Roxy Music - Flesh and Blood [6/24]

Artist:

Roxy Music

See Also:

Manzanera, Phil Kraftwerk Ferry, Bryan Dylan, Bob Eno, Brian Bryan Ferry/Roxy Music - More Than This: Best of Bryan Ferry & Roxy Music Various Artists - Roxy Re-Modeled [Digipak]

Description:

Roxy Music: Bryan Ferry (vocals, keyboards); Phil Manzanera, Neil Hubbard (guitar); Andy Mackay (saxophone); Paul Carrack (keyboards); Alan Spenner, Neil Jason, Gary Tibbs (bass); Allan Schwartzberg, Andy Newmark, Simon Phillips (drums).
Digitally remastered by Bob Ludwig (Gateway Studio, Portland, Maine).
Roxy Music: Bryan Ferry (vocals, keyboard); Phil Manzanera (guitar); Andy MacKay (oboe, saxophone); Alan Spenner (bass instrument); Andy Newmark, Paul Carrack, Simon Phillips, Allan Schwartzberg (drums).
Recording information: Gallery Studio.
What`s remarkable about Roxy Music`s final three albums is how each one builds on its predecessor. FLESH & BLOOD was the middle of this triptych (which ended with AVALON, the group`s peak achievement). Where its predecessor, MANIFESTO, still had ties to the band`s pre-hiatus first era, FLESH & BLOOD heads ever further into the lush romanticism that singer Bryan Ferry was to explore fully as a solo artist in the `80s. Where an earlier Roxy Music may have embraced an element of camp in a cover of "In The Midnight Hour, here Ferry nods to the camp factor only fleetingly.
Reduced to a trio of Ferry, guitarist Phil Manzanera, and saxophonist Andy MacKay, Roxy Music brought in a range of session players as needed. This, in effect, freed the band to follow the songs wherever they needed to go, which was straight into gorgeously produced romantic landscapes. The song`s rich melodies cast Ferry as a matinee-idol leading man, a role he adapted to so successfully that songs like "My Only Love" sound like part of his own solo career.

Track Listing:

DISC 1

1. Midnight Hour, The
2. Oh Yeah
3. Same Old Scene
4. Flesh and Blood
5. My Only Love
6. Over You
7. Eight Miles High
8. Rain Rain Rain
9. No Strange Delight
10. Running Wild

Album Information

Type:

Performer

Genre:

Rock & Pop

Subgenre:

Art Rock

Label:

Virgin EG Records

Catalog Number:

VJCP-68828

Original Release Year:

1980

# of Discs:

1

Studio/Live:

Studio

Mono/Stereo:

Stereo

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