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Phil Manzanera on being sampled by Kanye West and Jay-Z: "Who knew that I would earn more money from a short guitar riff that I wrote one evening on a sofa in front of the telly in 1978 than I ever earned in the entire 50 years as a member of Roxy Music?"

The guitarist had no say in his riff being used on Watch The Throne track No Church In The Wild but says he received a one-third share of the publishing and royalties revenue

MusicRadar

Phil Manzanera announces Revolución to Roxy memoir

Roxy Music guitarist Phil Manzanera will release new memoir Revolución to Roxy in March

Louder

”They called me about a week after Jeff Porcaro passed… they’d grown up together, they’d lost a blood brother, and suddenly the all-American West Coast band has a tea bag in it!” How Simon Phillips joined and left Toto

The multi-genre drummer spent over two decades with the band – but insists it was surprisingly easy to leave when the time came

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“It needs a tune – but we’ll do that free of charge!”: Meet the Gibson Firebird that Jimmy Page lost in a drinking game with John Bonham

This heavily modified Non-Reverse Gibson Firebird III is a lost Led Zeppelin guitar with a fascinating history – we get the story behind the Page-owned beauty and the buoyant market for Gibson’s under-appreciated cult hero

Guitar World

"We could have been bigger had we had an amazing manager. We’re our own worst enemies": How Roxy Music got it together despite themselves

They looked like they were from “Planet Zog” and sneaked through a gap created by drug addiction - but the members accept they could have made it easier for themselves

Louder

“Pop music didn’t offer enough open space for improvisation… there was no way we were going to play a tune the same way twice”: How Soft Machine pioneered the Canterbury scene

By the time debut album The Soft Machine was released in 1968, they’d already split up - but its impact changed everything

Louder

Francis Monkman obituary

Multi-instrumentalist with Curved Air and Sky who composed the soundtrack to The Long Good Friday

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Roxy Music review – arch art-rockers peacock their peerless anthems

Reuniting for a 50th anniversary tour, the band have lost none of their sophisticated swagger in a career-spanning set which highlights their enduring originality and influence

The Guardian - UK

Roxy Music great talks reunion tour, timeless nature of 1st album

Phil Manzanera’s introduction to Roxy Music happened over a half-century ago.

Tribune News Service

Top 25 Roxy Music songs of all time (ranked in order)

Very few bands can boast the wide-ranging influence of Roxy Music.

Tribune News Service

Bryan Ferry: ‘I did a lot of whistling on my paper round as a lad’

The Roxy Music star answers your questions on his favourite Newcastle boozers, the influential mentors who shaped his thinking, and the temptation to overproduce everything

The Guardian - UK

The 50 best rock bands of all time

A definitive guide to the very best rock bands to ever have bothered polite society

Louder

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