![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In “Same Old Scene,” Ferry sang, “Nothing lasts forever” and both he and the backing trio of singers to his right, Phebe Edwards, Fonzi Thornton and Senab Adekunle, sang the rejoinder “Of that I’m sure.” Ferry shot a smile their way during that bit.Īnd then, not to belabor the point, there was the opening line of “Jealous Guy,” “I was dreaming of the past ….” the closing song. It was there in the sadly graceful “Oh Yeah” – about that song Ferry and his lover used to groove to with “the rhythm of rhyming guitars” in his car “on the way to the movie show.” The song begins with the two of them at the end, Ferry’s in the car, on the way to another show, but alone, the act bringing those memories of young lost love back to him. (He was 26 when it was first released.) When they played it at Fenway, it brought little shivers down my spine, that ineffable mix of melancholia with just a glint of triumph, of recapturing what once was. Ferry is looking back to the open-eyed enthusiasm and optimism of youth even as they seemed to have passed by him and the woman he’s singing about. “When we were young” and “When you were young” are key lines in the final stanza of “If There Is Something,” a centerpiece song off their first album, played mid-set last week. 17 at Boston’s MGM Music Hall at Fenway with Roxy at full strength – the originals, Ferry, guitarist Phil Manzanera, saxophonist Andy Mackay and drummer Paul Thompson – all in their 70s, with Ferry in fact turning 77 on Sept. It was there when Roxy was a young brash retro/futurist glam band in 1972 and it was there on Saturday Sept. Roxy Music – or, if you will, lead singer and chief songwriter Bryan Ferry – has always been, in part, about looking back to youth, about a certain embrace of wistful ennui even in the throes of in-the-moment pleasure. Roxy Music 50 tour poster (Image: Roxy Music) ![]()
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