“Brian Ferry is completely cool.”

I’d never heard of Brian Ferry when I arrived in England many, many years ago.  One of my roommates was shocked:  “Brian Ferry is completely cool,” she said.  If you ignore the funny faces he makes and the weird bolo tie, this song makes her case:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk-hVaI0R24[/youtube]

And here’s another cool gem from the early 1980s:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucGsJ8-DBEg[/youtube]

(And I’m going through a major case of memory lane here.  I’ve been youtubing all the music from my high school and college years.  It makes me feel simultaneously young again and quite old.)