Artist: Roxy Music Genre(s):
House
Rock
Rock: Glam Rock
Rock: Pop-Rock
Punk
Rock: Punk-Rock
Discography:
Cyan Edits CDS Year: 2007
Tracks: 2
The Platinum Collection (CD3) Year: 2004
Tracks: 15
The Platinum Collection (CD2) Year: 2004
Tracks: 15
The Platinum Collection (CD1) Year: 2004
Tracks: 15
Viva! Year: 2003
Tracks: 8
Live CD1 Year: 2003
Tracks: 11
The Best of Roxy Music Year: 2001
Tracks: 18
Flesh + Blood Year: 2001
Tracks: 10
Flesh and Blood Year: 1999
Tracks: 10
More Than This: The Best Of Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music Year: 1995
Tracks: 20
Heart Still Beating Year: 1990
Tracks: 14
Avalon Year: 1982
Tracks: 10
Manifesto Year: 1979
Tracks: 10
Siren Year: 1975
Tracks: 9
Country Life Year: 1974
Tracks: 10
Stranded Year: 1973
Tracks: 8
For Your Pleasure Year: 1973
Tracks: 8
Roxy Music Year: 1972
Tracks: 10
The Best Of Year:
Tracks: 18
Live In Concert - The Best Of (CD2) Year:
Tracks: 11
Live In Concert - The Best Of (CD1) Year:
Tracks: 11
Evolving from the late-'60s progressive rock movement, Roxy Music had a enchantment with mode, glamour, film, come out art, and the avant-garde, which separated the dance band from their coevals. Dressed in outlandish, fashionable costumes, the grouping played a contumaciously experimental variation of art rock which vacillated betwixt avant-rock and sleek pop hooks. During the early '70s, the mathematical group was goaded by the originative tension between Bryan Ferry and Brian Eno, world Health Organization each pulled the dance band in carve up directions: Ferry had a fondness for American soulfulness and Beatlesque art-pop, import Eno was intrigued by deconstructing rock candy with amateur experimentalism divine by the Velvet Underground. This incarnation of Roxy Music may have only recorded deuce albums, but it divine a host of imitators -- not only the glam-rockers of the early '70s, but art-rockers and fresh wave pop groups of the late '70s. Following Eno's going, Roxy Music continued with its arty inclinations for a few albums earlier gradually working in elements of disco music and individual. Within a few years, the group had developed a sophisticated, seductive soul-pop that relied on Ferry's stylish crooning. By the early '80s, the mathematical group had developed into a fomite for Ferry, so it was no surprise that he disbanded the mathematical group at the tallness of its commercial success in the former '80s to follow a solo career.
The son of a char mineworker, Bryan Ferry (vocals, keyboards) had studied art with Richard Hamilton at the University of Newcastle earlier forming Roxy Music in 1971. While at university, he american ginseng in john Rock bands, joining the R&B radical the Gas Board, which likewise featured bassist Graham Simpson. Ferry and Simpson distinct to form their own lot toward the end of 1970, finally recruiting Andy Mackay (sax), wHO had antecedently played oboe with the London Symphony Orchestra. Through Mackay, Brian Eno joined the band. By the summer of 1971, the mathematical group -- had originally been called "Roxy" simply a call change was necessary afterwards the discovery of an American band called Roxy -- had recruited graeco-Roman percussionist Dexter Lloyd and guitarist Roger Bunn through an ad in Melody Maker; both musicians left hand within a month, but they did record the group's initial demos. Another ad was set in Melody Maker, and this time the mathematical group landed drummer Paul Thompson and guitarist Davy O'List, world Health Organization had antecedently played with the Nice. O'List left by the beginning of 1972 and was replaced by Phil Manzanera, a late extremity of Quiet Sun. Prior to recording their offset album, Simpson left the band. Roxy Music never replaced him for good; instead, they hired new bassists for each record and tour, beginning with Rik Kenton, world Health Organization appeared on their eponymic debut for Island Records.
Produced by Peter Sinfield of King Crimson,
Roxy Music climbed into the British Top Ten in the summer of 1972; curtly afterward, the non-LP single "VA Plain" rocketed into the British Top Ten, followed by the non-LP "Pyjamarama" in early 1973. While Roxy Music had become a sensation in England and Europe due to their clever amalgamation of high and kitsch culture, they had trouble acquiring a foothold in the United States. Both
Roxy Music and the group's second record album, 1973's
For Your Pleasure, which was recorded with bassist John Porter, were greeted with enthusiasm in the U.K., just about unheeded in the U.S. Frustrated with Ferry's refusal to record his compositions, Eno left wing the band after the completion of
For Your Pleasure. Before recording the third base Roxy Music album, Ferry released a solo album,
These Foolish Things, which was comprised of pop/rock covers.
Released in December of 1973,
Stranded became the band's number one number one album in the U.K.
Stranded was recorded with new Roxy member Eddie Jobson, a multi-instrumentalist wHO previously played with Curved Air; it was also the number one record to feature writing credits for Manzanera and Mackay. The album received a warmer reception in the U.S. than its two predecessors, mount the leg for the breakthrough of
Rural area Life in late 1974. Sporting a controversial cover of two models attired in see through lingerie -- the report was banned in several stores, and it was finally replaced with a exposure of a timber in the U.S. --
Land Life was the low Roxy album to break the U.S. Top 40 and became their fourth British Top Ten album. Following a tour with bassist John Wetton, the mathematical group recorded
Siren. Featuring their low American Top 40 rack up, the disco-flavored "Love Is the Drug,"
Siren was another British Top Ten rack up; in the U.S., it was temper hit, peaking at number 50. Following the tour for
Siren, the band members began working on solo projects -- Manzanera formed the prog-rock radical 801, and Mackay and Ferry both began recording solo albums -- and announced in the summer of 1976 that they were temporarily breaking up. The live album
Oral exam Roxy Music! was released before long after the promulgation of the group's reprieve.
Roxy Music regrouped in the fall of 1978 after spending 18 months on solo projects. Ferry, Manzanera, Mackay and Thompson added old Ace keyboardist Paul Carrack to the band's lineup and hired Gary Tibbs, at one time of the Vibrators, and ex-Kokomo Alan Spenner as studio bassists; Jobson and Wetton, wHO were not asked to rejoin the isthmus, formed UK. Roxy Music's comeback movement,
Pronunciamento, was released in the spring of 1979, and it boasted a silky, disco-influenced soul-pop effectual that was markedly unlike from and more than accessible than their earlier records.
Pronunciamento confirmed their British popularity, arrival the Top Ten, and became their highest-charting U.S. record, peaking at number 23 on the strength of the unmarried "Dance Away." Roxy Music supported the album with an outside tour that featured Carrack and Tibbs; prior to the tour's start, Thompson left wing the band after break his ovolo in a motorcycle fortuity.
Material body + Blood, the review to
Manifesto, was recorded just by Ferry, Manzanera and Mackay, and a legion of studio apartment musicians. Released in the summer of 1980,
Physique + Blood became Roxy's minute British number peerless album on the long suit of the Top Ten single "Over You"; in America, the album reached the American Top 40. In the bounce of 1981, the band's non-LP cover of John Lennon's "Overjealous Guy," recorded as a tribute to the slain vocalizer, became the group's only British number peerless single.
Most two days after the release of
Flesh + Blood, Roxy Music returned in the summer of 1982 with
Avalon. Marking a new level in the group's production and musical worldliness,
Avalon became their biggest album, expenditure trey weeks at the top of the inning of the British charts and 27 on the U.S. charts, generating the British hits "More Than This" and "Take a Chance With Me." It became the group's only American gold album, and the age, it worked its way to pt status. Following a successful load-bearing spell out for
Avalon, the grouping released the live EP Musique/The High Road in the spring of 1983. The
Avalon tour off out to be Roxy Music's final activeness as a stem. Ferry began to boil down on his solo calling, rootage with 1985's
Boys and Girls. Manzanera and Mackay formed a band called the Explorers in 1985; the pair would record under a variety of guises, as full as follow solo careers, over the side by side 15 years. The compilation
Street Life: 20 Great Hits, which excessively featured Ferry's solo hits, was released in 1989. A year later,
Bosom Still Beating, a alive album documenting a 1982 concert, was released.
