It also didn't hurt that one of the songs, 'In Every Dream Home a Heartache,' was a love song to a rubber doll deflating in a swimming pool.īy this time, Brian Eno wanted out, and one day the band showed up for rehearsal and found out he'd hired violinist/keyboard player Eddie Jobson away from the band Curved Air to take his place. Not only did the album have the hit 'Do the Strand,' but it also had loads of mysterious lyrics against an increasingly confident backup. The cover photo showed a neon-lit urban landscape in front of which a woman in a tight black dress and spike heels walked a snarling black panther, while off to one side her limo waited, chauffeured by a grinning Bryan Ferry. But although the band members closed 1972 with an American tour, they were largely ignored there and came home to work on another album, For Your Pleasure. 'Virginia Plain' was a brilliant single, three minutes of shifting textures and a driving beat, with space for Eno's twiddling and Manzanera's avant-guitar playing. They then put out a single that wasn't on the album. In mid-1972, they signed with King Crimson's label, E.G., and in August released their first, self-titled album. The demo got them some gigs, and they added more musicians, including guitarist Phil Manzanera. As it happened, Ferry had been fired from his teaching job for singing in the classroom - songs he'd written - and MacKay liked them enough to call his friend Brian Eno, who played keyboards and loved to mess around with electronic equipment. An unemployed ceramics teacher, Bryan Ferry, had auditioned for lead vocalist with them, and although he hadn't been selected, the manager thought MacKay should meet him. Roxy Music is the only band I can think of that had an oboe player in it, and that's because the oboe player, Andy MacKay, knew the manager of another band, King Crimson.

Roxy Music's eight studio albums have just been collected in one box set, titled The Complete Studio Recordings 1972-1982.

Roxy Music's eight studio albums are now collected in one box set, titled The Complete Studio Recordings 1972-1982.

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