I am also, it must be said, baffled as to just how it is that a band that started so strongly could have transformed themselves in the space of a decade into, well, the arch, faux-upper-crust British counterpart to American yacht-rock like Hall & Oates. But I like Roxy Music, and I especially like some of the music in this collection. I have no idea what they were thinking when they made this video - in all honesty, I don’t possess anything resembling an encyclopedic knowledge of Roxy Music lore. How did I get shanghaied to play in a wedding band?” You can see the guitarist, Phil Manzanera, silently asking with his eyes, “How the heck did I get here? I used to play rock and roll, dammit. There’s a strange moment somewhere during the video for Roxy Music’s “Avalon” when it seems as if the band has wandered onto the wrong soundstage, or at least the wrong career - everyone’s wearing tuxedos and decked to the nines with conservative haircuts and wry smirks.
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