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Roxy Music

With roots in Britain's Glam and Art Rock movements, Roxy Music's flamboyant mix of pop hooks and avant-garde adventurousness has exercised a significant influence on multiple generations of bands, who emulated Roxy Music's distinctive sound as well as its glamorous pop-art sensibility. The band’s influence ran particularly deep among bands associated with the New Wave movement of the late 70s and early 80s, especially “New Romantic” acts such as Spandau Ballet and Ultravox. The band's 1972 debut, Roxy Music, and its followup, For Your Pleasure, were driven largely by the creative tension between suave singer Bryan Ferry and experimentally inclined...