On this day in 1985 (3 June 1985), Bryan Ferry released his sixth studio album “Boys and Girls” featuring singles “Slave to Love" “Don't Stop the Dance" and “Windswept".
The album was Ferry's first solo album in seven years and the first since he had disbanded his group Roxy Music in 1983. The album was Ferry's first and only number one solo album in the UK. It was certified Platinum by the British Phonographic Industry and contains two UK top 40 hit singles. It is also Ferry's most successful solo album in the US, having been certified Gold for sales in excess of half a million copies there. The album contained the track "Slave to Love", which became one of Ferry's most popular solo hits.
In the 1985 Pazz and Jop Critics Poll by the Village Voice it was voted the 31st best album of the year.