The Thrill Of It All - The Story of Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music: David Buckley

Roxy Music were the first, and best, of all art school-influenced bands. Led by Bryan Ferry, the hippest Geordie in town, they kicked against the denim-clad anonymity of the early ‘70s and turned the first half of the decade into a huge glam rock party. Aided and abetted by Brian Eno, Ferry dreamt up an extraordinary kaleidoscopic music that appealed to outsiders everywhere. He also fell passionately in love with model Jerry Hall – an affair that ended sadly, and publicly, when she left him for Mick Jagger. The mid-‘70s saw rows and band splits before Roxy reformed as a slick, sophisticated, lounge-disco concern before finally imploding, after a successful US tour, in 1983. Ground-breaking, bizarre and thrillingly visceral, Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music are a very British success story and an extraordinary, experimental pleasure. British rock has never before seen their like: nor, indeed, has it since. This book is their definitive history.  Illustrated.

1st edition Andre Deutsch 2004; hardback; dust jacket is not price clipped - tear repaired (see gallery photo); otherwise good; scarce title in hardback.