ALBUMS THAT SHOULD EXIST : Roxy Music BBC Sessions 72-73

Roxy Music - BBC Sessions, Volume 3: 1972-1973

Here's a third album of Roxy Music performing for the BBC. This is an album of studio sessions.

The first two songs are from a July 1972 studio session. The first song, "Virginia Plain," made it onto a super deluxe edition of the band's debut album, "Roxy Music." But the second song, "If There Is Something," remains unreleased. It's quite a long song, about 12 and a half minutes long.

All the remaining songs are unreleased. "For Your Pleasure" is from the BBC TV show "Full House." The next three are from a March 1973 studio session. The final song, "In Every Dream Home a Heartache," was performed on the "Old Grey Whistle Test" BBC TV show.

Unfortunately, it seems Roxy Music stopped doing BBC studio sessions or TV appearances after this. However, they still did some BBC concerts much later, which I plan on posting here.

This album is 36 minutes long. 

This album is 36 minutes long. 

01 Virginia Plain 
02 If There Is Something 
03 For Your Pleasure
04 Editions of You 
05 Do the Strand 
06 Pyjamarama 
07 In Every Dream Home a Heartache 

By this time Brian Eno had left to go on to bigger and better things and Ferry was slotted into his fifties wobbly voiced crooner schtick that not everyone was taken with. The excellent musicians particularly Manzanera and Mackay were to do solo work but never appreciated to join forces so strongly ever after this. Shame but hey, watcha gonna do! 

Roxy Music BBC Peel Sessions Vol 1 1972 (feat. Brian Eno) | Albums That Should Exist

Roxy Music - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: 1972

Paul says : I have so many hundreds of albums I want to post that it can feel overwhelming. For instance, I have five BBC albums by Roxy Music and another three by their lead singer Bryan Ferry. I just need time to make the cover art and write the write-up. Anyway, I've been sitting on this for ages; it's about time I post it. This is an album of BBC studio sessions by Roxy Music from their first year of success, 1972.

This album consists of two studio sessions, both hosted by BBC DJ John Peel. The first one, consisting of the first five songs here, took place in January 1972. The second one, consisting of the last four songs, took place in May 1972. All but the last song was officially released as part of the "super deluxe edition" of the band's debut album, "Roxy Music."

These sessions came very early in the band's career. Their first public concerts took place in December 1971, yet they were playing for the BBC less than a month later! Even the second session here took place a month before the band released their debut album in June 1972. Not surprisingly, the songs mostly come from that album.

The band's line-up was somewhat in flux during this time. For instance, guitarist David O'List played on the January 1972 BBC session here, but was replaced by Phil Manzanera a month later. Brian Eno was the keyboardist for all of this, even though he wouldn't stay in the band for long.

This album is 45 minutes long.

01 If There Is Something (Roxy Music)
02 The Bob [Medley] (Roxy Music)
03 Would You Believe (Roxy Music)
04 Sea Breezes (Roxy Music)
05 Re-Make-Re-Model (Roxy Music)
06 2HB (Roxy Music)
07 Ladytron (Roxy Music)
08 Chance Meeting (Roxy Music)
09 Bitter End (Roxy Music)

This is great and really high quality! No better live album . . . .