History Music / RoxyMusic

[[caption-width-right:350:Roxy Music's early lineup. Left to right: Brian Eno, Andy MacKay, Bryan Ferry, Paul Thompson, and Phil Manzanera.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:Roxy Music's early lineup. Left to right: Brian Eno, Andy Mackay, Bryan Ferry, Paul Thompson, and Phil Manzanera.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:Roxy Music's early lineup. Eno is the one on the extreme left, Ferry is in the middle.]]

Roxy Music was a British art rock/GlamRock band in TheSeventies and TheEighties, known mainly for being a significant influence on PunkRock and Music/NewWave and being the band where musician and knob-twiddler extraordinaire BrianEno started his professional career. It had the following members:

* CreatorBacklash: Ferry has mentioned his dislike of first album track "Would You Believe?" in interviews on several occasions. He felt it would make people think the band were some kind of rock and roll revival band.
** Several band members have said they thought "Pyjamarama" was rushed and a bad choice of single. They liked the song, just thought that the recording and arrangement was not up to scratch due to being tired from touring. They didn't include it on "For Your Pleasure" for this reason either. This is why, when it came to their first singles collection, they opted to do a remix of it with new sax parts and different stereo effects, and this has appeared on most GreatestHits compilations since. The original didn't appear on CD until The Thrill Of It All box set, and later on The Complete Studio Recordings. Despite the band's criticisms, "Pyjamarama" is a favourite song of many fans, although many like the remix more than the original.

* NamesTheSame: Both Roxy and {{U2}} have had songs called "All I Want Is You".
** Not only that, but Roxy Music's Angel Eyes and Abba's Angeleyes were in the charts at the same time. Humorously, the band would later release a single called Take A Chance With Me, reminding people of Take A Chance On Me by Abba.

* TitledAfterTheSong: The band Ladytron are named after the song on Roxy Music's first album.

* LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition: 2012's The Complete Studio Recordings, released to celebrate the band's 40th Anniversary. The release compiles everything the band recorded bar the live album Viva!. This includes a 2 disc set of non-album tracks which has several tracks that had never appeared on CD. In addition to featuring superb packaging (replicating the original vinyl releases almost exactly), the tracks themselves are musically identical to the original vinyl releases as well, as they are flat transfers from the original tapes (ie not tampered with.) This might be the first one of these Deluxe Box Set releases to actually fulfil their potential.

* Super

When Roxy reunited in 1978, Jobson wasn't brought on board and Ferry took up keyboard duties again. The band changed its sound again, stripping any last remnants of their experimental art rock past in favour of super-smooth disco-influenced pop. The resulting albums, ''Manifesto'' and ''Flesh + Blood'', garnered the band negative reviews for the first time in their career and didn't do much on the charts apart from a few hit singles. Thompson himself left the band after ''Flesh'', initially temporarily after a motorcycle accident then permanently.

* LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition: The Complete Studio Recordings, released to celebrate the band's 40th Anniversary. The release compiles everything the band recorded, including a 2 disc set of non-album tracks. In addition to featuring superb packaging (replicating the original vinyl releases almost exactly), the tracks themselves are musically identical to the original vinyl releases as well, as they are flat transfers from the original tapes (ie not tampered with.) This might be the first one of these Deluxe Box Set releases to actually fulfil their potential.

* NamesTheSame: Both Roxy and {{U2}} have had songs called "All I Want Is You".

* FaceOfTheBand: Bryan Ferry, to the point where his solo albums were musically interchangable with the Roxy Music album prior to them. Several compilations collect both and it's not always obvious to the casual listener whether the song is a Roxy Music song or a Ferry solo track.

* HoYay: Ferry's solo version of It's My Party uses the original lyrics, referring to a boyfriend Johnny.
** Amanda Lear, cover star of For Your Pleasure is strongly rumoured to be a mtf transexual. Supposedly, one of the women on the front of Country Life was as well. Ferry dated Amanda and supposedly had a short fling with the Country Life women as well.

Roxy Music was a British art rock/glam rock band in TheSeventies and TheEighties, known mainly for being a significant influence on PunkRock and Music/NewWave and being the band where musician and knob-twiddler extraordinaire BrianEno started his professional career. It had the following members:

* TheDandy

* ContemptibleCover: All of them, except Avalon. Special mention goes to ''Country Life'', which features two German female fans of the band in semi-transparent lingerie standing in a forest. Doubles as a sort of HeyItsThatGuy since one of the girls on the cover is [[{{Can}} Michael Karoli]]'s sister Constanze.

Roxy Music was a British art rock/glam rock band in TheSeventies and TheEighties, known mainly for being a significant influence on PunkRock and NewWave and being the band where musician and knob-twiddler extraordinaire BrianEno started his professional career. It had the following members:

* CampStraight: Bryan Ferry. Just... Bryan Ferry.

* ContemptibleCover: All of them, literally. Special mention goes to ''Country Life'', which features two German female fans of the band in semi-transparent lingerie standing in a forest. Doubles as a sort of HeyItsThatGuy since one of the girls on the cover is [[{{Can}} Michael Karoli]]'s sister Constanze.