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Title: Roxy Music - Manifesto
Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1979, Alternative pop, London, England 5/26
Matrix #: SD38114
Condition: VG+ sounds great (clean copy) (TC) | Members: Bryan F (45' - Alive), Andy M (46' - Alive), Phil M (51' - Alive), Paul T (60' - Alive)
Cultural Facts:
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Personal Struggle: Bryan Ferry came from a working-class mining-town background in northeast England, a long way from the elegant image Roxy Music sold so well.
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Band Drama: Manifesto was the band’s return after a long break, but Brian Eno was long gone and Roxy’s art-school chaos had shifted into Ferry’s tighter control.
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Media Narrative: The album caught Roxy Music between strange 70s art rock and smoother 80s adult pop, making it a transition record disguised as a comeback.
