Notes
On Modernism
1.John Donohue, âNight Life,â New Yorker, June 4, 2015, www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/cultural-clicks-caitlyn-jenners-predecessors-bryan-ferrys-new-video.
2.It is instructive to compare Ferryâs songs with the more sensual, somber ones by Poulenc discussed by Alex Ross in âFrancis Poulencâs Drunken Angels,â New Yorker, August 10, 2020, www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/08/17/francis-poulencs-drunken-angels.
3.Adrian Glick Kudler, âA Totally Incomplete History of Trouble at the Chateau Marmont,â Curbed, July 30, 2019, https://la.curbed.com/2013/6/26/10227258/chateau-marmont-hotel-history-deaths.
4.As defined by Timothy D. Taylor, âPerformance and Nostalgia on the Oldies Circuit,â in Sound Souvenirs: Audio Technologies, Memory and Cultural Practices, ed. Karin Bijsterveld and JosĂ© van Dijck (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2009).
5.Juline Costa provides an example in her cover of Ferryâs cover of âYou Are My Sunshineâ: YouTube video, 2:45, November 1, 2018, www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2fh8vqXip8.
6.The phrase, ironically, was not coined by Pound. It is from Confucianism and the scholarship of Chu Hsi. See Ezra Pound, Ta Hio: The Great Learning (Seattle: University of Washington Book Store, 1928).
7.Michael Bracewell, Re-make/Re-model: Becoming Roxy Music (Boston: Da Capo, 2008), passim, 330â1.
8.The French title is La mariĂ©e mise Ă nu par ses cĂ©libataires, mĂȘme (1923); itâs also called Le Grand Verre or The Large Glass.
9.The literature on Duchamp (and this particular work) is vast, but for an introduction, see Linda Dalrymple Henderson, âThe Large Glass Seen Anew: Reflections of Contemporary Science and Technology in Marcel Duchampâs âHilarious Picture,â â Leonardo 32, no. 2 (1999): 113â26.
10.Stephen Holden, âBryan Ferry Portrays Darkness of Romance,â Chicago Tribune, August 11, 1988, www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1988-08-11-8801220148-story.html.
11.Simon Philo, Glam Rock: Music in Sound and Vision (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2018), 63.
12.Jonathan Rigby, Roxy Music: Both Ends Burning (Richmond, UK: Reynolds and Hearn, 2005); David Buckley, The Thrill of It All: The Story of Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music (London: Deutsch, 2004); Paul Stump, Unknown Pleasures: A Cultural Biography of Roxy Music (London: Quartet Books, 1998).
13.The following information is from Michael Hamilton, âGoing Back to His Roots: BF Talks to Michael Hamilton on North East Life,â Bryan Ferryâs official website, November 20, 2009, http://bryanferry.com/roots/.
14.Studio One archive.
15.Mitchell Morris, âLists of Louche Living: Music in Cole Porterâs Social World,â in A Cole Porter Companion, ed. Don M. Randel, Matthew Shaftel, and Susan Forshcher Weiss (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2016), 84.
16.âBryan Ferry,â World of Harmonica (blog), August 14, 2012, http://worldofharmonica.blogspot.com/2012/08/bryan-ferry.html.
17.Sarah Larson, âInstrumental Ferry,â New Yorker, March 4, 2013, www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/03/11/instrumental-ferry.
18.Jeremy Allen, âRoxy Music: 10 of the Best,â Guardian, February 25, 2015, www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2015/feb/25/roxy-music-10-of-the-best. âCocaine avariceâ likely refers to the yuppie culture and middle-class excesses of Thatcher-era Britain.
19.Andrew Gaerig, âOn Second Thought: Roxy Music; Avalon,â Stylus, September 17, 2007, http://stylusmagazine.com/articles/on_second_thought/roxy-music-avalon.html.
20.RĂ©ginald-JĂ©rĂŽme de Mans, âA Hall of Famer,â No Man Walks Alone, July 1, 2019, https://nomanwalksalone.com/newsroom/a-hall-of-famer.
21.Taylor Parkes, âAn Unsettling Creation: Bryan Ferry Interviewed by Taylor Parkes,â Quietus, November 13, 2014, https://thequietus.com/articles/16665-bryan-ferry-interview.
22.Patrick Gale, Friendly Fire: A Novel (New York: Open Road, 2016), 3.
23.Ian Buruma, âThe Invention of David Bowie,â New York Review of Books, May 23, 2013, www.nybooks.com/articles/2013/05/23/invention-david-bowie/.
24.The aviatorâs uniform was for a 1975 video of âLove Is the Drug.â The patch was real; he injured his eye walking into a door.
25.David Bowie, âWithout You (2018 Remaster),â YouTube video, 3:09, August 15, 2019, www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXoD5Gz-Aak.
On Avalon
1.Ian Little, future producer of Duran Duran, was involved in the design of the studio, which was called âGalleryâ at the time and is now called âSongphonic.â
2.Sam Inglis, âRecording and Remixing Roxy Musicâs Avalon: Rhett Davies and Bob Clearmountain,â Sound on Sound, August 2003, www.soundonsound.com/people/recording-remixing-roxy-musics-avalon.
3.Bryan Reesman, âLooking for âAvalonâ: Bryan Ferry Talks about His Past, Present, and Future,â Goldmine 33, no. 20...