Bryan Ferry Marries for Second Time

Bryan Ferry and Amanda Sheppard attend the GQ Man of the Year party at the Shangri-La Hotel in Paris.

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Bryan Ferry married his girlfriend, Amanda Sheppard, at a luxury beach resort in Turks and Caicos on January 4th. The former Roxy Music frontman, 66, wed the 30-year-old publicist in an intimate ceremony. Ferry originally met Sheppard while she was romantically involved with his son, Isaac.

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This is Ferry's second marriage. He was married to Lucy Henmore from 1982 to 2003, during which time they had four sons. Prior to that relationship, Ferry was involved with Jerry Hall, until she left him to be with Mick Jagger.

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Song Stories

“Piano Man”

Billy Joel | 1973

Billy Joel’s first hit, “Piano Man,” was – ironically – an autobiographical lament about how his first album wasn’t a hit. When Cold Spring Harbor didn’t take off, Joel briefly became a lounge pianist in Los Angeles, and this song, about that experience, expressed his frustrations and fears at the time: “And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar/And say, ‘Man, what are you doing here?’” “It was all right,” Joel said later, about the gig. “I got free drinks and union scale, which was the first steady money I’d made in a long time.”

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