{"id":803955,"date":"2020-02-07T11:21:03","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T18:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=948641"},"modified":"2020-02-07T11:21:03","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T18:21:03","slug":"song-you-need-to-know-bryan-ferry-sympathy-for-the-devil-live-in-1974","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/song-you-need-to-know-bryan-ferry-sympathy-for-the-devil-live-in-1974\/","title":{"rendered":"Song You Need to Know: Bryan Ferry, \u2018Sympathy For the Devil\u2019 Live in 1974"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/bryan-ferry-sympathy-for-the-devil.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>In early 1974, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/bryan-ferry\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bryan-ferry\" data-tag=\"bryan-ferry\">Bryan Ferry<\/a> was on an amazing roll. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/roxy-music\/\" id=\"auto-tag_roxy-music\" data-tag=\"roxy-music\">Roxy Music<\/a> were at their height, carving out their unique, glammy art-rock space as they made great albums at a yearly clip. (Later in 1974, they\u2019d release one of their finest in <em>Country Life<\/em>.) At the same time, Ferry was putting out his own solo records, starting with 1973\u2019s near-perfect covers collection <em>These Foolish Things<\/em>. Just as Ferry\u2019s tuxedoed smoothness and Old World charm stood out among the grease-haired prog-rockers of the era like Jay Gatsby hanging out at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TW6W9iOjTKM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">the Isle of Lucy Blues Jazz Festival<\/a>, his solo music was completely in its own visionary world. Today, mixing serious rock (\u201cA Hard Rain\u2019s A-Gonna Fall\u201d), Sixties pop (\u201cIt\u2019s My Party\u201d), and pre-rock and roll standards (\u201cThese Foolish Things\u201d) doesn\u2019t seem that radical. But at the time, treating Leslie Gore and Bob Dylan as if they were just part of the same continuum of good-time oldies was a sly, subversive gesture.<\/p>\n<p>Ferry\u2019s new <em>Live At the Royal Albert Hall \u2014<\/em>&nbsp;recorded in 1974 between the release of <em>These Foolish Things<\/em> and its followup <em>Another Time, Another Place \u2014<\/em>is a must-hear snapshot of one of the Seventies\u2019 finest artists on an absolute tear. The crowd is amped, the band (featuring Roxy guitarist Phil Manzanera and drummer Paul Thompson and augmented by string and horn sections) is on fire, and Ferry\u2019s performance is perfect, a demolition sashay through a rock and roll canon of his own making \u2014 whether he\u2019s strutting through a funky take on the Beatles\u2019 \u201cYou Won\u2019t See Me,\u201d getting way down against John Porter\u2019s boogie wonderland bass on Ike and Tine Turner\u2019s \u201cFingerpoppin\u2019,\u201d doing a wired proto-punk pogo through \u201cYou\u2019re So Square,\u201d or deepening the sad girl-group soul in the Beach Boys\u2019 \u201cDon\u2019t Worry Baby.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The highlight might be Ferry\u2019s show-opening race through the Rolling Stones\u2019 \u201cSympathy for the Devil,\u201d all diabolical swing and Continental cool, as if Lucifer is riding his tank through a casino in Monte Carlo. Hear it here.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/bryan-ferry-sympathy-for-the-devil-live-948641\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In early 1974, Bryan Ferry was on an amazing roll. Roxy Music were at their height, carving out their unique, glammy art-rock space as they made great albums at a yearly clip. (Later in 1974, they\u2019d release one of their finest in Country Life.) At the same time, Ferry was putting out his own solo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-803955","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-23 09:17:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}