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Bryan Ferry sang this song on Gorbachev’s 80th birthday; dance to it tonight

Dec 31, 2019 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

There is no other occasion where deep love flows between man and woman like tsunamic waves than the Old Year’s night romantic dance when the moments of an old year die right in front of your eyes. It is one of the unusual moments in the life of romance. As the music plays, the emotion rages and the closeness of a bond endures, love becomes real, philosophical, inspiring, and the memories of the passing year take up residence in your soul forever.
The shape of love and the sparkle of romance on Old Year’s Night depend on what song you dance to, as the past passes you on the dance floor. We are living in an age where the love song is dying. All over the world, rap, soca, dancehall and other genres have taken over. But humans are essentially romantic creatures who will always fall in love and want to be loved too.
If you are romantic and you are deeply in love, then I suggest you hold your partner tonight as if the world is about to end and dance to Bryan Ferry’s exotic, haunting, inviting love song, “Slave to Love.” This is no extraordinary love song, but there is something about it that is also not your run-of-the mill composition. There is something hidden in “Slave to Love” that you cannot fully grasp, but you know it is there and it arouses you.
“Slave to Love” has the distinction of being featured in several popular films, some of which are memorable and everlasting. Two of the most intriguing English language films I have seen and consider them very unique scripts have featured Bryan Ferry’s huge hit.
One is “Nine and a half weeks.” It is based on the true story of New York socialite, Ingeborg Day, who became a willing victim of sado-masochism.
Borg wrote her experience in book form, with a pseudonym from which the movie was taken. Her identity was eventually revealed. She committed suicide years after, perhaps never recovering from her nervous breakdown.
In one of the scenes, the sado-masochistic lovers were having the time of their lives dancing to Ferry’s melody. The ambience was certainly ironic – sado-masochism meets the essence of love.
The other masterpiece that “Slave to Love” is featured in is by the convicted pedophile, but undoubtedly one of films’ best directors – Roman Polanski.
“Bitter Moon” is the story of fatalistic and unrequited love. It is saturated with Shakespearian themes of eerie emotions that destroy the soul of those who seek love, only to have it, then have it betrayed.
Only one director from the global film industry can make such a morbid film – Roman Polanski. The husband, a wheelchair user, celebrates Old Year’s Night at a party on a cruise ship, only to discover his wife dancing with lesbian overtures with another woman, to Ferry’s rhapsodic melody.
Like in “Nine and a half weeks,” the song in “Bitter Moon” is played against the background of one of the most interesting scenes in the entire move.
In 2011, one of the 20th century’s greatest figures and one of the greatest political personalities of all time, former leader of the USSR that disintegrated in 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev, celebrated his 80th birthday with a grand concert at the Royal Albert Hall. Superstars from film and music performed. Ferry sang his signature hit song.
I don’t suppose the DJ tonight will have access to “Slave to Love.” He probably never heard about the song. But if you plan to usher in the new year at a private party or among friends, then go to YouTube and dance to a wonderful song about the power, passion and purpose of love.
Here are the words of “Slave to Love”:

Tell her I’ll be waiting
In the usual place
With the tired and weary
There’s no escape
To need a woman
You’ve got to know
How the strong get weak
And the rich get poor
[Chorus]
Slave to love
Oh, Slave to love

You’re running with me
Don’t touch the ground
We’re the restless hearted
Not the chained and bound
The sky is burning
A sea of flame
Though your world is changing
I will be the same

[Chorus]
Slave to love
Oh oh, Slave to love
Slave to love(na na na na)
Na na na na
Na na na na
Slave to love
And I can’t escape;
I’m a Slave to love

Can you help me?
Oh oh
Can you help me?

The storm is breaking
Or so it seems
We’re too young to reason
Too grown up to dream
Now spring is turning
Your face to mine
I can hear your laughter
I can see your smile

[Repeat Chorus x 2]
Slave to love (na na na na)
Oh (na na na na) Slave to love
And I can’t escape; I’m a Slave to love

(The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of this newspaper)

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