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...
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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...
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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...
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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
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...And it had a message about this "cool" new band playing Saturday Nite....Sounds like a blast
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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.....
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"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,...
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but I believe I would only waste my breath!" A superb live cut from the '72 LP that altered the way I thought about music forever. Viva!
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| 1 Love Is the Drug |
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| 2 Editions of You |
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| 3 Over You |
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| 4 More Than This |
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| 5 Virginia Plain [*] |
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