Songs From The Soul Of My Suit

Brian Ferry (sic)

Unknown Label 647 005 DISCS: 1 LP (clear vinyl)

Track Listing

Side One

Let's Stick Together
Love Is The Drug
A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
This Is Tomorrow
Shame, Shame, Shame
In Your Mind

Side Two

All Night Operator
You Go To My Head
Love Me Madly Again
Casanova
Tokyo Joe

Writing Credits

All Songs Written By Bryan Ferry except "Let's Stick Together" (Harrison) Love Is The Drug (Ferry and Mackay) "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" (Dylan) "Shame, Shame, Shame" (Reed), and "You Go To My Head" (Gillespie/Coots)

Musicians

Bryan Ferry voice, keyboards
Chris Spedding guitar
John Wetton bass
Paul Thompson drums
Ann Odell keyboards
Phil Manzanera guitar
Chris Mercer tenor sax
Martin Drover trumpet
Mel Collins soprano sax

Details and Ratings by Simon Galloway

Source

TV broadcast Australian TV special 1977

Details

There has been a lot of confusion over this recording down the years. The sleeve claims it was recorded on the 7th July 1979, whereas other sources claim it is a rehearsal tape. It is in fact from a special performance recorded for Australian TV in May 1977 whilst on tour down under. Ferry and his band assembled in a TV studio, without an audience, and performed a truncated set for the cameras. It was transmitted on Channel 7 in July 1977

This pressing seems to have emerged from Germany, with an Italian cover and is on clear vinyl. A nice touch is that photo reproduction on the cover is quoted as being by Interpol (Paris), Scotland Yard (London) and BKA (Wiesbadan)

There is a further appalling inaccuracy on the sleeve. Bryan Ferry's name is misspelled as Brian!

Rating

Sound		8
Performance		9
Overall		8.5