From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V12 #119 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Friday, May 4 2007 Volume 12 : Number 119 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [AVALON] A Personal Statement [Joel Hurd ] [AVALON] Just Amazing ["Nigel Hollis" ] Re: [AVALON] Just Amazing ["Michiel van Sleen" ] To leave the list, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon-digest ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 03:46:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Joel Hurd Subject: [AVALON] A Personal Statement " A Personal Statement In response to recent items in the media that have depicted me as an admirer of fascism, and, worse, Nazism, I would like to set the record straight. During a 45 minute interview for a German newspaper a couple of months ago while promoting my new album of Bob Dylan songs "Dylanesque", I was, among many other things, asked about my career-long interest in style and design. It has been widely reported that in this interview I described Nazism as "just amazing", and said that my London recording studio is known as a 'fuhrer-bunker'. It is also said that my passing interest in certain formal aspects of the work of two German modernists, the filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, and the architect Albert Speer, is evidence that I condone the politics and policies of the Third Reich. These are false accusations. In fact and in substance, they are as absurd as they are personally upsetting. I did not describe fascism in these terms, neither ever would I, nor did I even discuss fascism in this interview-period. I have never referred to my studio as a 'fuhrer-bunker.' Stories resulting from this interview have misrepresented my feelings, the language I used, distorted and seriously reinterpreted the meaning of what I did say and were totally taken out of context. As a student of Fine Art at Newcastle University, I studied European Modernism. Along with thousands of others, I visited the exhibition 'Modernism', held last year at London's Victoria & Albert Museum, which included the work of Speer and Riefenstahl. From an art historical perspective, the work of German modernists is widely acknowledged; to suggest that an aesthetic and historical interest in them is evidence of agreement with or an endorsement of the politics of their creators, or of the people they served, is, frankly, ridiculous. My entire career as a singer and songwriter has in many ways been a paean to black American and Jewish art forms and artists - to soul music, jazz, blues, and to the great writers and performers of Hollywood and Broadway musicals. Like all sane people, I find the politics and policies of fascism and Nazism to be abhorrent and I deeply apologize to anyone who was unintentionally hurt by the way my comments were misrepresented in the media. Bryan Ferry May 2007 " Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 14:48:52 +0100 From: "Nigel Hollis" Subject: [AVALON] Just Amazing Michiel writes :- "Somehow I can't hear Ferry saying "just amazing". I'm quite sure he never said it". No he didn`t, I have a tape recording.. He said, "Mein Fuhrer-bunker ist einfach erstaunlich - Sieg Heil" Would anybody like a bootleg? N. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 21:05:30 +0200 From: "Michiel van Sleen" Subject: Re: [AVALON] Just Amazing Usual rules apply. But these words were totally taken out of context. - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nigel Hollis" To: "avalon digest" Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 3:48 PM Subject: [AVALON] Just Amazing > Michiel writes :- > > "Somehow I can't hear Ferry saying "just amazing". I'm quite sure he never > said it". > > No he didn`t, I have a tape recording.. > > He said, "Mein Fuhrer-bunker ist einfach erstaunlich - Sieg Heil" > > Would anybody like a bootleg? > > N. > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V12 #119 ***************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest