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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 It also includes many rare and unpublished photographs, original marketing materials (including press materials from original Roxy publicist Simon Puxley), lyrics and work-in-progress lyric notes by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
Tracklist
2LP
Side A
Do The Strand
Beauty Queen
Strictly Confidential
Editions Of You
Side B
In Every Dream Home A Heartache
The Bogus Man
Grey Lagoons
For Your Pleasure
Side C
Pyjamarama - AIR Studios outtake
Beauty Queen - AIR Studios outtake
Strictly Confidential - AIR Studios outtakes
Editions Of You - AIR Studios outtake
Side D
The Bogus Man - AIR Studios outtake
Grey Lagoons - AIR Studios outtake
For Your Pleasure - Eno tapes
2CD
Disc 1
Do The Strand
Beauty Queen
Strictly Confidential
Editions Of You
In Every Dream Home A Heartache
The Bogus Man
Grey Lagoons
For Your Pleasure
Disc 2
Pyjamarama - AIR studios outtake
Beauty Queen - AIR studios outtake
Strictly Confidential - AIR studios outtake
Editions Of You - AIR studios outtake
Bogus Man - AIR studios outtake
Grey Lagoons - AIR studios outtake
For Your Pleasure - Eno Tapes
Pyjamarama - 2026 remaster
The Pride and the Pain
Grey Lagoons - BBC Paris Theatre, London, August 1972
Pyjamarama - Peel Sessions March 1973
Do The Strand - Peel Sessions March 1973
Editions Of You - Peel Sessions March 1973
For Your Pleasure - Peel Sessions Nov 1972
3CD+DVD
CD1 – The Album
Do The Strand
Beauty Queen
Strictly Confidential
Editions Of You
In Every Dream Home A Heartache
The Bogus Man
Grey Lagoons
For Your Pleasure
CD2 – Demos, Rehearsals & Studio Outtakes
Pyjamarama - guitar & vocal
Do The Strand - piano & vocal
Beauty Queen - tremolo piano
Beauty Queen - electric piano
Beauty Queen - piano & vocal
Strictly Confidential (segue into)
Editions Of You - electric piano
In Every Dream Home A Heartache - farfisa & guitar
In Every Dream Home A Heartache - tremolo guitar
For Your Pleasure - electric piano
Pyjamarama - Rehearsal 1973
Bogus Man - Rehearsal 1973
Grey Lagoons - 1971 Demo (Original title The Bogus Man Part 2)
Pyjamarama - AIR Studios outtake
Beauty Queen - AIR Studios outtake
Strictly Confidential - AIR Studios outtakes
Editions Of You - AIR Studios outtake
The Bogus Man - AIR Studios outtake
Grey Lagoons - AIR Studios outtake
For Your Pleasure - Eno tapes
CD3 – Live Sessions, Singles & Instrumentals
Live Sessions
Grey Lagoons – BBC Paris Theatre, August 1972
For Your Pleasure – Peel Sessions November 1972
Do The Strand – Peel Sessions March 1973
Editions Of You - Peel Sessions March 1973
Pyjamarama - Peel Sessions March 1973
In Every Dream Home A Heartache - Peel Sessions March 1973
Singles & Instrumentals
Pyjamarama (A side single)
The Pride And The Pain (B side single)
Do The Strand (instrumental)
Beauty Queen (instrumental)
Strictly Confidential (instrumental)
Editions Of You (instrumental)
In Every Dream Home A Heartache (instrumental)
The Bogus Man (instrumental)
Grey Lagoons (instrumental)
For Your Pleasure (instrumental)
DVD – TV & Live Performances
Pyjamarama – Top of the Pops (lost tape)
For Your Pleasure – Full House November 1972
Grey Lagoons – Full House November 1972
Do The Strand – Old Grey Whistle Test April 1973
In Every Dream Home A Heartache - Old Grey Whistle Test April 1973
Do The Strand – Live at Montreux April 1973
Grey Lagoons - Live at Montreux April 1973
Beauty Queen - Live at Montreux April 1973
The Bogus Man - Live at Montreux April 1973
In Every Dream Home A Heartache - Live at Montreux April 1973
Editions Of You - Live at Montreux April 1973
Do The Strand – Musikladen 1973
Editions Of You – Musikladen 1973
In Every Dream Home A Heartache – Musikladen 1973