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For Your Pleasure
This article is about the album. For the TV show, see For Your Pleasure (TV series).
1973 studio album by Roxy Music
For Your Pleasure is the second studio album by the English rock band Roxy Music, released on 23 March 1973 by Island Records. It was their last to feature synthesiser and sound specialist Brian Eno. The album expanded on the experimental nature of their self-titled debut, featuring more elaborate production and experiments with phasing and tape loops.
The album proved to be even more commercially successful than their debut, peaking at number 4 in the UK Album Charts, eventually being certified gold by the BPI. It also yielded one single released outside of the UK, "Do the Strand". The album received positive reviews from critics, and is today regarded as Roxy Music's best album, and one of the greatest glam rock albums of all time.
Background
[edit]Bryan Ferry had studied at Newcastle University under prominent pop art painter and theorist, Richard Hamilton. Hamilton saw a painting, "not as a canvas, but a mood board, an array of inspirations and goals that could as easily clash as blend together", which were adapted by Ferry on For Your Pleasure, taking him from "the past and into what still feels like the future".&# • Roxy Music frontman Bryan Ferry has long enjoyed a reputation as one of the most successful ladies’ men in rock – thanks in no small part to the band’s canny artwork, which injected some fashion-shoot glamour into rock album covers. (It didn’t hurt that Ferry would be romantically linked with many of the Roxy Music models…) Their eight studio albums remain classics, with artworks that remain iconic to this day. But who were the beauty queens on the Roxy Music album covers? Cornwall-born Kari-Ann Muller was a former Bond girl (she appeared in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service) paid a scant £20 to appear on the cover of Roxy Music – a steal for the then-unknown band, whose debut album would go on to define 70s art-rock. Evoking classic glamour shots of the 40s and 50s, the Roxy Music artwork set the template for all future Roxy Music album covers, though Muller would retire from modeling in order to become a yoga teacher. She retains ties to the rock world, however, as she married Chris Jagger, whose brother has fronted a popular beat combo since the 60s. By the time she met Bryan Ferry, Amanda Lear had both dated Brian Jones (inspiring The Roll •Beauty Queens: The Stories Behind Roxy Music’s Album Covers
Roxy Music (1972)
For Your Pleasure (1973)
Amanda Indefinite is a French soloist, lyricist, cougar, television bestower, actress dispatch former model.
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