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Roxy Music: The Sound Of Surprise
Interview by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 1 July 1972
PAUL THOMPSON's tom-toms ground slowly to a shuddering halt as Eno's synthesiser simulated the sound of Firestone Wide Ovals being pushed past their limit around ...
Bryan Ferry: My Indecision Is Final…
Profile and Interview by Mat Snow, Q, February 1993
Once he was the prolific matinee idol of spaceglam, the original Earl Of Suave and the king of luxuriously lined lovelessness. Now Bryan Ferry takes ...
Another Glam World: Brian Eno’s Adventures in Roxy Music
Interview by Djuna Parnes, Rock's Backpages, June 2001
DP: What does the phrase "Glam Rock" mean to you? ...
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Roxy Music's Phil Manzanera (1982)
Interview by Ira Robbins, Rock's Backpages Audio, 18 February 1982
The Roxy guitar man on the current state of the band; on making his Primitive Guitar solo album; Roxy on stage and their recent albums, and on making Avalon.
File format: mp3; file size: 33.4mb, interview length: 36' 30" sound quality: **½
Interview by Mark Sinker, Rock's Backpages Audio, Fall 1992
Pop's intellectual-in-chief on youth and cultural identity; the value of pretence and pretension; useful irony, contingency, and the accident of joining Roxy Music; problems of language; minimalism and the value of the recording studio; what "culture" means; deadlines; contributing to the cultural conversation; the importance of topicality; false impositions of cultural values; reading and hearing; criticism and empathy.
File format: mp3; file size: 86.9mb, interview length: 1h 30' 28" sound quality: ***
Interview by Mat Snow, Rock's Backpages Audio, January 1993
The former Roxy frontman talks about his new album, Taxi; about doing cover versions; solo vs. groups; looks back at Roxy Music and Eno; his sensitivity to criticism; the stars he's met and his love of classic soul.
File format: mp3; file size: 111.9mb, interview length: 2h 02' 10" sound quality: **
Interview by Adam Sweeting, Rock's Backpages Audio, 4 March 1993
The old smoothie talks about "lost" album Horoscope; his new covers album Taxi and the joys of interpretation; the pleasures of working with Robin Trower and the perils of 48-track recording; his work ethic; being a family man; owning his own studio, and his lifelong interest in art.
File format: mp3; file size: 58.2mb, interview length: 1h 00' 38" sound quality: *****
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages Audio, 13 January 1998
Eno talks about the early days of Roxy Music; the band's intersection with Glam; the impact of David Bowie; androgyny and flamboyance; leaving Roxy, and setting out on his solo career.
File format: mp3; file size: 33.5mb, interview length: 36' 36" sound quality: ** (phoner)
Interview by Chris Roberts, Rock's Backpages Audio, 4 April 2001
Bryan Ferry and Phil Manzanera talk about their 2001 reunion, and look back to the days of zany outfits and VCS3s.
File format: mp3; file sizes: 86.1mb, total interview length: 1h 29' 39" sound quality: **
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Profile by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 7 August 1971
A CURIOUS FEATURE of modern rock music is the way it's taken potential artists away from other spheres. Men who might have become poets, painters, ...
Interview by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 12 February 1972
BINGO IS THE SCENE most nights at the Granada, Wandsworth Road, London SW8. Fruit machines line the foyer and there's a big sign with lots ...
Roxy Music — one year later...
Profile and Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, 4 March 1972
ROXY MUSIC must be the only group around who took the trouble of rehearsing for a whole year before doing a concert. And although for ...
Roxy Music: Roxy Music (Island)
Review by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 24 June 1972
KARI-ANN STARES, with lustful expectancy, teeth bared and surrounded by frosted deep pink lips. She reclines on a counterpane of silvery satin in a halternecked ...
Profile and Interview by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 29 July 1972
ALMOST a year ago to the week, Bryan Ferry sat in a council flat in Shepherds Bush and explained his timetable for the next year. ...
Interview by Ian MacDonald, New Musical Express, 12 August 1972
A menace to society ...
David Bowie, Roxy Music: Rainbow Theatre, London
Live Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 26 August 1972
GOING TO THE Rainbow these days is definitely an outing, an excursion, something of a treat. Unfamiliarity breeds respect, and though the cheerful hippies who ...
Albums from David Bowie, T. Rex, Rod Stewart and Roxy Music
Review by Richard Williams, The Times, 2 September 1972
Stars of rock: T. Rex: The Slider; Rod Stewart: Never A Dull Moment; David Bowie: The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars; Roxy Music: Roxy ...
Roxy Music: The kind of example we wish to set our parents?
Interview by Ian MacDonald, New Musical Express, 23 September 1972
THE CHAMPAGNE was flowing freely when I interviewed Phil Manzanera, guitaring personality of Roxy Music, in freefall at twenty thousand feet over the English Channel ...
Profile and Interview by Steve Turner, Beat Instrumental, October 1972
Peace Rock, Acid Rock, Hard Rock, Country Rock, Psycho Rock, Fag Rock & Glam Rock, NOW WE’VE GOT SCI-FI ROCK BY: ROXY MUSIC. ...
Interview by Ian MacDonald, New Musical Express, 14 October 1972
BRYAN FERRY, stunning in gold trimmed black pyjamas and matching shades, greeted me from where he reclined, half-submerged beneath a heap of scented fanmail, on ...
Roxy Music: Central Hall, Chatham
Live Review by Caroline Boucher, Disc, 11 November 1972
"COR," SAID the bloke behind me after Roxy Music had finished their first number, "I like the way they take the micky out of themselves." ...
Roxy Music: All This and Eno Too… How Can They Fail?
Profile and Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 18 November 1972
T.S. ELIOT, MUSING upon a takeaway Chinese meal once asked "Is true art dead?", while over at the pinball machine Little Richard picked his nose ...
Roxy Music: City Hall, Newcastle
Live Review by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 18 November 1972
IT'S DEFINITELY a chic wasteland at the Newcastle City Hall. There wasn't even a platform boot in sight when I went down there to see ...
Roxy Music: Roxy Music (Warner Brothers)
Review by Robot A. Hull, Creem, January 1973
WHAT A BUNCHA kooky weirdo faggoids! What a pack of goofy, tasteless dingbats! What a buncha fucking showoffs! ...
Roxy Music: The Man Who Put Sequins into Middle Eights
Interview by Nick Kent, Ian MacDonald, Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 20 January 1973
The BRYAN FERRY interview, in which the Roxy mastermind meets IAN MacDONALD, CHARLES SHAAR MURRAY and NICK KENT ...
Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 3 February 1973
ENO'S PLAYBOY bachelor flat in mystical Maida Vale possesses a decor that is God's own gift to a journalist caught for a good opening paragraph. ...
Allman Brothers, Edgar Winter Group, Mahavishnu Orchestra et al : Rock & Roll Nine, Hollywood FLA
Live Review by Jim Esposito, Rock, 26 February 1973
ALMOST EVERYTHING about Rock & Roll Nine was good in some ways and bad in others. Celebrated on an isolated raceway in the swampy boondocks ...
Under the Influence: Eno of Roxy
Interview by Ian MacDonald, New Musical Express, 10 March 1973
Velvets & Beethoven ...
Interview by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 17 March 1973
...is the title of Roxy Music's sensational second album. Roy Hollingworth presents an exclusive preview with comments from Roxy's Bryan Ferry. ...
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 24 March 1973
THERE ARE A large number of people in the music business who would be delighted to hear that Roxy Music had blown it. Their sudden ...
Roxy Music, Sharks: Rainbow Theatre, London
Live Review by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 7 April 1973
SIX OR seven months ago, a Roxy performance was such a cool business you got the impression the band would be just as satisfied if ...
Live Review by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 7 April 1973
GEE, YOU GUYS from Roxy sure do have style. Mmmmmmm, yummy yummy. what I couldn't do to that Bryan Ferry if he dropped around my ...
Roxy Music: The Dome, Brighton
Live Review by Ian MacDonald, New Musical Express, 21 April 1973
GROUPS TOURING Britain are expected to put on that little bit extra for their London dates on the simple score of the probable presence of ...
Interview by Jonh Ingham, New Musical Express, 28 April 1973
"I'D BEEN nursing the idea for Roxy since my last band," says Bryan Ferry, "since 1964-65. Obviously, when I stopped with the other band I ...
Roxy Music: Ultra Pulp Images On The Video-Cassette Of Your Mind
Profile and Interview by Jonh Ingham, New Musical Express, 28 April 1973
THE FIRST COSMIC rock law of the seventies is this: "Everybody is a star". To which the answer is: "So what?". Roxy Music, undeniably, have ...
Bryan Ferry On The Swift Rise Of Roxy
Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, May 1973
BRYAN FERRY has got a very substantial ego. And it's a good thing for British and American music fans that he has because without it ...
Report by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 12 May 1973
STAYING AT THE George V is one of life's great experiences, at least to a traveller who savours his changing environments. ...
Roxy Music: Last Tango In Amsterdam
Report by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 9 June 1973
BEING A ROCK writer isn't so bad. Quite often you get to go down to a nice hotel, get a few drinks, maybe even a ...
Interview by Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc, 23 June 1973
BRYAN FERRY has obviously not yet found it necessary to adopt strict security measures to avoid his Earls Court flat being invaded by hoards of ...
T. Rex/David Bowie/Roxy Music Albums
Review by Simon Frith, Let It Rock, July 1973
T. Rex: TanxDavid Bowie: Aladdin SaneRoxy Music: For Your Pleasure ...
Roxy Music: For Your Pleasure (Warner Bros. BS 2696)
Review by Paul Gambaccini, Rolling Stone, 5 July 1973
STOP DOING the stroll, mouse, limbo, eighty-one and peppermint twist. Give the Strand four minutes of your time and you won't think of doing another ...
Interview by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 28 July 1973
"I was cramping Eno's style. Two non-musicians in a band is one too many. I think he'll do very well by himself" — BRYAN FERRY ...
Roxy Music at the Rainbow Theatre, London
Live Review by Jonh Ingham, Phonograph Record, September 1973
KONO IS A a Japanese journalist, top of his class. One week he's flaming around New York, the next week in London, hip to all ...
Review by Robot A. Hull, Creem, September 1973
EVER SINCE the advent of rock 'n' roll there's always been a few tweety performers who would insist upon re-directing the primitive rhythmic spirit of ...
Bryan Ferry: Party Fun From an Old Poseur
Interview by Ian MacDonald, New Musical Express, 8 September 1973
AT NOON PRECISELY, on a colourless day, I pressed the bell-push of Bryan Ferry's chic Earl's Court flat. Fifteen minutes later I was still ringing. ...
Review by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 10 November 1973
Roxy: an air of lush decay ...
Review by Ian MacDonald, New Musical Express, 10 November 1973
IN A WAY, Roxy Music's original ambiguous stance – the Chinese Box thing that was probably their most enticing quality – always fought against their ...
Mick Ronson: Slaughter On 10th Avenue; Roxy Music: Stranded
Review by Michael Gross, Circus, December 1973
AND WHEN THE kids had killed the man they had to break up the band... almost. Now that the glitter thunder is over, perhaps it'll ...
Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 19 January 1974
"I TELL ya, mate, just wait till Bryan Ferry gets onstage – 'is face is goin' to look like a fuckin' cancered lung". ...
Roxy Music: Stranded (Atlantic)
Review by Ken Barnes, Phonograph Record, 1 April 1974
THOUGH I LIKED the first two Roxy Music albums reasonably well, Stranded is the first one that's immediately impressed me. ...
Fashion: The Politics of Flash
Report and Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 6 April 1974
NICK KENT traces the Rise and Fall of The Satin Jacket...and generally walks it like he talks it into the land of 'Rock Chic.' ...
Profile and Interview by Simon Frith, Let It Rock, May 1974
ROXY MUSIC ARE Paul Thompson, Phil Manzanera, Andy Mackay, Bryan Ferry and Eddie Jobson, but the first thing you’ve got to understand is that Roxy ...
Songs from Europe: Roxy Music's Stranded
Review by Gary Sperrazza!, Shakin' Street Gazette, May 1974
"Eno once busied himself amplifying the travel of earthworms.""Thomas Mann in Buddenbrooks characterizes the decline and dissolution of a prominent family with the increase in ...
Roxy Music: We're Not Killing Ourselves In America
Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 18 May 1974
BRYAN FERRY was exhausted. Utterly. Not much lounging for the lounge lizard this week. All go. Up at dawn to another city. Another round of ...
Roxy Music: Stranded (Atco 7045)
Review by Paul Gambaccini, Rolling Stone, 23 May 1974
TWO BRITISH bands are genuinely stretching the dimensions of pop music. One, 10 c.c., has already found a degree of popularity in the States. Roxy ...
Roxy Music, Sharks: Academy of Music, New York NY
Live Review by Dan Nooger, The Village Voice, 13 June 1974
Energy: Patchy and pure ...
Mick Ronson: Slaughter On 10th Avenue (RCA APLI-0353); Roxy Music: Stranded (Atco SD 7045)
Review by Michael Gross, Crawdaddy!, July 1974
And when the kids had killed the man they had to break up the band... almost. Now that the glitter thunder is over, perhaps it'll ...
Phil Manzanera: Snake-Eyed Latin Lothario Goes Pan-Tonic
Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 24 August 1974
...And that's not all, as NICK KENT discovers after conversations with none other than marimboid Roxyite PHIL MANZANERA. (P.S. John Cale is involved in this ...
Roxy Music: The Two Sides Of Mr Manzanera
Interview by Pete Makowski, Sounds, 24 August 1974
Since the beginning of Roxy Music's career there have been many reports of fights and ego stomping between various members. One man who's been keeping ...
Roxy Music: Discovery Of Amazing Corporate Hippie
Interview by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 14 September 1974
EDDIE JOBSON is quite a cute little cookie. ...
Roxy Music: Rainbow Theatre, Finsbury Park, London
Live Review by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 12 October 1974
Fairbanks triumph at ersatz Nuremburg rallies ...
Profile and Interview by Richard Cromelin, Phonograph Record, November 1974
"The reason I was attracted to the band in the first place was the contradiction of having someone like Eno and someone like Bryan in ...
Review by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 9 November 1974
SO THE BARON displayed a certain lack of sartorial "chutzpah" in his last choice of onstage image-tackle. So blame his tailor. Country Life is so ...
Island Records: Treasure Island
Profile by Lenny Kaye, Hit Parader, January 1975
GIVEN THE commercial restrictions of the business we call music, it is the rare record company that is willing to lay itself on the line ...
Roxy Music: Country Life (Atlantic)
Review by Ron Ross, Phonograph Record, January 1975
YULETIDE LAST, energy starved Britons accustomed to tacky displays of teen ostentation were wished a "Ferry Merry Christmas," as Bryan Ferry, Roxy Music's ubermensch, unveiled ...
An Imperial Roxy Music Move To Rule The World
Profile and Interview by Stephen Demorest, Circus, February 1975
Led by a debonair Disraeli of modern music, Roxy are the most powerful new force out of Britain since David Bowie. Can County Life charm America too? ...
Roxy Music: Decadent, But What Is That?
Profile and Interview by Dave Marsh, Newsday, 23 February 1975
THE BRITISH rock band had been up all night, doing to their midwestern hotel what British rock bands are famous for doing. In the morning, ...
Roxy Music: Country Life (Atlantic)/Eno: Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) (Island)
Review by Wayne Robins, Creem, March 1975
WOMEN, ON Roxy Music covers, are like plants: lush vegetation, only more so. Unlike the reclining femme fatale on the cover of Stranded, who I've ...
Roxy Music: Academy of Music, New York NY
Live Review by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 8 March 1975
NEW YORK: Roxy Music's apparent inability to register any real commercial success in the USA can, I feel, be blamed on their refusal to attempt ...
Roxy Music: Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Ca.
Live Review by Ken Barnes, Phonograph Record, April 1975
ROXY MUSIC'S sellout Santa Monica appearance was a carefully executed triumph. They seemed minded to consolidate their newly-won American audience, and played it conservative all ...
Bryan Ferry: Snapshots Of A Shy Coxcomb
Interview by Richard Cromelin, Creem, June 1975
In which Bryan Ferry reveals that genius may not be pain, but interviews are something else again… ...
Roxy Music: Will They Rule America?
Interview by Ron Ross, Circus Raves, June 1975
THE LOBBY OF Howard Stein's Academy of Music was buzzing with expectation as a standing room only crowd counted the moments remaining until Roxy Music's ...
Bryan Ferry: Putting On The Style
Interview by Caroline Coon, Melody Maker, 12 July 1975
The elusive Bryan Ferry, reviver of oldies and singer with Roxy Music, talks to Caroline Coon In 1971, when Bryan Ferry flew into the ...
Report and Interview by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 4 October 1975
THE TELEPHONE'S ringing woke him. Sleepily Flame Torso surveyed the tangle of blankets which hid the form next to him. He vaguely tried to remember ...
Roxy Music, Sadistic Mika Band: City Hall, Newcastle
Live Review by Ray Fox-Cumming, Record Mirror, 18 October 1975
THE EARLY part of Roxy's British tour has been a succession of 'welcome homes' for members of the band. ...
Report and Interview by Ray Fox-Cumming, Record Mirror, 25 October 1975
POST-CONCERT meals with Roxy Music are relaxed and refined affairs. The group change for dinner, sip pre-prandial drinks in their hotel bar, then dine with ...
Live Review by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 25 October 1975
IT BEGINS LATE, of course. ...
Interview by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 29 November 1975
There is no truth in the rumour...that there is any truth in the rumour. So, alright you guys, what's to look so glum about? ...
Review by Ben Edmonds, Phonograph Record, December 1975
ROXY MUSIC IS among the handful of very best bands in the world. You didn't know that? You're not exactly alone, but the number of ...
Review by Simon Frith, Rolling Stone, 1 January 1976
THERE USED TO be this ad (in the Fifties, I suppose) for a cigarette: YOU'RE NEVER ALONE WITH A STRAND! A guy alone in the ...
Roxy Music: 'Love Is The Drug' in Bi-centennial Year!
Essay by Ron Ross, Phonograph Record, March 1976
ROXY MUSIC, once scorned here as the last frontier of glitter'n'glam, may now become the one group capable of closing the two gaps which have ...
Roxy Music: Country Life/Brian Eno: Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
Review by Wayne Robins, Creem, March 1976
WOMEN, ON ROXY MUSIC covers, are like plants: lush vegetation, only more so. Unlike the reclining femme fatale on the cover of Stranded, who I've ...
Roxy Music Hits New High with Love Drug
Interview by Paul Gambaccini, Rolling Stone, 11 March 1976
"I FIRST learned 'Love Is the Drug' might catch on in America when I was in an elevator in Milwaukee," Roxy Music's Bryan Ferry said ...
Roxy Music: Anarch-o-rock In Motion
Profile and Interview by Ira Robbins, Music Gig, September 1976
Following Roxy Music can be as mystifying a pursuit as a required college course that makes not one iota of sense. It is imperative that ...
Roxy Music: Viva! Roxy Music; Bryan Ferry: Extended Play (both Island)
Review by Jeffrey Morgan, Cheap Thrills, October 1976
WAIT A MINUTE! Snuff out them candles and get them drapes open! This band may be closin' in on being certified MTH (Mott The Hoople–one ...
Eno Part 1: Before and After Science — Accidents Will Happen
Interview by Ian MacDonald, New Musical Express, 26 November 1977
Thinking about music with BRIAN ENO. Some monologues recorded and compiled by IAN MacDONALD. ...
Review by Ira Robbins, Trouser Press, January 1978
I AM sitting here this rainy Saturday afternoon, pretending to review this, presumably the last, Roxy Music album; an obligatory collection of those tracks which ...
Manifesto Destiny: The Return Of Roxy Music
Interview by Ira Robbins, Trouser Press, 1979
"We Never Really Broke Up" I distinctly remember being more than a bit skeptical the first time I heard Roxy Music. ...
Roxy Music: Manifesto (Polydor POLH 001)***½
Review by David Hepworth, Sounds, 10 March 1979
HOW ABOUT a little fanfare? Not that this is a comeback. Oh no. The accompanying propaganda takes pains to point out that this is just ...
Roxy Music: Manifesto (Polydor)
Review by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 10 March 1979
AN INAUSPICIOUS time for the old heavy-weight to take the gloves off the shelf and clamber back into the ring? ...
Roxy Music: Manifesto (Polydor)
Review by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 10 March 1979
EXACTLY SEVEN years ago — March 1972 — something stirred in the basement at Command Studios. ...
Bryan Ferry: A Perverse Romance
Profile by Susin Shapiro, New York Daily News, 15 April 1979
BRYAN FERRY, born in Newcastle, England, would make a perfect matinee idol. But though he has all the attributes — handsome, suave, with a slow-spreading, ...
Roxy Music: Still Raining Still Posing
Report and Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 19 May 1979
SEVEN YEARS. Is it really that long a time? That short a time? Yes, it is indeed, and the fact that Roxy Music have actually ...
Bryan Ferry: Dream Sequence, Take 2
Interview by Robert Duncan, Creem, July 1979
A Conversation With BRYAN FERRY, Frog Prince Of Rock 'n' Roll ...
Review by Mitchell Cohen, Creem, October 1980
Voices: "NBC, proud as a peacock!"Announcer: "Fred Silverman presents The Roxy Music Flesh and Blood Comedy Hour starring Bryan Ferry. With The Doomdiggers, Brian Eno ...
Roxy Music: Avalon (Polydor)***1/2
Review by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 29 May 1982
ROXY MUSIC must surely represent the greatest 'might have been' episode in the murky catalogue of rock's squandered riches. ...
Interview by Ira Robbins, Trouser Press, June 1982
PICTURED ON THE first Roxy Music album with bizarre fly-glasses, long hair and unkempt beard, Phil Manzanera looked like left-field weirdness incarnate. That image was ...
Bryan Ferry Leaves His Heart In Avalon
Interview by Don Waller, L.A. Weekly, 4 November 1982
"I'M BASICALLY very shy," Bryan Ferry tells me with a mock chuckle — or is it a nervous laugh? Welcome to Roxy Music-land, where intergalactic ...
Roxy Music: Universal Amphitheatre Los Angeles CA
Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Record, July 1983
Just Another Loud Rock Band ...
Bob Clearmountain: Making the hard stuff look easy
Interview by Alan di Perna, Musician, July 1990
BOB CLEARMOUNTAIN exudes a calm, deliberate air as he moves around the cluttered interior of a recording truck parked outside L.A.'s Universal Amphitheatre. Politely negotiating ...
Audio transcript of interview by Adam Sweeting, Rock's Backpages Audio, 4 March 1993
This is a transcript of Adam's interview with the Roxy Music man. Listen to the audio of this interview. ...
Bryan Ferry: The Original's Still The Greatest
Interview by Ben Edmonds, Creem, July 1993
"Why don't we just call the damn magazine Roxy Music Monthly?" ...
Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Rolling Stone, October 1995
You’ve just celebrated your 50th birthday. Traumatic? ...
Roxy Music: They Came From Planet Bacofoil
Retrospective and Interview by Rob Chapman, MOJO, December 1995
Brought together by musical differences, they looked into the future — and it was dressed to kill. They were Roxy Music, and this is the ...
Roxy Music: The Thrill Of It All (Virgin)
Review by Richard Cook, MOJO, January 1996
THERE WERE GROUPS OTHER THAN THE Beatles back long ago, and one of them was Roxy Music. Their awkward early steps in 1972 were almost ...
Divine Decadence: Memories Of Glam
Retrospective by Jon Savage, Gadfly, October 1998
GLAM — or as it was originally called in the UK, Glitter Rock — flourished from early summer 1972 to summer 1974: shorter than Hippie, ...
Glam Rock: Scary Monsters, Super Freaks #2
Special Feature by Chris Roberts, Uncut, November 1998
TWENTIETH CENTURY BOY ...
Roxy Music: Roxy Music/For Your Pleasure/Stranded/Country Life/Siren
Review by Simon Reynolds, Uncut, September 1999
Their first five LPs lovingly remastered for your pleasure In 1969's Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboorn, Nik Cohn simultaneously celebrated and mourned the mythic era of "Superpop, the ...
Interview by Sylvie Simmons, MOJO, October 1999
Geordie space-crooner considers glam, going to the pictures with Eno, playing tennis against Tony Blair and life before rock. ...
Glam’s Great Melancholic: Bryan Ferry
Profile by Barney Hoskyns, The Independent, 2000
BY HIS OWN slightly shamefaced admission, the first thought that raced through Bryan Ferry’s mind as he came within a hair’s breadth of plunging to ...
Sleeve notes by Ian Fortnam, Valentine, April 2000
THE EARLY 1970s were an extraordinary time for popular music. Lank-haired singer songwriters - drably dressed down in denim uniforms - rubbed chart-bound shoulders with ...
Another Time, Another Place: Bryan Ferry relives the early Roxy years
Interview by Nicky Parade, Rock's Backpages, June 2001
NP: I know that you didn’t particularly care for the term Glam. Is that because you felt it reduced Roxy to the level of, say, ...
Interview by Chris Roberts, Uncut, July 2001
"PEOPLE ALWAYS apply this word 'cool' to me, and I'm far from it, really," says Bryan Ferry. "I'm very hot-blooded. It's strange. But then there's ...
Out Of The Blue, Roxy Music Is Back
Interview by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 15 July 2001
AFTER BLAZING a dazzling art-rock trail during the early 1970s, after establishing themselves as the epitome of pop elegance through the early 1980s, and after ...
Roxy Music: Live at Wembley Arena, London
Live Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, September 2001
BRYAN FERRY, surrounded by a dozen boa-trembling dancing girls on day release from Moulin Rouge, has sweaty armpits. This just doesn't happen! Or, at least, ...
Bryan Ferry: Beacon Theatre, New York
Live Review by Larry Jaffee, Rock's Backpages, 9 October 2011
SITTING IN THE audience prior to Bryan Ferry's solo gig at the Beacon Theatre – his first show in New York since the 2003 Roxy ...
"You Can't Escape Your Influences" Mark Lanegan's Favourite Albums
Interview by Julian Marszalek, The Quietus, 26 January 2012
In one of our best Baker's Dozens yet, Mark Lanegan talks Julian Marszalek through the most-played discs in his collection. ...
Killer Riffs: A Guide to Parody in Popular Music
Essay by Simon Reynolds, Pitchfork, 19 October 2016
From the Residents' freakish Beatles sendups, to Spinal Tap's meta-metal escapades, to the gastronomic goofs of "Weird Al", a chronicle of those who have turned ...
Roxy Music's For Your Pleasure
Retrospective by Rob Tannenbaum, Pitchfork, 13 October 2019
Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today, we ...
Peter Stanfield: Pin-Ups 1972 (Reaktion)
Book Review by Barney Hoskyns, The Critic, August 2022
ROCK'N'ROLL years are all the rage these days. Ever since Jon Savage published his monumental 1966 (in 2015), the anni – particularly the 1970s – ...
see also Brian Eno
see also Bryan Ferry
see also Andy Mackay
see also Phil Manzanera
see also Bullet
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