Virginia Plain

ROXY MUSIC – Eponymous Debut LP Is 50 Today

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Back in time

16 June 2022

Band: ROXY MUSIC
Original line-up: Bryan Ferry (vocals), Phil Manzanera (lead guitar),
Brian Eno (synths), Eddie Jobson (bass), Andy MacKay (sax) and Paul
Thompson (drummer)
Active: 1970–1976, 1978–1983, 2001–2011 / 8 LPs

Anniversary album: ROXY MUSIC
Released: 16 June 1972 – 50 years ago today
Peaked at #10 in the UK, didn’t make the US charts

AllMusic said: “Falling halfway between musical primitivism and art rock ambition, Roxy Music’s eponymous debut remains a startling redefinition of rock’s boundaries. Simultaneously embracing kitschy glamour and avant-pop, Roxy Music shimmers with seductive style and pulsates with disturbing synthetic textures.” Score 4.5/5.

Turn Up The Volume: A ladykiller from London called Bryan Ferry went to Mars
to pick up some weirdos for his band. They flew back together to Earth in Ferry‘s
glamorous spaceship and made some of the most innovate pop/rock longplayers
of the 70s starting with this far-out debut.

Single: Virginia Plain (debut 7″, still a striking stunner)

Full album stream on Spotify

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ROXY MUSIC: Story – All Music

Happy 74 To BRYAN FERRY

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26 September 2019

Happy 74 to legendary singer/songwriter, performer, crooner, lady killer and fashion dandy BRYAN FERRY. He was born on 26 September 1945 in Washington, Tyne and Wear, England and made an unforgettable mark with his fabulous glam art-rock band ROXY MUSIC scoring 3 Number One Albums between 1972-1982. The band split for a while, came back and split again and for several years now FERRY is continuing his long career, solo. To celebrate this most remarkable artist’s birthday here are three of Turn Up The Volume‘s favourite Roxy Music knockouts and their equally cool clips…

– VIRGINIA PLAIN –

– DO THE STRAND –

– LOVE IS THE DRUG –

BRYAN FERRY: Facebook

(photo on top: Getty Images / Photoshoot solo album ‘Bête Noire’)

‘VIRGINIA PLAIN’ – Debut Single By Glam Legends ROXY MUSIC (1972)

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Sonic knockouts from the past…

1 March 2019

‘Love Is The Drug‘ by ROXY MUSIC

The arty glam rockers’ stand-alone debut single was released in August 1972, hitting
#4 on the UK singles chart. The B-side was an instrumental called ‘The Numberer‘ by
their saxophonist Andy Mackay. The hit was re-released as a single a year later with ‘Pyjamarama‘ a track from their second LP ‘For Your Pleasure‘.

Solid gold…

ROXY MUSIC: Biography