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Viva! (Roxy Music album)

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Released
  
August 1976

Artist
  
Roxy Music

Producer
  
Chris Thomas

Length
  
46:15

Release date
  
August 1976

Label
  
Polydor Records

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Recorded
  
November 1973, October 1974 and October 1975

Viva! Roxy Music (1976)
  
Roxy Music Greatest Hits (1977)

Genres
  
Rock music, Glam rock, Art rock, Rock and roll

Similar
  
Live, Heart Still Beating, Stranded, Manifesto, Flesh and Blood

Roxy music pyjamarama viva live version


Viva! Roxy Music was the first live Roxy Music album. It was released in August 1976 and was recorded at three venues over a period of three years (1973-1975). The recordings were from the band's shows at the Apollo in Glasgow in November 1973, City Hall at Newcastle in October 1974 and the Wembley Arena in October 1975.

Contents

Track listing

All songs written by Bryan Ferry except "Out of the Blue" by Ferry and Phil Manzanera.

Personnel

Roxy Music
  • Bryan Ferry - vocals, keyboards
  • Eddie Jobson - strings, synthesizer, keyboards
  • Andy Mackay - saxophone, oboe
  • Phil Manzanera - guitar
  • Paul Thompson - drums
  • John Gustafson - bass (on "Both Ends Burning")
    • Additional personnel
  • John Wetton - bass (on "Out of the Blue," "The Bogus Man," "If There Is Something," "In Every Dream Home a Heartache," and "Do The Strand")
  • Sal Maida - bass (on "Pyjamarama" and "Chance Meeting")
  • Rick Wills - bass (credited on the album, despite not playing on any of the tracks, because he replaced John Gustafson for the USA leg of the 1975-76 tour)
  • The Sirens (Doreen Chanter and Jacqui Sullivan) - background vocals (on "Both Ends Burning")

    • Charts

    Album

    Songs

    1Out of the Blue4:43
    2Pyjamarama3:37
    3The Bogus Man7:06

    References

    Viva! (Roxy Music album) Wikipedia
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