Roxy Music seemed to come out of nowhere. The bold self-titled debut album from 1972, a result of studio experimentation, seemed to defy categorization. Roxy’s extravagant fashion, curated with the help of art school friends, kept their audience ever curious about where they’d draw their cues from next. The record landed in the crates of record collections of an entire generation keen on eschewing flower power for punk-infused self-expression.

Liz Warner sat down with Bryan Ferry of Roxy Music just after a live performance with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra in Los Angeles. This music-heavy feature takes a deep dive into early Roxy Music, and also into some of Ferry’s many influences leading up to that point through today.

A new 45th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition of Roxy Music commemorates the recording. The collection contains a book, CDs with demos, outtakes and BBC radio sessions, and a DVD of live performances from the time.

Roxy Music website: http://www.roxymusic.co.uk/

A condensed, narrated version with Liz of this interview feature is found on Ampersand http://www.ampersandla.com/roxy-music/


Roxy Music “Bitter’s End” Roxy Music
Roxy Music “Ladytron” Live 2017 [unreleased]
Roxy Music “Editions of You” Roxy Music
Roxy Music “Do The Strand” Roxy Music
Charlie Parker “Just Friends” Charlie Parker with Strings
Elvis Presley “I’m Yours” Pot Luck with Elvis Roxy Music “Virginia Plain” Roxy Music Roxy Music “Re-Make/Re-Model” Roxy Music Bryan Ferry “Can’t Let Go” The Bride Stripped Bare Bryan Ferry “A Waste Land/Windswept” Boys and Girls
Roxy Music “Zamba” Live 2017 [unreleased]
Aretha Franklin “Skylark” Jazz to Soul
Otis Redding “Mr. Pitiful”
Ella Fitzgerald with Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker “Flyin’ Home” Live from Carnegie Hall/1949
Bill Haley “See You Later, Alligator”
Bryan Ferry “A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall” These Foolish Things
Bryan Ferry: “Sympathy for the Devil” These Foolish Things
Robert Palmer “Johnny and Mary” Clues Bryan Ferry with Todd Terje “Johnny and Mary” Avonmore
Bryan Ferry with Brian Eno “I Thought” Frantic
Roxy Music: “The Bob (Medley)” Roxy Music
Bryan Ferry “Soldier of Fortune” Avonmore

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Bryan Ferry in conversation with Liz Warner

Official account of Bryan Ferry, singer, songwriter, solo artist, and founder of Roxy Music. "Loose Talk" out now https://bio.to/bryanferry