{{short description|1976 album by Bryan Ferry}} {{other uses}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2020}} {{Use British English|date=December 2011}} {{Infobox album | name = Let’s Stick Together | type = compilation | artist = Bryan Ferry | cover = FerryLetsStickTogether.jpg | alt = | released = {{Start date|1976|9|10|df=y}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=LET'S STICK TOGETHER – Bryan Ferry |date=10 September 1976 |url=https://bryanferry.com/lets-stick-together/ |access-date=2022-09-14 |language=en-GB}}</ref> | recorded = 1973–76 | venue = | studio = *AIR (London) *Island (London) | genre = * R&B * glam rock | length = {{duration|m=38|s=45}} | label = E.G. | producer = *Chris Thomas *Bryan Ferry | prev_title = Another Time, Another Place | prev_year = 1974 | next_title = In Your Mind | next_year = 1977 }} '''''Let's Stick Together''''' is a 1976 album by the English singer Bryan Ferry. His third solo release, it was his first following the disbanding of Roxy Music earlier in the year. Unlike Ferry's two previous solo releases, ''Let’s Stick Together'' was not a dedicated album project, instead predominantly made up of singles, B-sides, and an EP. Three tracks were exclusive to the LP, all remakes of Roxy Music tracks: "Casanova", "2HB", and "Chance Meeting". It had a generally favourable critical reception, but only just made the UK Top 20.
==Production== Five of the tracks on the album were remakes of Bryan Ferry songs previously recorded with Roxy Music. "Re-Make/Re-Model", "2HB", "Chance Meeting" and "Sea Breezes" were from the band's self-titled debut album (1972), while "Casanova" was taken from ''Country Life'' (1974). In most cases the re-recordings were smoother and more oriented to jazz and R&B than the original Roxy Music versions.
The other six tracks on the album were covers. The sax-driven "Let's Stick Together" was written and originally recorded by Wilbert Harrison. It was remixed in 1988 for the compilation ''The Ultimate Collection''. Other up-tempo numbers were The Everly Brothers' "The Price of Love" and Jimmy Reed's "Shame, Shame, Shame" (which includes a counter-vocal by the backing singers which quotes Marvin Gaye's "Can I Get a Witness"). The remaining covers, which included the Beatles' "It's Only Love", were performed in a mellow cabaret style.
"2HB" (a tribute to Humphrey Bogart) had been released as the B-side of Ferry's single "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" in September 1973. "Chance Meeting" was the B-side of "The 'In' Crowd" in May 1974. "You Go to My Head" b/w "Re-Make/Re-Model" had been released as a single in June 1975, making #33 in the UK charts. "Let’s Stick Together" b/w "Sea Breezes" was released in June 1976, making #4. The ''Extended Play'' EP, featuring "The Price of Love" and "Shame, Shame, Shame" b/w "Heart on My Sleeve" and "It’s Only Love", was released in August 1976, making #7. "Casanova" - a version of which appeared on Roxy Music's 1974 album "Country Life" - was recorded in the "Another Time, Another Place" sessions in 1974 and eventually issued as the B-side of Ferry's cover of The Velvet Underground's "What Goes On" in May 1978. The song "Let's Stick Together" was re-released in 1988 as "Let's Stick Together '88", making #12.
Various Roxy Music members were involved in the recordings, including Paul Thompson on drums, Eddie Jobson on violin and synthesizer, John Gustafson and John Porter on bass, and Phil Manzanera and David O'List on guitar. Jerry Hall made an appearance in tiger skin costume, complete with tail, on the title track's video clip, and did the song's yelps in the chorus.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-02-23 |title=Bryan Ferry: "People like you to be difficult and weird" |url=https://www.uncut.co.uk/features/bryan-ferry-people-like-difficult-weird-103600/ |access-date=2022-03-18 |website=Uncut |language=en-GB}}</ref>
==Critical reception== {{Album ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name="Raggett">{{cite web|last=Raggett|first=Ned|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/lets-stick-together-mw0000189870|title=Let's Stick Together – Bryan Ferry|publisher=AllMusic|accessdate=11 October 2020}}</ref> | rev2 = ''Christgau's Record Guide'' | rev2score = B<ref name="Christgau">{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|chapter=F|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=F&bk=70|accessdate=24 February 2019|via=robertchristgau.com|title=Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies|title-link=Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies|publisher=Ticknor and Fields|year=1981|isbn=0-89919-026-X}}</ref> | rev3 = ''The Rolling Stone Album Guide'' | rev3score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite book|last=Sheffield|first=Rob|author-link=Rob Sheffield|editor1-last=Brackett|editor1-first=Nathan|editor1-link=Nathan Brackett|editor2-last=Hoard|editor2-first=Christian|editor2-link=Christian Hoard|chapter=Bryan Ferry|title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide|title-link=The Rolling Stone Album Guide|publisher=Simon & Schuster|edition=4th|year=2004|isbn=0-7432-0169-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/296 296–97]}}</ref> }} Reviewing for AllMusic, Ned Raggett wrote of the album: "As Roxy approached its mid- to late-'70s hibernation, Ferry came up with another fine solo album, though one of his most curious."<ref name="Raggett"/> According to Robert Christgau, "A lot of people are crazy about this record, but I find its bifurcation alienating." He added: "Although Ferry proves that he knows more about making records (and music) than he used to, the songs remain powerful, strange, and interesting—but not quite compelling. Add it all together and you get ... two separate parts."<ref name="Christgau"/>
==Track listing== {{Track listing | title1 = Let's Stick Together | note1 = cover of the 1962 Wilbert Harrison single | writer1 = Wilbert Harrison | length1 = 3:00 | title2 = Casanova | note2 = remake; originally on the album ''Country Life'' (1974) by Roxy Music | writer2 = Bryan Ferry | length2 = 2:45 | title3 = Sea Breezes | note3 = remake; originally on the album ''Roxy Music'' (1972) by Roxy Music | writer3 = Ferry | length3 = 6:10 | title4 = Shame, Shame, Shame | note4 = cover | writer4 = Jimmy Reed | length4 = 3:15 | title5 = 2HB | note5 = remake; originally on the album ''Roxy Music'' (1972) by Roxy Music | writer5 = Ferry | length5 = 3:50 | title6 = The Price of Love | note6 = The Everly Brothers cover from the album ''In Our Image'' (1966) | writer6 = Don & Phil Everly | length6 = 3:25 | title7 = Chance Meeting | note7 = remake; originally on the album ''Roxy Music'' (1972) by Roxy Music | writer7 = Ferry | length7 = 3:35 | title8 = It's Only Love | note8 = The Beatles cover from the album ''Help!'' (1965) | writer8 = John Lennon, Paul McCartney | length8 = 3:45 | title9 = You Go to My Head | note9 = cover | writer9 = J. Fred Coots (music), Haven Gillespie (lyrics) | length9 = 2:50 | title10 = Re-Make/Re-Model | note10 = remake; originally on the album ''Roxy Music'' (1972) by Roxy Music | writer10 = Ferry | length10 = 2:40 | title11 = Heart on My Sleeve | note11 = Gallagher and Lyle cover from the album ''Breakaway'' (1976) | writer11 = Benny Gallagher, Graham Lyle | length11 = 3:30 }}
== Personnel == {{div col}} * Bryan Ferry – vocals, keyboards, harmonica * Eddie Jobson – synthesizers, violin * Chris Spedding – guitars * Neil Hubbard – lead guitar (2) * David O'List – lead guitar (7) * Phil Manzanera – lead guitar (10) * John Wetton – bass (1, 2, 4, 6–9, 11) * Rick Wills – bass (3) * John Porter – bass (5) * John Gustafson – bass (10) * Paul Thompson – drums * Morris Pert – percussion * Mel Collins – soprano saxophone * Chris Mercer – tenor saxophone * Martin Drover – trumpet * Ann Odell – string arrangements (4) * Vicki Brown – chorus * Doreen Chanter – chorus * Helen Chappelle – chorus * Paddie McHugh – chorus * Jackie Sullivan – chorus * Martha Walker – chorus {{div col end}}
== Production == * Bryan Ferry – producer * Chris Thomas – producer * Steve Nye – engineer * John Punter – engineer * Nigel Walker – assistant engineer * Jon Walls – assistant engineer * Richard Wallis – photography
==Charts== ===Weekly charts=== {| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" !scope="col"|Chart (1976) !scope="col"|Peak<br>position |- !scope="row"|Australian Albums (Kent Music Report)<ref name=aus>{{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|edition=illustrated|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|page=111}}</ref> |style="text-align:center;"|1 |- {{Album chart|Netherlands|1|artist=Bryan Ferry|album=Let's Stick Together|accessdate=11 October 2020|rowheader=true}} |- {{Album chart|New Zealand|28|artist=Bryan Ferry|album=Let's Stick Together|accessdate=11 October 2020|rowheader=true}} |- {{Album chart|Norway|19|artist=Bryan Ferry|album=Let's Stick Together|accessdate=11 October 2020|rowheader=true}} |- {{Album chart|Sweden|7|artist=Bryan Ferry|album=Let's Stick Together|accessdate=11 October 2020|rowheader=true}} |- {{Album chart|UK2|19|date=19761003|accessdate=11 October 2020|rowheader=true}} |- {{Album chart|Billboard200|160|artist=Bryan Ferry|accessdate=11 October 2020|rowheader=true}} |}
===Year-end charts=== {| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center" ! Chart (1976) ! Peak<br />position |- ! scope="row"| Australia (Kent Music Report)<ref>{{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|page=428}}</ref> | 9 |}
==References== {{Reflist}}
'''Sources''' * David Buckley (2004). ''The Thrill of It All: The Story of Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music''
==External links== * [http://www.roxyrama.com/history/chronology/1970s/index.shtml Roxyrama Chronology] * [http://vivaroxymusic.com/albums_18.php Viva Roxy Music]
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