ROXY MUSIC "FOR YOUR PLEASURE" 1973 WARNER BROS. VG+/VG+ RARE WHITE LABEL PROMO

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ARTISTS: ROXY MUSIC

TITLE: “FOR YOUR PLEASURE:THE SECOND ROXY MUSIC ALBUM)” WHITE LABEL PROMO

TRACK LISTING (SEE PHOTOS & BELOW):

A1

Do The Strand

4:00

A2

Beauty Queen

4:35

A3

Strictly Confidential

3:42

A4

Editions Of You

3:40

A5

In Every Dream Home A Heartache

4:25

B1

The Bogus Man

9:22

B2

Grey Lagoons

4:11

B3

For Your Pleasure

6:58

Credits

• Arranged By – Roxy Music

• Bass [Guest Artiste] – John Porter

• Composed By, Lyrics By, Voice, Keyboards – Bryan Ferry

• Drums – Paul Thompson (2)

• Engineer – John Middleton, John Punter

• Guitar – Phil Manzanera

• Oboe, Saxophone – Andrew Mackay*

• Other [Cover Model] – Amanda Lear

• Producer – Chris Thomas, Roxy Music

• Synthesizer, Tape – Eno*

Notes

Recorded at AIR Studios
London, February 1973

Sticker PROMOTIONAL COPY - NOT FOR SALE
White Label

LABEL: WARNER BROS. RECORDS

CAT. #: BS 2696

YEAR: 1973

RECORD CONDITION:THE RECORD IS IN VG/VG- CONDITION. NO VISIBLE WEAR,SCRATCHES, LINES ETC. NICE SHINEY LUSTER TO THE VINYL. THE LABELS ARE IN EXCELLENT CONDITION. LIGHT BACKGROUND AUDIO BETWEEN THE TRACKS. THE SONGS SOUND & PLAY VERY CLEAN. THERE IS LIGHT BACKGROUND AUDIO HEARD ON THE LEAD IN GROOVES, MAINLY SIDE 2, AND LIGHT BACKGROUND AUDIO, NO POP/CLICKS THAT I HEARD,NO SKIPS, SONGS PLAY VERY CLEAN, THERE'S A SMALL SPOT ON THE SIDE 2 LABLE WHERE A PRICE STICKER WAS LIFTED.

JACKET CONDITION: THE JACKET IS IN VG CONDITION. STRAIGHT EDGES, NO TEARS, WRINKLES, NO WRITING OR MARKS, OR SEAM SPLITS, ETC.ETC...ORIGINAL GATEFOLD JACKET, THERE IS LIGHT OBVIOUS RING WEAR, FRONT & BACK (SEE PHOTOS) AND THERE'S A COUPLE OF SPOTS ON THE EDGES THAT SHOW LIGHT WEAR.

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Roxy Music were an English rock band that were formed in 1970 by Bryan Ferry–who became the band's lead singer and main songwriter–and bass guitarist Graham Simpson. Alongside Ferry, the other longtime members were Phil Manzanera (guitar), Andy Mackay (saxophone and oboe), and Paul Thompson (drums and percussion). Other members included Brian Eno (synthesizer and "treatments"), Eddie Jobson (synthesizer and violin), and John Gustafson (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 between that time and their break-up in 2011. Ferry frequently enlisted members of Roxy Music as session musicians for his solo releases.

Roxy Music became a successful act in Europe and Australia during the 1970s. This success began with their self-titled debut album, Roxy Music (1972).The band pioneered more musically sophisticated elements of glam rock while significantly influencing early English punk music,and provided a model for many new wave acts while innovating elements of electronic composition. The group also distinguished their visual and musical sophistication through a preoccupation with glamorous fashions. Ferry and co-founding member Eno have had influential solo careers. The latter became one of Britain's most significant record producers of the late 20th century. Rolling Stone Magazine ranked Roxy Music No. 98 on its "The Immortals – 100 The Greatest Artists of All Time" list, though it dropped the group from its updated list in 2011.

The band's final studio album was Avalon (1982), which became platinum-certified in the United States.In 2005 the band began recording a new studio album, which would have been their ninth, and would have been their first record since 1973 with Brian Eno, who wrote two songs for it and also played keyboards.However, Bryan Ferry eventually confirmed that material from these sessions would be released as a Ferry solo album, with Eno playing on "a couple of tracks",[and that he does not think they will ever record as Roxy Music again.The album ultimately became Ferry's 2010 solo album Olympia, which featured contributions from Eno, Manzanera and Mackay (amongst many other session players.)

Roxy Music played a series of 40th anniversary shows in 2011, but has since become inactive as a performing entity.In 2019, Roxy Music were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

For Your Pleasure is the second album by the English rock band Roxy Music, released by Island Records in 1973. It was their last to feature synthesiser and sound specialist Brian Eno, who would later gain acclaim as a solo artist and producer.

Production

The group was able to spend more studio time on this album than on their debut, combining strong song material by Bryan Ferry with more elaborate production treatments. For example, the song "In Every Dream Home a Heartache" (Ferry's sinister ode to a blow-up doll) fades out in its closing section, only to fade in again with all the instruments subjected to a pronounced phasing treatment. The title track fades out in an elaborate blend of tape loop effects. Brian Eno remarked that the eerie "The Bogus Man", with lyrics about a sexual stalker, displayed similarities with contemporary material by the krautrock group Can.

Of the more upbeat numbers on the album, "Do the Strand" and "Editions of You" were both based around insistent rhythms in the tradition of the band's first single "Virginia Plain". "Do the Strand" has been called the archetypal Roxy Music anthem, whilst "Editions of You" was notable for a series of ear-catching solos by Andy Mackay (saxophone), Eno (VCS3), and Phil Manzanera (guitar).

Eno is very present in the final song from the album, "For Your Pleasure" making it unlike any other song on the album. The song ends with the voice of Judi Dench saying "You don't ask. You don't ask why" amid tapes of the opening vocals ('Well, how are you?') from "Chance Meeting" from the first Roxy Music album. A live recording of the song has been used in 1975 as a B-side to "Both Ends Burning".

The original UK LP cover credits "Produced by Chris Thomas and Roxy Music" for the entire album, but only the side one label repeats that; the side two label credits "Produced by John Anthony and Roxy Music." Various foreign editions and reissues have confused the matter with random variations.

Promotion

As with the debut Roxy Music album, no UK singles were lifted from For Your Pleasure upon its initial release. A non-album single "Pyjamarama" b/w "The Pride and the Pain", was issued in advance of the album in Britain, making #10. "Do the Strand" b/w "Editions of You" was released as a single in the US and Europe; it was finally issued as a UK single in 1978 to promote Roxy's Greatest Hits album, released in December the previous year.

The cover photo, taken by Karl Stoecker, featured Bryan Ferry's girlfriend at the time, singer and model Amanda Lear, who later became Salvador Dalí's muse. Original pressings of the album (by Island Records in the UK, and Warner Bros. Records in the US), featured a gatefold sleeve picturing all five band members posing with guitars. 

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