Há pausas que fazem bem. E no caso dos Roxy Music os resultados foram bem claros. Em meados dos anos 70 entraram em pousio, dedicaram-se a outros discos e na hora de reunir surgiram reinventados em 'Manifesto’, onde o clima 'disco’ entra discretamente em cena, ganhando sobretudo notoriedade na remistura de 'Angel Eyes’ que editam como single em 1979. Estavam assim a ajudar a inventar o que seria alguma da melhor pop de inícios dos anos 80.
A late 70’s release for Roxy Music after a hiatus that came to an end with the amazing 'Manifesto’ album. The single is a dreamy disco flavoured remix.
“My ambition was not to be a great photographer (though that certainly would have been a worthy stance). It was a lust to embrace anything that startled or energized me.”
Roxy Music 1972 Island ————————————————— Tracks: 1. Re-make · Re-model 2. Ladytron 3. If There Is Something 4. 2 H.B. 5. The Bob (Medley) 6. Chance Meeting 7. Would You Believe? 8. Sea Breezes 9. Bitters End —————————————————
Roxy Music’s 8th and final album was released on 28 May 1982.
Avalon was the band’s 3rd album to top the charts in the UK (and remained #1 for 3 weeks, spending more than a year on the charts) and while it only peaked at #53 in the US, it’s the band’s only album to sell more than 1 million copies in the US.
The album cover was designed by Peter Saville and show’s Bryan Ferry’s girlfriend (and soon-to-be wife) Lucy Helmore looking out at the lake the couple could see from the lodge on the west coast of Ireland where Ferry began writing the songs for the album.
