Roxy Music: Glamour, Experiment, and the Art of Seduction

When Roxy Music appeared in 1972, they seemed less like a band than a cultural apparition. Emerging from Britain’s art school ferment, they fused glam rock’s theatricality with avant-garde experimentation, crafting a vision of music as both spectacle and intellectual provocation. Bryan Ferry, the band’s frontman, did not simply sing—he crooned with a studied detachment,Continue reading “Roxy Music: Glamour, Experiment, and the Art of Seduction”