Sky Arts Documentaries

Documentary exploring the life and career of Roxy Music frontman Bryan Ferry, A rather miserly half-hour is allotted for a career overview of the Roxy Musician turned suave soloist. With his unique, sat-on-a-washing-machine vibrato, the singer has gone from sci-fi art rocker to mid-tempo crooner and from working-class upbringing to tuxedoed high society. Music critics weigh up the influence of pop’s Slave to Love and Jealous Guy, the unswerving vision he had for his group and the impact of their 1972 debut single Virginia Plain, notable for its pounded piano and early, Brian Eno synths.

Review and brief history of Dire Straits.

In a rare interview with the Wuthering Heights singer from 1989, Kate Bush discusses her album The Sensual World and the influence of British director Alfred Hitchcock in her music videos, acting with Canadian star Donald Sutherland in Cloudbusting, plus footage from her performance at the Hammersmith Odeon that year