As the musical mood of ‘For Your Pleasure’ takes measured cool to freezing point, so the climate of ‘Stranded’, the third Roxy Music album, seems heavy with sultry drama and febrile languor. Bryan Ferry’s conception and direction of Roxy Music’s artwork had always been an integral enhancement to the musical…
Released in October 1975, ‘Siren’ opened with what would become perhaps Roxy Music’s best-loved tracks, ‘Love Is The Drug’. Reaching number two in the UK singles chart, ‘Love Is The Drug’ was as lyrically stylish as it was musically infectious. Returning to one of Ferry’s greatest themes – the…
On its release on June 16th, 1972, ‘Roxy Music’ was hailed by critics and music fans alike as a debut album that was as artistically controversial as it was aggressively modern: a bravura collage of impeccably nuanced styles, thunderously delivered, which announced a whole new chapter in the history…
Given the four-year hiatus since ‘Siren’, expectation ran high for the release of ‘Manifesto’ in the early spring of 1979. Roxy Music had amassed one of the most impressive back catalogues of recordings in the history of pop and rock music, including cocktail hour chanson, classic love songs, retro-futurist…
Interviewed by Richard Williams in 1972, the creator of Roxy Music, Bryan Ferry, had claimed the group’s ability to surprise, creatively and artistically, to be one of their greatest strengths. The varieties of this stylistic agility were soon to be demonstrated, not least on Roxy Music’s second LP, released…
As ‘Roxy Music’ had been described by critic Richard Williams as a record which doubled as a musical manifesto, proposing an alternative to the blues-derived, guitar driven rock music of the early 1970s, so ‘Flesh + Blood’, released eight years later, would seem to complete the circuitry of Roxy…
Released in 1974, ‘Country Life’ defined Roxy Music as an imperial force within both mainstream pop culture and the then heavy rock dominated album charts. From the mannered urgency of its opening piano chords, giving way to a three way crescendo of Manzanera’s screaming guitar, Thomson’s avalanche-like drumming, and…
In the career-long tradition of Roxy Music, ‘Avalon’ refines a host of musical and thematic inspirations into its own unique and instantly iconic style. From the beguiling charisma of Andy Mackay’s exquisitely deft avant-cocktail sax, through the folds and swerves of lustrous sound summoned up by Phil Manzanera’s mesmeric…
