Roxy Music were introduced to me by a friend Peter Joyce back in Blackburn in the early seventies. I loved the front cover of Roxy Music, their first album but when I looked at the gatefold inner sleeve I thought they were just playing glam dress ups and didn't hold a candle to the style of Bowie.
But I really got into that album and then absolutely loved the second album "For Your Pleasure". I realised they were so much more than glam. In 1975 they came to Melbourne and played Festival hall to an audience of around 400 people. I was enjoying the concert and it was full of magic moments but it was when this song came on that it was like an electric charge went through me. I was just tingling all over. Totally gobsmacked by the power of it. Never knew that music could hit you so hard. A pure rock and roll moment.
Every time I hear this song it takes me back to that wonderful night.
Many years later Roxy Music came back to Melbourne and they played all the old songs but this time there were thousands watching at the Rod laver Arena. Some of the audience were a bit disgruntled when they played all the old stuff and no Ferry solo stuff but for some of us it was a gift from heaven.
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