As Time Goes By  by Bryan Ferry

In 1999, in order to record his tenth studio album, As Time Goes By, Bryan Ferry collaborates with producer Rhett Davies, a person he knows and trusts from the days of Roxy Music. The result is an album consisting of fifteen covers of old jazz/swing compositions, in which Ferry gives new life while fully respecting their original performances.

In the nostalgic As Time Goes By, Bryan Ferry covers compositions like Easy Living by Ralph Rainger and Leo Robin from 1937, You Do Something To Me by Cole Porter from 1929, and the album's namesake As Time Goes By by Herman Hupfeld from 1931. Bryan Ferry manages in an exceptional way to transport the listener of his work 70 and 80 years back from 1999, when his album was released.

As Time Goes By reached No.16 in the United Kingdom, while in the USA, the album barely made it into the Top-200 of Billboard. Its sales in Great Britain exceeded 100,000.