Roxy Music, one of the most influential and exhilarating music acts in history, will tour for the first time in more than a decade to mark the 50th year since their groundbreaking debut album.

Bryan Ferry, Andy Mackay, Phil Manzanera and Paul Thompson, together on stage for the first time since their sold-out and critically acclaimed 2011 For Your Pleasure tour, will perform 13 arena shows across North America and the UK, beginning September 7th, 2022 in Toronto at the Scotiabank Arena.

Stranded, the third long playing outing from Roxy Music, not only gave the band their first No. 1 album in the UK but was also the first to come to the wider attention of US audiences.

An incredibly accomplished and consistent collection of songs Stranded thrills from start to finish – from the definitive album opener (and hit single) ‘Street Life’ to the affecting ballad ‘Just like You’, the smoldering ‘Song For Europe’ and the epic (and one of the all-time great Bryan Ferry compositions) ‘Mother Of Pearl’.

From its Antony Price-styled sleeve in, Stranded is nothing short of a musical hothouse, brim-full of color, drama and exotica.

To mark the 50th anniversary of Roxy Music Stranded has been given a fresh Half-Speed cut by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios in London while the album artwork has been similarly revised with lyrics and a deluxe gloss laminated finish.

Indeed each Roxy Music album has been reissued with a fresh Half-Speed cut by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios, London. To reflect the audio, all eight of the Roxy Music studio albums have had their artwork revised and with the aforementioned gloss laminated finish so that each album is not just a record, it’s a piece of art.

180g Vinyl LP! Remastered & Cut Half-Speed From Original 1/4" Tapes by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios!

Side A:
1. Street Life
2. Just Like You
3. Amazona
4. Psalm

Side B:
1. Serenade
2. A Song For Europe
3. Mother Of Pearl
4. Sunset

The Ferry - Eno relationship grew increasingly quarrelsome during the making of For Your Pleasure, with Eno complaining about Ferry’s desire for glamor when the latter was sometimes fed up with Eno’s systematic struggle to add strangeness.

The music press turned these creative tensions into an ego rivalry, and in the end, Eno left Ferry’s band. Ultimately, this was good for both Roxy and Eno’s own career.

In Stranded, Eno’s relentless experimentation spirit is still present as a legacy, and it’s Roxy’s most coherent and tasty album, full of stellar musicianship, emotions and surprises. Indeed, for my money, Stranded has the best songwriting of all Roxy albums, Ferry inviting Manzanera and Mackay to contribute to great results.

It’s still an art-Rock album, but was their first (and only during the seventies) to top the UK charts and this without an ultra-commercial single such as “Love is the Drug” later.

Did I mention I absolutely love this album? OK, well, I LOVE it. I’m never tired of Stranded. Every time I listen to it, I cannot do something else at the same time, for it completely captures my attention and life is vibrating with grace. Not one song is less than magical.

In summary, from the frenetic lead track Street Life and the opening section of the glorious Mother Of Pearl, Roxy Music’s third album is a more subdued affair than its predecessors, with Bryan Ferry’s world-weary romanticist persona magnificently stepping to the fore.

Still brimming with gorgeous sonic flourishes, this set of songs is their strongest yet - not only somewhat more accessible but more fully formed. There is real beauty here, and Ferry’s phrasing, while still offbeat, doesn’t have the forced eccentricity of earlier efforts.

The tour will make stops across the U.S. including such landmark venues as New York’s Madison Square Garden and The Forum in Los Angeles before culminating with a performance at the O2 Arena in London. Tickets for the Live Nation produced North American shows will go on sale Monday, April 4th, 2022 (10am local time) at www.ticketmaster.com.

Artist presale starts Tuesday, March 29th, 2022 (10am local time) until Friday, April 1st, 2022 (5pm local time).

Roxy Music will offer several VIP packages for each show that include premium tickets, access to the pre-show VIP lounge, limited edition merchandise and more.

Package contents vary based on offer selected. Fans can visit www.VIPNation.com for more information.

Very special guest St. Vincent will be appearing on all North American shows (*except Boston). Since making her recorded debut as St. Vincent in 2007, Annie Clark has consistently been regarded as one of the most innovative and fascinating presences in modern music, continually reinventing her unique sounds and personae—and winning two GRAMMY Awards in the process.

Most recently, St. Vincent channeled the hungover glamour and gritty sepia-toned soundtrack of 1970s downtown NYC into the triumphant Daddy’s Home, released in May 2021 to universal acclaim. Outside of recording and performing, St. Vincent has designed her own Ernie Ball Signature guitar, and co-written and starred as a fictionalized version of herself in the upcoming film The Nowhere Inn.

2022 marks a year of celebration for Roxy Music. Throughout the year, each of their eight studio albums, all heralded as modern classics, will be reissued as special anniversary editions with a new half-speed cut, revised artwork and a deluxe gloss laminated finish.

The first two LPs, Roxy Music and For Your Pleasure, will be released on April 1st, 2022, with the remaining albums arriving in paired drops throughout the year.

Since their formation in 1972, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees, Roxy Music have left an indelible mark on the worlds of music, fashion and art, merging the three with a singular and astonishing vision that brought them immediate, global success.

Today they are regarded as one of the most influential bands of all time, whose work has inspired generations of musicians. Intense, emotive, and clever, with iconic graphics, Roxy Music’s eight studio albums birthed the art-rock movement, blurring the lines between genres and infusing a new kind of glamour into rock music for the first time.

NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES:
09/07 - Scotiabank Arena - Toronto, ON
09/09 - Capital One Arena - Washington, DC
09/12 - Madison Square Garden - New York City, NY
09/15 - Wells Fargo Center - Philadelphia, PA
09/17 - TD Garden - Boston, MA*
09/19 - United Center - Chicago, IL
09/21 - Moody Center - Austin, TX 09/26 - Chase Center - San Francisco, CA
09/28 - The Forum - Los Angeles, CA

UK TOUR DATES:
Oct 10 - OVO Hydro - Glasgow, UK
Oct 12 - AO Arena - Manchester, UK
Oct 14 - The O2 - London, UK

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