When I was a little kid - barely nine - my parents sent me off to boarding school in England. It was every bit as bad as I'd imagined, and I wouldn't trade the experience for the world.The school was truly Dickensian; corporal punishment had not yet been abolished, and was meted out generously. The food was plain toast and tea for breakfast, boiled cabbage and tea for lunch, and boiled cabbag...
You've gotta love this 1979 classic from Roxy Music's "Manifesto" album - "Angel Eyes". There are two versions of the song, a rock version, and the disco version, which is the video we have here that was released as a single. The visuals in the video are hysterical - Bryan Ferry as the pastel lounge singer, Phil Manzanera playing twangy guitar and looking like an insect, Andy MacKay with his ha...
I bought my first Roxy Music album while I was still in high school. It's not such a big thing for some but I did grow up in West Texas. The internet wasn't something widespread enough for most of us to have access to and it was still a very isolated place in 1996. I would go to the library and search through the periodical sections for bands that I liked and read old interviews in magazine ant...
its all coming back to me ...Jesus H tap dancing christ... I loved these guys... no apologies....NB Check it out... the pianist - feathers on jacket... hmmmm whose doing that now
So, you'd think with all this new music from the past year, I'd be busying myself with something other than old faves...yet here I am. Picked up the Roxy live set Heart Still Beating yesterday, which reminded me of how long it's been since I slapped on the oft underrated Siren....no, I'll not bother you with "Love Is The Drug", but there are heavy tones and harmonies to tickle your ears here.....
"untitled" (found photograph)keep art alive; artist unknown"when the samba takes you,out of nowhere,and the background's fading,out of focus.yes, the picture's changing,every moment,and your destination,you don't know it."avalon (video) ~ roxy musicavalon (live) ~ roxy musicavalon was one of those albums that i played over and over again, letting the songs - this one especially - fill the room,...