10 Unusual 1970s Lead Singers

9. Bryan Ferry, Roxy Music (Est. 1971)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n3OepDn5GU Bryan Ferry must€™ve secretly started life as a hybrid of human and lizard. Watch the video for Roxy Music€™s 1975 hit €œLove Is the Drug€ and see for yourself. Dig those creepy pouting lips, shaped like he€™s constantly exhaling cigarette smoke. And check out that heavy-lidded squint. The strangeness at work here is low key and stiff but nonetheless invasive to personal space. In the early seventies Ferry had committed to the glittery dress, makeup, and big hair of the glam rock movement. His image later morphed into a white-tux lounge singer, as he came into a kind of uncomfortable cool. By far most distinctive about him are his trembling vocals, which are both beautiful and troubling.
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