BRYAN FERRY - KISS AND TELL

 KISS AND TELL

BRYAN FERRY

SONGWRITER: GRAHAM GOULDMAN

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: BÊTE NOIRE

LABEL: REPRISE RECORDS

GENRE: POP

YEAR: 1987

 

    Bête Noire is the seventh solo studio album by the English singer Bryan Ferry. The album was released in November 1987 on Virgin Records in the United Kingdom and Reprise Records in the United States. The album was a commercial and critical success, peaking at Nº 9 in the UK and was certified Gold by the BPI.

    The first single, "The Right Stuff" (a collaboration with Johnny Marr and is adapted from the Smiths' instrumental B-side "Money Changes Everything") was the album's only top 40 hit in the UK, peaking at Nº 37. The second single, "Kiss and Tell", narrowly missed the UK top 40, but made the U.S. top 40 (becoming Ferry's only solo single to chart in the U.S. Top 40). The song also appeared in the film Bright Lights, Big City. The third and final single, "Limbo", peaked at Nº 86 in the UK. The promotional video for the single "Kiss and Tell" features the models Denice Lewis (who is also featured on the single's cover photograph), Christine Keeler and Mandy Rice-Davies.

Ten cents a dance

It's the only price to pay

Why give 'em more

When it's only love for sale?

 

Adam and Eve

It's the oldest game in town

Just a one way street

To a faded magazine

 

Kiss and tell

Money talks it never lies

Kiss and tell

Give and take eye for an eye

 

Fever the heat of the night

Dreamer stealer of sighs

One public face

In a private limousine

 

Flash photograph

It's the only light you see

No secret life

There's no secret you can steel

 

Your lips are moving

But I will never know

What they mean

Kiss and tell

 

Money talks and love it burns

Kiss and tell

Give and take we live and learn

Kiss and tell

 

We never lie

Eye for an eye

Blood on a nail

Kiss me again.