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Couldn't sleep a wink last night
Oh, how I'd love to hold you tight
They say you have a secret life
Made sacrifice your key to paradise
Take a sweet girl just like you
How nice if only we could bill and coo...
I couldn't go wrong with anything
Bryan Ferry's ever done, or the Roxy.
The whole Roxy thing is just really cool.
It was really an enormous influence on Heaven 17's music.
I remember on the inside of the first album cover it said,
"Hair colour: blue-black."
There are few bands that can cross a period of decades,
always be innovative and always be ahead of the curve.
And yeah, Roxy Music are one of them.
People still name check them now.
People go back and listen to the albums now.
They oddly don't sound dated.
They are such an amalgam of past, present and future.
Virginia Plain, their first single,
wasn't even on their first album, which is quite interesting.
When it was played on the radio, when it was on TV,
it was just, I think, mind-blowing
and made everybody sit up and think, who is this band?
Make me a deal and make it straight
All signed and sealed
I'll take it
To Robert E Lee I'll show it
I hope and pray he don't blow it cos
We've been around a long time
Just try to try
Trying to make the big time
Take me on a roller-coaster
Take me for an airplane ride
Take me for a six day wonder but don't you
Don't you throw my pride aside besides
What's real and make believe
Baby Jane's in Acapulco
We are flying down to Rio...
There's something I really like about this.
He's almost not singing in tune.
It sounds at odds with the melody underneath.
And that sounds incredibly modern.
There's something about that sounds really punky as well, before its time.
Throw me a line, I'm sinking fast
Clutching at straws
Can't make it
Havana sound, we're trying
A hard edge, the hipster jiving
Last picture shows down the drive-in
You're so sheer
You're so chic
Teenage rebel of the week
Flavours of the mountain streamline
Midnight blue casino floors
Dance the cha-cha through till sunrise
Opens up exclusive doors...
I've become slightly entranced
by the whole thing of seeing what everyone's wearing.
You can see the glitter eyeshadow.
It's amazing to see rock stars dressed like that.
Roxy and Bowie actually both pioneered
the glam rock look and the sound.
They invented it.
It didn't exist before them
and they were real forerunners in a whole movement there.
I remember it so well.
I remember especially a friend of mine called Nick Dawson,
he would dress completely camply and we'd go to nightclubs
and he would just wait for that one moment when this came on.
What's her name? Virginia Plain.
Far beyond the pale horizon
Some place near the desert strand
Where my Studebaker takes me
That's where I'll make my stand
Can't you see that Holzer mane?
What's her name? Virginia Plain.
Because of the age I was as well, you know,
I'm, like, ten, nine, ten... Yeah, yeah.
And when I first saw Bryan Ferry on Top Of The Pops
it was like, we're all watching Top Of The Pops
and he looked like my mam, Bryan Ferry.
He had the same haircut and he just looked like my mam.
But with us it was, again, that Roxy, Bowie sort of thing. Yeah.
Roxy were amazing.
They were the future.
Yeah. Getting glam. Yeah. So glam.
The record sounded great.
To me it was just one up on glam.
Do you know I mean? Yeah, it was. It was beyond glam.
On Ladytron you get the...
You really see the beginnings of Eno's genius, don't you?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. You can kind of hear a foreshadowing
of Here Come The Warm Jets, Music For Airports and all of that.
It's very soundscapey, isn't it? Definitely.
You've got me, girl, on the run around, run around
You've got me all around town
You've got me, girl, on the run around
And it's getting me down Getting me down
Lady, if you want to find a lover
Then you look no further
For I'm going to be your only
Searching
At the start of the season
And my only reason
Is that I'll get to you...
The early band, almost as if it's a mini war going on between them,
there are so many disparate elements
and they're all jostling for attention.
You've got Andy Mackay on oboe, and how often do you hear an oboe
in a rock record? Especially a glam rock record.
And you've got Brian Eno making the squiggly sounds with the synths
and then the drumming is very solid, very traditional in that way,
and somehow it works, but I think the tensions in the band,
the things almost shattering it, are keeping it together.
I'll find some
Way of connection
Hiding my intention
Then I'll move up close to you
I'll use you
And I'll confuse you
And then I'll lose you
Still you won't suspect me...
It's amazing to think that Virginia Plain and Ladytron
were of the same moment.
They're so different.
Of course, there's still the huge inspiration and the glam rock look,
Ferry's got a completely different image.
His hair's grown, he's a little bit more...
I mean, it's much more out there as a song.
But what's interesting is the different textures
of everyone in the band. They have their own little image.
What makes it so special is how everybody complements each other.
Ladytron by Roxy Music
Listen to all this stuff. Come on. It's fantastic.
I loved the fly glasses. Whoever sourced them... Such a look.
A stylist would.
Really.
And, of course, Eno, you know, he's solely responsible for me
wanting to buy a synth.
Wow. I wasn't bothered about buying a synth to play tunes on,
I just wanted one that had a joystick. OK.
It looked so cool with the Lurex gloves. Mm-hm.
This is like this amazing, mad-scientist alien.
Yeah, yeah.
Ladytron by Roxy Music
Eno was kind of the futuristic bit, really.
What Eno's... What is Eno doing?
Look, look. What's that?! What's that he's doing there?
Some of the tracks on the Roxy Music album
are meant to sound like space landscapes.
Bryan Ferry would ask Brian Eno,
"I want you to create something that sounds like the surface of Mars."
They would be very interested in those sorts of concepts,
of sight, sound, taste and touch all fusing together.
And they also say they were surprised that they sold records.
They thought they were going to be really niche,
and suddenly the popularity comes and they embrace it.
Ladytron by Roxy Music
I think the reason that I loved Roxy Music
was the glamness of it all, because
Sheffield was in fact quite a dour place at the time.
The steelworks were on the edge of, you know, working and not working,
but the people of Sheffield loved to dress up Friday and Saturday night
and Roxy Music kind of took that to the next level.
You know, that kind of dressing up and craziness,
which was almost unattainable but just about attainable enough,
if you were willing to wear some ladies' clothes,
which we were at that time.
I remember meeting Martyn Ware one day.
We were going to see a band at the Student Union in Sheffield
and Martyn lived on the flats,
a slightly dodgy area that you might not like,
and I'd gone up to meet him and he came out of the house
and he was wearing white trousers and girls' silver platform boots
and a Fun Fair green jacket,
completely luminous, kind of, frog, Kermit, green jacket.
And I'm like, "Whoa! And we're going on the bus like that?"
And he's like, "Yep, we're going on the bus."
But that's what Roxy Music did to us.
It gave us that little...
..that little push to push a little further
and that outlet to be excited with fashion and with music.
I do think Do The Strand. Do The Strand!
"There's a new sensation."
There's a new sensation
A fabulous creation
A danceable solution
To teenage revolution
Do the Strand, love
When you feel love
It's the new way
And that's why we say
Do the Strand
Do it on the tables
Quaglino's place or Mabel's
Slow and gentle
Sentimental
All styles served here
Louis Seize, he prefer
Laissez faire Le Strand
Tired of the tango
Fed up with fandango
Dance on moonbeams
Slide on rainbows
In furs or blue jeans
You know what I mean
Do the Strand
Oooh...
When we were going to nightclubs in Sheffield at that point, like,
we thought we were so glamorous because we liked Roxy Music,
and really we were just young kids with no money,
drinking watered-down beer for 10p a pint, you know,
but just for that brief moment of glamour, you know,
like Pyjamarama and Do The Strand, we would do all the moves,
throwing shapes and, you know...
We didn't know what any of it meant,
but it was like an abstract set of wordscape.
It was this really theatrical...
It was this sort of weird anomaly and amalgamation
of a whole bunch of different sounds, wasn't it?
They can have a bit of funk when they want to.
They're quite danceable and there's something about the glam, punk,
but also they can soul it up a bit, they can noodle.
Do The Strand by Roxy Music
Had your fill of quadrilles
The Madison and cheap thrills
Bored with the Beguine
The samba isn't your scene
They're playing our tune
By the pale moon
We're incognito
Down the Lido
And we like the Strand
Arabs at oases
Eskimos and Chinese
If you feel blue
Look through Who's Who
See La Goulue
And Nijinsky
Do the Strandsky
Weary of the waltz
And mashed potato schmaltz
Rhododendron
Is a nice flower
Evergreen
It lasts forever
But it can't beat Strand power
The Sphynx and Mona Lisa
Lolita and Guernica
Did the Strand.
In Every Dream Home A Heartache. Oh, gosh, yeah.
This one is, like, amazing.
This is like a dystopian sci-fi novel.
And a lot darker, isn't it? It's a lot darker.
And I think that's why they've toned the look down.
And he's got a guitar now.
And every step I take
Takes me further from heaven
Is there a heaven?
I'd like to think so
Standards of living
They're rising daily
But home, oh, sweet home
It's only a saying
From bell push to faucet
In smart town apartment
The cottage is pretty
The main house a palace
Penthouse perfection
But what goes on?
What to do there?
Better pray...
I love this tune.
I love his hair there as well. I know!
It's very... It's kind of '60s or '50s greaser.
Yeah.
And that jacket. It's so great.
So, this is off the second album, For Your Pleasure.
And apparently this song is a love story to a blow-up doll,
but also about the emptiness of modern life.
I bought you mail order
My plain wrapper baby
Your skin is like vinyl
The perfect companion
You float in my new pool
Deluxe and delightful
Inflatable doll
My role is to serve you
Disposable darling
Can't throw you away now
Immortal and life size
My breath is inside you
I'll dress you up daily
And keep you till death sighs
Inflatable doll
Lover ungrateful
I blew up your body
But you blew my mind
Oh, those heartaches
Oh, those heartaches
Dream home heartaches
Oh, those heartaches
Dream home heartaches
Oh, those heartaches
Dream home heartaches...
Look, he's got a bigger keyboard now.
Oh, those heartaches...
Look at that. That's amazing.
And it was great that you could do Virginia Plain
and you could do stuff...
..like this, which was...
..very different. Very different to what anybody else was doing.
In Every Dream Home a Heartache by Roxy Music
There's a lot of characters in Roxy Music.
It was obviously going to come to a point, which was a shame
it came so soon after the second album, that there was just
too many personalities, and Brian Eno left the band.
I think the two Brians going their separate ways
because of the clashes of their personality
was quite difficult for a lot of the other band members.
I think they were really split with their loyalty.
I think Phil Manzanera secretly had to record both albums
he was recording - Stranded in the day,
and Brian Eno's album at night, and they both didn't know.
So, there are official reports of why Brian Eno left the band
and there seems to be... Everybody's got a different angle, I've heard.
Apparently they're still friends though, now, the Brians,
and do sometimes collaborate.
On the third album, which was the first album without Brian Eno,
there was a fantastic track called Street Life.
Wish everybody would leave me alone, yeah
They're always calling on my telephone
When I pick it up there's no-one there
So I walk outside just to take the air
Come on with me cruising down the street
Who knows what you'll see, who you might meet
This brave new world's not like yesterday
It can take you higher than the Milky Way
Now I'm blinded I can't really see, yeah
No more bright lights confusing me, no
Don't ask me why I'm feeling blue
Cos loving you
Is all I can do... #
So, this album, without Brian Eno, went to Number 1 in the UK charts,
and Street Life gave them their first Top 5 hit as well.
Hey, good-looking boys, gather around
The sidewalk papers gutter-press you down
All those lies can be so unkind
They can make you feel like you're losing your mind
Street life
Street life...
I think... It seems to me that Bryan Ferry just wanted to stand out
and if he couldn't stand out wearing, erm, sequins any more,
he had to do the opposite, and it's quite ironic that
he stood out by just putting on a suit.
And he's a young man, and young men didn't really wear suits then,
especially white suits with a bow tie,
but again, it's simple, but very glamorous and very sexy,
so it's creating a whole new image.
Street Life by Roxy Music
Back to nature boys, Vassar girls too
Watch what you say, or think, or do
Continental-style strasse girls might
But you know exactly if it's wrong or right
Education is an important key, yes
But the good life's never won by degrees, no
Pointless passing through Harvard or Yale
Only window shopping It's strictly no sale
Weekend starts Friday soon after eight
Your jet black magic helps you celebrate
You may be stranded if you stick around
And that's really something.
So what happened to Roxy is that they went slightly out
of the glam thing and into this classic rock.
Some of the songs are quite traditional in that sense,
when we get the third album and then onwards.
People seemed to be contributing a little bit more,
but they were stronger without Brian Eno at that point.
I think they would have exploded if he ever decided to stay in the band.
So after the third album, when they were at the height of their success,
Bryan Ferry decided to make a solo album,
which was a series of covers.
One of the first singles I ever went out and bought on my Jacksies
was Bryan Ferry, Hard Rain.
Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son?
Where have you been, my darling young one?
I've stumbled on the side of 12 misty mountains
Walked and I've crawled on six crooked highways
Stepped in the middle of seven sad forests
Been out in front of a dozen dead oceans
I've been 10,000 miles in a mouth of a graveyard
It's a hard Hard
And it's a hard Hard
And it's a hard Hard
And it's a hard Hard
And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall
Fall
And what did you hear, my blue-eyed son?
What did you hear, my darling young one?
I heard the sound of thunder that roared out a warning
Heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world
Heard 100 drummers whose hands were a blazing
Heard 10,000 whispering and nobody listening
Heard one person starve, many people laughing
Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter
Heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley
And it's a hard Hard
And it's a hard Hard
And it's a hard, hard, hard Hard, hard
And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall
Fall
Oh, what'll you do now, my blue-eyed son...
What it feels like, it's just great, really,
when you've got such a defined sound as a band,
that you can cover something in your style.
I think it's really cool, because it ultimately shows
a lot of respect, that you don't try and, you know,
match any of the instrumentation or the stylistic approach,
you just do your thing but on an amazing song,
so, yeah, this is such a great version.
Home in the valley meets the damp, dirty prison
Where the executioner's face is always well hidden
Where hunger is ugly, where souls are forgotten
Where black is the colour and none is the number
And I'll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it
And reflect it from the mountains so all souls can see it
Then I'll stand in the ocean until I start sinking
But I'll know my song well before I start singing
And it's a hard Hard
t's a hard Hard
And it's a ha-ha-ha-ha-hard Hard, hard
And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall
Fall
And it's a hard Hard
And it's a hard Hard
And it's so hard, so, so hard Hard, hard
And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.
The solo albums kept coming,
and Bryan Ferry kept going back to these covers,
and he would cover songs by artists that were his heroes.
They asked me how I knew
My true love was true
Oo-oo-oh
I of course replied
"Something here inside
"Cannot be denied"
They said someday you'll find
All who love are blind
Oo-oo-oh
When your heart's on fire
You must realise
Smoke gets in your eyes...
This is tongue-in-cheek, I'm assuming.
It's quite, like, kind of arch and knowing, I feel,
sending up that type of, um, lounge cabaret,
slightly cheesy music, kind of Copacabana vibes.
Yet today, my love has flown away
I am without my love...
It was harking back to '50s crooners.
It was harking back to '40s film stars.
Bryan Ferry, in his heart, is Humphrey Bogart, I think.
That's what he'd studied at art school
and that's what he wanted to go with.
He wanted that crooner idol thing.
Now laughing friends deride
Tears I cannot hide
Oo-ooh
So I smile and say
"When a lovely flame dies
"Smoke gets in your eyes."
My entry point to Roxy Music was...
..was the big record collection that my uncle left in our basement
when I was ten years old as he went off travelling.
And, yeah, so I think I found Siren in there somewhere,
flicking through them.
That was the first one I heard.
Love Is The Drug. Just look.
That's the essence of cool right there.
There was a club called the Crazy Daisy in Sheffield,
and they would play an interesting mix of music,
but this was the anthem.
And it was a really weird club.
It had a kind of low roof, and because I'm quite tall,
I could only dance in one place on the dance floor,
because if I moved to the left or right, I would cut my head.
And in fact, that was where
Phil Oakey met the two girls from The Human League.
And they were dancing exactly like that.
They were the kind of Roxy girls.
T'ain't no big thing
To wait for the bell to ring
T'ain't no big thing
The toll of the bell
Aggravated, spare for days
I troll downtown, the red light place
Jump up, bubble up, what's in store?
Love is the drug and I need to score
Showing out, showing out, hit and run
Boy meets girl where the beat goes on
Stitched up tight, can't shake free
Love is the drug, got a hook on me
Oh, oh, catch that buzz
Love is the drug I'm thinking of
Oh, oh, can't you see?
Love is the drug for me
Oh...
This is the song where apparently,
everything was recorded apart from the vocals.
So the band didn't even know what it was about
until Bryan Ferry came in with his lyrics and sang over the top.
And I think increasingly,
he would sing over the top of the backing track,
which is interesting in that they weren't jamming or doing anything.
They weren't fusing it, it was quite separate.
And this, again, is a song that doesn't have a standout chorus,
it's part of the verse.
Lumber up, limbo down
The locked embrace, the stumble round...
Why did he wear that patch?
I mean, there was one rumour that he was hit by a tennis ball.
But he's done quite an un-slick patch, because you've got the patch
and then you've got cotton wool hanging out,
which is not as glamorous,
but then I guess you've got the safari suit
and the moustache to go with it, so it makes up for it.
This is Let's Stick Together,
and I can't believe Bryan's really playing that mouth organ.
Again, it's sometimes difficult
to tell a Bryan Ferry solo from Roxy Music,
because they have a very similar musical aesthetic
from that '76 period onwards.
And now the marriage vow is very sacred
The man has put us together now
You ought to make it stick together
Come on, come on, let's stick together
You know, we made a vow not to leave one another, never
But now you never miss your water till your well runs dry
Come on now, baby, give our love a try
Let's stick together
Come on, come on, let's stick together
You know, we made a vow not to leave one another, never...
This actually is a cover of a 1962 soul classic,
but what I like about this song
and I like about a lot of Bryan Ferry songs
is the fact that the lyrics are so honest.
You feel his pain. He's really good at conveying emotion.
"We made a vow not to leave one another."
I mean, could we not all say that, you know?
"You made a vow! Stick to it. Let's stick together".
Well, if you're stuck for a while, consider our child
How can it be happy without its ma and pa?
Let's stick together
Come on, come on, let's stick together
You know we made a vow not to leave one...
And there she is.
There's Jerry Hall.
That's unbelievable, isn't it? How cool is this video?
Yep.
I mean, he's always had...
..quite attractive females around him, hasn't he, Bryan?
Which is not surprising, because he's a very good looking guy.
I'm not sure about the moustache, there, Bryan,
but it's almost working.
And also, if I'm to be brutally honest,
his dancing always left a little something to be desired.
But other than that, he styles it out very well indeed.
# You know, we made a vow not to leave one another, never.
Bryan Ferry loved his covers, but also,
he liked to be inspired by different things,
and this song is original music of his
and it was inspired by his former art teacher.
He looks kind of a little bit Miami Vice or something, with the shades.
It's very laid-back, isn't it?
He's just always cool.
Layin' in my hotel bedroom, feelin' ceilin' blues
Wall to wall a TV's twitchin', clearly not a muse
Then flashin' through the interference beams a thousand tunes
This is tomorrow callin', what have I to lose?
I'm not sure why Bryan Ferry goes off and he does the solo career.
It may be that he just felt he needed to strike out
and be 100% Bryan Ferry
rather than 95% Bryan Ferry and a bit of Roxy Music in the background.
But again, it's his vision.
You can see how fastidious he was.
The cover art was important with Roxy Music,
and he continues that theme.
You could easily mistake a Bryan Ferry later record
for a Roxy Music record.
They're not musically that different when we get to that late '70s.
When steamin' through on cue I hear that wailin' whistle blow
If this is tomorrow callin', oh, what a way to go
Day to day you live old-fashioned, hi-toned, fancy free
A double take, an image-spittin', tailored to a T
While history is tellin' you the same old thing
This is tomorrow callin', let's stick a new oar in
This is tomorrow callin' y'all and come on in
Oooh.
The whole of Glasgow liked commercial Roxy Music.
The Roxy Music we were talking about in the beginning was, like,
you know, really out there, like In Every Dream Home A Heartache
and stuff like that, and Ladytron.
Those were weird, out there records.
But by the time they got to Dance Away,
the whole of Glasgow
and probably the whole of Manchester liked Roxy Music. Mmm.
Yesterday
Well, it seemed so cool
When I walked you home, kissed goodnight
I said, "It's love," you said, "All right"
It's funny how
I could never cry
Until tonight and you pass by
Hand in hand with another guy
You're dressed to kill and guess who's dying?
Dance away the heartache
Dance away the tears
Dance away the heartache
Dance away the fear...
I mean, this song is definitely slicker and more sophisticated.
He had such a sort of way about him, just the way he carried himself,
the voice, even the slightly kind of over-affected performance.
Turned to stone
All together, all alone
All at once
My whole world had changed
Now I'm in the dark, off the wall
Let the strobe light up them all
I close my eyes and dance till dawn
Dance away the heartache
Dance away the tears
Dance away the heartache
Dance away the fear
Dance away
Dance away
Dance away
Now I know
I must walk the line
Until I find an open door
Off the street, onto the floor
There was I
Many times a fool
I hope and pray, but not too much
Out of reach is out of touch
All the way is far enough
Dance away the heartache
Dance away the tears...
There isn't one member, apart from Phil Manzanera, of Roxy Music
that wasn't brought up in a working-class household.
So, something about this playing with the idea of aspiration
and elevation and another world
is very close to them, and they lived it.
And, you know, they did go on and marry supermodels
and have incredibly posh children.
So they did it in some form.
They really understood that
and it was what Bowie understood and what pop music can do.
Oh, angel eyes
Am I deceived or did you sigh?
For all I know, you let your love light
Shine on me
Oh, angel eyes
You never close, who's got the time?
Well, I can wait until your love light
Shine on me...
Roxy, sounding slicker, late '70s, '80s,
is a progression of just the form,
is getting more and more polished, like a pebble,
and becomes something without edge, which happens to most bands, really.
It's very hard to get that edge back.
Maybe it's that natural inclination
to smooth everything over. Production values go up.
Oh, angel eyes
On the wing and open wide
No matter now how high the moon
Shine down on me...
He could be really tender, you know.
I love the way he was really kind of tender with his vocal,
as well as kind of theatrical and slightly, you know,
absurd and surreal at times.
Some expression in your eyes
Overtook me by surprise
Where was I, how was I to know?
Oh-oh
How can we drive to a movie show
When the music is here in my car?
There's a band playing on the radio
With a rhythm of rhyming guitars
They're playing Oh Yeah on the radio, oh...
It's so interesting how you see, like,
some bands kind of start off subtle and get more and more crazy,
and he's gone the other way.
It's so easy to become a cliche of yourself
when everyone else is emulating you.
Songwriting was his ultimate talent,
and his ballads and the way he could hook you in.
It's some time since we said goodbye
And now we lead our separate lives
But where am I, where can I go?
Oh-oh
Driving alone to a movie show
So I turn to the sounds in my car
There's a band playing on the radio
With a rhythm of rhyming guitars
There's a band playing on the radio
And it's drowning the sound of my tears
They're playing Oh Yeah on the radio
Oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh...
I think it always is inspiring when you're a big fan of an artist
or a band and you realise where they've come from
or what they've gone through
or the changes that have happened around them.
And I think for me, it just shows freedom of expression.
It goes back to that art school kind of beginning
where you're not closed off to anything.
Now the party's over
I'm so tired
Then I see you coming
Out of nowhere
Much communication in a motion
Without conversation or a notion
Avalon
Ooh
When the samba takes you
Out of nowhere
And the background's fading
Out of focus
Yes, the picture's changing
Every moment
And your destination
You don't know it
Avalon
Ooh, ooh
Dancing, dancing
Dancing, dancing
When you bossa nova
There's no holding
Would you have me dancing
Out of nowhere?
Avalon...
Again, just a brilliant, fantastic tune, so effortlessly cool.
No matter what happens with the band with Roxy,
because the members seem to change almost weekly,
you know, they were in, they were out.
But the music always hit the same level. Didn't ever falter.
Avalon
Ooh, ooh...
And of course, there's that kind of iconic vocal at the end,
which, as far as I'm aware, happened quite by happenstance
when Bryan Ferry was in a recording studio in New York
and heard this kind of celestial voice from the next booth
or from a booth that was close by, and went in to investigate
and found, I think, a pretty...
..I don't know that she was a very well known Haitian singer,
and just asked her if she would do a guest vocal on the track.
It was recorded in one take and it made it onto this huge hit.
Avalon
Ooh
Avalon...
To me, it seems like it was all-conquering.
I feel like when I was very little, it was everywhere.
And, yeah, to me, this is Roxy Music.
This is my association and memory of them.
I could feel at the time
There was no way of knowing
Fallen leaves in the night
Who can say where they're blowing?
As free as the wind
And hopefully learning
Why the sea on the tide
Has no way of turning
More than this
You know there's nothing
More than this
Tell me one thing
More than this
Ooh, there's nothing
It was fun for a while
There was no way of knowing
Like a dream in the night
Who can say where we're going?
No care in the world
Maybe I'm learning
Why the sea on the tide
Has no way of turning
More than this
You know there's nothing
More than this...
This actually seems less ironic to me
than some of the earlier kind of playing with,
um, that kind of,
I guess, kind of cabaret-type singer look.
This actually seems more genuine. Like, this is what they are.
More than this
Nothing
More than this
More than this...
I think they're enormously influential,
and I don't think that will stop.
There is something about that concoction.
They are a concoction and a confection
that people really adhere to.
And musically, they're so interesting
that musicians will be listening to them in ten years' time.
Roxy Music will have an everlasting legacy for me.
Yes, they had style, but more importantly, they had substance,
and I think they will live on for ever and ever.
I'm in with the in crowd
I go where the in crowd goes
I'm in with the in crowd
And I know what the in crowd knows
How to have fun
Any time of the year, don't you hear?
How to have fun
Dressin' fine, makin' time
We breeze up and down the street
We get respect from the people we meet
They make way, day or night
They know the in crowd is out of sight
I'm in with the in crowd
I know every latest dance
When you're in with the in crowd
It's easy to find romance
And we work out
At a spot where the beat's really hot
And we work out
If it's square, we ain't there
We make every minute count
Our share is always the biggest amount
Other guys imitate us
But the original's still the greatest
We got our own way of walkin'
We got our own way of talkin'
Gotta have fun
Any time of the year, don't you hear?
Gotta have fun
Spendin' cash, talkin' trash
Girl, I'll show you a real good time
Come on with me and leave your troubles behind
I don't care where you've been
You ain't been nowhere till you been in
With the in crowd
With the in crowd.
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