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“They’d been to university, they had bank accounts; two of them were teachers; they had a car; they’d got a bank loan to buy a PA!”: Phil Manzanera always knew Roxy Music were going to make it

Guitarist who failed his first audition recalls making 1972 debut album for just £5,000

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“I’m 16 and they were my heroes… They started to laugh because I was also playing the echo parts. I didn’t know they were a special effect”: Obsessive attention to detail was always Eddie Jobson’s superpower

From a backstage performance for Curved Air to being dragged onstage by Frank Zappa and out-complicating King Crimson, the UK violinist has managed to ignore distractions from making music

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“Even Bowie must have thought, ‘Hang on, these guys have appeared out of nowhere, how did that happen?!’”: Roxy Music’s Phil Manzanera on the meteoric rise of the glam-rock trailblazers

The group went from zero to heroes when their self-titled debut blew up big in 1972

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‘They said I was worse than the Sex Pistols!’: folk legend Linda Thompson on trashing dressing rooms and losing her voice

Her struggles with spasmodic dysphonia has led her to write an album for a bevy of other stars to sing. She talks about trauma, ageing and stealing an audience member’s car

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - Dylan Jones: I've just been to the best exhibition you'll see in London this week

I remember the first time I walked into the Big Biba shop in Kensington, I didn’t know where to look. Actually, that’s not strictly true, as I wanted to look everywhere, but was so self-conscious (I was barely 14), I couldn’t look more than a few feet in front of…

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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

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Bryan Ferry Partners With Iconic Artists Group To Expand Legacy

Bryan Ferry partners with Iconic Artists Group to expand his musical legacy, including hits from Roxy Music. Learn about Ferry's career milestones and endu...

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“People would ask: ‘Is David Byrne a genius or a moron?’ I wanted to nip that ‘moron’ bit in the bud, so it was better to say ‘genius.’ The truth is somewhere in between”: The prog credentials of Talking Heads

The eccentric post-punk outfit certainly progressed with albums including More Songs About Buildings And Food, Fear Of Music and Remain In Light… but were they actually progressive?

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Phil Manzanera announces Revolución to Roxy memoir

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

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"I've always regarded myself as a rock drummer. I mean, John Bonham is my number one hero": What happened when Roxy Music drummer Paul Thompson auditioned for AC/DC

AC/DC's Journey through the 1980s could have been very different if Brian Johnson had had his way

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“Occasionally one of their legs would go up slightly. Were they playing or checking emails? I thought it would be fun to have them doing The Hokey Cokey”: Bill Bailey’s Kraftwerk sketch

Comedian and master prog musician discusses the gems in his record collection, including Yes, Roxy Music and Hawkwind – and outlines plans to play the Albert Hall like an instrument

Louder

Musical mysteries: the unlikely album cover stars who became modern pop enigmas

As the old man on Led Zeppelin’s fourth album artwork is identified, we take a look at albums that are as famous for the faces on their sleeves as their music

The Guardian - UK

Your friday night playlist curated by Echo & the Bunnymen

The Bunnymen are back in the bat cave with a slew of gigs as well as their latest memoir. Guitarist Will Sergeant curates this week’s Friday night playlist...

Evening Standard

“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

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"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

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“This is what I can’t bear about fans: they assume songwriters are writing about themselves all the time” - Brian Eno’s quest to deliver “interleaved stories”

Music as movement, speakers in teapots and laughing with Robert Fripp are all part of the great experimenter’s process

The Guardian - UK

‘On reflection, it’s very uncool’: readers’ scrapbooks of pop fandom

With the Wham! documentary showcasing Andrew Ridgeley’s mum’s scrapbooks of their career, readers share their own shrines to Roxy Music, Metallica, David Bowie and more

Louder

That time Thom Yorke formed a glam rock band with members of Radiohead, Suede, Roxy Music and, umm, David Gray’s drummer

When Thom Yorke was recruited for fictional band The Venus In Furs as part of the Velvet Goldmine soundtrack, the Radiohead singer was told to “ham it up”

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Norwegian Roxy Music model Kari-Ann Moller fights to stay in UK after Brexit

Husband, Chris Jagger, uses 1972 album cover to support settlement application for Moller, who has lived in UK for 74 years

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How a song written in 1974 turned up on Bowie's Let's Dance and unwittingly kicked off a controversy

In 1977, Metro’s single Criminal World was considered “too gay” for the BBC. By 1983, it was too suggestive for David Bowie too. 40 years later, its songwriter explains what it’s like when one of your songs turns up on the biggest albums of the 80s

What Hi-Fi?

19 best British rock songs to test your hi-fi system

Not sure if your speakers are up to scratch? These cast-iron classics will give your hi-fi system the vigorous rock workout it demands.

The Guardian - UK

‘They felt like a possible future’: how Brian Eno and I recorded Television’s first demos

In search of the new, Richard Williams – then an A&R man at Island Records – captured early Television in an office block salsa studio. But Tom Verlaine wasn’t impressed

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Barman, teacher and waitress: Jobs North East celebrities used to do before they found fame

It wasn't always a case of glitz and glamour for these North East-born celebrities - many of whom working regular old day jobs before they found stardom.

Evening Standard

Roxy Music at the O2 review: intoxicating retrospective from a timeless band

The quartet, now firmly in their 70s, seemed as young as ever - a band in the prime of life

The Guardian - UK

On my radar: Angela Hartnett’s cultural highlights

The chef on Stanley Tucci in a new BBC murder drama, the charms of San Francisco and meeting her musical hero

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