Bryan Ferry announces new 81-track career retrospective, shares reimagined version of Bob Dylan’s ‘She Belongs To Me’

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Bryan Ferry has announced a new 81-track career retrospective compilation, including a reimagined version of Bob Dylan’s ‘She Belongs To Me’ – listen below.The former Roxy Music frontman will release Retrospective: Selected Recordings 1973-2023 on October 25 via BMG, and you can pre-order it here.Included among the vintage tracks will be a brand new song in the form of ‘Star’, his first original song in more than 10 years, as well as a new version of ‘She Belongs To Me’, first released on Dylan’s 1965 classic album ‘Bringing It All Back Home’.

Listen to the cover below.Retrospective will be the first collection to span the entirety of Ferry’s solo career, covering 16 solo albums and over five decades of recordings.Ferry released his debut solo album ‘These Foolish Things’ in 1973, just weeks before Roxy Music’s third album ‘Stranded’, and continued to record and release music both on his own and with the band until Roxy Music’s first split in 1983.The new collection brings together his recordings with various labels over the years, including Virgin, Polydor and BMG, and will be available in a 5CD deluxe box set, accompanied by a 100-page hardback book with extensive new liner notes and rare and unseen photographs and imagery.There will also be a 2LP gatefold edition titled The Best Of Bryan Ferry, comprising 20 tracks, and a 1CD version made from the same choices.Disc One: ‘The Best Of Bryan Ferry’Disc Two: ‘Compositions’ Disc Three: ‘Interpretations’Disc Four: ‘The Bryan Ferry Orchestra’ Disc Five: ‘Rare and Unreleased’ News of the compilation comes after the singer sold 50 per cent of his music catalogue in March as part of a deal with Iconic Artist Group.