ROXY MUSIC – FOR YOUR PLEASURE LP – Nr MINT A1/B1 UK 1973 ORIG FERRY ENO

Roxy Music – For Your Pleasure
(Island Records  1973  ILPS9232  Island Pink Rim Label)
Matrix No’s: A1/B1 – UK Pressing

Gatefold Sleeve in Excellent+ condition
– some light rubbing, mainly on the back
Plain white inner sleeve

Vinyl in Nr MINT condition
(there are some surface marks visible on the vinyl when held up to the light but they don’t affect the sound quality)

Roxy Music are an English art rock band formed in 1971 by Bryan Ferry, who became the group’s lead vocalist and chief songwriter, and bassist Graham Simpson. The other members are Phil Manzanera (guitar), Andy Mackay (saxophone and oboe) and Paul Thompson (drums and percussion). Former members include Brian Eno (synthesiser and “treatments”), and Eddie Jobson (synthesiser and violin). Although the band took a break from group activities in 1976 and again in 1983, they reunited for a concert tour in 2001, and have toured together intermittently since that time. Despite a 18-year gap between activity Roxy Music never officially split up. Ferry frequently enlisted many Roxy members as session musicians for his solo releases.

Roxy Music attained popular and critical success in Europe and Australia during the 1970s and early 1980s, beginning with their debut album, Roxy Music (1972). The band was highly influential, as leading proponents of the more experimental, musically sophisticated element of glam, as well as a significant influence on early English punk music. They also provided a model for many new wave acts and the experimental electronic groups of the early 1980s. The group is distinguished by their visual and musical sophistication and their preoccupation with style and glamour. Ferry and co-founding member Eno have also had influential solo careers, the latter becoming one of the most significant record producers and collaborators of the late 20th century. Rolling Stone magazine ranked Roxy Music No. 98 on its “The Immortals – 100 The Greatest Artists of All Time” list.

Their music was influenced by other British artists, such as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Kinks, The Who, The Pretty Things, Pink Floyd, The Creation, The Move, Traffic, David Bowie, King Crimson, and Elton John, as well as American artists like Little Richard, Elvis Presley and The Velvet Underground.

The band’s last studio album was 1982’s Avalon. In 2005 they began recording a new studio album, which would have been their ninth, and would have been their first record since 1973 with Brian Eno, who wrote two songs for it as well as played keyboards. However, Bryan Ferry eventually confirmed that material from these sessions would be released as a Ferry solo album, with Eno playing on “a couple of tracks,” and that he doesn’t think they’ll ever record as Roxy Music again. The album ultimately became Ferry’s 2010 album Olympia.

For Your Pleasure is a 1973 album by the British glam and art rock group Roxy Music, released by Island Records. The band’s second album, it was also their last to feature synthesiser and sound specialist Brian Eno, who would later gain acclaim as a solo artist and producer.

Track listing

All songs written by Bryan Ferry.

Side One

1. “Do the Strand” – 4:04
2. “Beauty Queen” – 4:41
3. “Strictly Confidential” – 3:48
4. “Editions of You” – 3:51
5. “In Every Dream Home a Heartache” – 5:29 (LP editions of the album incorrectly listed the song’s timing as 4:25, due to its “false fade” referenced above)

Side Two

1. “The Bogus Man” – 9:20
2. “Grey Lagoons” – 4:13
3. “For Your Pleasure” – 6:51

Personnel

• Bryan Ferry – vocals, piano, Hohner Pianet, Mellotron, harmonica
• Brian Eno – VCS3 synthesiser, backing vocals
• Andrew Mackay – oboe, saxophone, Farfisa electronic organ
• Phil Manzanera – electric guitar
• John Porter – bass guitar
• Paul Thompson – drums

Production

• Chris Thomas, John Anthony, Roxy Music – record producers
• Roxy Music – musical arrangers
• John Middleton – sound engineer
• John Punter – sound engineer
• Jennings – crew
• Bryan Ferry – art direction, cover art concept
• Karl Stoecker – photography
• Nicholas Deville – art direction, photography
• CCS – artwork
• Antony Price – clothing/wardrobe, make-up, hair stylist
• Smile – hair stylist
• Amanda Lear – cover star