Article: Bryan Ferry: once and future king

BRYAN FERRY

With Combustible Edison

The Orpheum Theatre, last night

One thing about beginning your career as an avant-garde retro/futurist: It's just possible that, say, two decades down the line, those old songs won't sound like crusty relics, but might be possessed with the same crazy vitality they had at the get-go, albeit played mostly by folks not there at the inception.

Such was the case last night for ever-suave, but endearingly gawky, Bryan Ferry, the former (but never say never) singer of Roxy Music, who sold out and held sway over an ecstatic Orpheum audience for 95 minutes. Not that it was a golden oldies show. It's just that the early Roxy tunes Ferry chose to unearth ...

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