Roxy Music's first two albums to get new reissues on vinyl in April

Roxy Music will reissue its first two albums, Roxy Music and For Your Pleasure, on April 1 via Virgin/UMe. The LPs are half-speed masters done at Abbey Road Studios by engineer Miles Showell.

Roxy Music (1972) was the band’s debut album. It peaked at #10 in the UK Albums Chart and includes fan favorites like "Ladytron," "If There is Something" and "Re-Make/Re-Model." 

In 2018, a press release for a box set reissue centered on the eponymous debut had comments from several band members about it.

Guitarist Phil Manzanera said, “At 21, my musical dreams came true, recording this album with these wonderfully talented and unique band members. Magical times, magical music."

Saxophonist Andy Mackay recalled that “late 71/72 Roxy was our Arts Lab. The place where we exchanged ideas and dreams freely and created and explored a new sound landscape. We stepped into Command studios with a complete album in our heads (and half the next one) and it only needed the tape to start running…no album was as easy to record again."

Drummer Paul Thompson added, “The first Roxy Music album was my opportunity to create. I wasn't used to this type of line-up, I was used to being in guitar-based bands but always wanted to broaden my horizons and here was my chance. A landmark in the history of pop."

Singer Bryan Ferry noted, “We never really felt accepted, I can see how the old guard would have felt threatened by it, because it was so jammed full of ideas and a massive amount of energy. But we hadn’t paid our dues, not in the same way. And we’re still not a part of it, not really, even to this day. That’s been very hard over the years, to try and make it work without being one of them. The ‘them’ is always different, but we’re not part of it. It’s been one of the triumphs, that we’ve managed to stay sane. Or sane-ish. We’re a part of it all, somehow, but still on the outside.”

For Your Pleasure (1973) saw Brian Eno’s exit but not before the album came in at #4 on the UK Albums chart. The first album with producer Chris Thomas, it included the popular "Do the Strand" and “In Every Dream Home a Heartache.” Dame Judi Dench provides a spoken word couplet of “You don’t ask. You don’t ask why” on the title track “For Your Pleasure."