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Deregatus this week we'll explore the classic 1972 self-titled debut album by Roxy Music.

For that conversation, we'll be joined by Roxy Guitarist Phil Manzanera.

You know, we wanted to present it in the most attractive fashion.

We knew that the music was weird enough, so we thought, right, well let's make the visual image playful.

Plus we'll examine the lasting influence of Roxy Music.

That's all coming up on sound opinions. Well, I'm sure I love you all my life.

And in the morning too.

Yeah, you have a further sight.

But maybe I can say for you. You're listening to sound opinions. I'm Jim Deregadas. My partner is Greg Kot and we are very excited indeed to do a classic album

dissection of a record we both always loved the 1972 self-titled debut by

Roxy Music. Usually influential still Greg and we want to look at why. This

band came together around the son of a coal miner Brian Ferry who went to the University of a coal miner, Brian Ferry, who went to the University of Newcastle to study art.

You know, initially Ferry, who has one of those great crooner voices.

You know, started playing in R&B bands, kind of leaning on the 50s,

kind of a little bit of soul, a group called the Gas Board.

He met a bassist named Graham Simpson in that group. They set out to start their own band in 1970. They found a guy named Andy Mackay who played saxophone but that's not all he did he liked to build his own

synthesizers and that put him in in friendship with a fellow named, I'm sorry,

Brian Eno, he's part of the story,

we gotta talk about him.

They put some ads in the melody maker,

initially found a drummer named Paul Thompson

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