FERRY APOLOGISES FOR NAZI COMMENTS

Last updated: Tuesday, April 17, 2007

FERRY APOLOGISES FOR NAZI COMMENTS

LATEST: British rocker BRYAN FERRY has apologised 'unreservedly' for praising the Nazi propaganda machine.

Bryan Ferry performing in concert at the Heineken Music Hall.
Amsterdam, The Netherlands - 27.03.07

The Roxy Music singer, 61, was recently quoted in an interview with German newspaper Welt Am Sonntag as saying, "My God, the Nazis knew how to put themselves in the limelight and present themselves.

"Leni Riefenstahl's movies and Albert Speer's buildings and the mass parades and the flags - just amazing. Really beautiful."

The comments have caused outrage in Ferry's native Britain, and have raised questions over the star's modelling contact with retail chain Marks And Spencer (M+S), which was founded and owned by Jewish immigrant Michael Marks.

In a statement, Ferry says, "I apologise unreservedly for any offence caused by my comments on Nazi iconography, which were made solely from an art history perspective.

"I, like every right-minded individual, find the Nazi regime, and all it stood for, evil and abhorrent."

Source: WENN

| Tuesday, April 17, 2007

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