Bryan Ferry has announced details of his first, career-spanning solo compilation – Retrospective: Selected Recordings 1973-2023.

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Totalling 81 tracks, the collection is due for release on October 25 via BMG.

The set includes “Star“, Ferry’s first original song to be released in over a decade, and a cover of Dylan’s “She Belongs To Me” which you can hear below.

Retrospective: Selected Recordings 1973-2023 will be released in multiple formats, including a 5CD deluxe box set featuring 81 songs, accompanied by a 100-page hardback book containing extensive new liner notes, rare and unseen photographs and imagery. A 2LP gatefold edition presents The Best Of Bryan Ferry, containing 20 songs pressed to black vinyl with variants including a green/blue vinyl pressing and a clear vinyl pressing. A 1CD version will also feature the same 20 songs and a booklet containing liner notes and photographs. An 81-track edition of the album will be released digitally.

Retrospective: Selected Recordings 1973-2023 5 CD Track Listing:

Disc One: The Best Of Bryan Ferry

1. A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall

2. These Foolish Things

3. The ‘In’ Crowd

4. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes

5. Casanova

6. Let’s Stick Together

7. Sign of the Times

8. Slave To Love

9. Don’t Stop The Dance

10. Windswept

11. Kiss and Tell

12. As Time Goes By

13. Your Painted Smile

14. I Put A Spell On You

15. Which Way To Turn

16. Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door

17. Make You Feel My Love

18. You Can Dance

19. Love Letters

20. Johnny and Mary

Disc Two: Compositions

1. Can’t Let Go

2. Tokyo Joe

3. This Island Earth

4. Love Me Madly Again

5. Limbo

6. When She Walks In The Room

7. Boys and Girls

8. Zamba

9. Chain Reaction

10. Bête Noire

11. I Thought

12. The Only Face

13. Valentine

14. Loop De Li

15. Reason or Rhyme

Disc Three: Interpretations

1. The Price of Love

2. Shame Shame Shame

3. Hold On (I’m Coming)

4. Just One Look

5. Girl of My Best Friend

6. What Goes On

7. That’s How Strong My Love Is

8. You Go To My Head

9. Where or When

10. The Way You Look Tonight

11. One Night

12. Simple Twist of Fate

13. Positively 4th Street

14. Song to the Siren

15. Fooled Around and Fell In Love

Disc Four: The Bryan Ferry Orchestra

1. Virginia Plain

2. Do The Strand

3. While My Heart Is Still Beating

4. This Island Earth

5. Bitter-Sweet

6. Dance Away

7. Zamba

8. Reason or Rhyme

9. Avalon

10. Back To Black

11. Limbo

12. Young and Beautiful

13. Love Is The Drug

14. Sign of the Times

15. Chance Meeting

Disc Five: Rare and Unreleased

1. Feel The Need

2. Mother of Pearl (Horoscope Version)

3. Don’t Be Cruel

4. I Don’t Want To Go On Without You

5. I Forgot More Than You’ll Ever Know

6. Crazy Love

7. Whatever Gets You Through The Night

8. Bob Dylan’s Dream

9. He’ll Have To Go

10. A Fool For Love

11. Lowlands Low

12. Is Your Love Strong Enough

13. Sonnet 18

14. She Belongs To Me

15. Oh Lonesome Me

16. Star (with Amelia Barratt)

Retrospective: Selected Recordings 1973-2023 Digital Track Listing:

1. A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall

2. These Foolish Things

3. The ‘In’ Crowd

4. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes

5. Casanova

6. Let’s Stick Together

7. Sign of the Times

8. Slave To Love

9. Don’t Stop The Dance

10. Windswept

11. Kiss and Tell

12. As Time Goes By

13. Your Painted Smile

14. I Put A Spell On You

15. Which Way To Turn

16. Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door

17. Make You Feel My Love

18. You Can Dance

19. Love Letters

20. Johnny and Mary

21. Can’t Let Go

22. Tokyo Joe

23. This Island Earth

24. Love Me Madly Again

25. Limbo

26. When She Walks In The Room

27. Boys and Girls

28. Zamba

29. Chain Reaction

30. Bête Noire

31. I Thought

32. The Only Face

33. Valentine

34. Loop De Li

35. Reason or Rhyme

36. The Price of Love

37. Shame Shame Shame

38. Hold On (I’m Coming)

39. Just One Look

40. Girl of My Best Friend

41. What Goes On

42. That’s How Strong My Love Is

43. You Go To My Head

44. Where or When

45. The Way You Look Tonight

46. One Night

47. Simple Twist of Fate

48. Positively 4th Street

49. Song to the Siren

50. Fooled Around and Fell In Love

51. Virginia Plain

52. Do The Strand

53. While My Heart Is Still Beating

54. This Island Earth

55. Bitter-Sweet

56. Dance Away

57. Zamba

58. Reason or Rhyme

59. Avalon

60. Back To Black

61. Limbo

62. Young and Beautiful

63. Love Is The Drug

64. Sign of the Times

65. Chance Meeting

66. Feel The Need

67. Mother of Pearl (Horoscope Version)

68. Don’t Be Cruel

69. I Don’t Want To Go On Without You

70. I Forgot More Than You’ll Ever Know

71. Crazy Love

72. Whatever Gets You Through The Night

73. Bob Dylan’s Dream

74. He’ll Have To Go

75. A Fool For Love

76. Lowlands Low

77. Is Your Love Strong Enough

78. Sonnet 18

79. She Belongs To Me

80. Oh Lonesome Me

81. Star (with Amelia Barratt)

Retrospective: Selected Recordings 1973-2023 2LP / 1CD Tracklist: 

1. A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall

2. These Foolish Things

3. The ‘In’ Crowd

4. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes

5. Casanova

6. Let’s Stick Together

7. Sign of the Times

8. Slave To Love

9. Don’t Stop The Dance

10. Windswept

11. Kiss and Tell

12. As Time Goes By

13. Your Painted Smile

14. I Put A Spell On You

15. Which Way To Turn

16. Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door

17. Make You Feel My Love

18. You Can Dance

19. Love Letters

20. Johnny and Mary

Retrospective: She Belongs To Me EP Track Listing

1. She Belongs To Me

2. Let’s Stick Together

3. Slave to Love

4. I Put A Spell On You

5. Make You Feel My Love

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