(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."