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[nervoussystemmusicreverence]

Roxy Music - Avalon

Music Video

Artist

Roxy Music

Composer

Bryan Ferry

Lyricist

Bryan Ferry

Produced

Rhett Davis Roxy Music

Credit

Bryan Ferry – Vocals, keyboards, Linn LM-1 Andy Mackay – Saxophones Phil Manzanera – Lead guitar Jimmy Maelen – Percussion Andy Newmark – Drums Alan Spenner – Bass guitar Fonzi Thornton – Backing vocals Yanick Étienne – Backing vocals

Released

May 28 1982

Streaming

Avalon

Roxy Music · Song · 1982

[rainingmusic]

Spooky Tooth - I Am the Walrus

[mitjalovse]

We have seen Roxy Music did the majority of their career without Brian Eno's wild participation, this tends to get forgotten quite a lot. Moreover, they remained true to their laissez-faire ethos, though many would claim their swan song, Avalon, abandoned that. However, I have retorted on a multitude of my posts about the record that the disc represents the perfect ending to their opus, i.e. the LP shows a lyrical speaker achieving his happiness, so where could the group go after this? No surprise they didn't augment their reunion with a platter, they knew Avalon's sumptuous soundscapes function as a fine closure to their story. As you can hear on the title track, he's still visiting parties, but this time he locates what he was always looking for in them.

[rainingmusic]

Joe Cocker - Woman To Woman

[rainingmusic]

Ted Nugent - Cat Scratch Fever 

[julio-viernes]

Kokomo, una de las múltiples caras del pub- rock, que más que un estilo o subgénero musical era - como el Northern Soul- un lugar (el pub, el circuito de pubs) donde se daban cita bandas del más diverso pelaje. Me encanta esa diversidad y riqueza, aquí en su vertiente funk- soul- jazz. Kokomo fue la banda de Neil Hubbard y Alan Spenner, y lanzó sólo dos LPs, ambos en 1975. En el primero de ellos viene "Sweet Sugar Thing". Sólo con ver la ristra de nombres asociados a Kokomo antes o después de su existencia creo que queda todo dicho: ABC, The Amazing Band, Arrival, Bluesology, Brian Auger´s Oblivion Express, Pete Brown & Piblokto!, Byron Band, Camel, Circus, Dexys Midnight Runners, The Grease Band, Juicy Lucy, King Crimson, Roxy Music, SFX, Spooky Tooth y Wynder K. Frog, sólo por citar el grueso superior.

[mitjalovse]

Actually, Neil Hubbard formed a session music team with a few people, you can mostly find him in the 70's around his Joe Cocker coworkers, so no surprise to locate him on the credits of these persons' solo efforts. For instance, Viola Wills, whom we've already heard as backing vocalist on this blog on Joe Cocker, debuted with Soft Centers, a collection of her own soul songs. The latter might amaze us, since she became known later on for her covers, though I do wish like in the case of Joe Cocker that she would have put more of her material in the front, since her inauguration in the form of a disc showed she was a fine songwriter. Moreover, the collective she collaborated with before give her the great instrumental complement, you can tell they gelled together well.

[mitjalovse]

We mentioned a multitude of interesting musicians that collaborated with Alan Spenner, but we've omitted the most famous name he knew, i.e. Joe Cocker. Yes, Mr. Spenner played with him on his early records, which established Cocker's reputation as one of the most interesting voices in blues rock. However, I would claim Joe Cocker might be the most interesting of these platters, because they also showed his songwriting the most. You see, he became popular in the 60's mostly thanks to his cover versions, but he also did some of his own tunes and I am a bit saddened he rarely put them on the front like his editions of other people's songs. I mean, he did notice what makes a blues composition good, so he applied that to his work.