In Every PR Snafu a Heartache


(via Reuter's)
Bryan Ferry, former frontman for all time great band Roxy Music and acknowledged crooner in his own right, is apologizing for comments he made to a German newspaper admiring Nazi iconography.
"The way that the Nazis staged themselves and presented themselves, my Lord! I'm talking about the films of Leni Riefenstahl and the buildings of Albert Speer and the mass marches and the flags -- just fantastic. Really beautiful," said Ferry.
The protests from Britain's Jewish community, lead Ferry to state, "I, like every right-minded individual, find the Nazi regime, and all it stood for, evil and abhorrent."
While in general it's possible to appreciate the aesthetic of a society without condoning their actions (or else we'd have to discount the art of a number of truly savage cultures in world history), Ferry didn't help matters by admitting he'd named his studio "Fuhrerbunker."
Posted in: BRYAN FERRY , ROXY MUSIC
 

4 Responses

April 17, 2007 at 12:47 p.m.

there must be some sort of context there, right? dude doesn't just get interviewed by a German newspaper and laud the nazis.

April 17, 2007 at 12:53 p.m.

I mean he sorta did. The reporter brought up his studio named "Fuhrerbunker" and he went on to talk about the aesthetics of the Nazis. He did mean it in an art history and not anti-semetic way, but it was fairly out of the blue.

April 17, 2007 at 1:14 p.m.

still probably not smart, unless you're talking to a reporter for an iconography or art history magazine

April 17, 2007 at 1:21 p.m.

Definitely thin ice

Add a comment


 

Prefix Logo

  Site Index RSS
Email or Username: Password: Register
Recent Comments
Forum Posts