ROXY MUSIC - The Early Years - Live (HQ)

A movie comprised of various Roxy Music performances on TV. (The Early stuff, with Brian Eno) Compiled, Remastered, Edited and Altered to my - and, hopefully, your - Taste.
(tracklist below)
It was supposed to have another song (or two!), but the owners didn't allowed it, so it's not really the "Best of", it was supposed to be... : / Also it's a shame, because the song left out was important in the flow of the set... I, for sure, wouldn't choose Ladytron goin' into Dream Home Heartache... So... That's a little flat : | But I opted, not to re-do the whole thing, & just go with what I got... : )
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Tracklist:
1. Virginia Plain 0:00
2. Do the Strand 2:59
3. Ladytron 6:58
4. Pyjamarama (Censored) 13:01 - & The Fastest Song Ever... : )
5. In Every Dream Home a Heartache 13:05
6. Re-Make/Re-Model 18:42 - & I did just that... ; )
Episode #10 of LIVE MUSIC Series
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[@hawkpaul8735]

One of my customers worked for the record company and brought me a copy of the first album and asked me to tell him what I thought of it. I was blown away. Such a good time to be alive with all the great music.

[@Mr22thou]

A high school friend played the second record for me. Too weird! Took me a while to get into it, but I also read a passionate review in Cream magazine. I trusted them so I bought the record and kept trying. Gradually, I became a fan. I would have loved to have seen them live at the time these performances were filmed. Music was changing fast at the time. I guess it always is, out on the edges.

[@hawkpaul8735]

Yes, they were a great live band. You missed a treat.@@Mr22thou

[@saraivatoledo1842]

" In every dream home a Heartache " is one of the greatest songs ever written .

[@bizarrebazaar31]

👍 Great song indeed. Comic and menacing in equal proportions. A classic. ; ) Cheers!

[@ilovecasinoes]

It is incredible, and the video of them playing it is absolutely hypnotic.

[@bizarrebazaar31]

@@ilovecasinoes 👍 That's a new edit I did. I'm glad you'd liked it.. ; ) Cheers!

[@H-Zazoo]

LOL. And it came out at that time in my life when I sort of got it but still needed it explaining to me fully.

[@Elitist20]

16:02 - 'I blew up your body - but you blew my mind.'

[@57stratkat]

A totally unique band of top-notch musicians. I was SO INTO this band back in those days.

[@bizarrebazaar31]

Yeah! Great band... quite original, and ahead of their time... Cheers!

[@anotherdamn6c]

Are you sure we should be calling Eno a musician?

[@markfromct2]

What are you into now?

[@alexhollins5830]

The early Roxy stuff remains exciting decades later. They were undoubtebly an influence on the whole punk/new wave/post-punk scene which they chose to ignore and transform into the coolest band of the late 70's and early 80's. Great clip.

[@bizarrebazaar31]

👍 Yes. They were great, and quite original. ; ) Cheers!

[@mohairsam9705]

They weren't punk .. New wave, synthesisers weren't new .. What's your name ??!

[@deaddoll1361]

@@mohairsam9705 Many punk and new wave musicians were fans Bowie and Roxy as performers, which isn't surprising considering their attitude to much of the formulaic, indulgent 70's music. Synthesisers weren't new but they had become more affordable and accessible by the time of New Wave.

[@sexobscura]

@@deaddoll1361 So true 👍 Johnny Rotten was even tagged as 'the underwater Ziggy' very early on (which makes complete sense)

[@neon-yx3vc]

@@mohairsam9705 There were just a few rock bands using synthesizers at the time. "New Wave" was a term given to bands who didn't want to be associated with the term "Punk". The fact is that not one band accepted the term punk. New Wave was great, because it had the energy of punk but it was much more original and listenable. .

[@davidcolman5372]

The 71-73 incarnation of Roxy were so far ahead of their time. We haven't caught up yet!

[@bizarrebazaar31]

👍 They were. ; ) Cheers!

[@keithrobertson5110]

Yep miles ahead "Superb " .

[@monkeyface6139]

Yeah you're not wrong. Avant- garde, Art House, experimental, call it what you want, it doesn't matter. Eno and his magic, predate Kraftwerk, oh...and an oboe as well ! I was 12 when I heard this, I'm 62 now, so that in itself shows you the life this music has. The 'Siren' album of '75 is still up there for me. It stands with Ziggy for me, but isn't spoken about much.

[@jimpix8019]

@@monkeyface6139 ‘For your Pleasure’ is my all time favourite Roxy LP. I love all of it. It’s not ’Bogus Man’….👀 Like you I’m 62. Enjoying all the Splendid music of our youth. I’m glad I got to see a lot of the top performers of that era, in their prime. May the Force be with you.🌀 🌈😎🌀 (-: :-)

[@davidjones-rf8ov]

TV

[@johnhenni2808]

Bryan , Eno , Phil, Andy, Paul helped create a new sound, a self-consciously arch and campy referral to older genres of popular music. Each song on their first three albums is original and unique, but also share characteristics of '50s Rock 'n Roll, Velvet Underground, Stockhausen's Electronic Synthesizers, and Progressive Rock styles.They are one of my favorites musical innovators from that period.

[@jeffryhammel3035]

Loved your comment! You hit it perfectly. Just a blend of every kind of music from the 1930's to the 70's. Isn't it something that Ferry continues to perform even today, but with material from the 20's and 30's "Pre-Swing" days? Ferry and Roxy always just tied it all together, and the their talent was almost ominous.

[@markhunter8554]

And a cast of thousands on bass.

[@phantompanther648]

Roxy is hybrid of King Crimson school.

[@dancalmpeaceful3903]

As much as I love the later Roxy stuff...NOTHING beats the early stuff. No band can compete or come close to what they've done or sound like. Beyond unique. Ahead of their time.......

[@deaddoll1361]

Just about every KZbin video has some crazy fan claiming "best band eva". There have been a lot of very great bands, attempting to rate them is a foolish pursuit.

[@raahustaja7267]

Its funny how good they sound nowadays..such an unique sound they had.

[@chris6559]

@@deaddoll1361 bit of hyperbole, quit the buzzkill..

[@nunuloki]

I love early Roxy. For me, the band was never as interesting after Eno left.

[@cheopys]

@@nunuloki Except Stranded. That was a masterpiece.

[@MrFreakMeister]

Bloody hell, I suddenly went back 50 years 😱👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👽🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@marcelbruinsma]

Ah, Ladytron! Shivers in the beginning. Chaos in the end. So many great songs! Especially their earlier work.

[@Deedee-ee1sg]

They were a big part of the soundtrack to my youth in 70s! Brian Eno looked extraordinary!!

[@paddymeboy]

And to this day, just because of that, a lot of people are convinced he has talent - even that he was the main talent in the band.

[@StephenInfield]

I wonder if Eno's look inspired or was inspired by Riff Raff in the Rocky Horror Picture Show (film)? Not sure which came 1st; Brian Eno, I think

[@Shikta-poobah67]

@@StephenInfieldYeah, Eno was first.

[@rodoza66]

Mine too. Eno gave me an "Eno" pin when I met him back in those days - still have it : )

[@johnmartin7483]

Roxy music my first gig southampton gaumont 1973, then ziggy stardust at the guildhall, what a great start to my love of music. still going to gigs and still playing, thanks guys. X

[@bizarrebazaar31]

Nice start for sure. ; ) I see why you probably became a music addict... : ) Rock On! Cheers!

[@dusan1449]

I didn't see them, I wish I did, wasn't easy to get it behind the Iron Curtain, but I got it almost right away it came out and I didn't regret, still one of my favorite record, the first one, and Sea Breeze is so breezy 🤓

[@NormAppleton]

You're bragging, but that's something to scream about. Good stuff

[@diamonddog4708]

There was something wonderfully sinister about Roxy Music

[@elinstar6034]

Saw a film once in which Bryan played a killer...very well.

[@diamonddog4708]

@@elinstar6034 which film!

[@lynnleistinger9855]

Found their 1st record at a Daes drug store. At 14 I would only listen to bands that had synths.I had just got into Kraftwerk. Wow their early stuff was so out there it sent me in a whole new journey. 61 and it never gets old.

[@bruce369able]

try gong

[@russelldriver1954]

Yep, the score of my Youth!,along with Bowie. This music was so tight..

[@jaceklangiewicz3486]

Roxy Music po raz pierwszy zobaczyłem w czasopiśmie "Brittania", które ukazywało się w Polsce w latach siedemdziesiątych ubiegłego stulecia. A potem zacząłem słuchać Roxy Music najpierw z nagrań radiowych a długo potem z płyt CD. Pamiętam jedynie kilka członków tego zespołu, Brian Ferry, Brian Eno, Phil Manzanera. Dzięki za publikację. Pozdrowienia z Warszawy Polska

[@barsixful]

Greetings to you bud! Hope the war isn’t effecting you! Music will help!

[@jaceklangiewicz3486]

@@barsixful You're right. All the best for You

[@ginoricca945]

Mac Coy - saxophone !

[@jaceklangiewicz3486]

@@ginoricca945 Grazie tante

[@jaceklangiewicz3486]

@ Gino Ricca,, By the way, there're musicians called Mac Coy Turner. Am I right?

[@bobdooly3706]

At 7:08 the opening with Andys haunting clarinet and Eno's sound effects gives me goose bumps. What a surreal begining to a unique song.

[@bizarrebazaar31]

👍 One of their best songs.. ; ) Cheers!

[@MrBongoagogo]

It's a oboe no worries 👍

[@bobdooly3706]

@@MrBongoagogo , you are 100% correct. For 50 years I thought it was a Clarinet !!🤪😳😉🤗😀😂

[@neon-yx3vc]

@@bobdooly3706 He taught Clarinet.

[@fstover5208]

OBOE, not clarinet.

[@malcolmclarke3033]

That first album was unique in it's time, I bought it as soon as it was released, ended up with every album, saw them live 4 times, wonderful band.

[@aledquen]

Everybody's gangsta until Brian Eno starts attempting to establish communication with extraterrestrial life forms.

[@elforeigner3260]

I’ve had forgotten how awesome Roxy Music was!

[@thelonious-dx9vi]

It's ridiculous how much I love this.

[@MrChristopherHaas]

exactly. i am just now discovering Roxy and THIS SONG is what keeps me comin back

[@richholoch8230]

So ahead of their time, and their own sound. Influenced so many. I never get tired of Roxy Music.

[@user-cc6ty4lq3r]

I bought the first album and brought it to my friend. We heard it together more than hundred times and we are still fans and friends. In 1980, I was married and my son was five years old, my wife and I liked flesh and blood. And the best: we all still meet, love Roxy and Brian and think music is power and makes life better.

[@martinhowarth81]

So amazing that the first 3 maybe 4 albums were so fat ahead of their time .. I still play regular.. and live with any music made before and since ! Brilliant

[@yvesturgeon9585]

Funny thing... the first Roxy Music album and The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars came out the very same day on the 16th of June 1972.... and there's no doubt in my mind that Aladdin Sane was immensely influenced by Roxy Music.. the edginess.. the more cryptic..pop culture oriented lyrics.. the avant garde playing of Mike Garson...and so on

[@monkeyface6139]

I love both of them but never made that connection. I will listen again with fresh ears.

[@malibubarbie5349]

Very T-Rex...

[@djquinn11]

Yes for sure, good comment.

[@djquinn11]

@@malibubarbie5349 : For sure!

[@deViti]

I got both albums then (my sister who had ears and eyes open bought them), first Bowie's , then Roxy's. I still take Roxy album the best ever debut record I've ever had or heard. Virginia Plain wasn't on the album then but I bought it as a single. Next day I took the single with me to school hoping I could play it on the school record player during a music lesson -but this wasn't allowed. I was so unhappy.

[@dancalmpeaceful3903]

Bryan Ferry......the king of suave, hip, and class. Seen him twice - outstanding show EACH time!

[@johnunkerman]

I absolutely love the early Roxy! For me Eno was a big part of that ❤ just say’n.

[@sergecrabbe6565]

One of my favorites bands in the 70'S

[@sexobscura]

Almost as good as the lovely Joni Mitchell 👍

[@apostatepaul]

Superb. What a group of talented musicians! Eno was marvellous and his avant garde knowledge of electronic music and mixing made them superior. His solo career was marvellous too into his ambient stuff. Roxy music was poorer once he went but this was such a pinnacle of sound!

[@stevepringle2295]

Phil’s guitar playing is fantastic.

[@markewings7525]

Yeah he's a master

[@michaelmaffett701]

And old school Roxy totally rules! Eno! Phil! Bryan! Yes, a bit more of this, please!

[@carmelo6227]

I am so glad I saw them in concert many years ago. The just played songs from the first three albums. It was like a dream came true.

[@carlbenson6412]

I discovered Roxy Music in '78 when I was dancing in a teen disco with my friends & I used part of my paper route money to buy their album...I've been a serious fan ever since. I hope to be able to see them in their 50th anniversary tour...I missed Bryan Ferry in Cleveland 5 years ago & still regret it.

[@neoisis9373]

Thank you so much for putting this together! It’s brilliant!!!

[@bizarrebazaar31]

👍 I'm glad you liked it! ; ) Cheers!

[@jonboy9912]

We used to go regularly to the John Peel In Concert programme recorded at the BBC Paris Studios in Lower Regent Street every Thursday and in 1970 I can remember getting tickets from the BBC Ticket Unit for Roxy Music! Never heard of then I thought and threw the 4 tickets away! What a Wally!!

[@hypedelic]

Would be friggin' awesome to see Eno and Ferry perform once again ... GUYS !

[@bizarrebazaar31]

👍 Yeah. Perhaps one day... Cheers!

[@imfrcd]

@@bizarrebazaar31 Saw Roxy in DC a month ago, everybody but Eno was there. They sounded GREAT. Here's a clip: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qZaTl4GYa8eFeZI

[@bizarrebazaar31]

​@@imfrcd 👍 Nice. Must've been a really great experience. Now all they have to do is call Eno and do a World tour... ; ) It's really what they should do for their 50th anniversary. But I figure the show you saw it's the best anyone will get... And I certainly wouldn't complain a bit if I saw that formation. ; ) Cheers!

[@imfrcd]

@@bizarrebazaar31 I had read he didn't want to do it, shame really. The house would have come down if he had walked on stage! It's nice when your hero's exceed expectations.

[@bizarrebazaar31]

​@@imfrcd Pity. Could be even greater. But he must have some kind of issue with someone, probably Ferry himself.

[@spencermccullum1010]

THANKS A MILLION FOR DOING ALL THR WORK TO POST THIS. I've got all their albums and recently , thanks to Utube I've been revisting their early stuff..

[@bizarrebazaar31]

👍 I do it gladly.... to remember history and honor our culture... and to do justice to some disregarded treasures that still lie as rough diamonds somewhere in the aether... ; ) I'm not so glad when I'm taking advantage of, but - still - is good when someone, like you, recognize the effort... So I thank you a lot for your appreciation, and therefore I'm really, really glad that you - particularly - had enjoyed it! Cheers!

[@123yeahyeahno]

Manzanera's guitar solo at the end of 'Dream Home Heartache' is the closest thing to an orgasm ever achieve in rock music.

[@clairejohnson6522]

I'm glad you enjoyed it that much!!!😂

[@theChickenstones]

Yet Manzanera's rythym in 'The Bogus Man' is unequaled.. A consumate player. Take a listen to Eno and Manzanera live on the live album '801'

[@daffyduk77]

He's brilliant in Amazona as well, IMO. An underrated track

[@skystyler]

Creativity dripping from every pore. So much going on in their bridges. There were more ideas in one song than most bands put into their entire careers.

[@marcosgomes7681]

😅 true fact,taylor swift lol lol lolol lol😂

[@marcosgomes7681]

The Rap gangsta s😅,if you see and hear this, you ask yourself what is going wrong with our music world

[@iwanbottos5128]

God , yes,Brian and Eno when Roxy Music had not discovered disco . So cool this .Anc such great musicians, all of them .

[@Hairmetallurgist]

I read somewhere that Richard O'Brien got his look for Riff Raff for the "Rocky Horror Picture Show" from Brian Eno in the 70s. I'm not sure how true this is, but...damn, the resemblance is uncanny!

[@rambitomone]

incredible... yes riff raff ENO same ones!!

[@feliciadominguez3365]

Named by David Bowie as the future of music, we haven’t caught up to them yet.

[@bigalexg]

Such sophisticated, heady stuff, but it still rocks - these guys were cool as Bowie. I think of Byron and Shelly for some reason. Only in England.

[@paulinemorgan2939]

Thank you so much for putting this together, took me right back to 1973 when I was lucky enough to see them perform in Liverpool (my sister & her husband had tickets, but she was ill, so I went with my brother in law), "These Foolish Things" had just been released and I made him stay while I listened to the song on the tanoy as everyone else was rushing to get out!). I'm sure most people on here will know, but just in case anyone doesn't - Brian Eno wrote the title music to "Arena", a BBC documentary series which began in 1975 - a beautiful haunting piece of music, not a bit like "Dead Finks Don't Talk"!!!

[@bizarrebazaar31]

👍 For your pleasure! ; ) I'm glad you liked the Time Machine trip.. : ) Brian Eno did so many different things that sometimes it's hard to believe he was just 1 person.. : ) That one is great (and I didn't knew it..) ; ) Cheers!

[@sexobscura]

Also, Eno did the 'start up' sound computers make when they're switched on

[@paulinemorgan2939]

@@sexobscura I didn't know that - thanks for the info- the man is a genius.

[@LusciousTwinkle]

@@sexobscura is that true?

[@sexobscura]

@@LusciousTwinkle *you betcha*

[@manuj4507]

A band with something to say... avant-garde & content. Out of its time... unforgettable...

[@jeffryhammel3035]

Yeah. Just like the great jazz bands of the 40's and the great progressive bands of the 70's, Roxy was so damn unique.

[@Newfoundmike]

Dido

[@carygson]

Went to see them and Bowie at the Greyhound Croydon before either were really famous, didn’t get in as they limited attendance to 500. Best concert I didnt see!

[@Shikta-poobah67]

Yes, I much prefer “out of its time” to “ahead of its time”, which is a phrase that far too often gets bandied about by too many people these days where it doesn’t apply. I’ve always been of the opinion that early Roxy Music sort of inhabits its own unique little universe, which over the years has been wildly influential on so many bands, but no one has really ever actually caught up to it. Therefore, “ahead of its time” really isn’t the most accurate way to describe it. It really just kind of occupies its own place in time… or better yet, it’s just “timeless”.

[@joeherbert4329]

Roxy Music earlier albums still great!

[@bizarrebazaar31]

👍 Their best! ; ) Cheers!

[@joeherbert4329]

@@bizarrebazaar31 cheers lad.

[@rodoza66]

Those first two. The only one's that matter...

[@Shikta-poobah67]

@@rodoza66 The only ones that matter… to you.

[@meestermeesterhastings.3159]

Brian Eno has a couple of Ravens stuck on his shoulders pure class man...

[@bizarrebazaar31]

: ) 👍 Cheers!

[@davidcopson5800]

He procured them in October I think.

[@jon780249]

Imagine what they’d have been like had Eno remained.

[@davidcopson5800]

But imagine what Eno might NOT have done if he'd remained.

[@YTSkeptic]

Disbanded? Eno didn't want to go commercial. We would have missed out on so much as David Copson has noted. But, I understand your point. Brian Ferry wanted to go in a different direction and had more creative control b/c he was the frontman. :(

[@neon-yx3vc]

Oh, please. Think of all of the AMAZING records that Ferry made, with or without Roxy, and comepare that to the few good Eno records. The were great, but goofy, and Eno was THE worst singer.

[@brokenpremise]

No split. No bush of ghosts. No bloom. Now that would be a bigger hole than no Avalon

[@robjones2408]

Between 1972-73, Roxy couldn't put a foot wrong. The first three albums remain cast in stone. They had the looks, the vision, and more importantly the music. They didn't even include the two brilliant singles "Virginia Plain" or "Pyjamarama" on their albums. Such was the confidence in their talents. "For Your Pleasure" is Bryan Ferry's personal favourite of all the band's oeuvre. Rightly so. It remains immortal.

[@markhunter8554]

Actually, it was SOP in the British music industry to keep the singles off of the albums.

[@markhunter8554]

@@chrisready9254 True. In Britain in the sixties and the early seventies you had albums and you had singles and rarely did the twain meet.

[@jeffryhammel3035]

Wow, what a treat! Whatever kind of music Roxy played, be it "art deco" or pop or slamming rock, they were a great BAND, borrowing from the past and contributing to the future. It was individual talent making the whole better than the parts. Thanks for posting!

[@LuciferMornStar]

Well didn't get a lot of Roxy Music in Texas, ever! Most I'm listening to is just 60-70s noise. But I'm digging Brian Ferry and his latest band! Really good musicians. Roxy Music was a trip down a rabbit hole.

[@Shikta-poobah67]

I grew up in Texas myself. Southwest Houston. You’re absolutely right. Roxy Music wasn’t exactly selling out arenas across the state back then (or ever, really). I’m a bit young for a fan. I was 7 years old at the time that my aunt first turned me on to the “Country Life” album, which at that time was their latest release… and then after seeing how much I was enjoying it she subsequently got me into the earlier stuff. She was a massive fan. Not just of Roxy Music but of British music in general. She was definitely an anglophile. At any rate I had no idea at the time just how lucky I was to be getting exposed to this stuff. I knew it was something very different from all the stuff that was getting played on the radio back then, but as a little kid I had no concept of just how unusual it was to be a 7 year old Roxy Music fan in Texas in the mid 70’s. It really helped lay the foundation for everything I got into later in life. A year or so later and “Love Is The Drug” became a minor hit, but that was a totally different Roxy Music.

[@randymarkley5634]

I was never much of a Roxy fan. This is an eye opener. You can definitely hear the influence they made on Punk.

[@bizarrebazaar31]

👍 they were a strange band.. The kind that sometimes don't strike you at first listen.. ; ) Cheers!

[@danielscott1749]

can you also hear the Velvet Influence on Roxy.

[@MrChristopherHaas]

same here.for some reason i keep comin back for more, though i always loved love is the drug

[@randymarkley5634]

@@MrChristopherHaas I'm now a full on fan. can't wait for them to come up in my shuffle.

[@pleasantvalleypickerca7681]

Roxy was such a great band. Thanks for this.

[@bizarrebazaar31]

👍 They were.. I'm glad you liked it! ; ) Cheers!

[@andrefelixstudio2833]

Roxy music kick butt I had the pleasure of seeing and hearing them live a couple of times pretty amazing, in the early 80s.

[@bizarrebazaar31]

👍 Great band! ; ) Cheers!

[@davidcopson5800]

I think they put on those shows just for your pleasure.

[@johnmitchelljr]

Now that’s real music kids. Thank you.

[@rodoza66]

I saw this version of the band when they played The Whisky in LA. Eno and Bryan were trying to "one up" one another - thrilling to see!

[@alphasniper3570]

Early Roxy is the music the aliens are gonna jam too once were long gone!💀🤘🏾

[@spoonful1018]

I remember this now - holy shit what a band

[@bizarrebazaar31]

👍 Yeah! Awesome band... quite original and ahead of their time! Cheers!

[@danielboutin9486]

Je suis nouveaux sur le net et je suis fasciner de voir de bon vieux groupe en action vraiment cool

[@stringcus]

I love the old joanna with the gingham tablecloth pinned on the back. 70s, yeah!

[@stephenstephen1505]

Saw them in concert lots of times. Always great

[@NEntv58]

lucky bastard

[@barsixful]

In every dream home a heartache….ARE YOU FRIGGIN KIDDING?!! This is the most AWESOME SONG !!! That track is now in my top 10 with pink Floyd and Bowie!

[@Shikta-poobah67]

Best love song written about a blow-up doll I know of.

[@stevecharman8420]

It took me ages to find a way into their music. It really was quite unique.

[@benedettobruno1669]

Always and forever, thank you to Great Britain and the British people whose creativity, since the 1960s, has given the rest of the World hundreds of unique bands such as Roxy Music and music of unparalleled beauty, quirkiness and atmosphere. What would our lives have been without British bands? And while I am at it, thank you, admiration and adoration from Palermo, Sicily, also to Cocteau Twins, Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett, Discharge, Lush, Wire, Colin Newman, Killing Joke, Siouxsie And The Banshees, Broadcast, The Smiths, Human League, Curve, Skunk Anansie, Genesis, Steve Hackett, Boards Of Canada, Adam & The Ants, Public Image Limited, Prefab Sprout, Lloyd Cole & The Commotion, The The, Napalm Death, Cranes, Cardiacs, Led Zeppelin, Yazoo, Iron Maiden, Police, Blur, Fall, Sex Pistols, Buzzcocks, Jamiroquai, Seal, Slowdive, Clash, Madness, Cure, Depeche Mode, Joy Division, New Order, Radiohead, Goldfrapp, Dubstar, Charlatans, Ride, Heaven 17, Judas Priest, Marillion, The Buggles, Throbbing Gristle, Japan, Nick Drake, This Mortal Coil, Pet Shop Boys, Cardiacs, Damned, Dire Straits, Echobelly, Teardrop Explodes, Carcass, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, Eurythmics, Soft Cell, Thrilled Skinny, Dead Or Alive, Psychedelic Furs, Simple Minds, XTC, The Streets, Pretenders, The Queen, Lily Allen, Tears For Fears, Supertramp, The Kooks, Duran Duran, Brian Eno, Magazine, Groove Armada, Amy Winehouse, Coldplay, Saxon, Dead Can Dance, Massive Attack, Electric Light Orchestra, The Who, Inspiral Carpets, The Wedding Presents, Kate Bush, Cabaret Voltaire, Placebo, The Rolling Stones, Housemartins, Visage, Culture Club, Expelled, Aphex Twin, The Jam, P.J. Harvey, Gary Numan, Howard Jones, Suede, Everything But The Girl, Roxy Music, Thrilled Skinny, Freur, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, 10cc, Ladytron, Japan, Morcheeba, Helen Love, The Beatles, Spiritualized, Loop, Th' Faith Healers, Mark Ronson, Pretenders, Bauhaus, Kate Nash, Lotus Eaters, Black Sabbath, Oasis, The Sundays, All Saints, Portishead, Verve, Exploited, David Bowie, Talk Talk, Bauhaus, Elastica, Hey Elastica!, David Gray, Joe Jackson, Nick Kershaw, Spandau Ballet, Supergrass, The Korgis, Badly Drawn Boy, Tricky, Pale Saints, The Creatures, Bronski Beat, Fine Young Cannibals, Madness, Extreme Noise Terror, Stranglers, Stereolab, Keane, Motorhead...

[@user-wp8vy8le3y]

Check out a few more very underrated British bands. I am a DJ and I am what I play as Mr. Bowie would say ! Actually, I am from the UK and would recommend you check out the following bands from the 1960s/1970s/1980s/1990s/2000s heydays :- 1960s The Small Faces King Crimson 1970s The Undertones Stiff Little Fingers Doctor Feelgood The Selecter The Beat Steel Pulse Boomtown Rats 1980s UB40 Black Uhuru 1990s Blur Oasis Chemical Brothers To name but a few . . . Enjoy ! 2000s Kaiser Chiefs Kings of Leon

[@user-wp8vy8le3y]

Also forgot to add Echo and the Bunnymen from the 1970s/1980s. Saw them play twice live as a student in 1982. Liverpool band - contemporaries of Julian Cope and The Teardrop Explodes and I believe the two bands even swapped some members in their early days. Ian McCulloch has a great voice - and the band were heavily influenced by the contemporary Punk/New Wave scene in Liverpool - also, no doubt, by other Liverpool bands like the Beatles (surprise surprise !) and probably others like Gerry and the Pacemakers (Of 'Ferry across the Mersey' and 'You'll Never Walk Alone' fame. Almost certainly, too, by Mr. Bowie himself who was hugely influential on most musical pop artists in the UK and the USA - and elsewhere, too !

[@cellajones]

You forgot King Crimson

[@shereemcclelland2186]

Slade 🥇

[@timprescott4634]

WHY have I never explored them?…I’m going WAY down this rabbit hole starting right now.

[@ruanlinkerpessoa3946]

Roxy with Eno is a whole different level

[@patriot692]

. . . . of CRAP 🤮 WHAT, 3 GOOD SONGS? 🤣

[@user-yf5hs6ge3n]

ロキシーミュージックのアルバムは初期の頃から集めていました。ENOがいまでも活躍しているのが嬉しいですね。801マンザネラも好きです。

[@lorendsalazar]

Roxy & Bowie simply set the standard in those wonderful early years No better band in Rock history. Wonderful talents and vision. .

[@kevinparker461]

Both thanks to Eno, no doubt.

[@stevenmccart709]

I love the first two Roxy Music records. Then the first few Brian Eno records showed me where the real talent came from.

[@jackwezesa1081]

Baby’s on fire !

[@FafhrdGrayMouser]

Needles in the Camel’s Eye !

[@dimitrispapadimitriou5622]

Eno is a great innovator, but in Roxy Music B. Ferry was the main songwriter.

[@stevenmccart709]

@@dimitrispapadimitriou5622 absolutely. It's why the first two records by Roxy Music are the only ones I've ever owed and , I still own them today. It doesn't make them any less influential. As well as the first three , maybe four Brian Eno solo records.

[@dimitrispapadimitriou5622]

@@stevenmccart709 I like all Roxy albums until the awesome Viva! ('76). I agree that the first two were their best ( although Stranded has some equally good stuff like Amazonia and Song for Europe). About Eno: All his "song oriented" albums (plus ambient like "On Land") were great. I love also the collaboration albums he made with Cluster and Harmonia in the 70s.

[@robertevans9148]

I have been lucky enough to watch them live at an open air concert in York, absolutely brilliant.

[@michaelbrinkers1145]

Back in 72...... attending a concert at the Kinetic Playground, Chicago..... to see headliner, The Steve Miller Band, and opening act, Foghat. Perfect boogie, trad-blues bands. Everyone was shocked by the first opening act, the then-unknown Roxy Music.... looking strange in makeup and feathered boas. And why does the lead singer, sing like that.....on purpose! No one knew whether to applaud or boo. Took 2 more years to get "it".

[@anabltc]

hahahah I can imagine I like that old boogie rock too... but RM 1972 is top, no comparison

[@cellajones]

Wish I was there!

[@davidcopson5800]

I never thought I'd see this again, where has it been until now? It seems like yesterday when I first saw this, and I smiled.

[@bizarrebazaar31]

Out there.. disregarded.. waiting. ; ) until, 50 years later, someone decided to pick it up and - considering no one did for 50 years - do something with it (or from it..). Except, now, all the credit (beside the obvious and fair greatest share that at least the viewers and myself give to the band), all credit goes to the label that did nothing with it for 50 years and then took advantage of the work (and idea) of the guy that actually did it... ; ) that also makes me smile, but in a strange twisted way... : ) Cheers!

[@umalaurenbowman7276]

I had forgotten just how wildly glamed out they were! Right up there with Bowie and Bolan

[@infinifi2910]

I saw them play as a support band just before they’d released Virginia Plain. This was at Southsea Pier near Portsmouth, UK and the audience there talked all the way through Roxy Music’s act …. so strange but I was most definitely sold on on Roxy Music.

[@drboogienobama4999]

I saw Roxy in '71 or '72 at Winterland. They opened for Steve Miller with special guest Michael Bloomfield. What a show. Roxy Music pulled up to a Winterland side door in a limo and cut through the line entering through the side door. It must have been planned as the door opened right away for them and they were dressed in their "Glam" best! Definitely a very early defining force in Punk and Glam bands.

[@richardmaier8032]

Eines der geilsten / besten Konzerte, die ich je gesehen habe. Circus Krone, München. Ich glaube, es war 1973 !!!!!!!!!!

[@Stu-SB]

For me, an 80s teenager Avalon was an amazing album.. Many memories with the album playing in the background in my bedroom whilst I entertained lol

[@GrandmaRose9000]

Nostalgia. It really feels like a sense of loss, doesn't it? Yeah, it does.

[@Shikta-poobah67]

Probably because by it’s very definition it *IS* a sense of loss.

[@tecnogof]

Their best era. Ladytron... Always playing in my minds mix tape. 'the old grey whistle test'. Someone that runs a studio had an epiphany, If the old guy is whistling a tune he heard the previous day as he does his thing. You got a hit on your hands...

[@bizarrebazaar31]

👍Certainly... That's a great test, no doubt. ; ) Cheers!

[@macjam9090]

One of my all time favourite bands. The first four albums especially. When they made their comeback from their hiatus in 1979 they did the only thing they could do which was move on. Still good stuff but 71-75 band were amazing. 'In every dream home a heartache' takes some beating and also Pyjamarama ...now where did the Sex Pistols get the opening for Holidays in the Sun from.....lol...loved them too.

[@Shikta-poobah67]

Pretty much my opinion verbatim. Very well said. I get so sick of all the moaning about early RM versus later RM. I’m just glad they never got caught in a rut where they kept making the same old albums over and over. It’s unthinkable. As you pointed out, they did the only thing they could do and moved on. The way I see it, it was basically two different bands. Definitely two different eras. If an album like “For Your Pleasure” had come out in the late 70’s rather than the early 70’s, it would’ve packed *MUCH* less of a punch (though still would have been brilliant). Maybe it’s my age (born ‘67. I’m a bit younger), but I’m one of those fans who appreciates both eras of Roxy Music, though I definitely lean towards the early stuff. It seems with most Roxy fans, it’s always one or the other. I’m glad I never limited myself that way.

[@Newfoundmike]

Cutting edge ! if it came out tomorrow it would, still be New

[@samfrito]

I marvel at their gutsiness. Great performances.

[@RAinteractive]

I was very lucky to see this moment in Roxy's history - they were good after Eno left, but his time was extraordinary. We had Row A seats - I mean, I saw Bowie as Ziggy, but this was just as good!

[@frankolivas8593]

Eno, you scared me back then. But then you blew my mind.

[@bmcbg]

Roxy music was played late night on SW college Memphis radio back in the day, I could listen to it all night.good memories great music

[@vikgonzalez6174]

ROXY MUSIC UNA BANDA ADELANTADA A SU TIEMPO...BRIAN ENO-PHIL MANZANERA-BRYAN FERRY,TALENTO QUE SIGUE EN PROYECTOS INDEPENDIENTES. ❤️👍🏽🇲🇽

[@Laavaavaal]

I lapped up all the Roxy Music I could, which led me to 801 Live, still one of my favourite albums of all time. It is available on youtube if you are interested. Very ahead of their time, and multi talented people!

[@elinstar6034]

Me too - 801 live is fantastic. Had it on casette, had to re buy on CD 😊

[@VistaThaiGuy]

Watching this on my NY2023 bottle of champagne...wishing them a happy and healthy year.😎

[@carolsaxton839]

Street life was one of my faves

[@user-lo5qm5tu8m]

What a song that was❤❤

[@wallisliss]

16, platform shoes, bright red nail polish, my new long hair…..Bowie and Roxy Music. I was young at just the right time.

[@iadorenewyork1]

I am in the same age group. I feel lucky to have encountered this music when it was new.

[@Azrhael111]

FANTASTIC COMPILATION!!! Reminds me of my younger years and shakes me awake! Thank You so much, bizarre Bazar! Greetings from Hamburg...

[@LouReed9]

Just as fresh today as it was the day it was released. Truly unique.

[@EdDunkle]

Bryan Ferry is the Cole Porter of glam rock

[@bizarrebazaar31]

👍 He definetly has that witty charm.. ; ) Cheers!

[@davidcopson5800]

And possibly the Humphrey Bogart of rock?

[@mrmillcake8525]

More like Prince Charles (or King Charles III now) of Pop Music to me.=)

[@nickarth669]

I’ve always said that. Really clever lyrics.

[@juancarlosrodriguezmondelo1459]

Not is the James Bond

[@janinemeier7201]

One of my favorite bands but I have never seen any live footage. Such interesting talents. Fun to watch.

[@petermillist3779]

Brian Ferry has such a distinctive voice.

[@GEA1955]

I luckily grew up with this band Their music lyrics personalities had a huge inpuct in my life Eatch one of them is a perfectionist Thanks R.M. love from Athens !🌹

[@RitchieSimpson]

I remember this so well....

[@bizarrebazaar31]

👍 I didn't live it, but I believe you, and see why these great and exciting times in music are not things that you forget! ; ) Cheers!

[@JohnSmith-of4vh]

Their stage clothes were out of this world & so was the music......🎵

[@MrGfreddy]

Fabulous Upload great too see Eno & Manzanera in period: Thank You

[@bizarrebazaar31]

👍 You're Welcome! They're at their prime! ; ) Cheers!

[@donaldgibson4459]

They were. When they came out there was nothing like them. They are still some fun for ya!

[@fischergreen4134]

Two brilliant Lps then Eno leaves and they become a parody of themselves I was heartbroken So short but so sweet