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Phil Manzanera, the 71-year-old guitarist for art-rock pioneers Roxy Music, is leaning into a computer camera backdropped by a nondescript hotel room. The band has assembled in Toronto, where they’re rehearsing for their first U.S. tour in two decades, and Manzanera is relearning their repertoire after a long spell away from it. “I haven’t really played those songs for 10 years,” he says with a trace of concern. “And so it’s all like coming back fresh.”

Roxy Music has come together for the first time since a run of shows across the U.K. and Australia in 2011. (The band will perform at the Kia Forum on Sept. 28.) They are venturing back to the States in celebration of being a band for 50 years, with large breaths and pauses and solo adventures peppered throughout.

“We were never going to be the Beatles, like a bunch of brothers,” Manzanera says. “Luckily we’ve come together as this unit, which you could call a band, but it is not as straightforward as that. Now it’s about the joy of rediscovering those songs and playing them live. If we don’t play them, who’s going to?”

Roxy’s permanence in music culture — they were inducted into the Rock & Roll of Fame in 2019 — belies the decades in which the band’s cachet, mainly among musical adventurers and high-cheekboned jet-setters, far outstripped its popularity.

In the fall of 1970, Bryan Ferry had lost a job teaching ceramics at an all-girls school near London, in part due to his holding frequent record-listening sessions during school hours. Having floundered a bit after finishing art school a couple years prior, Ferry put an ad in the paper, looking for bandmates to collaborate with him and an old art-school classmate, bassist Graham Simpson. Saxophonist Andy Mackay replied to the ad, bringing along his university pal Brian Eno, who could work a synthesizer and owned a tape machine. The original iteration of the group was rounded out by guitarist Roger Bunn and drummer Dexter Lloyd. In search of a name that signified “faded glamour,” Ferry chose Roxy Music.

By 1972, Manzanera had come on as the group’s guitarist, Paul Thompson had replaced Lloyd as the drummer, and Roxy Music was off and running, releasing five albums between 1972 and 1975 alone, all of them critically acclaimed while finding modest commercial success. (In the U.S., their highest-charting hit was the taut and funky “ Love Is the Drug ,” which reached No. 30 on the Billboard Hot 100.) Their albums gained praise for their inventiveness, the band being credited with pioneering a new wave of art rock, wherein the visuals and onstage stylings were just as meticulously thought out as the lush production and incisive lyrical wit of the songs.

Ferry, now 76, acts as the band’s emotional conductor, of sorts. His voice is malleable — sometimes a distinctive and melodic drone, something one might hear in a smoky jazz lounge, sometimes soaring to beautiful highs. But his writing is what most commonly stands out. Ferry is one of the great architects of the love song, a lyricist who approaches the concept of love from all angles: the inception of romance, the tentative and uncertain bridges between affection and even greater affection, longing and heartbreak and bracing for the inevitability of loss. For all of the artistic flair surrounding Roxy Music, at the core, under the care of Ferry, they were a band in constant pursuit of considerations of love.

But there was also artistic flair. Their album covers were striking and sometimes controversial (the cover art for 1974’s “Country Life,” featuring two scantily clad models, was censored in the U.S. upon its release,) and the music itself was undeniable. By 1982’s “Avalon , ” the band’s consistent members were Ferry, Mackay, Thompson and Manzanera (those four are now on tour; Eno is not participating.) They took a hiatus after 1982, despite “Avalon” being the group’s most commercially successful record.

There has been a renewed interest and excitement in Roxy Music in their time away. “Avalon’s” swelling “More Than This” was memorably karaoke’d by Bill Murray in the Sofia Coppola film “Lost in Translation.” The sinister “ In Every Dream Home a Heartache ,” from 1973’s “For Your Pleasure,” gained renewed interest after being featured in a pivotal scene in the show “Mindhunter . ” The group’s consistent presence in the cultural atmosphere has a lot to do with the fact that they were, very much, ahead of their time, in terms of vision and influence. But it is also attributed to the fact that, despite not releasing an album in 40 years, their songs still sound fresh. Manzanera’s logic on this is simple.

“We always recorded on analog tape, and actually played together in a studio,” he says. “That sound seems to have quite a long life span. You listen to all the great songs that are still so popular from the ’70s, and they were beautifully constructed; they sound as if they could have been recorded yesterday.”

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Not only their influence on music, but also on performance, on how bands present themselves and use the stage as a canvas, it has all endured. That influence spans decades, from peers like David Bowie in their early ’70s heydays to new wave founders like Devo, Talking Heads and Blondie. By the time they had stepped away, acts from the Cars to Pulp to TV on the Radio were charging through a new rock landscape with the style, affect and sound once pioneered by Roxy Music.

Both Manzanera and Ferry, with whom I spoke in early August from his home in London, are not explicitly focused on the band’s legacy, saying that it isn’t something they think about until someone mentions it to them. But there is the reality of time, and what time affords a band of people who have created over a long enough stretch of it. There are also, very literally, monuments to this kind of introspection, even if it is unnamed by the band members.

This year, Ferry has released a book of his lyrics , spanning both Roxy and all of his solo albums. It is a massive but joyful book to traverse, as Ferry’s lyricism comes across on the page like reading small, delightful short stories. Stories of love, or the anguish of love. Songs that unravel intimacy, sometimes finding the unraveling unsatisfying, but knowing it must be tended to. There’s an ever-present longing in the songs, but also a space where one is bracing for the impact of giving themselves over. “Preparing oneself for the worst,” Ferry says, shrugging and smiling. Forward-facing as ever, Ferry does admit that organizing the book itself, and sitting with the wide range of lyrics he’d penned over the years, did provide him with small regrets and sentimentalities.

“As you get older, life becomes more complicated and writing time becomes, I guess, precious and limited. Some of the songs, when I was compiling the lyric book, I thought, oh, I wish I’d had another week to spend on that. Or I wish I’d edited that out. But maybe it’s just as well that there was an immediacy about them. Being up against the wall time-wise can be a good thing for artists. For writers.”

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Whether they feel like tangible attempts at solidifying and firmly upholding legacy, both the book and the tour gaze fondly upon the past greatnesses of the group and its most central figure. The Roxy tour setlist is a tight 20 tracks that spans just about two hours of performance. Anchored by their cover of John Lennon’s “ Jealous Guy ,” the majority of tunes bounce through Roxy’s sprint of stunning ’70s albums.

“It was all such a rush of time,” Ferry says about that era. “We found this derelict house in Notting Hill and it was quite picturesque, freezing cold, just trying to get this program of work assembled. When we went into the studio, we did that really fast and then it all started to accelerate. That’s when it started getting really hard and I learned to write very quickly, but it was really exciting because I suddenly felt, wow, we have an audience.”

That audience extended to the States, and across generations. Roxy Music became notorious for their romanticism, the flourish in their performances, the eccentricities of future superstar producer Eno pushed up against the brilliantly calculated charisma of Ferry. Their performances, even now, unlock an elsewhere, a place to escape to that seems, to the eye of a spectator, to be fabulous. The only party you’d ever want to be at.

The band is also still as sharply dressed as ever. (Ferry, crediting an adoration of jazz artists, shrugs and smiles slyly when I ask about his tour wardrobe plans. “I might make a bit of an effort.”) The tour set opens with Ferry at the piano, dashing through a rendition of 1972’s “Re-Make/Re-Model,” the opening song on their debut album, which winds along tightly until it comes apart at the seams, the sounds of the band tumbling atop each other to achieve a type of harmony.

Of this freshness, and ability to sonically map onto each other still, after 50 on-and-off years, Manzanera says: “I think it’s a lot to do with the fact that we call ourselves inspired amateurs and our sound was made up of a combination of a bunch of people and their inadequacies. But all together, they complimented each other and created something unique.”

This is, undoubtedly, a celebration of nostalgia, of a body of work that will — it seems — remain as is, with no new recordings on the horizon. Ferry shoots down the prospect of the new Roxy album that was rumored when the group last reunited to do the European shows, saying that the record didn’t feel right, and had to remain on the shelves.

But also, though neither Ferry nor Manzanera explicitly stated it, this projects to be the final time Roxy Music tours in such a robust capacity. The band members are still active in various other projects, as they have always been. Thompson has drummed with a series of other bands over the years, including Concrete Blonde and Angelic Upstarts. Ferry has filled his time in a continued pursuit of his solo career, performing both original songs and covers with his own orchestra (“I live in the studio,” he says.) Mackay and Manzanera are both occupied not only with solo careers, but also as in-demand supporting musicians.

This tour feels celebratory in nature, not just for the audiences of people who get to watch them, but also for the band members themselves. Fifty years as performers permanently woven into each other’s lives is a test of sometimes joyful endurance. When asked if there was any celebration in this run, in an existence that has sprawled this long, Ferry and Manzanera offered up two different approaches.

Manzanera, ever-excited and seemingly nervous, locks in on the stage performance. “There’s always jeopardy in live performance. And I mean, that’s what makes it vital. So we’re still, always, doing our best to hone our craftsmanship.”

Ferry takes a more simple approach. He grins and shrugs slightly before offering:

“Time flies when you’re having fun.”

Hanif Abdurraqib is a writer from Columbus, Ohio. His latest book is “ A Little Devil in America .”

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1975-76 Roxy Music (Siren)

The 1975 tour took Roxy throughout Europe, USA, Australia & Japan. Roxy Music were supported by Sadistic Mika Band in Europe and by Split Enz in Austarlia & New Zealand. Phil Manzanera was so impressed with Split Enz that he produced an album for them. Just Another High, Strictly Confidential & Pyjamarama were performed at a few UK shows. A Really Good Time was also played with the string parts on a backing track. 

Typical Set List

• Sentimental Fool
• The Thrill Of It All
• Love Is The Drug
• Mother Of Pearl
• Bitter Sweet
• Nightingale
• Street Life
• Out Of The Blue
• Sea Breezes
• Both Ends Burning
• For Your Pleasure
• Diamond Head
• Wild Weekend
• The 'In' Crowd
• Virginia Plain
• Re-make/Re-model
• Do The Strand
• Editions Of You
• A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
• Pyjamarama (Selected Shows)
• A Really Good Time (Selected Shows)
• Strictly Confidential (Wembley)
• Just Another High (Selected Shows)

We don't have specific show setlists for this tour. Please contact us if you have anything of interest.

Tour Musicians & Credits

• Bryan Ferry Vocals & Keyboards
• Paul Thompson Drums
• Phil Manzanera Guitars
• Andy Mackay Sax & Oboe
• Eddie Jobson Violin & Keyboards
• John Gustafson Bass (1975 Dates)
• Rick Wills Bass (1976 Dates)
• Jacquie Sullivan Backing Vocals
• Doreen Chanter Backing Vocals

Tour Venues and Itinerary

02 October 1975 Guildhall Preston England

03 October 1975 Empire Liverpool England

04 October 1975 University Leeds England

05 October 1975 University Leeds England

06 October 1975 Trentham Garden Stoke England

08 October 1975 Apollo Glasgow Scotland

09 October 1975 Apollo Glasgow Scotland

10 October 1975 Apollo Glasgow Scotland

12 October 1975 City Hall Newcastle England

13 October 1975 City Hall Newcastle England

14 October 1975 Belle Vue Manchester England

15 October 1975 Belle Vue Manchester England

17 October 1975 Empire Pool Wembley London England

18 October 1975 Empire Pool Wembley London England

20 October 1975 Capitol Theatre Cardiff Wales

21 October 1975 Capitol Theatre Cardiff Wales

22 October 1975 The Alcazar Bingley Hall Birmingham England

23 October 1975 The Alcazar Bingley Hall Birmingham England

14 November 1975, Public Auditorium, Cleveland, Ohio USA

21 November 1975 Lisner Auditorium Washington DC USA

22 November 1975 Massey Hall Toronto Canada

23 November 1975 Massey Hall Toronto Canada

01 December 1975 Toledo Sports Arena Ohio USA

23 January 1976 Konserthuset Stockholm Sweden

24 January 1976 Gothenburg Sweden

27 January 1976 Konserthuset Stockholm Sweden

13 February 1976 Memorial Auditorium, Kansas City, MO, USA

15 February 1976 Kent State University, Kent, OH, USA

16 February 1976 Bowling Green State University Ohio USA (Cancelled)

17 February 1976 Ambassador Theatre, St. Louis, MO, USA

20 February 1976 Palladium, Los Angeles, CA, USA

21 February 1976 Paramount Theatre, Oakland, CA, USA

26 February 1976 Armadillo World Headquarters Austin, TX, USA

28 February 1976 Warehouse, New Orleans, LA, USA

29 February 1976 Ellis Auditorium, Memphis, TN, USA

06 March 1976 Orpheum Theatre, Boston, MA, USA

07 March 1976 Rochester, NY, USA

08 March 1976 Calderone Theater, New York, NY, USA

11 March 1976 State Fair Coliseum, Indianapolis, IN, USA

12 March 1976 Veterans Auditorium, Columbus, OH, USA

13 March 1976 The Gardens, Louisville, OH, USA

14 March 1976 Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA,USA

15 March 1976 Memorial Coliseum, Ft. Wayne, IN, USA

16 March 1976 IMA Auditorium/Theater, Flint, MI, USA

18 March 1976 Guthrie Theatre Minneapolis. USA

20 March 1976 Defiance College Auditorium, Defiance, OH, USA

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Roxy Music to Reunite for First North American Tour in Nearly 20 Years

By Daniel Kreps

Daniel Kreps

Two years removed from their Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction, Roxy Music will reunite this September for the art-rockers’ first North American tour together in nearly two decades.

Founding members Bryan Ferry , Andy Mackay, Phil Manzanera, and Paul Thompson have announced a 10-date, 50th-anniversary arena trek that begins Sept. 7 at Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena and concludes Sept. 28 at Los Angeles’ the Forum. Along the way, the reunited act will take the stage at New York’s Madison Square Garden, San Francisco’s Chase Center, Chicago’s United Center, and other major U.S. cities.

St. Vincent will serve as a special guest for the near-entirety of the Roxy Music tour; she won’t perform at the gig at Boston’s TD Garden on Sept. 17.

The 10-date jaunt marks Roxy Music’s first tour of the U.S. since 2003, and their first trek together since their For Your Pleasure dates in 2011. Following that tour, Manzanera told Rolling Stone it was unlikely the band would ever perform together again. “I don’t think we’re going to do any more shows,” Manzanera said in 2014. “I think our job is done. When we stopped touring in 2011, Andy [Mackay] and I looked at each other and said, ‘Our job is done here.’”

However, in 2019, singer Ferry, saxophonist Mackay, and guitarist Manzanera reunited onstage — without drummer Paul Thompson — to perform six songs together at their Rock Hall induction ceremony ; also absent from the Cleveland ceremony was Roxy Music’s founding soundscapist Brian Eno.

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Tickets for the North American tour — which celebrates the 50th anniversary of the band’s 1972 self-titled debut LP — go on sale beginning April 4 . Next Friday, Roxy Music will reissue their first two albums, Roxy Music and For Your Pleasure , on vinyl, the first two releases in a year-long series of vinyl reissues.

Roxy Music Tour Dates

Sept. 7 – Toronto, ON @ Scotiabank Arena Sept. 9 – Washington, DC @ Capital One Arena Sept. 12 – New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden Sept. 15 – Philadelphia, PA @ Wells Fargo Center Sept. 17 – Boston, MA @ TD Garden Sept. 19 – Chicago, IL @ United Center Sept. 21 – Austin, TX @ Moody Center Sept. 23 – Dallas, TX @ American Airlines Center Sept. 26 – San Francisco, CA @ Chase Center Sept. 28 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Forum

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Roxy Music Announces First Tour in 11 Years, With St. Vincent in Support

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Roxy Music , the legendary and influential British group who launched during the glam-rock era of the early 1970s but evolved into a suave and romantic brand of pop that influenced everyone from Chic to Duran Duran and Maxwell, will tour for the first time in 11 years to mark the 50th year since their groundbreaking self-titled debut album.

Singer-songwriter Bryan Ferry, saxophonist Andy Mackay, guitarist Phil Manzanera and drummer Paul Thompson will perform 13 arena shows across North America and the UK, beginning September 7 in Toronto at the Scotiabank Arena.

The tour will take the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame members across the U.S., including New York’s Madison Square Garden and The Forum in Los Angeles, before culminating with a performance at the O2 Arena in London. Tickets for the Live Nation produced North American shows will go on sale Monday, April 4 (10 a.m. local time) at ticketmaster.com. Artist presale starts Tuesday, March 29 (10 a.m. local time) until Friday, April 1 (5 p.m. local time).

Special guest  St. Vincent  will be appearing on all North American shows  except Boston.

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Throughout 2022, all eight of Roxy Music’s studio albums will be reissued as special anniversary editions with a new half-speed cut, revised artwork and a deluxe gloss laminated finish. The first 2 LPs, “Roxy Music” and “For Your Pleasure”, will be released on April 1, 2022, with the remaining albums arriving in paired drops throughout the year.

NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES

09/07 – Scotiabank Arena – Toronto, ON

09/09 – Capital One Arena – Washington, DC

09/12 – Madison Square Garden – New York City, NY

09/15 – Wells Fargo Center – Philadelphia, PA

09/17 – TD Garden – Boston, MA*

09/19 – United Center – Chicago, IL

09/21 – Moody Center – Austin, TX

09/23 – American Airlines Center – Dallas, TX

09/26 – Chase Center – San Francisco, CA

09/28 – The Forum – Los Angeles, CA

U.K TOUR DATES

Oct 10 – OVO Hydro – Glasgow, UK

Oct 12 – AO Arena – Manchester, UK

Oct 14 – The O2 – London, UK

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Roxy Music’s UK and North American tour , which kicked off on September 7 at Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena, marks the first time that bandmembers Bryan Ferry , Andy Mackay, Phil Manzanera and Paul Thompson have been together on stage since the band’s ‘For Your Pleasure’ tour in 2011.

The tour also takes in the 50th anniversary of the band’s debut album, which they will be celebrating throughout 2022 with a vinyl reissue series that sees reissues of all eight of their studio albums.

Last night (September 19) the pop rockers played Chicago’s United Center. See the list of songs they played [via SetlistFM ] below:

‘Re-Make/Re-Model’ ‘Out Of The Blue’ ‘The Bogus Man’ ‘The Main Thing’ ‘Ladytron’ ‘While My Heart Is Still Beating’ ‘Oh Yeah’ ‘If There Is Something’ ‘In Every Dream Home A Heartache’ ‘Tara’ ‘My Only Love’ ‘To Turn You On’ ‘Dance Away’ ‘Same Old Scene’ ‘More Than This’ ‘Avalon’ ‘Love Is The Drug’ ‘Editions Of You’ ‘Do The Strand’ ‘Jealous Guy’ (John Lennon cover)

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Tomorrow (September 21) the band play Texas’ Moody Center in Austin ahead of a few more US shows before the UK leg of their tour. See the list of remaining dates below and find any more available UK tickets here .

Roxy Music’s remaining 2022 tour dates:

SEPTEMBER 21 – Austin, Moody CEnter 23 – Dallas, American Airlines Center 26 – San Francisco, Chase Center 28 – Los Angeles, The Forum

OCTOBER 10 – Glasgow, OVO Hydro 12 – Manchester, AO Arena 14 – London, The O2

Discussing Roxy Music’s self-titled debut album for its anniversary , NME wrote: “After being fired as a ceramics teacher for singing in the classroom, Bryan Ferry , a fine art grad from County Durham, auditioned to sing in the London prog-rock band  King Crimson . Though his voice wasn’t a fit, the band’s Robert Fripp was impressed all the same, and suggested that Ferry give E.G. Records a call if he ever formed his own band.

In 2019, singer Bryan Ferry reunited with some of his Roxy Music bandmates  for the group’s first performance in eight years as part of their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction.

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Roxy Music will tour for the first time in more than a decade to mark the 50th year since their groundbreaking self-titled debut album.

Bryan Ferry , Andy Mackay, Phil Manzanera , and Paul Thompson, together on stage for the first time since their sold-out and critically acclaimed 2011 For Your Pleasure tour, will perform 13 arena shows across North America and the UK, beginning September 7 in Toronto at the Scotiabank Arena.

The tour will make stops across the U.S. including such landmark venues as New York’s Madison Square Garden and The Forum in Los Angeles before culminating with a performance at the O2 Arena in London. Tickets for the Live Nation produced North American shows will go on sale Monday, April 4 (10am local time). Artist presale starts Tuesday, March 29 (10 am local time) until Friday, April 1 (5pm local time). Roxy Music will offer several VIP packages for each show that include premium tickets, access to the pre-show VIP lounge, limited edition merchandise, and more. Package contents vary based on offer selected.

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Very special guest St. Vincent will be appearing on all North American shows, except for the stop in Boston. Since making her recorded debut as St. Vincent in 2007, Annie Clark has consistently been regarded as one of the most innovative and fascinating presences in modern music, continually reinventing her unique sounds and personae—and winning two GRAMMY Awards in the process. Most recently, St. Vincent channeled the hungover glamour and gritty sepia-toned soundtrack of 1970s downtown NYC into the triumphant Daddy’s Home , released in May 2021 to universal acclaim. Outside of recording and performing, St. Vincent has designed her own Ernie Ball Signature guitar, and co-written and starred as a fictionalized version of herself in the film The Nowhere Inn .

2022 marks a year of celebration for Roxy Music. Throughout the year, each of their eight studio albums, all heralded as modern classics, will be reissued as special anniversary editions with a new half-speed cut, revised artwork and a deluxe gloss laminated finish. The first two LPs, Roxy Music and For Your Pleasure , will be released on April 1, 2022, with the remaining albums arriving in paired drops throughout the year.

Visit Roxy Music’s official website for more information.

Roxy Music Tour Dates: 09/07 – Scotiabank Arena – Toronto, ON 09/09 – Capital One Arena – Washington, DC 09/12 – Madison Square Garden – New York City, NY 09/15 – Wells Fargo Center – Philadelphia, PA 09/17 – TD Garden – Boston, MA* 09/19 – United Center – Chicago, IL 09/21 – Moody Center – Austin, TX 09/23 – American Airlines Center – Dallas, TX 09/26 – Chase Center – San Francisco, CA 09/28 – The Forum – Los Angeles, CA 10/10 – OVO Hydro – Glasgow, UK 10/12 – AO Arena – Manchester, UK 10/14 – The O2 – London, UK

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Roxy Music to tour North America for first time in nearly 20 years — plus 3 U.K. dates

Roxy Music will reunite once more this year to celebrate the 50th anniversary of their debut album, with Bryan Ferry, Andy Mackay, Phil Manzanera and Paul Thompson touring together again for the first time in the decade and playing North American shows for the first time in nearly 20 years.

The art-rock legends are slated to play 10 dates in the U.S. and Canada this September, beginning Sept. 7 in Toronto and wrapping up Sept. 28 in Los Angeles, with St. Vincent opening all of the concerts expect for Boston. The group then will play three U.K. shows — in Glasgow, Manchester and London — in October.

Despite the fact that the band’s publicists sent along a vintage photo of Roxy Music featuring Brian Eno — as seen above — he will not be rejoining the band on this tour.

Tickets for the North American dates will go on sale 10 a.m. local time Monday, April 4. Presales begin 10 a.m. local time Tuesday, March 29. Visit roxymusic.co.uk for more information.

Additionally, throughout 2022, each of Roxy Music’s eight studio albums will be reissued on vinyl as special anniversary editions with new half-speed cuts, revised artwork and deluxe gloss laminated finishes. The first two reissues — 1972’s Roxy Music and 1973’s For Your Pleasure — are due out April 1.

See the band’s full tour dates below.

Roxy Music tour dates

NORTH AMERICA Sept. 7: Scotiabank Arena, Toronto, ON Sept. 9: Capital One Arena, Washington, DC Sept. 12: Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY Sept. 15: Wells Fargo Center, Philadelphia, PA Sept. 17: TD Garden, Boston, MA Sept. 19: United Center, Chicago, IL Sept. 21: Moody Center, Austin, TX Sept. 23: American Airlines Center, Dallas, TX Sept. 26: Chase Center, San Francisco, CA Sept. 28: The Forum, Los Angeles, CA

UNITED KINGDOM Oct. 10: OVO Hydro, Glasgow, UK Oct. 12: AO Arena, Manchester, UK Oct. 14: The O2, London, UK

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Roxy Music are legends I believe.They were so ahead of the curve in both their sound and their look.They’re well deserved induction to the RRHOF was overdue.The performance at the ceremony however was not the best vocally and I’ll cut Brian some slack there.I truly hope he gets his chops back for the anniversary tour as nothing will stop me from attending.Thanks as usual to Ticket Master for gouging the fans with greatly inflated ticket prices.

They’re a band I never really got to listen to as they were just a bit before I really got into music. Still been meaning to. Not disputing their legacy as I just don’t know enough – curious how they will do with the tour sales at these venues.

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Roxy Music, one of the most influential and exhilarating music acts in history, will tour for the first time in more than a decade to mark the 50th year since their groundbreaking self-titled debut album. Don’t miss them at TD Pavilion at the Mann (previously scheduled at the Wells Fargo Center) on September 15 with special guest St. Vincent!

Since their formation in 1972, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees, Roxy Music have left an indelible mark on the worlds of music, fashion and art, merging the three with a singular and astonishing vision that brought them immediate, global success.  Today they are regarded as one of the most influential bands of all time, whose work has inspired generations of musicians. Intense, emotive, and clever, with iconic graphics, Roxy Music’s eight studio albums birthed the art-rock movement, blurring the lines between genres and infusing a new kind of glamor into rock music for the first time.

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Roxy Music Announce First Tour In 11 Years

HISTORIC 50TH ANNIVERSARY ARENA TOUR STARTS SEPTEMBER 7 WITH VERY SPECIAL GUEST ST. VINCENT*

Tickets on sale starting monday, april 4 at 10am local on ticketmaster.com, artist pre-sale starts tuesday, march 29 at 10am local until friday, april 15pm local, with special vip packages available, special anniversary editions of roxy music’s albumsto be reissued throughout the year. pre-order/pre-save here.

NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES

Wed Sep 7 – Scotiabank Arena – Toronto,ON Fri Sep 9 – Capital One Arena – Washington, DC Mon Sep 12 – Madison Square Garden – New York City, NY Thu Sep 15 – Wells Fargo Center – Philadelphia, PA Sat Sep 17 – TD Garden – Boston, MA* Mon Sep 19 – United Center – Chicago, IL Wed Sep 21 – Moody Center – Austin, TX Fri Sep 23 – American Airlines Center – Dallas, TX Mon Sep 26 – Chase Center – San Francisco, CA Wed Sep 28 – The Forum – Los Angeles, CA

U.K TOUR DATES

Mon Oct 10 – OVO Hydro – Glasgow, UK Wed Oct 12 – AO Arena – Manchester, UK Fri Oct 14 – The O2 – London, UK

Roxy Music, one of the most influential and exhilarating music acts in history, will tour for the first time in more than a decade to mark the 50th year since their groundbreaking debut album.

Bryan Ferry , Andy Mackay , Phil Manzanera, and Paul Thompson , together on stage for the first time since their sold-out and critically acclaimed 2011 For Your Pleasure tour, will perform 13 arena shows across North America and the UK, beginning September 7 in Toronto at the Scotiabank Arena.

The tour will make stops across the U.S. including such landmark venues as New York’s Madison Square Garden and The Forum  in Los Angeles before culminating with a performance at the O2 Arena  in London. Tickets for the Live Nation produced North American shows will go on sale Monday, April 4 (10am local time) at ticketmaster.com. Artist presale starts Tuesday, March 29 (10 am local time) until Friday, April 1  (5pm local time). Roxy Music  will offer several VIP packages for each show that include premium tickets, access to the pre-show VIP lounge, limited edition merchandise, and more. Package contents vary based on offer selected. Fans can visit www.VIPNation.com for more information.

Since their formation in 1972, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame  inductees, Roxy Music have left an indelible mark on the worlds of music, fashion and art, merging the three with a singular and astonishing vision that brought them immediate, global success. Today they are regarded as one of the most influential bands of all time, whose work has inspired generations of musicians. Intense, emotive, and clever, with iconic graphics, Roxy Music’s eight studio albums birthed the art-rock movement, blurring the lines between genres and infusing a new kind of glamour into rock music for the first time.

Very special guest St. Vincent will be appearing on all North American shows (*except Boston). Since making her recorded debut as St. Vincent in 2007, Annie Clark has consistently been regarded as one of the most innovative and fascinating presences in modern music, continually reinventing her unique sounds and personae—and winning two GRAMMY Awards in the process. Most recently, St. Vincentchanneled the hungover glamour and gritty sepia-toned soundtrack of 1970s downtown NYC into the triumphant Daddy’s Home , released in May 2021 to universal acclaim. Outside of recording and performing, St. Vincenthas designed her own Ernie Ball Signature guitar, and co-written and starred as a fictionalized version of herself in the upcoming film The Nowhere Inn.

2022 marks a year of celebration for Roxy Music . Throughout the year, each of their eight studio albums, all heralded as modern classics, will be reissued as special anniversary editions with a new half-speed cut, revised artwork and a deluxe gloss laminated finish. The first 2 LPs, “ Roxy Music ” and “ For Your Pleasure ”, will be released on April 1, 2022 , with the remaining albums arriving in paired drops throughout the year. All albums will be available on pre-order HERE.

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‘A Lot of Mutual Respect’: Roxy Music’s Ferry and Manzanera Divulge Details of September Arena Tour

The North American jaunt will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the band's self-titled debut album

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With the exception of its Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction performance in 2019, British art-rockers Roxy Music haven’t played in America since 2003. But the iconic band’s 13-date arena tour will not only return it to U.S. shores on Sept. 7 — it will also celebrate the 50th anniversary of Roxy Music’s eponymous debut, which took the music world by storm in 1972, with its eclectic mashup of musical styles and the band’s flamboyant costumes.

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Given that the group released eight studio albums between 1972 and 1982 — genre-bending adventures that spanned from rambunctious rock and ethereal elegance to quirky cacophony and smooth balladry — it’s certainly challenging for the core membership of singer-principal composer Bryan Ferry, guitarist Phil Manzanera and sax-oboe player Andy Mackay to pick what to play. Beyond fan favorites like “More Than This,” “In Every Dream Home a Heartache” and their popular cover of John Lennon’s “Jealous Guy,” one can hope that lesser-played tracks like the rollicking “Whirlwind,” the medieval-sounding “Triptych” and the ballad “Chance Meeting” (with its eerie guitar ambiance) might sneak their way into the shows.

“I’m still looking at the ideas for the set,” Ferry tells  Billboard . “I’ve got lots of songs that you feel you have to do. It would be lovely to do a show of the more obscure or deeper cuts, as you say, but I think the audience would feel disappointed if they didn’t hear the familiar ones as well.” (Both Ferry and Manzanera concur with this writer that, among other things, “Manifesto” is an underrated track.)

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“We’ve got a list of like 30 songs we’ve whittled it down to,” says Manzanera. “We’re going to try them all and see what sounds good and then pop on different ones. Maybe substitutes at different venues. What I realized, and I think we all realize it, is that we need to play some of the [other] stuff because it’ll never get heard live otherwise.”

Ferry hopes that all three phases of the band will be represented. There are the more raucous first two albums ( Roxy Music  and  For Your Pleasure ) with influential keyboardist Brian Eno; the equally eclectic but slightly smoother triumvirate of  Stranded ,  Country Life  and  Siren  with keyboardist-electric violinist Eddie Jobson; and, after the group’s late-’70s hiatus, the final trio ( Manifesto ,  Flesh and Blood  and the dreamy  Avalon ) with the core members of Ferry, Manzanera and Mackay. That last three albums featured various guests and session musicians such as pianist Richard Tee, bassists Alan Spenner and Neil Jason, drummer Simon Phillips and singer Melissa Manchester. Drummer Paul Thompson played on the band’s first six albums as well as for its 2001 reunion tour (and will join the upcoming one), while Andy Newmark performed on much of the final two studio releases.

Although Roxy Music and both Ferry and Manzanera solo have toured with larger bands (as will be the case this time), they want to be careful not to overdo anything, such as extending any songs too much. Latter albums, especially like  Avalon , were carefully sculpted to fit with Ferry’s vocal stylings and his bandmates coalescing around them. Manzanera says he has been reviewing the multitrack recordings and studying his own parts to be as faithful to the originals as possible.

When Duran Duran paid homage to the group while inducting it into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, bassist John Taylor declared that without Roxy, there would be no Duran. As singer Simon Le Bon noted about the honorees’ TV debut during the ceremony, “The sound was a shock to the system — a psychedelic Sinatra crooning pop-art poetry over driving drums, over saxophones and oboes. Heavily treated electric guitars and the most out-there synthesizer parts you’d ever heard.”

The music world had been unprepared for Roxy Music’s arrival. “We used to call ourselves ‘inspired amateurs’ when we started,” recalls Manzanera. “People looked down on us to a certain extent because we hadn’t paid our dues. [David Bowie’s  The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars ] and Roxy Music’s first album were released on the same day in June 1972. For Bowie, it was his fifth album, and we appeared out of nowhere, fully formed.” He wonders what the glam pioneer must have thought of the young upstarts. When they met him, “He was so nice and sweet, but it was quite a shock.”

Over the course of its recording career, Roxy Music maintained its quirky vibe but gradually evolved into a more polished entity, and not in a blatant pop way. It just kept exploring new vistas and avoided sticking to a formula. In America, this translated into such chart achievements as logging 11 albums on the Billboard 200, with three of them reaching the top 40.

Photography and graphic design were also very important to the band, from the gorgeous models gracing its album covers to the gatefold vinyl of 1973’s  For Your Pleasure  with the band dressed in outrageous garb.

“It used to be so interesting in the old days where you waited for the film in your camera to be developed, to see if you had anything,” reminisces Ferry. “I remember when we did the first Roxy cover and the shoot, and we had to wait a couple of days for the film to be processed, then looking at it on a projector and thinking we’ve got something. I miss that excitement of when we would paste things together when we were doing the album covers and everything was done physically. There was a tactile thing about it, which I liked.”

Technological changes have not only eliminated that element, but also a sense of mystery. “I used to like how things were a bit private as well,” he says. “Everything is shared now. People film everything, and if you do a show, people are looking at it through their phones. That’s kind of weird. I like it when there’s a sense of occasion, and you’re there for the evening and it’s a special moment.”

Although Roxy’s catalog spans a broad range of styles,  Avalon remains the band’s most enigmatic album — very atmospheric, not very riff-based, ethereal and romantic. “It is an unusual record,” concurs Manzanera, “and I don’t think I really appreciated it at the time because I was wanting to rock at that moment. My antidote was [1982 solo album  Primitive Guitars ]. Ironically, it was reviewed in the same edition of  Rolling Stone  magazine, one after the other. I couldn’t believe it. I was slightly embarrassed. I found it at Sydney Airport when we were on tour, and I didn’t show it to the others. Then we didn’t work together for 18 years in terms of live. We seem to be able to come back together and play these songs live, and it unifies us because they’re fun to play.”

“[There are] a lot of love songs in there,” Ferry observes about Roxy’s output and his solo work. “Some of those songs are quite sad. A lot of the music I’ve liked by other people over the years, growing up, the sounds that drew me in, are the more melancholy things. I tend to like dark, sad songs. It’s very nice when you look through the repertoire and see the one or two songs that stand out as being different, like ‘Manifesto,’ ‘Do the Strand’ and ‘Editions of You,’ which take you into a different place. I wish there were a few more of them, but it’s nice to have that contrast in the material. Hopefully, the [shows] will represent that — light and shade.”

While the band hasn’t released an album in 40 years, its oeuvre has consistently resonated with subsequent generations. Wolf Alice, 10,000 Maniacs and the Charlie Hunter Quartet featuring Norah Jones are among the many acts who have covered “More Than This.” Ferry even sang the tune when he portrayed a nightclub singer in the 1929 Weimar Republic for the German TV series  Babylon Berlin  in 2017.

Following its 2001 reunion, Roxy Music toured America again in 2003, as well as overseas in 2005 and 2010. It also did international tours in 2005-06 and 2010-11. In between, Ferry, Manzanera and Mackay have been prolific solo artists. Ferry has a busy career — 16 studio albums, the recent EP  Love Letters  and regular tours since 2001. The singer’s love for Bob Dylan manifested in some of his early solo efforts and culminated in the 2007 covers album  Dylanesque . Manzanera has done a lot of production work, including on Pink Floyd’s  The Endless River ,   and he and Mackay have recorded a few albums together. A second collaboration between Manzanera and Tim Finn,  The Ghost of Santiago , will arrive July 29. Many fans may not know that the title track to Manzanera’s 1978 solo album,  K-Scope , was sampled for the Jay-Z/Kanye West song “No Church in the Wild” from their 2011 collaboration  Watch the Throne . Manzanera’s riff was slowed down for that tune, and he approved of the final result.

Despite Manzanera telling  Rolling Stone  in 2014 that Roxy would likely never tour again, the core trio clearly found themselves drawn back to each other. “It’s almost like a dysfunctional family,” muses Manzanera. “You get together and have an enjoyable time. Then real life comes in, and you have wives and girlfriends and family. You’re off busy doing other things. Suddenly, it’s 10 years of working for David [Gilmour], and then you have a cup of tea with Bryan. ‘Oh, that would be nice to actually work together. Did we have an argument 20 years ago? I cannot remember why.’ So we’re back to square one . . . there is just no escape,” he finishes with a laugh.

“I guess there must be a lot of mutual respect,” offers Ferry, laughing as well. “They’re both characters and have strong musical personalities, and I guess they put up with me as well for quite a few years. I don’t see a great deal of them now, but it’s always very nice when I do. I think a sense of humor always binds people together, and from those early days, it was a lot of fun. It was a lot of hard work, touring and always rushing to complete albums. Sometimes you didn’t feel you had got the album quite there. You had really strong deadlines in those days because you’re on tour next week. But [I have] very good memories, very positive memories of working together.”

“Music can bring you together,” adds Manzanera. “It is a kind of therapy for your brain and foot, and when you’re playing, it’s like meditating. If I’m onstage and I’m playing now with the other guys, I’m concentrating and drifting off. I want to learn how to play it so I don’t have to think too much. I’m just playing and enjoying that moment.”

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Roxy Music have announced their first tour in more than a decade to mark the 50th year since their groundbreaking debut album. Bryan Ferry, Andy Mackay, Phil Manzanera and Paul Thompson, together on stage for the first time since their sold-out and critically acclaimed 2011 “For Your Pleasure” tour, will perform 13 arena shows across North America and the U.K., beginning September 7, 2022.

Tickets for the Live Nation-produced North American shows will go on sale April 4 at 10 a.m. local time here .

From the March 28 announcement: Since their formation in 1972, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees Roxy Music have left an indelible mark on the worlds of music, fashion and art, merging the three with a singular and astonishing vision that brought them immediate, global success. Today they are regarded as one of the most influential bands of all time, whose work has inspired generations of musicians. Intense, emotive, and clever, with iconic graphics, Roxy Music’s eight studio albums birthed the art-rock movement, blurring the lines between genres and infusing a new kind of glamour into rock music for the first time.

Very special guest St. Vincent will be appearing on all North American shows except Boston. Since making her recorded debut as St. Vincent in 2007, Annie Clark has been regarded as one of the most innovative and fascinating presences in modern music, continually reinventing her unique sounds and personae—and winning two GRAMMY Awards in the process.

2022 marks a year of celebration for Roxy Music. Throughout the year, each of their eight studio albums, all heralded as modern classics, will be reissued as special anniversary editions with a new half-speed cut, revised artwork and a deluxe gloss laminated finish. The first two LPs, Roxy Music and For Your Pleasure , will be released on April 1, with the remaining albums arriving throughout the year.

Roxy Music 2022 Tour (Tickets will be available here ) Sep 07 – Toronto, ON – Scotiabank Arena Sep 09 – Washington, DC – Capital One Arena Sep 12 – New York, NY – Madison Square Garde Sep 15 – Philadelphia, PA – Wells Fargo Center Sep 17 – Boston, MA – TD Garden Sep 19 – Chicago, IL – United Center Sep 21 – Austin, TX – Moody Center Sep 23 – Dallas, TX – American Airlines Center Sep 26 – San Francisco, CA – Chase Center Sep 28 – Los Angeles, CA – The Forum Oct 10 – Glasgow, UK – OVO Hydro Oct 12 – Manchester, UK – AO Arena Oct 14 – London, UK – The O2

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This sounds great. Who will be joining them in the Eno / Jobson role?

I wouldn’t call all 8 of their studio albums “modern classics.” The first 5, certainly. But the last 3 not so much. Like many artsy outfits, they became a lot less interesting when commerciality concerns took over and they lost their way. Another reason it’s good to have (most of) the original lineup back.

Batchman, I’d add “Manifesto” to that list of classics. Side one is classic Roxy and side two, while more commercial, is still pretty great. I think the first version with the orignal mixes/versions of “Angel Eyes” and “Dance Away” is far superior. Plus Paul Thompson is on all but one or two tracks(on side two), it really stops being Roxy Music for me when he leaves and Ferry brings in all those session musicians. The addition of Neil Hubbard on guitar is especially galling, even moreso when he replaces Phil Manzanera. That said I’d take “Flesh + Blood” over the almost completely lifeless(and horribly overrated) “Avalon”.

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Roxy Music Launches 50th-Anniversary Tour: Set List and Video

Roxy Music launched their 50th-anniversary tour  Wednesday night in Toronto.

After an opening performance by  St. Vincent , Roxy Music fittingly began their set with "Re-make/Re-model," the lead-off track from their 1972 self-titled debut album. Songs from nearly every Roxy Music album made it into the set list (except 1973's  Stranded ). To finish the night, the band performed a cover of  John Lennon 's "Jealous Guy."

You can see fan-filmed footage from the concert, as well as a set list, below.

The tour marks the first time  Bryan Ferry , Andy Mackay, Phil Manzanera and Paul Thompson have performed together under the Roxy Music name since 2011. The last time they performed live was at their 2019 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction , where most of the band appeared onstage, except for Thompson, who sat out due to arthritis, and original keyboardist Brian Eno , who declined to travel to Cleveland for environmental reasons. Eno is also not performing on the current tour.

Watch St. Vincent Open for Roxy Music in Toronto

Watch Roxy Music Perform 'Re-make/Re-model' in Toronto

"There’s emotion between the players and, of course, the audience is half of the whole thing," Ferry said ahead of the tour on Zane Lowe's podcast . "And so you get such a strong feedback from an audience when you’ve had a long career because they’re all from different generations and from different scenes and so on. It's great to get people together and their common interest is us and our music. It’s a very special thing and we’re all very looking forward to it and it’s going to be a moving experience for all of us."

In addition to the tour, Roxy Music is celebrating its 50th anniversary by reissuing all eight of its studio albums on vinyl, mastered at half-speed. Their tour is scheduled to continue through the U.S. until Sept. 28, after which they'll head to the U.K. to perform in Glasgow, Manchester and London. A complete list of show dates can be found on the band's  website .

"You never know when you get to this stage in one's trajectory whether it's going to be the last time, so you treat it as if it's going to be the last time," Manzanera told  Consequence   last month. "I’m gonna have the most fun possible."

Watch Roxy Music Perform 'Love Is the Drug' in Toronto

Watch Roxy Music Perform John Lennon's 'Jealous Guy' in Toronto

Roxy Music, 9/7/22, Scotiabank Arena, Toronto 1. "Re-Make/Re-Model" 2. "Out of the Blue" 3. "The Bogus Man" 4. "Ladytron" 5. "While My Heart Is Still Beating" 6. "Oh Yeah" 7. "To Turn You On" 8. "If There Is Something" 9. "In Every Dream Home a Heartache" 10. "Tara" 11. "The Main Thing" 12. "Dance Away" 13. "My Only Love" 14. "More Than This" 15. "Avalon" 16. "Same Old Scene" 17. "Love Is the Drug" 18. "Do the Strand" 19. "Editions of You" 20. Jealous Guy" (John Lennon cover)

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Roxy Music enchants longtime fans at first Austin concert in 46 years

English band Roxy Music made records for just 11 years, releasing eight albums between 1972 and 1982. But those records, which artfully blended elements of glam-rock, jazz, punk and more with a distinct style and flair, influenced a lot of artists in the decades ahead, enough to warrant their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2019.

Notable anniversaries have sparked reunions in the 21st century, starting with a 30th-anniversary tour in 2001 that nearly led to a new Roxy Music album. (The sessions featuring several band members ultimately were released as part of frontman Bryan Ferry's 2010 solo album "Olympia.") After a string of 40th-anniversary concerts in 2011, the group went dormant again. But the 50th anniversary of its self-titled debut album brought about a 13-date tour that included Roxy Music's first Austin concert since a 1976 appearance at Armadillo World Headquarters.

Ferry has played Austin twice in the past five years, both times at ACL Live, and it's possible that venue would have been a better choice for Wednesday's concert at the University of Texas' new Moody Center . Of the 10 concerts I've reviewed so far at the arena, which opened in April, this was the first in which the upper-deck seats were blocked off by panels designed to reduce attendance at UT basketball games. Floor seating was mostly full, but lower-level sections on the sides had lots of empty seats, and online resellers were dumping tickets for less than $10 earlier this week.

Attendance onstage was bountiful, though: Longtime members Ferry (on vocals and keyboards), Phil Manzanera (guitar), Andy Mackay (saxophone and oboe) and Paul Thompson (drums) brought nine more musicians with them, allowing the band to stretch out its broad sonic palette. The sophistication of their sound sometimes got lost in an arena partly designed for sports, while a towering video display behind the stage often felt too big for the occasion.

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But the music itself was mesmerizing. Though Ferry's cool-tempered yet melodious croon is at the center of the songs, more often than not the real driver is the instrumental interplay between Manzanera's inventive guitar leads and Mackay's splendid saxophone and oboe solos. Additional keyboards, horns, guitars, a second drummer and a three-piece backing-vocal section further enhanced the presentation of songs that drew from nearly all the band's studio albums.

The focus was mainly on the first two and last two records, including six tracks from he band's 1982 swan song "Avalon." The lone Roxy Music album to go platinum in the United States, it featured several tunes that came to define the group, most notably the title track and "More Than This." Those two were played back-to-back as the band hit the home stretch of its 100-minute set, following them with the rocked-up "Love Is the Drug," the group's highest-charting single in 1975.

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The first half of the show featured more songs from the band's early years, including the first three songs on the band's 1972 debut album. Its first track, "Re-Make/Re-Model," opened the concert with a blast of energy that assured the younger side musicians would help kick things up a notch for the seventy-something core members.

Other highlights included "Dance Away," which, true to its title, got people in the audience dancing; "Oh Yeah" from 1980's "Flesh and Blood," which featured jumbotron images of drive-in theaters to supplement its car-centric lyrics; and a brilliant closing cover of John Lennon's "Jealous Guy" that topped the British and Australian charts in 1981 when Roxy Music released it after Lennon's death.

No small bonus for concertgoers was opening act St. Vincent, featuring Dallas-raised singer-songwriter Annie Clark and her seven-piece band. A veteran of "Austin City Limits" TV tapings and ACL Fest performances, St. Vincent is nothing if not eclectic. In a nine-song set, the group drew heavily from funk rhythms, with blasts of radiant pop bursting forth at times.

Clark ventured onto the arena during the song "New York," mingling up-close with concertgoers as she continued singing. A telling moment came at the end of her last song, "The Melting of the Sun": Gradually, she brought all her bandmates up to the front of the stage with her, until they all sang the last lines together a cappella. And then Clark disappeared, giving the final spotlight to her fellow musicians.

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Roxy Music setlist Sept. 21 at Austin's Moody Center

1. "Re-Make/Re-Model"

2. "Out of the Blue"

3. "The Bogus Man"

4. "The Main Thing"

5. "Ladytron"

6. "While My Heart Is Still Beating"

7. "Oh Yeah"

8. "If There Is Something"

9. "In Every Dream Home a Heartache"

11. "My Only Love"

12. "To Turn You On"

13. "Dance Away"

14. "Same Old Scene"

15. "More Than This"

16. "Avalon"

17. "Love Is the Drug"

18. "Editions of You"

19. "Do the Strand"

20. "Jealous Guy"

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