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Roxy Music legend Bryan Ferry claims Mercury Music Prize winners Alt-J are 'everything he never wanted to be' when he entered the music business.
The British icon, who releases his new album The Jazz Age this week, has discussed the band's man on the street appearance in a new interview, saying that the rising stars of the music scene are a 'celebration of normality'.
"Fascinating really, as that's the thing we didn't want to do in the seventies," says Ferry in an interview for Vice project The British Masters, when shown a photo of the band. "I guess it's a celebration of normality really. One step away from the dole queue."
The interview sees John Doran, editor of The Quietus, speak with Ferry about his career, as he also discusses the time he first met with legendary artist Andy Warhol.
One step away from the dole queue? Alt-J won the 2012 Mercury Music Prize
Ferry's new album sees the icon team up with a jazz orchestra for reworkings of his greatest hits, including 'Love Is The Drug' and 'Slave To Love'.
Speaking of the album, Ferry says: "I started my musical journey listening to a fair bit of jazz, mainly instrumental, and from diverse and contrasting periods.
"I loved the way the great soloists would pick up a tune and shake it up - go somewhere completely different - and then return gracefully back to the melody, as if nothing had happened.
"This seemed to me to reach a sublime peak with the music of Charlie Parker, and later Ornette Colman. More recently, I have been drawn back to the roots, to the weird and wonderful music of the 1920s – the decade that became known as The Jazz Age."
Ferry also recently announced a string of UK live shows in 2013. For more information visit Gigwise Gig Tickets.
Watch Alt-J perform an acoustic version of 'Matilda' below
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