Name: Country Life - Roxy Music
Brand: Roxy Music
SKU: 0724384745325
Price: 10 EUR
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Artist

Roxy Music were an English rock band formed in 1970 by Bryan Ferry, who became the band's lead vocalist and chief songwriter, and bassist Graham Simpson. Alongside Ferry, the other longtime members were Phil Manzanera (guitar), Andy Mackay (saxophone and oboe) and Paul Thompson (2) (drums and percussion), and other former members include Brian Eno (synthesizer and "treatments"), Eddie Jobson (synthesiser and violin), and John Gustafson (bass). Although the band took a break from group activities in 1976 and again in 1983, they reunited for a concert tour in 2001, and toured together intermittently between that time and their break-up in 2011. Ferry frequently enlisted members of Roxy Music as session musicians for his solo releases.

Inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2019 (Performers) and Roxy Music frontman Bryan Ferry was awarded a CBE by Her Majesty the Queen of England on 30 November 2011.

Discogs records that Roxy Music have released 28 albums and 38 compilations since the band’s inception back in 1971. Of these, 18 have made the ‘UK Top 40’ music charts with 11 of them reaching the ‘Top 10’ and 4 albums reaching the No.1 position. The albums to hit the top spot are ‘Stranded’ (Dec 1973), ‘Flesh + Blood’ (May 1980), ‘Avalon’ (Jun 1982) and ‘Street Life - 20 Great Hits’ (Apr 1986). These four albums cumulatively spent 13 weeks at the No.1 position. All 18 charting albums, have in total, been in the chart’s Top 10 for 76 weeks and within the Top 40 for 260 weeks.

Similarly, Roxy Music have had success with some of their 49 single/EP releases. In this case, there has been a chart entry for 18 of these releases, with one single making the No.1 spot. In February 1981, Roxy Music hit the singles chart 'top spot' with the John Lennon composed song ‘Jealous Guy’ and spent 2 weeks at that coveted position, 9 weeks in the chart’s Top 40 (6 weeks in the Top 10) and 11 weeks overall.

The 18 Roxy Music hit singles/EPs have spent time in the UK Top 40 music charts for 128 weeks, with 44 of these within the Top 10. The single with the most time in the UK Charts is ‘Dance Away’, which entered the charts in April 1979 and overall spent 14 weeks charting.

Roxy Music’s first album to enter the UK Charts was the self-entitled ‘Roxy Music’ (Island ILPS9200) making its debut on 29/07/1972. It stayed in the charts for 16 weeks with its highest position being no.10. The album briefly reappeared in February 2018 under the HDCD release (Virgin ROXYCD1) for one week reaching no.47. The first single to chart for Roxy Music was ‘Virginia Plain’ (Island WIP6144) on 19/08/1972 and it remained in the UK charts for 12 weeks achieving a high position of no.4 in its fifth week on the charts. (Source: Official Charts Company (UK) (April 2020)).

Tracks

1 The Thrill Of It All 06:22

2 Three And Nine 04:01

3 All I Want Is You 02:52

4 Out Of The Blue 04:45

5 If It Takes All Night 03:09

6 Bitter-Sweet 04:49

7 Triptych 03:09

8 Casanova 03:23

9 A Really Good Time 03:43

10 Prairie Rose 05:07

Releases

Formats

Vinyl, Cassette, 8-Track Cartridge, CD, SACD

Labels

Reprise Records, EMI, Virgin EMI Records, ATCO Records, Virgin, Island Records, Polydor, EG, Virgin Japan, Virgin , ArsNova, CD Media Records, Virgin EG Records Ltd.

Countries

Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Russian Federation, South Africa, Spain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America, Europe, Yugoslavia, Scandinavia, Benelux

years

1974, 1975, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1993, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2007, 2009, 2013, 2015, 2017

Members

~~Brian Eno~~,Phil Manzanera,Bryan Ferry,~~Paul Carrack~~,Paul Thompson (2),~~Eddie Jobson~~,Andy Mackay,~~Gary Tibbs~~,~~John Gustafson~~,~~David O'List~~,~~Graham Simpson~~,~~Sal Maida~~,~~Rik Kenton~~,~~David Skinner (3)~~,~~Roger Bunn~~