…features the original album alongside rarities, instrumentals, previously unheard songwriting demos, rehearsals, and live sessions.
October 1972: with Roxy Music’s first 45 ‘Virginia Plain’ still airborne, Bryan Ferry, wearing gold-trimmed black silk pyjamas, was convalescing from a tonsillectomy. “I may never sing again,” he said, drily. “But I can’t promise anything.”
Ferry’s voice was musical Marmite, shivering and trembling like a lounge singer from Mars. Expressive to the point of caricature, it stretched the bounds of believability to such an extent that some questioned its sincerity. There were similar misgivings over Roxy’s trailblazing, wildly eclectic music. “Style over substance,” grumbled rock TV host Bob Harris earlier that year.

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