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Bryan Ferry picks his Tracks Of My Years

Bryan Ferry selects the songs that mean the most to him in this week's Tracks Of My Years. Plus a new Album and Record Of The Week.

Bryan Ferry chooses the tunes that made him in this week's Tracks Of My Years.

Bryan Ferry dominated the charts in the 1970s and 80s, both as the frontman of his band Roxy Music and as a solo singer. Overall, he鈥檚 sold more than 30 million albums and topped the charts with his solo albums 鈥楤oys and Girls鈥� and 鈥楽treet Life鈥�.

As well as being a prolific songwriter, Bryan has recorded many cover versions, including standards from the Great American Songbook. He enjoyed a Grammy nomination in 2001 for his album 鈥淎s Time Goes By鈥� and has been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame.

His voice and style are legendary: Bryan was once described as 'an art object' who 'should hang in the Tate' by writer Peter York. Kate Bush has said he "was the most exciting singer that she鈥檇 heard" and that for her, he "covered the whole emotional spectrum."

Bryan has a new album out which celebrates his immense body of work called 鈥楻etrospective: Selected Recordings 1973-2023鈥�. It鈥檚 an 81 track album marking 50 Years of his music. Excitingly, he also has a new song called 鈥楽tar鈥�, which is his first original song in over a decade.

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Music Played

  • The Police

    Message In A Bottle

    • The Very Best Of Sting & The Police.
    • A&M.

  • Ini Kamoze

    Here Comes The Hotstepper

    • Pleasure Island (Various Artists).
    • Global Records & Tapes.

  • Lainey Wilson

    Hang Tight Honey

    • (CD Single).
    • Broken Bow Records.

  • Cyndi Lauper

    Girls Just Want To Have Fun

    • Fantastic 80's Disc 1 (Various Artis.
    • Columbia.

  • Ella Henderson

    Filthy Rich

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • The Supremes

    You Keep Me Hangin' On

    • Diana Ross & The Supremes - 40 Motown.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • ABBA

    Take a Chance on Me

    • Abba Gold (40th Anniversary Edition).
    • Polar.
    • 003.

  • Paul Heaton

    H Into Hurt (feat. Rianne Downey)

    • The Mighty Several.
    • EMI.

  • Robbie Williams

    Rock DJ

    • (CD Single).
    • Chrysalis.

  • Morgan Wallen

    Love Somebody

    • (CD Single).
    • Mercury.

  • Dina Carroll

    Ain't No Man

    • The Love Album II (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.

  • Blondie

    Dreaming

    • Atomic: The Very Best Of Blondie.
    • EMI.

  • Manic Street Preachers

    Hiding In Plain Sight

    • Critical Thinking.
    • Columbia.

  • Madonna

    Dress You Up

    • Celebration.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 1.

  • Bobby Brown

    Two Can Play That Game

    • Now 30 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • The Cure

    A Fragile Thing

    • Songs Of A Lost World.
    • Polydor.

  • Florence + The Machine

    You've Got The Love

    • Now That's What I Call Music 74 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
    • 5.

  • Rag鈥檔鈥橞one Man

    All I Know

  • Train

    Hey, Soul Sister

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 1.

  • David Bowie

    Heroes

    • David Bowie - Best Of Bowie.
    • EMI.

  • Jalen Ngonda

    Anyone In Love

    • (CD Single).
    • Daptone.

  • Howlin鈥� Wolf

    Smokestack Lightning

    • Moaning In The Moonlight.
    • Roots.
    • 19.

  • The Crystals

    Da Doo Ron Ron

    • The Best Of The Crystals.
    • Phil Spector Int.

  • Joel Corry & MNEK

    Head & Heart

    • (CD Single).
    • Perfect Havoc.

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