I'm 15, this was on my recommended on UA-cam (I listen to a lot of oldies). I remembered my dad putting on a tape with this song it to help me go to sleep, when I was 7/8, there were so many good Roxy Music songs on it that I liked, like 'Like a Hurricane' that I'd stay up to listen to them! Great to hear it after so long :)
This is a special song for me , brings back memories. 2024 and it still Rocks even after all these years. Who ever is watching this i salute you All for having supreme taste in music , Stay safe and well and All the Best with what's happening in the world now ,from the 🇬🇧
Getting emotional listening to this gem and reading the comments. 59 years old next month and at times struggle to accept getting old. However, the great music and memories of my younger days make it okay. We were truly gifted with the best music of a generation in the 80s.
I get ya but with getting old we would never see how special it was. We must accept the good with bad. The balance of all things with one or the other then nothing would be what is. Life is too short to worry,,,Enjoy the now. The moment. Because they soon pass.
The first verse alone is a fabulous little vignette of unrequited love. 'I said it's love, you said "alright" ' , sets it up and 'your're dressed to kill, and guess who's dying ?' delivers the perfect punchline. Amazing lyric. We've all been there !
The guy is full of amazing lyrics. A class of his own, never matched and will be difficult to be matched for a long time. Great lyrics, but Ladytron, In every dreamhome and Mother of PEarl are to my mind in another class alltogether. Ferry knows so well how to play this classy creep, a somewhat disturbed millionair or a hopeless romantic and puts all that in the words so they match all that. Just fantastic. He is a bit like Maradona on the pitch: his topclass work did not last as long as some others (Messi in the case of Maradona and Bowie in the case of FErry). But at his peak no one came anywhere close to his achievements.
You have good taste ... sorry for your loss but I hope happy memories. I use to dance to this and it made me think of a past love, the words being very appropriate to me.
@@JeffC-fq1be saying a band is not underrated can mean two things as I’ve already pointed out. You haven’t clarified what your position is. You could be a huge fan- and so believe they’re incredible and thus not underrated or you could think they’re rubbish and so equally not underrated but for a different reason.
@@wakstar1 Nope. It means one thing: The majority of credible reviewers have consistently given an artist review scores well below where they should be. That hardly seems possible. If an artist is good, everyone knows it. In this case, please cite just one credible reviewer who has dissed Byran Ferry and/or Roxy Music for what they do. Example: Great musicians like John McLaughlin might be panned by a critic or two on some albums, but the majority of critics have him at a very high level.
Can anybody explain musically what that little flourish Ferry is doing when he phrases the word ‘cry’ 0:37? He does it a lot and it’s just magical…Brilliant singer
A quick, trembling, half-voiced vibrato, strictly classically speaking it's more of a trill than vibrato (a trill is a flourish acheived by a quickest possible succesion of usually two close notes)
Roxy just amazing , just genius just so far away from anyone else , a style untouchable by anyone else but the biggest influence on so many great bands that came after them , a dark disco in 1979 I was 18 and when Dance Away played it was amazing
One of those songs and bands I grew up with but never appreciated till decades later. But sometimes you need maturity and experience for the lyrics and mood to hit home. It has.
So true,same here,apart from hearing Same old scene in 81,I just went oooff!Then years later really got into them,once I'd stopped chasing girls,and sometimes catching them.
Also a band i think were responsible for 'the' greatest cover version of all time,'Jealous guy'. Usually covering another artist's song would come with some trepidation and pressure,but to make the song your own and blow the original out the weeds was just amazing!
Another gem from a band that produced so many. This is a song you just have to dance to, hence the title "Dance Away." Roxy Music have a well-deserved place in the pantheon of Rock Music. So many unforgettable, immortal songs. Well done Bryan, Phil, and the boys.
I was watching a show on Catalina Island with the bay of Avalon, which I remembered I loved this song but I loved so many songs during my days of drugs sex & disco..so hear I am listening to Roxy Music album..69 yrs old wow how time flies the older you get..will these great songs be done again in the future?
I love this song for so many reasons. Firstly it’s incredibly poetic and the words resonate. Secondly, I love how for a 1979 song it sounds so 80s but still iconically 70s. Bryan Ferry is a legend! ♥️
This song came out when I was 16 in April 1979, the same month that Dance the Night Away by Van Halen came out. I've absolutely loved both songs ever since. I'm not much of a dancer, but I love great songs... and irony.
As the college disco wound down, the DJ would play "Total Control" by the Motels and "I Can't Tell You Why" by the Eagles, and those of us who hadn't made a connection got to watch couples slow dancing. Then to really twist the knife, he would play this song!
exactly pity that we as Britons have turned into a bunch of slobs who think wearing jogging bottoms is the height of class i will never crumble to it and such awful crassness
Bryan will always be a fucking legend. Saw him in concert a few days ago, he still puts a magnificent show out there. His voice isn't that good anymore, but hey he is 72. Was glad I was able to still see him. He didn't play this song though, but his classics (like these) will forever stay in my spotify playlist. Thanks Bryan.
Pure poetry and fantastic music. Loved it in 1979 and love it even more now. And 'loneliness is a crowded room' is a line I often think of on nights out ;)
Ferry is so cool. Who else could pull off a vibratto like he does and not sound ridiculous? In R&R, no-one dares doing a vibratto, simply because it doesn't go with the genre, but Ferry has always done it with panache and authority, in fact it is, in a sense, his trademark. What a suave dude.
The greatest song lyric of all time in my humble opinion "Its funny how I could never cry, until tonight when you passed by. Hand in hand with another guy. You're dressed to kill and guess whose dying???" Literal genius
This song came out right after my husband that I loved so much abandoned our 7 month old son and myself and married a girl with a rich Daddy and he started living the good life. So, I did what this song said to do, dance away the heartache 💔 dance away the pain.
Some songs inspire, after financial collapse in Birmingham we ended up in Slough. From nice 3 story house to a one room hostel. The manager gave an old fashioned radio, then this song came on the airwaves.
I was only 8 when this come out but clearly remember its very different sound on the radio and in the car (my mum ALWAYS had the radio on) Its the clicking that interested me back then but what a lovely song. I've just turned 49 and still love this!
The 007 of music. Wow buddy, I couldn’t of put it any better and have been searching for that line for my entire life since Avalon in 83. Well done sir.
I am listening to this beautiful song in Feb 25. I am nearly 80 but when I listen to this the years roll away and I am 25 again.
Striking of the match
Coolest ever intro to a song
Bryan just looks so current, if he walked up the kings road in Chelsea right now,dressed and looking like that he would still be the coolest man ever
“Loneliness is a crowded room, Full of open hearts turned to stone, All together all alone” It's pure poetry.
Yes I agree there. I wish I'd written it
Patrick Verlinden Its good to see you have found Roxy
Pure poetry from a truly great singer songwriter.
Kids today can only DREAM of writing lyrics like that!
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1961 babies, class of 1979... born at the right time 🥰 Thank you Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music...
me too. and remember this. back in the day, the artists had hard work to perfect the 'touch' not like today with computer help
You were born the same year as my Mother. I was born in 1989 but would of loved to have grown up in your guys era of music.
1962 born, was 18 yrs old in 1980....! Wouldn't trade it for the world....👍
Deffo 61 born and played this album all the time. I loved the track trash as well ❤😊😊
How about us 89 kids? Absolutely love older music, classics like this will live forever 😊
Had this played at my Mum's funeral a few days ago, she had a thing for Mr Ferry, big time ! RIP Mum, I will miss you xxx
May your mum RIP Steven x
@@nataliealexander7616 many thanks 😊
@@steveN111333 No problem huni.Natalie-Glasgow 🙂
Mum had good taste ❤️
Thats sad but lovely too🥺🤗♥️
Dance Away Mum!👌😍🤗♥️
I'm 15, this was on my recommended on UA-cam (I listen to a lot of oldies). I remembered my dad putting on a tape with this song it to help me go to sleep, when I was 7/8, there were so many good Roxy Music songs on it that I liked, like 'Like a Hurricane' that I'd stay up to listen to them! Great to hear it after so long :)
This is a special song for me , brings back memories. 2024 and it still Rocks even after all these years.
Who ever is watching this i salute you All for having supreme taste in music , Stay safe and well and All the Best with what's happening in the world now ,from the 🇬🇧
For me too.. and you too bro!
Getting emotional listening to this gem and reading the comments. 59 years old next month and at times struggle to accept getting old. However, the great music and memories of my younger days make it okay. We were truly gifted with the best music of a generation in the 80s.
Loved all the songs from Bryan ferry Roxy music, not forgetting slade, even Debbie Harry beautiful woman, she was and still is on ye go Debbie Harry
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I get ya but with getting old we would never see how special it was. We must accept the good with bad. The balance of all things with one or the other then nothing would be what is. Life is too short to worry,,,Enjoy the now. The moment.
Because they soon pass.
Me too. I just turned 60 and this catapults me straight back to fantastic times ❤
Join the 59 club this year in 2024
When you get into your 40s and realise how good Roxy Music were!
I grew up with Bryan Ferry throughout my life in the 80’s. This is still class I am 49 now
Yep. I’m in my mid 40’s and inexplicably became obsessed with them about a month ago. Never really paid any attention to them before.
One of the best songs ever. Just perfect 👌
Sweet, sweet memories of 1979 when i was 18.
62 now and still listening and rembering, such good times.
Thank you Roxy❤️❤️❤️
if you were born in 62 you would have been 17 in 1979
Wow 😂😂 is that all you have to say? Pardon me for not fact checking.@@rayofsunshine5539
@@rayofsunshine5539He posted this comment last year pal so he would of been born in 1961 if he was 18 in 1979.
The line that says loneliness is a crowded room really resonates with me.
Class lives forever
Real music, still here in 2024 Bryan ❤
Still listening 2024. Still fantastic music!
The first verse alone is a fabulous little vignette of unrequited love. 'I said it's love, you said "alright" ' , sets it up and 'your're dressed to kill, and guess who's dying ?' delivers the perfect punchline. Amazing lyric. We've all been there !
Over and over for some of us still single and never married at 50.
The guy is full of amazing lyrics. A class of his own, never matched and will be difficult to be matched for a long time. Great lyrics, but Ladytron, In every dreamhome and Mother of PEarl are to my mind in another class alltogether. Ferry knows so well how to play this classy creep, a somewhat disturbed millionair or a hopeless romantic and puts all that in the words so they match all that. Just fantastic. He is a bit like Maradona on the pitch: his topclass work did not last as long as some others (Messi in the case of Maradona and Bowie in the case of FErry). But at his peak no one came anywhere close to his achievements.
Your comment made the song much more relatable to me! Unrequited love is such a life-degrader.
It’s the line that makes the song. Love it.
"All the way, is far enough" - the way he delivers that line gets me every time...
They were so far ahead of their time!
No Roxy Music - No Duran Duran, ABC, early Talk Talk , Spandau Ballet, Flock Of Seagulls you name `em.
Duran surely remembered the intro for Girls on film
Totally agree
i'm 62 now..... this song sooo many memories 😊
58 here and I know
I am 62 also and Roxy Music is so much better than the crap they play now on the radio.
Words from the heart always tells a story, Mr. Ferry has a big heart.
Memories of the last year of high school.
School was dreadful, Roxy was not.
An achingly beautiful, timeless classic....
Still the coolest man alive.
Life was so simple and fun... Bring it back
Another brilliant track from everyone's favourite lounge lizard.
Ferry and his band always looked so stylish.
The most elegant new wave band. They had a charm and charisma that was mesmerizing.
Still sexiest, they don't make them like this anymore, we were truly blessed xx
My wife always danced to this Song with me until she died. A wonderful song and a big hit. A smoothy Song for a Dance!
Oh bless you you reading your comment brought a tear to my eye it is a good song to dance to with someone you love God bless you💗💗💗💞💞💞💕💕💕😘
Peter from Germany sorry for your loss
You have good taste ... sorry for your loss but I hope happy memories. I use to dance to this and it made me think of a past love, the words being very appropriate to me.
God bless you and your wife can't think of a better song, beautiful, timeless gorgeous, god bless Brian Ferry for all he gave
Danny from London
She will be waiting for you to Dance Away in heaven and until then you will have wonderful memories ❤️
Who’s listening to this fantastic song in 2025 I bought this record in 1979 where’s the time gone . This song doesn’t age classic 🇮🇪
Always mate. Bryan Ferry’s a legend. I remember when I was wee and thinking he looked suave as fuck, like James Bond or something.
love this song. I was 5 in 1979 xx
@@Rcdvst808 you have got to be from Glasgow xx
WOW 41 years ago, I remember first hearing the follow up single to this ANGEL EYES in the Summer of 1979... where indeed has the time gone...
Yeah man, I am. Too cool for time to ruin.
'I said it's love, you said alright' 👌
Still an awesome tune. The classics always pass the test of time.
Life is full of surprises. I miss those days. ❤
Man, he was good looking - tall, slim, handsome, suave, elegant, unique. I’m glad I can watch these videos
Me i am still listening!😮
Bryan Ferry and Roxy music are criminally underrated.
Totally not true. Stop making stuff up.
@@JeffC-fq1be what are you saying? They’re not underrated or they’re not that good?
@@wakstar1 I don't know how I could have been simpler. They are not underrated.
@@JeffC-fq1be saying a band is not underrated can mean two things as I’ve already pointed out. You haven’t clarified what your position is. You could be a huge fan- and so believe they’re incredible and thus not underrated or you could think they’re rubbish and so equally not underrated but for a different reason.
@@wakstar1 Nope. It means one thing: The majority of credible reviewers have consistently given an artist review scores well below where they should be. That hardly seems possible. If an artist is good, everyone knows it. In this case, please cite just one credible reviewer who has dissed Byran Ferry and/or Roxy Music for what they do. Example: Great musicians like John McLaughlin might be panned by a critic or two on some albums, but the majority of critics have him at a very high level.
Can anybody explain musically what that little flourish Ferry is doing when he phrases the word ‘cry’ 0:37? He does it a lot and it’s just magical…Brilliant singer
A quick, trembling, half-voiced vibrato, strictly classically speaking it's more of a trill than vibrato (a trill is a flourish acheived by a quickest possible succesion of usually two close notes)
Roxy just amazing , just genius just so far away from anyone else , a style untouchable by anyone else but the biggest influence on so many great bands that came after them , a dark disco in 1979 I was 18 and when Dance Away played it was amazing
Ooooohhhhhh yeah, smooth and mellow and timeless.
Dance Away
What a iconic beautiful song ❤️❤️❤️
love Roxy Music, brings back loads of great memories, the good old days, before the world went mad.
Absolutely george, I would go back in a heart beat.
The seventies were indeed the best era!
@@terryfesenko653 before all the gay woke rubbish of the 80s!
@@harleyhartley3168
"Gay woke" rubbish of 80's??
You are pathetic & irrelevant & probably repressed!!😄😂🤣
@@petermills542 Wham, Duran Duran, Bronski beat etc all normalised woke gay men and homoerotica. Sl4gs!
One of those songs and bands I grew up with but never appreciated till decades later. But sometimes you need maturity and experience for the lyrics and mood to hit home. It has.
Soo true 23 and enjoying this tune soo much ❤️
So true,same here,apart from hearing Same old scene in 81,I just went oooff!Then years later really got into them,once I'd stopped chasing girls,and sometimes catching them.
steffen john totally agree !
totally agree x
Also a band i think were responsible for 'the' greatest cover version of all time,'Jealous guy'.
Usually covering another artist's song would come with some trepidation and pressure,but to make the song your own and blow the original out the weeds was just amazing!
Music doesn't get much better than this for me.
Another gem from a band that produced so many. This is a song you just have to dance to, hence the title "Dance Away." Roxy Music have a well-deserved place in the pantheon of Rock Music. So many unforgettable, immortal songs. Well done Bryan, Phil, and the boys.
I was watching a show on Catalina Island with the bay of Avalon, which I remembered I loved this song but I loved so many songs during my days of drugs sex & disco..so hear I am listening to Roxy Music album..69 yrs old wow how time flies the older you get..will these great songs be done again in the future?
A classic from Roxy music 🎵😂😂😂😂😂
I love this song for so many reasons. Firstly it’s incredibly poetic and the words resonate. Secondly, I love how for a 1979 song it sounds so 80s but still iconically 70s. Bryan Ferry is a legend! ♥️
Yes he is legend but Roxy Music is more than Brian Ferry
I agree ! Brian Ferry is for me too a legend ! And i too love the seventies !!!!!!!!
You could say it's very proto-80s (like a lot of very late 80s songs sound proto-90s).
Classic Bryan Ferry Roxy Music summer No 1 1979 great memories of the classic "Dance Away" 😎👍.
Randomly came into my head today. Very touching song.
Saw them in 82 at Manchester Appolo...to me one of the best venues in the country!😊
This song came out when I was 16 in April 1979, the same month that Dance the Night Away by Van Halen came out. I've absolutely loved both songs ever since. I'm not much of a dancer, but I love great songs... and irony.
This man is total class.
Tim Cook and COOL too
Class is his middle name didn't you know
@How Marvellous Am I it is.
An bloody good looking as well oh how I'm jealous 🙄
No, He is beyond Total class !!
Again another video I've never seen after following Roxy for over 40 years‼ Fantastic‼
great mellow music - even today
Roxy Music - Dance Away
As the college disco wound down, the DJ would play "Total Control" by the Motels and "I Can't Tell You Why" by the Eagles, and those of us who hadn't made a connection got to watch couples slow dancing. Then to really twist the knife, he would play this song!
Another classic from Roxy Music,I’ve always liked their music from when Virginia Plain came out in 1972,right through until the late 80s.
it's November 2024 and this is still the best song about heartbreak ever written. I'll wait here until you prove me wrong.
How I loved Roxy and the cool Ferry, please transport me back as they were my first band that I followed
Best dressed man in music, class oozing out of his pockets.
Total Cllaaassss 👌👌
Yes the 80's reached a high point of quality styles. I owned about 8 classy suits in various pastel colours--GOD I LOOKED GREAT !!
A very well "suited" man always had class, always will
It's a classic
exactly pity that we as Britons have turned into a bunch of slobs who think wearing jogging bottoms is the height of class i will never crumble to it and such awful crassness
One of my all time favourite songs love it
Brings back some brilliant memories 👏
Pure charisma and music genius too
I hope and pray, but not too much; out of sight is out of touch. Wow every line is killer in this song from a killer album.
Bryan will always be a fucking legend. Saw him in concert a few days ago, he still puts a magnificent show out there. His voice isn't that good anymore, but hey he is 72. Was glad I was able to still see him. He didn't play this song though, but his classics (like these) will forever stay in my spotify playlist. Thanks Bryan.
Koffiewafel I completely agree the guys a legend.Saw him in Glasgow a few weeks ago brilliant show.
Crap
Koffiewafel You Lucky Duck, His the Best. 👍🤓🍻👏👏💋🌻
72 wow didn't realise he was that old
I saw him in Oxford
This song is stunning. Bryan Ferry will forever be one of the smoothest and effortlessly cool men of all time.
❤ i bought this to in 1979 and remember it on top of the pops
Pure poetry and fantastic music. Loved it in 1979 and love it even more now. And 'loneliness is a crowded room' is a line I often think of on nights out ;)
Pure class, British talent 🏴🇬🇧
Pure velvet in sound and with lyrics that ALL of us have experienced at some point. Never gets old...
The percussion on this track is quite simply the best, subtle and magical
Brilliant production.
It's lifts up a notch in volume in the final verse. Really makes it. The is unreal bass too.
As a percussionist I always dug this song ... There's a block congas / tambourine and possibly castanet s ! On this !
One of the very best tracks of the latter part of Roxy's career. The lyrics and vocal are pure gold.
Their tunes are so catchy and evocative. Beautiful. The lyrics are deceptively simple. Really elegant music. Love it.
R.I.P. my cool cousin Niall Walsh. Played at his funeral in 2021. Dance away cuz!
What a song! What lyrics, what a beat! This should be archived as all time classic ❤️
timelessly cool
magically mellow
who's still listening TODAY ?
TIMELESS!.🎶. On the RADIO in NZ in 2024 .. thank you from NZ👍🇳🇿
Class. Reminds me of my uncle.
One of my dad's funeral songs.. 😩😪
I close my eyes and dance till dawn....😢
Hugs you
i was 13 when this was in the charts i am 57 now, wow where has all the years gone
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Striking the match at the beginning of the song .....pure class!
and then the sound of the draw on the cigarette 👌
@@izpozpeeps Shame it wasn't followed by his smoker's cough 😫
Brilliant!
i'm in a dream at this time .roxy takes me to a dreaming world indeed
great song up among the classics
Ferry is so cool. Who else could pull off a vibratto like he does and not sound ridiculous? In R&R, no-one dares doing a vibratto, simply because it doesn't go with the genre, but Ferry has always done it with panache and authority, in fact it is, in a sense, his trademark. What a suave dude.
Men in elegant suits singing wonderfully, I love that.
Beautiful always love this tune perfect vocals sound awesome still powerful voice lyrics music so nice definitely a favourite always 😊❤
I was 17 when this was in the charts. great song. Brian Ferry used to live only 4 miles away from me.
This was the start of a legendary period for Roxy Music. From this to More Than This in 82.
The greatest song lyric of all time in my humble opinion
"Its funny how I could never cry, until tonight when you passed by. Hand in hand with another guy. You're dressed to kill and guess whose dying???"
Literal genius
1979, ah what a year, one of the best after 1977 and 1978 (the best year ever)!
This song came out right after my husband that I loved so much abandoned our 7 month old son and myself and married a girl with a rich Daddy and he started living the good life. So, I did what this song said to do, dance away the heartache 💔 dance away the pain.
That must have been so tough for you with a young baby
I hope you and your son are doing well and have found the happiness you both deserve ❤
I remember this beautiful song being played in my mum and dads front room still makes me smile when i picture that memory
Good One
Manifesto must be one of the most underrated disco era albums. Sheer class and elegance of the 1930s brought to life!
Some songs inspire, after financial collapse in Birmingham we ended up in Slough. From nice 3 story house to a one room hostel. The manager gave an old fashioned radio, then this song came on the airwaves.
Manifesto is such an underrated album. It's one of the Roxy albums which I listen to the most.
I was only 8 when this come out but clearly remember its very different sound on the radio and in the car (my mum ALWAYS had the radio on) Its the clicking that interested me back then but what a lovely song. I've just turned 49 and still love this!
One of my all time favs from a super cool performer
Will never get tired of this song one of my all time favourites ❤ 🎵 🎵
The smoothest voice of the '80's.... sophistication at it's best.
Bryan Ferry to me is the 007 of music with one of the most iconic singing voices of all time and he's one of the coolest cats on the planet
The 007 of music. Wow buddy, I couldn’t of put it any better and have been searching for that line for my entire life since Avalon in 83. Well done sir.
Great songwriter too.
Yep. Great description.
Yes absolutely , so cool and my other favourite would have to be Robert Palmer, another 007 of music.
Best comment ever, so spot on!