake alibis Even hoping will be there to share withread more

Published on 24th March 1973

6. The Bogus Man

(Ferry) The bogus man is on his way as fast as he can run He’s tired but he’ll get to you and shoot you with his gun Focused his mind on something he cared about But it came out a shout just like before The bogus man is at your heels now clutching at yourread more

Published on 24th March 1973

5. In Every Dream Home A Heartache

(Ferry) In every dream home a heartache and every step I take Takes me further from heaven is there a heaven? I’d like to think so Standards of living they’re rising daily But home, oh sweet home it’s only a saying From bellpush to faucet in smart town apartment The cottage is pretty the mainread more

Published on 24th March 1973

4. Editions Of You

(Ferry) Well I’m here looking through an old picture frame Just waiting for the perfect view I hope something special will step into my life Another fine edition of you A pin up done in shades of blue Sometimes you find you’re yearning for the quiet life The country air and all of its joysread more

Published on 24th March 1973

3. Strictly Confidential

(Ferry) Before I die I’ll write this letter Here are the secrets you must know Until the cloak of evening shadow Changes to mantle of the dawn Will it be sunny then I wonder? Rolling and turning How can I sleep? Hold on till morning What if I fall? Over the hills and down theread more

Published on 24th March 1973

2. Beauty Queen

(Ferry) Valerie please believe it never could work out The time to make plans has passed faded away Oooh the way you look makes my starry eyes shiver Then I look away too much for one day One thing we share is an ideal of beauty Treasure so rare that even devils might care Yourread more

Published on 24th March 1973

1. Do The Strand

There’s a new sensation A fabulous creation A danceable solution To teenage revolution Do the Strand love When you feel love It’s the new way That’s why we say Do the Strand Do it on the tables Quaglino’s place or Mabel’s Slow and gentle Sentimental All styles served here Louis Seize he prefer Laissez-faire Strandread more

Published on 24th March 1973

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