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Feb 01, 2021 07:33pm
<p><strong style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">Roxy Music</strong><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"> was an English </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_music" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">rock</a><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"> band formed in 1970 by </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_Ferry" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Bryan Ferry</a><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">—who became the band's lead singer and main songwriter—and bass guitarist </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Simpson_(musician)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Graham Simpson</a><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">. The other longtime members were </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Manzanera" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Phil Manzanera</a><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"> (guitar), </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Mackay" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Andy Mackay</a><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"> (saxophone and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oboe" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">oboe</a><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">), and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Thompson_(musician)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Paul Thompson</a><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"> (drums and percussion). Other members included </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Eno" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Brian Eno</a><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"> (synthesizer and 'treatments'), </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Jobson" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Eddie Jobson</a><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"> (synthesizer and violin), and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gustafson_(musician)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">John Gustafson</a><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"> (bass). Although the band took a break from group activities in 1976 and again in 1983, they reunited for a concert tour in 2001, and toured together intermittently over the next few years. Ferry frequently enlisted band members as session musicians for his solo releases.</span></p>