Bryan Ferry - Dylanesque

Has someone transformed the air into velvet? How about the chair? And the table? Oh dear Lord! Every single element in the periodic table has been replaced by velvet. It must be Bryan Ferry's doing.

Even venerable old Bob Dylan isn't safe from Ferry's upscaling touch. Eleven cover-versions recorded in a week by his sumptuousness. It's a work ethic hitherto unsuspected in a man whose punkah-wallahs exhaust him with their interminable fanning.

One of Bryan Ferry's sons is called Merlin. That's a cast-iron, solid-gold FACT. And I know I've descibed that fact as being two separate substances, but being as everything's velvet around Ferry, it doesn't actually matter. Merlin!