Bryan Ferry - Alphaville (1995)

 In 1995 Bryan Ferry went into the studio with Eurythmics Dave Stewart to record some songs for his next album. The sessions went well enough to tape twelve songs, but for whatever reason Ferry didn't feel happy enough with them to release them, and so the album was shelved. Instead, like the last time that sessions were abandoned, Ferry released his covers album 'As Time Goes By', although that didn't actually come out until 1999. It wasn't until 2002 that his next record of original material emerged, with 'Frantic' including re-arranged and re-recorded versions of 'Cruel', 'Nobody Loves Me', 'San Simeon' and 'Fool For Love'. Another long gap followed before 'Olympia' appeared in 2010, and once again the 'Alphaville' sessions were raided to provide alternate versions of 'You Can Dance' and the title track, and so as about half the songs have now appeared on his records it's unlikely that this album will ever see the light of day. As Ferry employed the services of Kate Moss for the covers of the 'Olympia' album and singles, I've kept that theme for the sleeve of this one. 

Track listing

01 Love War
02 Cruel
03 Alphaville
04 Nobody Loves Me
05 I Don't Want To
06 Sonnet #18
07 You Can Dance
08 One Way Love
09 Hiroshima
10 This Love
11 San Simeon
12 Fool For Love