Now Bryan Ferry solo career glides majestically forward
When Roxy Music released Avalon in 1982, it landed with a sense of arrival rather than conclusion. Polished, restrained, and emotionally elusive, the album crystallized the refined aesthetic Bryan Ferry had been inching toward for a decade. Not long after, Roxy Music quietly disbanded. There was no formal announcement, no farewell tour. Ferry didn’t explain. Instead, he moved forward, fully inhabiting the sound he had helped invent.
