Roxy Music reissue news

Roxy Music's second album For Your Pleasure will see a newly expanded version on November 6 via UMR/Island/EMI Records. 

Originally released in 1973, For Your Pleasure charted in the UK Top 5, went gold there and spawned the live and fan fave "Do the Strand."  

Unheard studio recordings, songwriting sketches, rehearsals, outtakes, live sessions and rare unseen performances make up the 2026 edition of For Your Pleasure. The original begged the question Bryan Ferry, Phil Manzanera, Andy Mackay, Brian Eno and Paul Thompson faced: how do you follow a debut album like Roxy Music?

Bryan Ferry remembers: “It was a good pressure. Realising, now there’s an audience to write for. An intelligent audience. I felt a responsibility for the work that I hadn’t for the first album, certainly with regard to the lyrics. There was a hunger in the whole band to do more: a very strong urge to get back into a recording studio and make a better record than the first one. Nick de Ville had a cottage in Derbyshire, and offered to let me have it for a few days. So I went up there with the sole purpose of writing songs. I had this great little Renault 4, and I filled the car with stuff: keyboards, a guitar, an amp, tape recorders, pads of paper and pens. I remember driving up in this crammed car with its very interesting gear stick. The cottage was quite remote, out in the Derbyshire Dales – I had to call into some local farmer to get the key, then on up a track – and very basic. I must have taken provisions, because I couldn’t cook, but I was full of energy. I was completely alone out there, and just really focused on writing this stuff. I remember sheets of paper all over the floor, working on things like In Every Dream Home A Heartache and Editions Of You. Those few days in that cottage were crucial to the making of For Your Pleasure.”

Fragile cassettes Bryan Ferry recorded in Derbyshire, together with tapes made in his London flat, have survived. They will be released for the first time in more than 50 years as part of the For Your Pleasure 2026 edition. 

Released now for the first time, 'Grey Lagoons – 1971 Demo (original title: The Bogus Man Part 2)' is from the For Your Pleasure: Super Deluxe Edition. Recorded in the summer of 1971, the demo formed part of the homemade tape that first brought Roxy Music to the attention of the music press. 

The Super Deluxe Edition also premieres two additional unheard recordings of the song, 'Grey Lagoons - Air Studios Outtake' and 'Grey Lagoons - Live at Montreux, April 1973'. 

All surviving versions are officially available for the first time as part of the For Your Pleasure 2026 edition. Fans can hear the 1971 demo here.

The 2026 edition of For Your Pleasure will be available in a variety of formats including 2LP (Black vinyl, and in Blue Pearl Vinyl as a D2C Exclusive), 2CD, Digital, Blu-Ray, Dolby ATMOS, and as a 3CD+1DVD Super Deluxe Edition.

The 2CD Deluxe Edition includes the original album, plus AIR Studios outtakes, singles and BBC sessions, presented in a hardcover digibook with a new essay and unseen images.

The 2LP Vinyl edition features the original album, plus AIR Studios outtakes in a gatefold sleeve.

Pre-order via UMR/Island EMI here.

For Your Pleasure 3CD+DVD Super Deluxe Edition Track Listing:
Download Track Listing for 2LP, 2CD, Digital & Blu-Ray Formats Here.

CD1 – For Your Pleasure

1 Do The Strand
2 Beauty Queen
3 Strictly Confidential
4 Editions Of You
5 In Every Dream Home A Heartache
6 The Bogus Man
7 Grey Lagoons
8 For Your Pleasure

CD2 – Demos, Rehearsals & Studio Outtakes

1 Pyjamarama - guitar & vocal
2 Do The Strand - piano & vocal
3 Beauty Queen - tremolo piano
4 Beauty Queen - electric piano
5 Beauty Queen - piano & vocal
6 Strictly Confidential (segue into)
7 Editions Of You - electric piano
8 In Every Dream Home A Heartache - farfisa & guitar
9 In Every Dream Home A Heartache - tremolo guitar
10 For Your Pleasure - electric piano
11 Pyjamarama - Rehearsal 1973
12 Bogus Man - Rehearsal 1973
13 Grey Lagoons - 1971 Demo (Original title The Bogus Man Part 2)
14 Pyjamarama - AIR Studios outtake
15 Beauty Queen - AIR Studios outtake
16 Strictly Confidential - AIR Studios outtakes
17 Editions Of You - AIR Studios outtake
18 The Bogus Man - AIR Studios outtake
19 Grey Lagoons - AIR Studios outtake
20 For Your Pleasure - Eno tapes

CD3 – Live Sessions, Singles & Instrumentals

1 Grey Lagoons - BBC Paris Theatre (London) August 1972 (first live performance)
2 For Your Pleasure - Peel Sessions November 1972
3 Do The Strand - Peel Sessions March 1973
4 Editions Of You - Peel Sessions March 1973
5 Pyjamarama - Peel Sessions March 1973
6 In Every Dream Home A Heartache - Peel Sessions March 1973
7 Pyjamarama - A side single
8 The Pride And The Pain - B side single
9 Do The Strand - (instrumental)
10 Beauty Queen - (instrumental)
11 Strictly Confidential - (instrumental)
12 Editions Of You - (instrumental)
13 In Every Dream Home A Heartache - (instrumental)
14 The Bogus Man - (instrumental)
15 Grey Lagoons - (instrumental)
16 For Your Pleasure - (instrumental)

DVD – TV & Live Performances

1 Pyjamarama - Top of the Pops (lost tape)
2 For Your Pleasure - Full House November 1972
3 Grey Lagoons - Full House November 1972
4 Do The Strand - Old Grey Whistle Test April 1973
5 In Every Dream Home A Heartache - Old Grey Whistle Test April 1973
6 Do The Strand - Live at Montreux April 1973
7 Grey Lagoons - Live at Montreux April 1973
8 Beauty Queen - Live at Montreux April 1973
9 The Bogus Man - Live at Montreux April 1973
10 In Every Dream Home A Heartache - Live at Montreux April 1973
11 Editions Of You - Live at Montreux April 1973
12 Do The Strand - Musikladen 1973
13 Editions Of You - Musikladen 1973
14 In Every Dream Home A Heartache - Musikladen 1973