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Apr 17, 2007 Faith and Works, O Mores!, Oppression
Bryan Ferry apologizes for Nazi remarks:
British singer Bryan Ferry apologized on Monday for remarks he made in an interview with a German newspaper in which he praised the Nazis’ iconography as “just amazing” and “really beautiful”.
The 61-year-old lead singer of Roxy Music told Germany’s Welt Am Sonntag newspaper last month: “The way that the Nazis staged themselves and presented themselves, my Lord!
“I’m talking about the films of Leni Riefenstahl and the buildings of Albert Speer and the mass marches and the flags — just fantastic. Really beautiful.”
The reason Ferry should be spanked is that his taste in design runs toward the fascist. But expressing admiration for the “Heroic Realism” style in design and art, which was really a variation of Socialist Realism, makes you a poor aesthete, not a Nazi. Nonetheless:
Jewish leaders in Britain, some of whom had condemned Ferry’s comments and questioned whether he should be dropped by the Marks & Spencer retail chain that employs him as a model, welcomed Ferry’s clarification.
I’d welcome a new group of “Jewish leaders.” What an embarrassment — does it never end? These guys should go learn some Aleph-Beis and worry about some real problems.
