FIFTY years ago this month, Roxy Music emerged from an old movie theatre on London’s Piccadilly clutching the master tapes for what would turn out to be an epochal debut. Though conceived by bandleader Bryan Ferry as an “exploration of many styles” created by six wildly diverse musical personalities, the glamour-starved audience instantly recognised it as something fresh, urgent and seductively postmodern.
“Making the Roxy Music albums was a life-changing experience for me,” reflects Ferry today – and also for everyone who devoured them at the time.