Boys and Girls is Bryan Ferry

Bryan Ferry

Bryan Ferry, CBE is an English singer, musician, and songwriter. Ferry came to public prominence in the early 1970s as lead vocalist and principal songwriter with the band Roxy Music, who enjoyed a highly successful career with three number one albums and ten singles entering the top ten charts in...

's sixth solo album

Album

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, released in 1985 by EG Records. It remains Ferry's only number 1 solo album in the UK and contains two UK top 40 hit singles. It is also Ferry's most successful solo album in the US, having been certified Gold for sales in excess of half a million copies there.

The album was remastered and re-released in 2000, and was released on SACD

Super Audio CD

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 format in 2005.

Track listing

All songs written by Bryan Ferry

Bryan Ferry

Bryan Ferry, CBE is an English singer, musician, and songwriter. Ferry came to public prominence in the early 1970s as lead vocalist and principal songwriter with the band Roxy Music, who enjoyed a highly successful career with three number one albums and ten singles entering the top ten charts in...

 except as noted.

1. "Sensation" – 5:07
2. "Slave to Love
   Slave to Love
   "Slave to Love" is the first single released from Roxy Music singer Bryan Ferry's 1985 release, Boys and Girls, and is one of his most popular solo hits. The single was released on 28 April 1985 and spent 9 weeks in the UK charts in 1985, peaking at number 10...
   
   " – 4:26
3. "Don't Stop the Dance" (Ferry, Rhett Davies
   Rhett Davies
   Rhett Davies is an English record producer and engineer.Rhett Davies' father was trumpet player Ray Davies; they are no relation to Ray Davies of The Kinks. Davies became a studio engineer at Island Records studios in the early 1970s, and his first session was the recording process for Brian Eno's...
   
   ) – 4:19
4. "A Waste Land" – 1:02
5. "Windswept" – 4:31
6. "The Chosen One" – 4:51
7. "Valentine" – 3:47
8. "Stone Woman" – 4:56
9. "Boys and Girls" – 5:25

Personnel

• Bryan Ferry
  Bryan Ferry
  Bryan Ferry, CBE is an English singer, musician, and songwriter. Ferry came to public prominence in the early 1970s as lead vocalist and principal songwriter with the band Roxy Music, who enjoyed a highly successful career with three number one albums and ten singles entering the top ten charts in...
  
   - vocals
  Singing
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• Guy Fletcher
  Guy Fletcher
  Guy Wilson Fletcher is an English multi-instrumentalist, best known for his position as the keyboardist in the British rock band Dire Straits from 1984 until the group's dissolution, and his involvement in nearly every part of Mark Knopfler's solo work to date.-Biography:Fletcher was born into a...
  
   - keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
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• David Gilmour
  David Gilmour
  David Jon Gilmour, CBE, D.M. is an English rock musician and multi-instrumentalist who is best known as the guitarist, one of the lead singers and main songwriters in the progressive rock band Pink Floyd. In addition to his work with Pink Floyd, Gilmour has worked as a producer for a variety of...
  
   - guitar
  Guitar
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• Omar Hakim
  Omar Hakim
  Omar Hakim is an American jazz, jazz fusion and pop music drummer.Hakim credits jazz vibraphonist Mike Mainieri with giving him his first break in 1980; Hakim appeared in a video with Mainieri called The Jazz Life and began working with singer Carly Simon through Mainieri...
  
   - drums
  Drum kit
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Additional personnel

• Neil Hubbard
  Neil Hubbard
  Neil Hubbard is a British guitarist who performed with Juicy Lucy , The Grease Band, Bluesology, Joe Cocker, Roxy Music, Kokomo, B.B. King, Kevin Rowland, and Tony O'Malley; and played on the original 1970 concept album, Jesus Christ Superstar....
  
   - guitar
• Neil Jason - bass
  Bass guitar
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• Chester Kamen - guitar
• Mark Knopfler
  Mark Knopfler
  Mark Freuder Knopfler, OBE is a Scottish-born British guitarist, singer, songwriter, record producer and film score composer. He is best known as the lead guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter for the British rock band Dire Straits, which he co-founded in 1977...
  
   - guitar
• Tony Levin
  Tony Levin
  Tony Levin is an American progressive rock musician, specializing in bass guitar, Chapman stick and upright bass ....
  
   - bass
• Jimmy Maelen
  Jimmy Maelen
  Jimmy Maelen was a percussionist in the 1960s-1980s, who worked with many artists including Roxy Music, Bryan Ferry, Peter Gabriel, James Taylor, Dire Straits, Barry Manilow, Alice Cooper and John Lennon...
  
   - percussion
  Percussion instrument
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• Martin McCarrick
  Martin McCarrick
  Martin McCarrick is an English cellist, keyboardist and guitarist.He is best known for his work Siouxsie and the Banshees from 1987 until 1995. He recorded with them three studio albums : Peepshow, Superstition and The Rapture...
  
   - cello
  Cello
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• Marcus Miller
  Marcus Miller
  Marcus Miller is an American jazz composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. Miller is best known as a bassist, working with trumpeter Miles Davis, singer Luther Vandross, and saxophonist David Sanborn, as well as maintaining a prolific solo career...
  
   - bass
• Andy Newmark
  Andy Newmark
  Andrew "Andy" Newmark is an American musician, best known as a popular session drummer, and for playing with the funk band Sly & the Family Stone from 1972 to 1973....
  
   - drums
• Nile Rodgers
  Nile Rodgers
  Nile Gregory Rodgers is an American musician, producer, composer, arranger, and guitarist.-Biography:...
  
   - guitar
• David Sanborn
  David Sanborn
  David Sanborn is an American alto saxophonist. Though Sanborn has worked in many genres, his solo recordings typically blend jazz with instrumental pop and R&B. He released his first solo album Taking Off in 1975, but has been playing the saxophone since before he was in high school...
  
   - saxophone
  Saxophone
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• Keith Scott
  Keith Scott
  Keith Douglas Scott is a Canadian guitar player. He is best known for his long-term collaboration with the singer-songwriter Bryan Adams...
  
   - guitar
• Alan Spenner - bass
• Anne Stephenson - strings
  String instrument
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• Jon Carin
  Jon Carin
  Jon Carin is a producer, artist and musician best known for his association with Pink Floyd, and more specifically its guitarist David Gilmour and former member Roger Waters over the last twenty five years. In the early eighties, he gained fame as the front-man for the band Industry...
  
   - keyboards
• Virginia Hewes - backing vocals
  Backing vocalist
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• Ednah Holt - backing vocals
• Fonzi Thornton
  Fonzi Thornton
  Fonzi Thornton, is an American singer, song writer/producer, stage performer and radio personality.Thornton has provided background vocals on albums by artists which include Aretha Franklin, Luther Vandross, Diana Ross, Ray Charles, Chic, Sheena Easton, Mariah Carey, David Bowie, Michael Jackson,...
  
   - backing vocals
• Ruby Turner
  Ruby Turner
  Ruby Turner is a British R&B and soul singer, songwriter and actress. In 1967, she relocated with her family to Handsworth, Birmingham, England when she was nine years old...
  
   - backing vocals
• Alfa Anderson - backing vocals
• Michelle Cobbs - backing vocals
• Yanick Etienne - backing vocals
• Colleen Fitz-Charles - backing vocals
• Lisa Fitz-Charles - backing vocals
• Simone Fitz-Charles - backing vocals

Technical Personnel

• Rhett Davies
  Rhett Davies
  Rhett Davies is an English record producer and engineer.Rhett Davies' father was trumpet player Ray Davies; they are no relation to Ray Davies of The Kinks. Davies became a studio engineer at Island Records studios in the early 1970s, and his first session was the recording process for Brian Eno's...
  
   – recording engineer
• Bob Clearmountain
  Bob Clearmountain
  Bob Clearmountain is an award-winning American music engineer, mixer and producer. He has worked with many prominent names in music including Bruce Springsteen , The Rolling Stones , Bryan Adams , Robbie Williams Bob Clearmountain is an award-winning American music engineer, mixer and producer. He...
  
   – recording engineer, mixing engineer
• Neil Dorfsman – recording engineer
• Femi Jiya – recording engineer
• Dominick Maita – recording engineer
• Brian McGee – recording engineer
• Andy Lydon – recording engineer
• Benjamin Armbrister – assistant engineer
• Carb – assistant engineer
• Steve Churchyard – assistant engineer
• Randy Ezratty – assistant engineer
• Dave Greenberg – assistant engineer
• Kevin Killen – assistant engineer
• Heff Moraes – assistant engineer
• Peter Revill – assistant engineer
• Kendal Stubbs – assistant engineer
• Robert Ludwig – mastering engineer

Charts

Album

Year	Chart	Peak Position
1985	UK Album Charts	1
1985	Billboard 200 Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...	63

Singles

Year	Single	Chart	Peak Position
1985	"Slave to Love"	UK Singles Charts	10
1985	"Slave to Love"	Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks Mainstream Rock Tracks Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks is a ranking in Billboard magazine of the most-played songs on mainstream rock radio stations, a category that includes stations that play primarily rock music. Modern rock tracks are counted in the Alternative Songs chart.This chart began with the March 21, 1981, issue...	19
1985	"Don't Stop the Dance"	UK Singles Charts	21
1985	"Don't Stop the Dance"	Billboard Adult Contemporary	26
1985	"Don't Stop the Dance"	Billboard Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales	30
1985	"Windswept"	UK Singles Charts	46

Certifications

Organization	Level	Date
BPI British Phonographic Industry The British Phonographic Industry is the British record industry's trade association.-Structure:Its membership comprises hundreds of music companies including all four "major" record companies , associate members such as manufacturers and distributors, and hundreds of independent music companies...  – UK	Gold
BPI – UK	Platinum
RIAA Recording Industry Association of America The Recording Industry Association of America is a trade organization that represents the recording industry distributors in the United States...  – U.S.	Gold