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Record Collector AUGUST 2024 - by Chris Roberts

ROXY MUSIC: LIVE AT THE BBC AND BEYOND 1972-73

Exhilarating captures of tenderfoot glam-rockers bursting into life

The sound quality's not flawless, but the important stuff is. The young Roxy, with Ferry and Eno in step, fire out their danceable solution to teenage revolution. As glam as they were prog, as punky as they were pop, the band's arrival was a landmark in British music history. Feted as they became, their importance was overshadowed by Ziggy in 1972-73. Here's a chance to hear how hungry and ambitious they were then - both for success and to stretch the "rock band" format. BBC sessions (Peel, In Concert) and a German TV slot race and shimmy through songs from the first two albums. And also Pyjamarama, here presented with more patience and suspense than on the single. A rhapsody divine.