I know you get a lot of Bryan/Roxy here but this one doesn’t get seen very often and the girls in it look fab, especially Jerry Hall.
My sister could never understand how she could leave the elegant and dashing Bryan for Mick Jagger who she regarded as a bit of a troll in comparison.
I’ve recently discovered the Roxy Music live bootleg “City Hall, Newcastle 1974″ which is an absolute corker, parts of it ended up in slightly more polished form on their official live album “Viva!” two years later but overall this is a much better set.
Listening to early Roxy live performances it always strikes me how a group of (mostly) art school boys whose music relied so heavily on arty effects and highbrow concepts like post-modern artifice (and had a lead singer who wore a tuxedo!) could also rock out like a turbo-charged rocket hurtling towards a crash landing on Mars. Most “art-rock” bands leaned too heavily on the former but Roxy managed to find the perfect balance between the two, they made music you could write an essay about and jump up and down to. They don’t just raise the roof with these they burn down the whole damn building.
Download: Virginia Plain (live) – Roxy Music (mp3)
Download: Do The Strand (live) – Roxy Music (mp3)
Download: Editions Of You (live) – Roxy Music (mp3)
The site was down yesterday because of a technical glitch (did anyone notice?) which is of fixed now after much frantic mucking about with code and databases.
Anyways, panic over, back to our regularly scheduled programming.
Haven’t had any Roxy Music around these parts for a while. The more I see old clips like this (and this and this and this — I could have posted ‘em all) the more I think the Roxy of the 1970s were the greatest rock band ever.
