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.

The first Roxy album to break the US Top 40, Country Life, demonstrated that, four records in, the band were every bit as hungry, audacious and pioneering as on their debut two years earlier.

Opening with the urgent, propulsive ‘The Thrill Of It All’, ‘Country Life’ effortlessly embraces avant-garde song structures, touching ballads, English nostalgia, visceral hard rock, European influences and even medieval Christian references without skipping a beat.

The resulting album is an yet another immensely satisfying musical experience - compared to their peers it’s almost frightening what sounds Roxy Music could perfect and make their own.

To mark the 50th anniversary of Roxy Music Country Life 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. The Thrill Of It
2. Three And Nine
3. All I Want Is You
4. Out Of The Blue
5. If It Takes All Night

Side B:
1. Bitter Sweet
2. Triptych
3. Casanova
4. A Really Good Time
5. Prairie Rose

Eno’s long gone! It’s 1974. Bowie’s boundary busting, Eno’s manically retaliating and the rock music out of England advances exponentially as demonstrated by Roxy Music’s brilliant contribution, Country Life (which elegantly showcases Ferry, Andy McKay and Phil Manzanera in some fine form).

Continuing with the stylistic developments of Stranded, Country Life finds Roxy Music at the peak of their powers, alternating between majestic, unsettling art rock and glamorous, elegant pop/rock.

At their best, Roxy combine these two extremes, like on the exhilarating opener The Thrill of It All, but Country Life benefits considerably from the ebb and flow of the group’s two extremes, since it showcases their deft instrumental execution and their textured, enthralling songwriting.

And, in many ways, Country Life offers the greatest and most consistent set of Roxy Music songs, illustrating their startling depth. From the sleek rock of All I Want Is You and Prairie Rose to the elegant, string-laced pop of A Really Good Time, Country Life is filled with thrilling songs, and Roxy Music rarely sounded as invigorating as they do here.

My two personal favorites are when Eddie Jobson’s violin inundates the elegant Out of the Blue, which became a live staple in their live shows and the southern rock-influenced If It Takes All Night, which is a light and simpler track that closes the album’s first side in a rather lovely way.

In summary, Country Life is the most sonically diverse album Roxy Music ever released and is their second triumph after losing Eno’s visionary influences. Furthermore, this album is a testament of the band’s dynamism and cemented Roxy Music’s status as one of the biggest names in rock music early on.

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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