I decided to do this much for myself being a fan from my teens. My own page for Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music. 5,800 likes 4 talking about this. Roxy Music were an English rock band formed in 1970 by Bryan Ferry, who became the bands lead vocalist and chief songwriter, and bassist Graham Simpson.Alongside Ferry, the other longtime members were Phil Manzanera (guitar), Andy Mackay (saxophone and oboe) and Paul Thompson (2) (drums and percussion), and other former members include Brian Eno (synthesizer and 'treatments'), Eddie Jobson.

You can admire them in their original form but when you pull them out and sample, boy do they still pack a punch.The Tina Turner 'Video' collection has about 5 live performances instead of the music videos for example. TheyвЂ™re like a fine Claret or vintage malt. Originally a product of the Art School meets glam rock avant-garde on the early seventies the Ferry/Roxy axis has easily outlived simple pigeonholing and defied time, tide and fashion while remaining chic and desirable for generations of listeners.

With Roxy on hold, he is responsible for a body of work that fuses originals and standards with elan вЂ“ seeing a dozen of his own immaculate creations cracking the top 20 вЂ“ with 1985вЂ™s Boys and GirlsВ reaching the coveted top slot. His own catalogue shadows that of the core group and continues onwards. Meanwhile, Ferry himself, the consummate lounge lizard, is no slouch. There are 24 tracks and most of the older,early 70s Roxy Music songs are again, live concert shots.Roxy Music themselves have been responsible for a sequence of albums beginning with their self-titledВ debutfrom 1972 and developing via For Your Pleasure, Stranded, the mighty AvalonВ and 2012вЂ™s superb The Complete Studio Recordings, the latter set having reviewers drooling while style magazines and TV documentary makers went into hyperbolic overdrive.

Formed as a result of kismet when Ferry enlisted Andy Mackay, his mate Brian EnoВ and bassist Graham Simpson, they were going out briefly as a prototype band called Gas Board before becoming Roxy Music вЂ“ the name a tribute to the art deco glamour of cinematic iconography with a generous splash of 1950s rock and roll cult swagger thrown in.Given their inbuilt combination of MackayвЂ™s sax,В EnoвЂ™sВ ever so flamboyant synthesiser presence andВ FerryвЂ™sВ own idiosyncratic vocal style the pieces still needed cementing but fell into place when guitarist Phil Manzanera and sturdy drum man Paul Thompson completed the classic original sextet. That period is responsible for producing some of the most vibrant and aesthetically pleasing music ever to be found on our shores and Roxy Music were at the thick of it. IMVDb co-founders Doug Klinger and Adam Fairholm are joined by music video producer Jason Baum to break down the decadeCast your mind back to the early 1970s and social commentators will have you believe that the United Kingdom was a dull, impoverished place, languishing on former glories. The Decade in Music Videos. Their history is more to do with a body of work that repays discovery and relistening and never fails to thrill.'Avalon' music video by Roxy Music.

After all, there had been the sea change of punk and the musical terrain in Britain had altered so dramatically that even craftsmen like these couldnвЂ™t look to their laurels.Energised and confident Roxy returned to the album fray properly with the aptly named ManifestoВ following a virtual four-year hiatus. One might sense thatВ FerryВ and Roxy were taking stock and re-evaluating during this period. Siren, featuring BryanвЂ™s then significant other Jerry Hall on the sleeve, boasted вЂBoth Ends BurningвЂ™ and вЂLove Is The DrugвЂ™, indicating a Midas Touch that few others from the era could aspire towards.The live disc Viva! Roxy Music вЂ“ recorded inВ FerryвЂ™sВ home patch of Newcastle, and strongholds in Glasgow and Wembley was a clever precisВ of FerryвЂ™s five-year plan thus far while 1977вЂ™s Greatest Hits was exactly that no idle boast of a beast at all. Personnel changes aside (bass players came and went) Roxy Music never fell foul of the so-called difficult follow-up album syndrome. The music in the shape of вЂIf It Takes All NightвЂ™ and smash hit вЂAll I Want Is YouвЂ™, established RoxyвЂ™s position at the forefront of intelligent pop while the cover art, featuring a pair of lingerie models wagged tails for other reasons.

Although AvalonВ is actually one of the groupвЂ™s shorter albums it gives the impression of great depth and boundless atmospheric vistas with banks of percussion and an incredible rhythmic intensity provided by the masterful combination of Andy Newmark and Alan Spenner on drums and bass respectively. Made as something of a gaze from afar, hence the title culled from old mythology, Avalon boasts a slick production and all-time classic tracks like the title song, the ethereal вЂMore Than ThisвЂ™ and вЂTrue To LifeвЂ™. Avalon is undoubtedly the bandвЂ™s smoothest offering. For Avalon (1982) Roxy decamped to Compass Point Studios, Nassau and The Power Station in Manhattan, smelling more exotic air and the late-night fumes of New York City at night. Significantly, the album made use of session funk masters, Richard Tee, Steve Ferrone and Rick Marotta and became a hit in America where folks were just coming to grips with this weird bunch from across the pond.Entering the new decade 1980вЂ™s Flesh + Blood found Roxy trying their hand with a couple of well-chosen and disparate covers in the shape of the Wilson Pickett/Steve Cropper soul classic вЂIn The Midnight HourвЂ™ and The ByrdsвЂ™ equally pristine psych-rock gem вЂEight Miles HighвЂ™, though the original compositions вЂOh YeahвЂ™ and вЂOver YouвЂ™ were the songs that raced into the Top Five again.The bandвЂ™s last studio album would be the one that many consider their finest hour.

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