Summary
Where the average rockband biography describes a dismally familiar story arc - cama raderle and ambition giving way to anomie and sloth, diminishing narrative returns matching plummeting creative pros pects - Bracewell has brilliantly sidestepped all of that in favour of a prehistory of the whole Roxy milieu and a study, in a sense, of the creative potential of the scene as such.
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The Art of Noise
The art of noise Re-make/Re-model: Art, Pop, Fashion and the Making of Roxy Music, 1952-1972 Michael Bracewell Faber & Faber, 400pp, £20
Roxy Music, circa 1972, were a singularly strange group. Far from the laid-back musical proposition of later hits and Bry...See the full content of this document
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