Roxy Music-Country Life (1974)

"Country Life" was Roxy Music's most energetic and rock-oriented album, taking the experimental sounds of their earlier work a step further. In this new release, the addition of violinist and keyboardist Eddie Jobson brings a new level of originality and eclecticism to the group's music. The album features a repertoire brimming with memorable compositions that elevate their already high-quality musicianship to brilliant art rock heights. Besides Jobson, the rest of the band is at its peak, starting with the charismatic voice of frontman Bryan Ferry, and continuing with the talented Phil Manzanera and Andy McCay on guitar and saxophone respectively, and the driving drummer Paul Thompson, backed by bassist John Gustafson. The album features the compelling rock track "The Thrill of It All", the perfect introduction to Jobson's immeasurable electric violin. The exhilarating rock tracks "All I Wants Is You", "Casanova", and "Prairie Rose" are the album's most energetic and galloping numbers, contrasting sharply with the more subdued and delightful pop-rock numbers "Bitter Sweet", "Out of the Blue", and "Triptych". While not as complex as their earlier work, "Country Life" is a challenging album, enough to be considered one of Roxy Music's best releases. The original album cover featured two famous models of the time: Constanze Karoli (sister of Michael Karoli, guitarist and frontman of the krautrock band Can) and the charismatic Eveline Grunwald. Although the cover image was highly controversial in some countries, leading to its censorship and replacement with a rather lackluster cover.

Roxy Music-Avalon (1982)

Avalon remains resistant to time and fashion the defense that never fails, that series of exceptional songs. The fame of this album rests for the remains on two pillars that belong on its own merit to the canon village of the best romantic songs of the twentieth century. The perfection of More than this and the mystery that conceals Avalon's false appearance are already legend. But they are not alone. Both The space between, Take a chance with me, To turn you on or True to life are somewhat forgotten gems, in which Avalon's decadent spirit probably resides.

Avalon was in practice the last official Roxy Music album before his separation and the subsequent definitive start of Bryan Ferry's solo career. Here the musical change that the group had already undergone, from its beginnings in glam-rock to “adult” melodies with very careful arrangements, takes definite form, with the exquisite Phil Manzanera as the maximum responsible (who would later collaborate on several albums of the race of Ferry as soloist). The album was a bestseller in the United Kingdom, with the hit More than this that reached number 1 on the charts and, in turn, was the only platinum record that got the band in the United States in its entire career.