avalon_eyes wrote:
We’ll all be aware of forthcoming 50th anniversary release dates of both For Your Pleasure and Stranded.
It will also be the 50th for the aforementioned These Foolish Things, which was a bold and innovative move by Ferry, and caused a few eyebrows to be raised at the time.
I was too young to realise just how bold a move this was by Ferry at the time. I simply just loved the album and I can still recall the unique aroma of the cover that record sleeves no longer seem to produce.
Elegantly Ageing Hipsters,
A welcome intervention from the ever tasteful avalon_eyes.
This was indeed a bold and innovative move from our hero but perhaps less ‘eyebrow raising’ for those of us that had seen ‘The Gas Board’ or, who’d been part of that North East scene. A lot of the soul numbers harped back to that era.
In fact this, more than any of his other albums, reminds W2 of Newcastle. He remembers conversing endlessly with Julie’s DJ, Tony Clark and with Annabel’s John Harker about the album. They both loved it and, of course, when Ferry came into Annabel’s, Harker couldn’t resist playing ‘Hard Rain’. A bit ‘uncool’ and certainly something that made Bryan look a little embarrassed.
Halcyon days and W2 still plays the album on a punctual basis.
Salutations a tous ,
Windswept