Unused album artwork for Roxy Music (1972)
I'd never seen or heard anything so clearly made for me and my art-school manqué world-view. The cover, with Kari-Ann Muller in classic 1940s' pin-up pastiche, all pink ribbons and silver platforms, was Big Biba Rainbow Room. The contents covered all the bases: the Warholian ones, the art history ones, the Ladbroke Grove, gay-friends-of-Hockney ones. Of course, Bryan Ferry looked fantastic and, despite all the unbearable cleverness, the music went like a train - plangent sax, driving drums - offsetting Brian Eno's synth weirdness. They played at the Royal College of Art that year and then at The Rainbow, a Low Deco kitschfest in itself. This really was Tomorrow Calling.
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OMG is this the time to now gloat that I saw Roxy Music play at the Auckland Town Hall in oh 74 or 75, I think 75, jsut after Country Life came out. The full band, Phill Manzanera with his wired up jump suit, Eddi Jobson with his see thru electric violin and swoon swoon Mr B Ferry in his white tuxedo sidling on and off stage.
Gosh I can't be that old, cos i rememebr all their names!!
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