Musician Bryan Ferry is sorry for praising the Nazi aesthetic. “My God, the Nazis knew how to put themselves in the limelight and present themselves,” Ferry, who refers to his London studio as “Fuhrerbunker,” told German Newspaper Welt am Sonntag. “I’m talking about Leni Riefenstahl’s movies and Albert Speer’s buildings and the mass parades and the flags – just amazing. Really beautiful.” From The Guardian:
The singer, who is also a model for Marks and Spencer, issued a statement yesterday in which he said he was “deeply upset” by the negative publicity his remarks had caused. It added: “I apologise unreservedly for any offence caused by my comments on Nazi iconography, which were solely made from an art history perspective.
“I, like every right-minded individual, find the Nazi regime, and all it stood for, evil and abhorrent.”