As a very impressionable young 12-year-old seeing these glammed up space aliens playing Virginia Plain on Top Of The Pops, it was a ground zero moment for me. Everyone else seemed to be playing to a formula, but Roxy Music were just doing what they wanted and if you liked it or not then boo ya!!
Virginia Plain and the follow up the amazing Pyjamarama (which weirdly never appeared on an album) just ticked every box imaginable for me, and Bryan Ferry, Eno, and Phil Manzanera were just so damn cool. Every art/rock band that came after were inspired by them, right through to the frilly shirts and haircut brigade of the eighties. For a short period of time they were the centre of the universe and this album is pure nostalgia for me.
8/10 from The Grooveman.
