Roxy Music - The Stockholm Broadcast 1976 (CD)

From the early to mid-70s, Roxy Music reconfigured all notions of "pop music", introducing arch post-modernism to the mainstream with early hits such as 'Virginia Plain', from their self-titled debut album, before going on to fashion a unique strain of sophisticated art-rock with later albums, among them Stranded and Country Life. Recorded for broadcast while touring their fifth record, Siren, this 1976 performance is a greatest-hits set in all but name, the group running through highlights of their career to date - 'The Thrill of It All', 'Street Life' and, yes, 'Virginia Plain' - alongside covers of 'A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall' (Bob Dylan) and the 60s R&B classic 'The "In" Crowd', as reimagined for a new era by frontman Bryan Ferry, who had recorded the songs on his first and second solo albums, respectively.

Roxy Music would go on hiatus soon after, making Stockholm Broadcast a crucial snapshot of the band in their prime.

Tracklist

CD

• 1. Intro/MC Talk
• 2. The Thrill of It All
• 3. Mother of Pearl
• 4. Nightingale
• 5. Out of the Blue
• 6. Street Life
• 7. Diamond Head
• 8. Wild Weekend
• 9. The 'In' Crowd
• 10. Virginia Plain
• 11. A Hard Rain's A-gonna Fall
• 12. MC Talk Outro