Roxy Music: For Your Pleasure

A UK Top 5 album upon original release, For Your Pleasure is the second studio album by Roxy Music. Commercially even more successful than their debut album, it cemented Roxy's position as one of the UK’s most inventive rock bands and is widely seen as both their definitive album and as one of the greatest art-rock/glam-rock albums of all time.

Originally released on 23 March 1973 by Island Records, the album expands on the experimental nature of their self-titled debut, featuring more elaborate production and experimentation. It was their last album to feature synthesiser player Brian Eno.

Bryan Ferry has curated both the music and visual content for this reissue.

Across multiple formats this reissue combines the original album with previously unheard and rare audio and AV material from the time of the album’s release as well as 'Pyjamarama' (b/w 'The Pride And The Pain'), a UK Top Ten hit issued between the debut album and For Your Pleasure.

The super deluxe includes previously unheard home recordings from Bryan Ferry, band rehearsals & studio outtakes, live sessions, singles & instrumentals and TV & 14 live performances from the BBC and German + Swiss TV.

All packages feature an essay and unseen photos with the super deluxe book as the ultimate compendium on the album featuring a 7000-word essay by Damien Love on the making of the album (based on new interviews with band members, producers and the team behind the artwork), a 2500-word essay by Michael Bracewell on the significance of the album and an essay from Nick de Ville on Roxy’s visual world.

It also includes many rare and unpublished photographs, original marketing materials (including press materials from original Roxy publicist Simon Puxley), lyrics and work-in-progress lyric notes by Bryan Ferry, tape scans, tour dates, album chronology.

“The pinnacle of English art rock"NME

Acclaim for the original album

“A dazzling, if deliberately disorienting, follow-up…”Rolling Stone
“A staggeringly fine piece of work, easily outstripping the first album.”NME
“Pushes glam rock into genuinely avant-garde territory … Roxy’s best album.”Pitchfork
“Arguably their most adventurous and uncompromising album.”AllMusic
"(The only) truly great British album"Morrissey

Best of accolades

500 Greatest Albums of All Time - NME + Rolling Stone
Top 100 Albums of the 1970s - Pitchfork
100 Greatest British Albums Ever - Q
(One of the) 10 glam rock albums you should definitely own - Classic Rock

3CD+1DVD Super Deluxe

Includes the original album, singles and instrumentals; unheard songwriting demos, rehearsals and live sessions; TV and live performances from 1972–1973; plus a 116-page book with new essays and rare photography.

2CD Deluxe

The original album plus AIR Studios outtakes, singles and BBC sessions, presented in a hardcover digibook with a new essay and unseen images.

2LP Black Vinyl

The original album plus AIR Studios outtakes on 140g black vinyl in a gatefold sleeve.

Bryan Ferry – vocals and keyboards (and guitar on demos)
Andy Mackay – Oboe and saxophone
Brian Eno – Synthesiser and tapes
Paul Thompson – Drums
Phil Manzanera – Guitar
John Porter – Bass
Graham Simpson – Bass (Grey Lagoons 1971 demo)
Dexter Lloyd – Drums (Grey Lagoons 1971 demo)
Roger Bunn – Guitar (Grey Lagoons 1971 demo)
Rik Kenton – Bass (Grey Lagoons Paris Theatre 1972, For Your Pleasure Peel sessions 1972
Producers - Chris Thomas & Roxy Music
Engineers – John Middleton and John Punter
Additional engineering – Bill Price, Steve Nye, Denny Bridges
Additional production – John Anthony
Compiled by Rhett Davies, Bryan Ferry, James Garzke, Simon Willey and Matthew Miller at Studio One
Essays by Damien Love, Nick de Ville & Michael Bracewell
2026 instrumentals mixed by Bob Clearmountain with Rhett Davies at Mix This, assistant mix engineer Ira Becker
Disc one mastered by Bob Ludwig at Gateway mastering
Disc two and three mastered by John Webber at Air Studios
Photography by Brian Cooke, Ian Dickson, Gijsbert Hanekroot, Alan Messer, Jeffrey Meyer, Michael Ochs, Terry O'Neill, Michael Putland, Tony Sapiano, Terrence Sims, Karl Stoecker, Claude Vanheye, Barrie Wentzell
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