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.
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 🇬🇧
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.
I'm 15, this was on my recommended on RUclips (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 :)
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.
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.
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!
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! ♥️
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.
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.
"It's funny how, I could never cry until that night that you passed by, hand In hand with another guy, you're dressed to kill and guess who's dying" 👌🏽👏🏽
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
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 ;)
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?
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.
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
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.
Dance away the heartache, dance away the tears done that many of times.. Anyone out there your not alone, you will get through it, so keep smiling and be happy 😊 Absolutely 💯 amazing!!
What I wouldn't give to go back in time and dance away (couldn't resist 😄) the night at a disco in one of my fabulous disco outfits .... Love this song ... 3.5 mins of pure nostalgia. Thanks for posting. Nfabulous song xxx
Dedicated to my amazing beautiful handsome unique brother I Know how much you loved roxy music ! I will love you till eternity and back 😥 till we meet again 💕my heart is truly broken 😞 MY BEAUTIFUL AMAZING UNIQUE BROTHER JOHN I WILL LOVE YOU FOREVER BELLE BELLE ❤️🌹❤️🌹❤️🌹❤️🌹❤️❤️
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)
Striking of the match
Coolest ever intro to a song
“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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One of the best songs ever. Just perfect 👌
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
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!👌😍🤗♥️
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.
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!
Me i am still listening!😮
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
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...
Real music, still here in 2024 Bryan ❤
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 !!
I'm 15, this was on my recommended on RUclips (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 :)
The most elegant new wave band. They had a charm and charisma that was mesmerizing.
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 ❤️
Good One
Another brilliant track from everyone's favourite lounge lizard.
Pure class, British talent 🏴🇬🇧
Still listening 2024. Still fantastic music!
The line that says loneliness is a crowded room really resonates with me.
Dance Away
What a iconic beautiful song ❤️❤️❤️
Class lives forever
An achingly beautiful, timeless classic....
Still sexiest, they don't make them like this anymore, we were truly blessed xx
Still the coolest man alive.
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
Classic Bryan Ferry Roxy Music summer No 1 1979 great memories of the classic "Dance Away" 😎👍.
Life is full of surprises. I miss those days. ❤
Saw them in 82 at Manchester Appolo...to me one of the best venues in the country!😊
Again another video I've never seen after following Roxy for over 40 years‼ Fantastic‼
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.
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!
A classic from Roxy music 🎵😂😂😂😂😂
Words from the heart always tells a story, Mr. Ferry has a big heart.
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).
Pure charisma and music genius too
Man, he was good looking - tall, slim, handsome, suave, elegant, unique. I’m glad I can watch these videos
One of my all time favourite songs love it
Brings back some brilliant memories 👏
Still an awesome tune. The classics always pass the test of time.
Class. Reminds me of my uncle.
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 said it's love, you said alright' 👌
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!
Life was so simple and fun... Bring it back
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.
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.
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!
"It's funny how, I could never cry until that night that you passed by, hand In hand with another guy, you're dressed to kill and guess who's dying" 👌🏽👏🏽
the best line in any song ever
What amazing & poignant lyrics
Superb lyric
I wonder if Bryan Ferry based it on a real personal experience.
@@paulfrost8895Well, Jerry Hall did dump him for Mick Jagger.
Will never get tired of this song one of my all time favourites ❤ 🎵 🎵
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
How I loved Roxy and the cool Ferry, please transport me back as they were my first band that I followed
Ooooohhhhhh yeah, smooth and mellow and timeless.
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 ;)
Beautiful always love this tune perfect vocals sound awesome still powerful voice lyrics music so nice definitely a favourite always 😊❤
great mellow music - even today
Roxy Music - Dance Away
This song is stunning. Bryan Ferry will forever be one of the smoothest and effortlessly cool men of all time.
You're dressed to kill and guess who's dying - that is just such a fantastic line.
Oh yes definitely
Bryan was a genius with words
So true!! One of my favourite lines of all time!!
Hello
yes!
Music doesn't get much better than this for me.
The king of cooooooool!
hell yes!
Best line in any song ever. “You’re dressed to kill, and guess who is dying”.
There's a lot of guessing: "Dim the lights, you can guess the rest."
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.
Pure velvet in sound and with lyrics that ALL of us have experienced at some point. Never gets old...
Their tunes are so catchy and evocative. Beautiful. The lyrics are deceptively simple. Really elegant music. Love it.
What a song! What lyrics, what a beat! This should be archived as all time classic ❤️
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 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?
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.
❤ i bought this to in 1979 and remember it on top of the pops
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
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 !
Randomly came into my head today. Very touching song.
I remember this beautiful song being played in my mum and dads front room still makes me smile when i picture that memory
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.
❤great song❤
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.
One of the very best tracks of the latter part of Roxy's career. The lyrics and vocal are pure gold.
still such a great song
A masterpiece.
Manifesto must be one of the most underrated disco era albums. Sheer class and elegance of the 1930s brought to life!
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.
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 😫
Dance away the heartache, dance away the tears done that many of times.. Anyone out there your not alone, you will get through it, so keep smiling and be happy 😊 Absolutely 💯 amazing!!
Manifesto is such an underrated album. It's one of the Roxy albums which I listen to the most.
Luv all his music❤
@lindasimone2630. Hello, how are you doing it's nice meeting you here.
Ferry and his band always looked so stylish.
What I wouldn't give to go back in time and dance away (couldn't resist 😄) the night at a disco in one of my fabulous disco outfits .... Love this song ... 3.5 mins of pure nostalgia. Thanks for posting. Nfabulous song xxx
Well put your sequins on and I'll join you :)
Dedicated to my amazing beautiful handsome unique brother I Know how much you loved roxy music ! I will love you till eternity and back 😥 till we meet again 💕my heart is truly broken 😞 MY BEAUTIFUL AMAZING UNIQUE BROTHER JOHN I WILL LOVE YOU FOREVER BELLE BELLE ❤️🌹❤️🌹❤️🌹❤️🌹❤️❤️
"You're dressed to kill and guess who's dying"
So even the best of us go through that one.
I respect a man who dresses smartly.
One of my all time favs from a super cool performer
I remember listening to this when I was a little boy in my dads xr3i driving around Scotland
Miss you dad ❤😢
😢
Bryan is so smooth ! Love the sound of his voice and his facial expressions. Just a little bit of a crush ........... ok massive !
K Sten You Wish you could have him, quietly so do I, L.O.L
Have had the opp of meeting him 😊 - tho many years ago - several times; and found him low-key, charming, & courteous each time ⚘ ...
Watched Bryan’s Glastonbury performance from a few years ago. Simply awesome. Why is he not headlining this festival anytime soon is beyond me ❤
too old
TIMELESS!.🎶. On the RADIO in NZ in 2024 .. thank you from NZ👍🇳🇿
One of my dad's funeral songs.. 😩😪
I close my eyes and dance till dawn....😢
Hugs you
Brilliant!
Indimenticabile!
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)
"Lonliness is a crowded room ..." so true