James Bond, Count Dracula, Oscar Wilde, and Ben from Blue Velvet… all wrapped up into one elegant, influential, and original motherf#€%er

Superb ‘analogy’

yeah Man......to grow up here and appreciate a guy named Ferry......is an accomplishment......

Suave and sophisticated

Roxy is A Drug❤❤❤❤❤

Beautiful. Have tickets to United Center show in September- really hoping this is on their set list.

One of the few songs that I lean more towards the cover than the original. Incredible cover. AND he did this song as an encore, if I am not mistaken. You can see the sweat on him before he even starts.

Agree

Sorry but it's BrYan 🙄

He did the same with In The Midnight Hour.

This song is the original, John Lennon covered it

He deserved MUCH more recognition.

Was he the one who played on the Avalon album? If so, yes. Great bassist. It was a bit difficult to keep up with all their different bass players. I think they went through something like 20 of them over the course of their initial 10 year run.

@@Shikta-poobah67 Indeed!

I'm a jealous girl...he is amazing!

And I´m Jealous guy, `cause we (our generation) have the best music..

I'd jump on stage

Joy Wright I had the pleasure last week watching him live :)

did you? I'm so jealous - I wish I had seen him in the 80's - I love the Bette Nour tour!

Thank you and you band-player's for special's moments in muzik History!! I can't forget this very bad bad day, at the Same MOMENT, I greatulated my brother Ralf for his Birthday, came the horryble message about John Lennon is shot Down In the Radio! I coudn't believe..... Greating's from Germany ALEX B.

Yea he's elite

I'm a jealous girl you were there! Damn! What a night that must have been.

True.story..whistling..is. Excellent

Well.like..the.live..song...ferry..is..great

Ferry sung it as a tribute to lennon in December 1980

I tend to be really late to the game a lot. I never heard this before and I was a teenager when Lennon was killed so I really should have been aware. It's incredible as good if not better than the original. I will.call it a tie because I love John Lennon's version with Nicky Hopkins on piano

@@tonydoherty2190 Ferry’s version was released in February ‘81

Thank you Judy! I love you too!

PS-If I burned a cassette of this for one friend I did it for 50.

I’m American, and obviously here in the states they weren’t anywhere near as huge as they were in their native UK, or in mainland Europe or Australia… so one thing I remember is how this absolutely masterful, transcendent tribute was essentially ignored by American FM radio. The only reason I ever heard it back then was because of my aunt, who was a rare American Roxy Music obsessive. In ‘81 when this came out, they were her favorite band. She had the import single and played it for me. I was just 13 at the time but I was blown away… both by the song itself, and by the utter disbelief that it wasn’t being played *AT ALL* on the radio. Such was often the case with these things here in the good old USA. A lot of truly amazing and essential bands that were megastars on the other side of the pond were just completely ignored over here. I’m still not sure why that is.

He dint die he was killed thank you america.

@@mikestevens5837 didn't he die of lead poisoning

@@mikestevens5837​​⁠So let me make sure I have this right…. Lennon was ‘killed’, but he didn’t die. Is that about right? Oh, and it was America that killed him, not a mentally disturbed and completely obsessed fan who had been stalking him outside his home on the upper West Side of Manhattan for several days? Right… because no one ever gets murdered by stalkers anywhere else on earth other than the USA. So noted. Must’ve been a conspiracy too, I’m guessing. Several different government agencies involved? 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

+David Dove HFS in 82, those were the days. How much great music did that station expose us too?

And who cares which one is supposedly “better” anyway? It’s all just a bunch of opinions. I love ‘em both.

Hey, weren’t you the one correcting everyone on the spelling of Bryan’s name? I see more than a few grammatical boo-boos riddled throughout your comment. Y’know, since we’re pointing these things out.