Yesterday mother (the big Roxy Music / Bryan Ferry fan) ordered a new CD of the first record... I like a lot of their stuff now but this has to be my favourite. There is a magnificent atmosphere to the tracks, carving a seamless arch from Rock'n'Roll to Country. You can feel the inspiration oozing out. More than any other it proves that Roxy Music wasn't just a sound it was a whole experience. A chocolate box of Americana and Pop culture that seem to spill neon light and Deco cinema into the room. Excuse me if that sounds a little florid but then florid is not something of which we should necessarily be afraid.
It also got me thinking about that strange set of circumstances that means we can listen and watch the days when our household names were still full of promise, their whole lives laid out ahead of them and the future as yet a blank horizon. Amazing to think that Bryan couldn't have imagined then that he would be being graced with a BMI lifetime achievement award... Other things came to mind to but lets not spoil the mood now.
Something else brought this to mind only this morning, I was flicking through one of my collection of old Vogues (Mainly from the 1980's) this one came from x.mas 1981 and like most Christmas magazines it featured a round up of the year gone and a hint of what might be in the years ahead. No2 on its list of hot things to watch was that years Cambridge footlights troupe, all of whom it assured had glittering futures ahead (as you might know that year they included Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie and Emma Thompson). I smiled as I remembered that only two days ago I'd been watching "Stephen Fry In America " (wonderful show by the way). Back when those words were being printed in Vogue neither he nor the readers could have guessed that he'd end up as the nations teddy bear.
No none this really comes to anything, it's just interesting and strange to me that's all. Anyway what else would I put on my blog?
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