Roxy Music: "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" Single (1974)

Bryan Ferry’s "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" backed with "Another Time, Another Place", was released as a 7-inch vinyl single in the UK by Island Records (catalog number WIP 6205) on August 23, 1974.

First entering the UK chart on August 31 remaining for a total of 8 weeks, from 31/08/1974 to 19/10/1974, with its highest position being number 17.

BRYAN FERRY: "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" (Island): An unusually moving and piquant version of Kern and Harbach's moody standard, couched amid lush piano, strings and a saxophone whose baleful tones echo through the wilderness of lost love.

The singer's voice clinks nostalgically like cubes of ice against the silver sides of a cocktail glass, vibrates like the fronds of an aspidistra in a balmy evening breeze. The atmosphere is less. time-

Listen, and hang suspended in a chintz vortex of lingering memories, in a Mediterranean timewarp inhabited by Ezra Pound and Lawrence Durrell who live in white-stoned ruins by the seashore.

Melody Maker August 24, 1974.