This is FRESH AIR. As part of a summer series about great albums celebrating their 50th anniversaries, rock critic Ken Tucker has chosen an album by the British band Roxy Music. Led by singer and ...

When Roxy Music was recording “Street Life” for the 1973 album Stranded, they hung a mic out the window of AIR Studios above Oxford Street, but they didn’t like the results and they ended up mixing in ...

Like rockers John Lennon, Keith Richards and Ray Davies before him, Roxy Music’s Bryan Ferry went to art school. At Newcastle University in England, starting in 1964, he majored in fine art, started a ...

Bryan Ferry has been making mischief for more than 50 years, on the margins of the rock world. But he’s still not done. He began as the singer/peacock/visionary of Roxy Music, but he started making ...

Roxy Music is back. Fifty years after their first recording, one of the most influential music groups of all time is back on tour and reissuing all eight of its studio albums on vinyl. (SOUNDBITE OF ...

Just over 50 years ago, on the same day, June 16, 1972, two albums were released that changed the landscape of rock and its sartorial splendor: Roxy Music’s eponymously titled debut and David Bowie’s ...

The British band Roxy Music, led by singer/songwriter Bryan Ferry, released their fourth album in 1974. It would go on to crack the Billboard top 40 — and it remains thrilling today. This is FRESH AIR ...