"The most influential British group after the Beatles" the journalist Tim De Lisle and described in the documentary Roxy Music More Than This published a few months ago on DVD. In that same documentary you could see the figures as diverse as Steve Jones (Sex Pistols), Nile Rodgers (Chic), Nick Rhodes (Duran Duran) outsourcing have been influenced by Roxy. What other training can boast of having illegitimate children in genres as diverse as punk, disco, or pop for jaywalkers? Yet ultimately the general public has learned from Roxy that Avalon, the ultimate album not necessarily representative of a varied discography, unbridled experimentation of early (often attributed to the presence of Brian Eno on both first album, even if the person declares that he prefers the third album, recorded after his departure from the band!) to the sleek pop-tinged dance of late seventies, the quality of songwriting and production is still a slap in the majority of groups labeled "revelation of the year" we drink to the music media.
Reformed in 2001 for a triumphant tour to be carefully avoided the hexagon, Roxy Music finally found in August and the country was recorded live on The High Road , 30 years earlier. Nothing new to sell (the chimera that represents a possible new studio album has turned into solo album by Bryan Ferry, Olympia, forthcoming in October), it was feared that the case boils as a lucrative benefit capitalizing on nostalgia fans. It did not happen and despite the absence of original drummer Paul Thompson, for health reasons dixit official site, Roxy refocused around the trio Ferry / Manzanera / Mackay accompanied by additional musicians, was able to revisit the pearls of his repertoire with a communicative power, despite a drop in speed due to the slow sequence of several titles (but gorgeous), then start over again with a furious version of Editions of You or Love is the drug irresistible.
And if Bryan Ferry's not shy to use some singers to boost the vocals, there is not much misrepresentation of the product; the years pass, Roxy is aging, certainly, but with class, without trying to sound awkward lifting, and keeping intact the spark that made their dream of fascinating music in the early 70 and clashes still in the gloom of 2010. This must be what was called the Glam ...
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