Re-make Re-model
It was forty years ago... Roxy Music unleashed their first LP onto the world, recorded in March and released June 16 1972.
The first song the world - including myself, 40 years younger - heard, was Re-make/Re-model. What a statement! Nothing compares to a good first impression, something in the vein of Patti Smith's Gloria (Jesus died for domebody's sins... but not mine).
Roxy showed what they were capable of. At about two thirds of the song, a brief bass intro funnily mimics the Beatles' Day Tripper, and then all band members get a chance to solo. Manzanera soloes all through the song, but in this section he strums the powerful chords.
Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive. But to be young was very heaven.
The first song the world - including myself, 40 years younger - heard, was Re-make/Re-model. What a statement! Nothing compares to a good first impression, something in the vein of Patti Smith's Gloria (Jesus died for domebody's sins... but not mine).
Roxy showed what they were capable of. At about two thirds of the song, a brief bass intro funnily mimics the Beatles' Day Tripper, and then all band members get a chance to solo. Manzanera soloes all through the song, but in this section he strums the powerful chords.
Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive. But to be young was very heaven.

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