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10 CD set.. ROXY MUSIC - The Complete Studio Recordings 1972-1982 First complete Roxy Music box set to be released on CD 10 CDs. The Complete Studio Recordings includes each of the eight 'Roxy Music' Studio albums released in the ten year period of 1972-1982, on CD plus two discs of bonus tracks containing tracks previously unavailable on CD. Each album has been taken back to its original form. Audio 2012 flat transfers from the original analogue master tapes (not the 1999 remasters), ensuring the audio sounds truer to its original LP sound. CD1: Roxy Music - Debut album from Roxy Music, released: 16th June 1972. Peaking at #10 during a 16 week run on the UK album charts. - Cover photo by Karl Stoecker featuring model Kari-Ann Muller. CD2: For Your Pleasure - Roxy music released their second album on 30th March 1973. The last album to feature Brian Eno, it charted at #4 in the UK album chart. - Cover photo, by Karl Stoecker, featured singer and model Amanda Lear - Pyjamarama was recorded during the For Your Pleasure sessions but was not included on the album but released as a single ahead of the album release. - Do The Stand was released as a single in most USA, Japan and most European territories but not in UK CD3: Stranded - The 3rd album Stranded was released on 23rd November 1973. The album reached the top spot on the UK album charts in the 2nd week of a 17 week run. - Cover features Marilyn Cole -1973 Playmate of the Year - The album included the hit single "Street Life" c/w "Hula Kula" reaching number 9 in the UK singles charts. - This album introduced Eno's replacement Eddie Jobson a multi-instrumentalist who took over the keyboards and synthesizer role but also added a new dimension with his violin arrangements and soloing. CD4: Country Life - Released: 22nd November 1974, reaching #3 in the UK Chart. - Title name comes from the British rural lifestyle magazine: Country Life - Cover shot in Portugal by Karl Stoecker, features models Constanze Karoli and Eveline Grunwald. - The album included the hit single" All I Want is You" c/w "Your Application's Failed" reaching number 12 in the UK singles chart. - The Thrill Of It All was edited to 3:20 for issues as a single in USA CD5: Siren - Released: 31st October 1975, the album charted at #4 UK album chart. - Cover features model Jerry Hall (pictured on rocks at South Stack Lighthouse in Anglesey) - "Love is the Drug" c/w "Sultanesque" was the first single released from the album - charting at #2 in the UK (covered by numerous people including - Grace Jones and Kylie Minogue) - For the first time, Roxy Music release a second single from an album this time "Both Ends Burning" c/w "For Your Pleasure (Live)" reaches number 26 in the UK singles chart. CD6: Manifesto - Released: 16th March 1979, the album charted at no. 7 in the UK - Cover design featured a variety of mannequins including a mannequin of Roxy's first cover girl Kari Ann. They were set in a disco/club scene looked at through a rainy window. The sleeve was created by Bryan Ferry and designer Antony Price. - True to the original pressing of Manifesto this album has a rock version of Angel Eyes with an additional fourth verse and a ballad version of Dance Away. - Singles Released: Trash (UK# 40), Dance Away (UK #2) and Angel Eyes (UK #4) CD7: Flesh And Blood - Released: 23rd May 1980; charted at number 1 in the UK (for one week in June and then for another three weeks in August, it spent 60 weeks in the UK album chart). - Singles released: "Over You" (UK #5): "Oh Yeah" (UK #5) and "Same Old Scene" (UK #12). "In The Midnight Hour" was also released as a single in USA & Portugal. - Roxy Music was a three-piece consisting of Bryan Ferry, Andy Mackay and Phil Manzanera at this point, as Paul Thompson had left the band. CD8: Avalon - Released: 28th May 1982; the most commercially successful Roxy Music album, charted at #1 UK (3weeks) and stayed in the album charts for over a year - Recorded in 1981-82 at Compass Point Studios in Nassa