“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.)