ROXY MUSIC

JULIAN MARSZALEK

VENUE THE O2 ARENA, LONDON DATE 14/10/2022 Roxy Music may well be regarded as second only to David Bowie in the influencer stakes but that margin was always separated by only the thinnest of rolling papers. And while Bowie finally broke through in 1972 after years of reinvention with his fifth album, The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars, Roxy Music – who released their eponymous debut album on the very same day – arrived fully formed with a manifesto and aesthetic wholly their own. Moreover, with guitarist Phil Manzanera sporting his bug-eyed glasses, Brian Eno’s outrageous feather boas, singer Bryan Ferry resembling a 50s greaser emerging from an explosion in a glitter factory flanked by sequined saxophonist Andy Mackay and drummer Paul Thompson, this was an…

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