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Roxy Music are an English rock band formed in 1970 by lead vocalist and principal songwriter Bryan Ferry and bassist Graham Simpson. By the time the band recorded their first album in 1972, Ferry and Simpson were joined by saxophonist and oboist Andy Mackay , guitarist Phil Manzanera , drummer Paul Thompson and synthesizer player Brian Eno .
- 1970–1976, 1978–1983, 2001–2011, 2022–present
- “Editions of You” (For Your Pleasure, 1972) There’s a barely suppressed energy simmering in the opening electric piano chords, and when Paul Thompson’s drum roll snowballs in at the 16-second mark, the entire band unleashes the weird and goes for the jugular on one of the most muscular art rock songs of all time.
- “Do the Strand” (For Your Pleasure, 1972) The opening track to For Your Pleasure, the band’s greatest album, wastes no time in announcing itself: before one full second has passed, the piano is furiously clanging and Ferry is off on his carnivalesque sales pitch about “a fabulous creation” that doubles as a “danceable solution to teenage revolution.”
- “Three and Nine” (Country Life, 1974) A lovely, gentle counterpoint to the song it immediately follows on Country Life (the visceral “The Thrill of It All”), “Three and Nine” is a beguiling, mellow rocker with shades of the open prairie (via some country-tinged harmonica support) and a late-night jazz club (thanks to some reflective sax soloing from Mackay).
- “More Than This” (Avalon, 1982) For as weird as Roxy was in the ‘70s, they went full-on mainstream with 1982’s Avalon. But even as they sanded down the rough edges and left the strangeness behind, they didn’t lose an ounce of their sophistication.
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Mar 23, 2024 · Roxy Music, British art rock band of the 1970s whose influential style was an amalgam of glam rock campiness, sophisticated, often experimental musicianship, arch humor, and world-weary romanticism. Roxy Music’s fully textured sound and lush instrumentation set it apart from mainstream rock.
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