A UK Top 5 album upon original release, For Your Pleasure is the second studio album by Roxy Music.
Commercially even more successful than their debut album, it cemented Roxy's position as one of the UK’s most inventive rock bands and is widely seen as both their definitive album and as one of the greatest art-rock/glam-rock albums of all time.
Originally released on 23 March 1973 by Island Records, the album expands on the experimental nature of their self-titled debut, featuring more elaborate production and experimentation.
It was their last album to feature synthesiser player Brian Eno.
Bryan Ferry has curated both the music and visual content for this reissue.
Across multiple formats this reissue combines the original album with previously unheard and rare audio and AV material from the time of the album’s release as well as 'Pyjamarama' (b/w 'The Pride And The Pain'), a UK Top Ten hit issued between the debut album and For Your Pleasure.
The superdeluxe includes previously unheard home recordings from Bryan Ferry, band rehearsals & studio outtakes, live sessions, singles & instrumentals and TV & 14 live performances from the BBC and German + Swiss TV.
All packages feature an essay and unseen photos with the superdeluxe book as the ultimate compendium on the album featuring a 7000-word essay by Damien Love on the making of the album (based on new interviews with band members, producers and the team behind the artwork), a 2500-word essay by Michael Bracewell on the significance of the album and an essay from Nick de Ville on Roxy’s visual world.
It also includes many rare and unpublished photographs, original marketing materials (including press materials from original Roxy publicist Simon Puxley), lyrics and work-in-progress lyric notes by Bryan Ferry, tape scans, tour dates, album chronology.
“The pinnacle of English art rock" NME
Acclaim for the original album
“A dazzling, if deliberately disorienting, follow-up…” Rolling Stone
“A staggeringly fine piece of work, easily outstripping the first album.” NME
“Pushes glam rock into genuinely avant-garde territory … Roxy’s best album.” Pitchfork
“Arguably their most adventurous and uncompromising album.” AllMusic "(The only) truly great British album" Morrissey
Best of accolades
500 Greatest Albums of All Time - NME + Rolling Stone
Top 100 Albums of the 1970s - Pitchfork
100 Greatest British Albums Ever - Q
(One of the) 10 glam rock albums you should definitely own - Classic Rock
3CD+DVD Super Deluxe
Includes the original album, singles and instrumentals; unheard songwriting demos, rehearsals and live sessions; TV and live performances from 1972–1973; plus a 116-page book with new essays and rare photography.
CD1 – The Album
1. Do The Strand
2. Beauty Queen
3. Strictly Confidential
4. Editions Of You
5. In Every Dream Home A Heartache
6. The Bogus Man
7. Grey Lagoons
8. For Your Pleasure
CD2 – Demos, rehearsals & studio outtakes
1 Pyjamarama - guitar & vocal
2 Do The Strand - piano & vocal
3 Beauty Queen - tremolo piano
4 Beauty Queen - electric piano
5 Beauty Queen - piano & vocal
6 Strictly Confidential (segue into)
7 Editions Of You - electric piano
8 In Every Dream Home A Heartache - farfisa & guitar
9 In Every Dream Home A Heartache - tremolo guitar
10 For Your Pleasure - electric piano
11 Pyjamarama - Rehearsal 1973
12 Bogus Man - Rehearsal 1973
13 Grey Lagoons - 1971 Demo (Original title The Bogus Man Part 2)
14 Pyjamarama - AIR Studios outtake
15 Beauty Queen - AIR Studios outtake
16 Strictly Confidential - AIR Studios outtakes
17 Editions Of You - AIR Studios outtake
18 The Bogus Man - AIR Studios outtake
19 Grey Lagoons - AIR Studios outtake
20 For Your Pleasure - Eno tapes
CD3 – Live sessions, singles & instrumentals
Live Sessions
1 Grey Lagoons – BBC Paris Theatre (London) August 1972 (first live performance)
2 For Your Pleasure – Peel Sessions November 1972
3 Do The Strand – Peel Sessions March 1973
4 Editions Of You - Peel Sessions March 1973
5 Pyjamarama - Peel Sessions March 1973
6 In Every Dream Home A Heartache - Peel Sessions March 1973
7 Pyjamarama A side single
8 The Pride And The Pain B side single
9 Do The Strand (instrumental)
10 Beauty Queen (instrumental)
11 Strictly Confidential (instrumental)
12 Editions Of You (instrumental)
13 In Every Dream Home A Heartache (instrumental)
14 The Bogus Man (instrumental)
15 Grey Lagoons (instrumental)
16 For Your Pleasure (instrumental)
DVD – TV & live performances
1. Pyjamarama – Top of the Pops (lost tape)
2. For Your Pleasure – Full House November 1972
3. Grey Lagoons – Full House November 1972
4. Do The Strand – Old Grey Whistle Test April 1973
5. In Every Dream Home A Heartache - Old Grey Whistle Test April 1973
6. Do The Strand – Live at Montreux April 1973
7. Grey Lagoons - Live at Montreux April 1973
8. Beauty Queen - Live at Montreux April 1973
9. The Bogus Man- Live at Montreux April 1973
10. In Every Dream Home A Heartache- Live at Montreux April 1973
11. Editions Of You- Live at Montreux April 1973
12. Do The Strand – Musikladen 1973
13. Editions Of You – Musikladen 1973
14. In Every Dream Home A Heartache – Musikladen 1973
