Crooner Ferry a Red Hot Dad

by Jane Stevenson

Toronto Sun, 12th July 2002

Just imagine. Sartorially splendid and cool-as-a-cucumber Bryan Ferry enjoying the rambunctious, funk-rock antics of a Red Hot Chili Peppers concert.

It happened recently when the 56-year-old, sometime frontman for Roxy Music took his four teenaged sons -- ages 11 to 19 -- to see the Peppers at London Arena.

"It was really good," Ferry told The Sun earlier this week while in Toronto to chat up his new solo album, Frantic.

"I took my four boys with me, because they were all fans. They kept talking about it for ages and I just made a call, so we got all the V.I.P. tickets and passes," Ferry said. "I got them (frontman Anthony) Kiedis' autograph, which is quite cool. They don't know that yet. I got them that in Paris."

Consider them told.