Roxy Music are to release unheard tracks from their classic 1970s period as part of a new deluxe edition of For Your Pleasure.
The Bryan Ferry-led band released their second record in 1973, containing songs such as Do The Strand, Editions Of You and In Every Dream Home A Heartache, with the new version set to feature unheard studio recordings, rehearsals, outtakes and live sessions.
Ferry on the pressure of making the album
Ferry, 80, said of making the album: “It was a good pressure. Realising, now there’s an audience to write for. An intelligent audience. I felt a responsibility for the work that I hadn’t for the first album, certainly with regard to the lyrics.
“There was a hunger in the whole band to do more, a very strong urge to get back into a recording studio and make a better record than the first one.
Writing in a Derbyshire cottage
“Nick de Ville (British artist, who designed the album’s cover) had a cottage in Derbyshire, and offered to let me have it for a few days. So I went up there with the sole purpose of writing songs.
“I had this great little Renault 4, and I filled the car with stuff, keyboards, a guitar, an amp, tape recorders, pads of paper and pens.
“I remember driving up in this crammed car with its very interesting gear stick. The cottage was quite remote, out in the Derbyshire Dales – I had to call into some local farmer to get the key, then on up a track – and very basic.
“I must have taken provisions, because I couldn’t cook, but I was full of energy. I was completely alone out there, and just really focused on writing this stuff. I remember sheets of paper all over the floor, working on things like In Every Dream Home A Heartache and Editions Of You.
“Those few days in that cottage were crucial to the making of For Your Pleasure.”
Deluxe edition contents
Ferry’s recordings from his time in Derbyshire are among the unreleased material on the three-CD and one DVD set, along with tapes from his London flat at the time, and will be released for the first time since they were recorded more than 50 years ago.
A track from For Your Pleasure Super Deluxe Edition was released on Thursday in Grey Lagoons – 1971 Demo, while the set, which is also available as a two-LP package, also features unseen footage of the band on its DVD.
Formed in the early 1970s, with their original line-up including singer Ferry, synth player Brian Eno, guitarist Phil Manzanera, saxophonist Andy Mackay, drummer Paul Thompson, and bassist Graham Simpson, Roxy Music are widely considered to be one of the most influential British bands of all time.
They released their self-titled debut album in 1972, and went on to achieve 10 UK top 10 singles including a number one with a cover of John Lennon’s Jealous Guy, as well as four UK number one albums.
Their best known songs include Virginia Plain, Street Life, Love Is The Drug, and Avalon.
The set is released on November 6 and also contains a book.
