Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure...

For Your Pleasure is the second Roxy Music album and the last to feature Brian Eno, which makes it the final document of the band's original, most unstable chemistry. Released in March 1973 and recorded at AIR Studios in London with producers Chris Thomas and John Anthony, it reached number four on the UK album chart and has been regarded ever since as one of the high points of British art rock.

Side one moves fast. "Do the Strand" invents a dance craze that never existed and became a fixture of the band's live set, while "Editions of You" pits Andy Mackay's saxophone against Eno's synthesizer in a full sprint. Then comes "In Every Dream Home a Heartache," Bryan Ferry's deadpan ode to an inflatable doll, which builds from a whisper into a phased guitar storm from Phil Manzanera. Side two stretches out with the long motorik pulse of "The Bogus Man" and a title track that dissolves into layered sound and a closing spoken line from Judi Dench.

The sleeve is as famous as the music, with Amanda Lear walking a black panther on a leash while Ferry waits by the limousine as her chauffeur.

1976 US pressing on ATCO Records, pressed at Presswell. Used copy: VG+ vinyl / VG sleeve