Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
He made his way to London with a position at Goldsmiths in 1971. He was responsible for the first Roxy Music album cover (1972), using the fashion photographer Karl Stoecker, also for subsequent covers, and became the band's art director. [11] [18] [19]
Roxy Music are an English rock band formed in 1970 by lead vocalist and principal songwriter Bryan Ferry and bassist Graham Simpson.By the time the band recorded their first album in 1972, Ferry and Simpson were joined by saxophonist and oboist Andy Mackay, guitarist Phil Manzanera, drummer Paul Thompson and synthesizer player Brian Eno.
Roxy Music, particularly the album's LP incarnation, has been released in different packages over the years. The album's original cover, as issued in 1972 by Island Records, featured a gatefold sleeve picturing the band (including original bass guitarist Graham Simpson) in stage attire designed by Antony Price, [5] and did not include the track "Virginia Plain".
Lear has been briefly engaged to Bryan Ferry of Roxy Music [86] and was famously depicted posing in a skintight leather dress leading a black panther on a leash on the cover of the band's art rock album For Your Pleasure, released in March 1973, [87] an image that has been described as "as famous as the album itself". [88]
The art-rock pioneers play the Kia Forum on Wednesday, part of their first U.S. tour in two decades. 'Time flies when you're having fun,' says Bryan Ferry. 50 years ago, Roxy Music invented rock's ...
Antony Price is an English fashion designer best known for evening wear and suits, and for being as much an "image-maker" as a designer. [1] He has collaborated with a number of high-profile musicians, including David Bowie, Robert Palmer, Iva Davies, [2] Steve Strange, and Duran Duran, but especially Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music, whose look was defined by Price's designs.
[29] Ferry would continue art-directing each Roxy Music album cover to follow. Ferry began a parallel solo career in 1973, performing cover versions of old standards on his debut studio album These Foolish Things (1973) and his second album Another Time, Another Place (1974), both of which reached the UK top 5. [ 8 ]
The diesel locomotive featured on the cover art is an EMD E9. Unlike other solo albums issued by an instrumental member of an existing band (Manzanera was Roxy Music's lead guitarist), Diamond Head, featured a number of songs, sung by guest musicians. With the exception of Bryan Ferry, all members of Roxy Music feature on the album.